It should not cost anything at all, this is just plain stupid. I can see now hybrids being like "omg omg I have no gold to change to healer/tank" ...
I don't care about Wow 11.0, if it's not solo-MMO. No half-measures - just perfect xpack.
Can I get a list of your toons now? That way I can put them all on ignore and make sure I never group with you.
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Then we kick them for being fail (anyone who can't scrounge 50g these days is fail) and find someone who can.
"I Am Vengeance. I Am The Night. I Am Felfáádaern!"
This would be cool, if this game had not the HUGE balance issues in terms of performance it always has.
Remove the balance issues (quite a very hard task without homogenisation of the classes/specs) and then we can discuss it, but until then, allow everyone to tri-spec without any cost.
And this is coming from me, the stupid guy who never duals anything, i have all specs of one class because i have leveled one char per spec.
Shove a hundred gold pieces up your butthole one by one to change specs.
It's just like real life, I've never been so immersed!
Artifact power gains are going to much more important than gold costs for respeccing. Last I heard, the estimate to get a fully powered artifact was one to three months. As a catch up system for increased artifact power is planned for secondary specs, that means that artifact power is only for one spec. When you start a second artifact (which you have to quest for), you then need to level it separately. The logical leap hear is that artifact power is awarded to your current spec. This is reinforced by people talking about switching specs before turning in a quest to get the power for their preferred spec.
The difference between two dps specs of the same class at highly levels of artifact power is likely going to be mostly in the artifact power and not in the specs. I was talking with our guild leader about this. Until such a time as your first back up tank fills his dps artifact to full power, he isn't going to want to tank 5 man content. At the beginning of an expansion when 5 mans are common, dps mains tanking is very common in a guild group (where it is understood that he is getting dps loot and tank loot). Now this dps main is going to have to do all content as dps or not get artifact power. This is more likely to complicate queue times than the cost in gold for switching specs.
Since you pick one spec at first and don't have the option of a second artifact until much later, people will be starting in their main spec. Look out for all the healers that will be out questing and boring the mobs to death. Wrath, wrath, wrath, smite, smite, smite, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, poke, poke, poke. Dungeon queues will skyrocket for anyone except a main spec tank, so we will be out boring things to death unless we are part of a guild group.
Oh this'll do wonders for queue times...
Blizz seems to have a corner designated for fucking morons coming up with ideas like this.
I really hate the Gold cost attached to switching specializations. Can we just have dual specialization back instead?
Read the whole thing people. Calm down.
"Characters can queue up as any role that is available to their class and will automatically switch to the suitable specialization when entering the Dungeon, Raid, Battleground, or Arena without any gold cost. For example, a paladin might be questing as Retribution but queue up in Dungeon Finder as a Tank. When the paladin enters the dungeon, they will automatically switch to Protection."
It hasn't been this way since dual spec was implemented. The only time it costs cold is when you wanted to go to a different 3rd spec. I can freely swap between my 2 specs as many times as needed currently, that's no longer the case in Legion. There are plenty of people who swap multiple times within a single raid.
Quick, let's make sure this thread reaches 200+ pages.
They're already forcing people who want to tank/heal at max level to stick with that spec while leveling for the artifact, so not sure how this will work out.
You would make more gold in an average session than you would spending on re-specs, let's be real.
You can't seriously be that poor or changing specs that often to be complaining about a small gold cost, surely...