No, it shouldn't have dual-spec. It was a nice addition to the game, but it was one of the bricks in the wall that made it a little less of an RPG. Your spec was part of your identity, and when you changed that it was an important part of keeping the value of gold high.
Last edited by Absintheminded; 2017-11-10 at 01:42 AM.
so you want this.. someone else might want something else and here it goes its no longer the same fucking game
I'm fine with dual specs in classic, as long as you still need to go to your trainer and pay the fee to switch them.
It won't be vanilla with dual spec.
Not having to spend 50g a time to respec will fund the economy more gold. Things will be more expensive and it won't feel vanilla like. One change affects another and another.
Was the feature there in vanilla? No? Then leave it out.
ITT: OP was to play vanilla but also want to cherry pick features from post vanilla.
Everyone and their mother would have guessed it would be like this...
WotLK played very differently in PvP. Everyone died much faster, AV had become the zerg-fest that it still is (even in BC when it was a shadow of the original Horde almost never won off a zerg and an Alliance zerg with no back-capping was probably going to fail), and we saw the start of the mass proliferation of CC that led to the awfulness that was MoP PvP, and which ability trimming still hasn't fixed (because for every CC they remove they add two short stuns or some other stupidity).
Dual spec doesn't belong in Classic - nothing other than bug fixes / stability improvements belong in classic. You have choices, you either farm enough gold to afford spec swapping on occasion, you bribe your guild with dungeon runs as a healer for dual spec gold, you find a DPS friend and farm stuff together, OR you simply don't play a healer.
I'd be up for dual spec if it meant helping tanks and healers farm, and make it easier to make groups since they are rarities. However I don't want to see people switching specs on fight per fight basis.
Not that I'm not open to QoL adjustments, but this is more controversial IMO. That said, I don't know how bad a holy priest, or a prot warrior in dps gear does when killing mobs in the world.
Maining a healer? Group up with your DPS friends to farm enough gold for your epic ride. It'll take a few months, but you'll get there eventually.
Think of the camaraderie you'll build up on the journey - priceless.
Seriously, if they make us earn back flying, I'm unsubbing.
Make it only changeable at trainer, and slap a minor cost + cooldown on it. There, people can't swap for different fights, except once a raid night at most. And make editing talents in either spec very costly, and that preserves thinking carefully where one puts points or not.