I’m pretty stocked about the whole duel-spec thing though.

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“But what will be an issue is how it’s going to make an already easy end-game even easier.”

Don’t count your chickens just yet on the end-game. Ulduar is said to be more challenging and it isn’t even the “end-game”. Lets wait to see what’s in store for the Raid involving Arthas. After the kinks are worked out with dual spec, i bet they will make it part of the end game strategy. We’ll see.

Maybe there won’t be competition for raid spots, maybe gearing won’t be an issue.

But what will be an issue is how it’s going to make an already easy end-game even easier.

Need 8 healers for one fight, then 4 for the next? No problem! Just have your spare healers switch specs and they’ll be very capable DPS. Right now, we have to balance things. Sure, sometimes we have extra healers do DPS or extra tanks do DPS, but their DPS is always quite limited. That’s a sacrifice we make by bringing extra people in that role.

I guess I’m starting to sound like one of those elitists who doesn’t want people to have it easier… But I just feel like it will make things mean less when people can have 2 main specs that they can spend equal time in. Like it just won’t feel the same if you go in a raid with 15 DPS, 7 healers, and 3 tanks and come out the other end with 18 DPS, 5 healers and 2 tanks. It takes a little something away from the whole RPG part of the game.

I do agree with with Beercow though. The group I raid with will never uninvite me for a hybrid. I believe it will simply allow more versatility within your specific group. And if you strictly pug things, you will still be ok. Druids, Pally’s, etc are not going to want a group full of the same classes for loot competition.

Would I rather bring a hybrid with a dual-spec of another PVE discipline (using Druids as an example, Balance and Resto) over a hybrid with a PVP dual-spec (again, Druids, Balance and PVP Balance)? Yes. Why? I’d know right off the bat they’re comfortable with and willing to fill a different role on the fly if needed. Am I going to? No. Why? We don’t ask people to respec mid-raid now and we don’t sub people out because someone else showed up with a more useful spec.