Greg Street
Azreluna Mannoroth
@Lhivera @VerainOfUrsin @Ghostcrawler You can. I never spec out of Assassination, and it doesn't hurt. Well, maybe 10%, sometimes. So what?
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@Lhivera@VerainOfUrsin@Ghostcrawler I'm going off GC's comments here: rarely does spec choice within-class alter your ability to succeed. -
@Dalmasca7@Ghostcrawler Agreed, but conventional "wisdom" says otherwise. So if Spec A is 20% stronger on an encounter than Spec B, even... -
@Dalmasca7@Ghostcrawler …if you'd personally do better w/Spec B, there's a lot of social pressure to switch to Spec A, esp @ higher levels. -
@Dalmasca7@Ghostcrawler No question that a big part of the problem of the availability of dual spec breaking identity is community-caused. -
@Dalmasca7@Ghostcrawler But remember, one impetus behind the talent changes was the community problem of people picking the "wrong" spec. -
@Dalmasca7@Ghostcrawler A case where a game system was changed in part to ease a community problem. DS exacerbates a community problem. -
@Dalmasca7@Ghostcrawler Tolerance for being in the "wrong" spec for a specific encounter plummets because the cost of changing is gone. -
@Lhivera@Ghostcrawler I can't think of a recent example where two specs within a class were that different. You? -
@Lhivera@Ghostcrawler Honestly, I don't see that happening very often between specs except at highest lvls of raiding. More between class. -
@Dalmasca7@Ghostcrawler I'm picking a number out of a hat. We all know people tend to consider even small potential gains to be mandatory. -
@Lhivera@Ghostcrawler I'll grant you that, but I think that existence of social-pressure-despite-minimal-gains would exist even w/o DS. -
@Dalmasca7@Ghostcrawler Yes, but w/o DS, there was counterpressure in the form of gold/time cost to balance it. That's gone now. -
@Lhivera@Ghostcrawler Perhaps, but for a raider pushing specs to meet progression, that doesn't seem like a high cost/counterpressure. -
@Dalmasca7@Ghostcrawler (Personally, I think respeccing was always too easy, but DS really threw off the balance.) -
@Lhivera@Ghostcrawler Even in days when the gold cost was more prohibitive. -
@Lhivera@Ghostcrawler The greater cost seems to be the learning curve, UI setup, and possibly gearing changes. -
@Dalmasca7@Ghostcrawler GC has heard all this before in the past couple of days/six years, so I'm dealing him out. -
@Dalmasca7 Anecdotally, sending someone to respec was a rarely-used last resort in my server-first guild in vanilla/BC. -
@Dalmasca7 It happened, but outside bleeding edge, it was rare. DS made it routine and expected at all levels (as I predicted back in BC).
James Moynihan
Lhivera