Originally Posted by Adoriele
How many people are arguing that the inability to freely respec is a problem for those who are only interested in one aspect of the game, be it PvP, Raiding, or small group/soloing? Blizzard has made it quite clear that their intention is that if you want to be the best at something, it's going to cost you in another area. They've already made steps to allow all specs to work in solo play, notably with the change to damage on healing gear, so the only real divide comes to Raiding vs. PvP, and I see no reason why they should drop the model of forcing a player to either choose which area to be the best in, or pay a tax for the ability to be the best in both.
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Raiding guilds are still going to expect focus specs, and not only that, many raiding guilds still do exactly what you suggest now if the need is there, so I certainly don't see this argument holding any water.
Many people *are* complaining that they'd rather not pay large sums of money on respec costs to participate in Arenas, and you can read the suggestion that "everyone should shell out 100g per week to get Arena gear on the side if they want to enjoy PvP" all over this forum. You can just as easily see on this forum how unpopular it is to participate in Arena games without a pure PvP spec (emphasizing survivability in 95% of cases); you can see how many players look at their guildmates as worthless hangers-on if they raid with a PvP spec. It's clearly not just an issue of "being the best" at one or the other, it's an issue of choosing to exclude yourself from one half of the game if you're not willing to pay the cost. And God forbid you decide you want to do some PvP between raids, thus requiring two or three sets of respecs in a week.
So again, we arrive at the conclusion that it's just a reward for players with the gold to spend, and thus particularly taxing on the less hardcore crowd, and a non-issue for raiding guilds.
EDIT: Out of curiosity, what spec are you?