Originally Posted by PSGarak
It's the lack of viable dual-purpose specs that makes people think that respecing is necessary, and gives the false impression that respecing for PvP and raiding is a fundamental, rather than contingent, aspect of the talent system.
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You don't feel that this depends on your definition of "viable"?
Lot's of stuff is "viable" if you're not worried about server-firsts or bleeding-edge content or having a truly competitive arena team. But IMO one of the problems is, a lot of the theorycrafting on the web and in various forums is done by people who
do care about those things, and who will say 2% less DPS on a raid boss moves a spec from "viable" to "not viable". Then the hoi polloi will read that stuff and then, like, kick someone out of their non-heroic Ramparts PUG for not having a min-maxed spec.
Not sure how to "solve" that, unless you maybe made respecs "free once a month, but completely unavailable otherwise". Nobody would be really
happy with that, but I'd bet a bunch of at least semi-viable hybrid specs would appear in various forums.