Originally Posted by Adoriele
Unfortunately, as I mentioned, if the only cost is time, it is the same as the only cost being money. People will complain about it. It does not matter whether he wants to be SupertankhealDPSer or only one at a time, given free ability to respec removes any distinction between the three, and talents become useless artifacts, fungible with the base spells a class is given.
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Completely and utterly false, and I'm annoyed that this keeps coming up. Talents extend the power of a class, but the number of points available constitute a hard cap on the magnitude of that extension. It's foolish to think that having the ability to switch freely between specs somehow devalues the distinction between them, because those distinctions are extremely concrete at any given time. It doesn't enable a "SupertankhealDPSer", and this point *does* matter. If Blizzard really is concerned about rapid respeccing, then they can apply a respec fee to players who want to respec in a window of less than two hours or the like.
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Secondly, a large number of people are asking for a one-time large sum payment ability to give permanent use of two specs, whereby each spec would incur a cost to change, but the cost of swapping between the two is nil. Explain to me how this is at all different from rolling an alt (levelling would be the large sum buy-in) of the same class for the separate role?
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Is this some kind of joke? Your gear, inventory, and reputation states are all important aspects of the game that are totally unshared. This is a thoroughly different experience than spending hundreds of hours leveling and acquiring gear for an alt.
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I enjoy the PvP scene, even if Adoriele happens to suck completely at it. I also happen to have a rogue, who I found I'm actually decent at PvP with. So I levelled her to 70, switched up all my professions to help with cash flow issues, and started running BGs with her (though I'm putting a hold on that for a bit, waiting for the blue gear to hit the vendors in 2.4). She isn't very well geared yet, but she's better off than Adoriele would be given the same amount of PvP time. I don't intend to raid with her, just like I don't intend to PvP with Ador. And voila, the system works.
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Quite honestly, I don't think anybody cares about the anecdotal situation you've got that happens to work for you. It doesn't matter if it works for you. Nothing would stop you from doing exactly what you're doing if the respec system were streamlined. That you keep bringing up this point amounts to "this problem doesn't affect me, so I'm going to keep telling you it's fine".