Nope, then people would respec on a whim. There’s a reason it’s expensive(ish).
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I’ve no idea what you are talking about.
I have 600 gold, epic robe which I self-crafted and things on AH I can sell for 200g+. I can farm gold, I know how to, I just feel like at times when I am not gonna be able to commit (I have uni and will have work soon), 100g every 4 days will bite me in the butt.
But its ok guys, I got it, just move on. I’ll put back on my pink glasses and live with it.
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I vote for the increase of respeccing to a max of 200 gold
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Someone’s gonna start demanding dual specs next at this rate.
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I agree. It definitely should be capped at 10g. Some classes have to respec so often and it becomes such a massive gold sink for specific classes.
The philosophy (now abandoned on retail) is characters should have a certain profile attached to them. When switching is made trivial, your character can be PvE frost, PvP frost, Pyro/PoM, AoE farming, or whatever depending on the day of the week.
My first character was a restoration druid and people knew me as a dedicated PvE healer. Playing solo was tough (I’d kill stuff as a cat, using feral gear, because of lower downtime) and so was PvP, but PvE healing was my specialized role and people would appreciate that by inviting me over players with less commitment to it even if they could objectively heal more effectively with their superior gear.
Dual specs first, and the spec madness that is retail today later, entirely diluted that. It made things more convenient, at the cost of something much less tangible. If you make respecs cheap enough so that they are affordable despite being done often, you’re back to retail but with a much clunkier UI (because changing action bars after a respec is a pain)
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What is so bad about things being convenient? Its not like being able to freely respec makes you a better healer, not at all, right?
You know what actually is inconvenient? The fact that your dungeon group disbands coz 40minutes later tank isn’t found and respeccing tank for a warrior in the group is not an option coz it costs 50% of his bank.
I actually had to learn to PVP as combat daggers, because respeccing just didn’t make any sense. You need to find a sacrifice somewhere, either you max pvp, max pve or med them both. If you want to max max everything, well maybe this isn’t the game for you!
Coincidentally, it’s threads like these that probably lead to the absolute abomination that is the talent trees now. It’s incremental and for some people it’s great! I however do not want 3 viable pvp specs, 3 viable pve specs and expected to switch every 6 seconds. It’s laborious and tiresome and unfortunately for you, it’s likely to always hinder change quests like yours because we know where it leads
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No. Hell no. Hell no and a half.
This is one of the great things about Classic - you gotta commit (or pay a heavy price), not just change it willy nilly. Someone having a full tiered set might be raid specced and thus beatable by a PvP-dedicated blue-geared fellow, and the truly dangerous point is when someone is both. It brings alot of personal identity and flavour to the game.
And to ask for it for two different freakin’ frost specs is beyond ridiculous, here you have people who have to live with being full heal specs and completely useless unless they’re in a group fight, but you’re complaining about just being sub-optimal.
You are part of the problem.
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So the class with the strongest spec that works in both PvE and PvP is asking to cheaper respec costs…
Well that’s fair I suppose, I mean mages have such a hard time farming gold
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First, you seem to be Mage, and it’s the best class to farm gold so you don’t have any problem to spend 50 Gold to respec unlike a Druid or a Shaman or a Paladin that have much harder time to farm.
Second, you don’t need Arcane Power Frost Bolt spec to clear Molten Core or any content in Classic. The game is nerfed as a 1.12 patch, you don’t need to min-max your talent tree to clear the content. If you don’t want to play a “sub-optimal” spec, you pay the price. That’s it.
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I know that I do not need a arcane-frost spec for a target dummy raid called Molten core, which was cleared by 58 chars in greens, but my friends ask me to do that for whatever stupid reasons or otherwise I’ll be unable to raid with them, so this is not a thing to discuss.
Farm gold - definitely I can.
@aldred strongest in pvp? Yea, super strong against warlocks who hundred to zero you in a fear, which is spammable.
As some one who played both those classes in Vanilla; learn to play your damn class 
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Why not continue to play retail it’s made for people like you!
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I know it sucks to play sub-optimal spec when you played Retail before, because in Retail you change talent for every fight to get the best DPS.
But in Classic, if you don’t have the time to do infinite farming (and that’s my case, i play Mage and i don’t have the time to farm 100 gold per week just for that), change your ambition, don’t go in hardcore guild and find more friendly guild.
Anyway, 40 people with a brain can clear any raid in Classic so you won’t loose anything. It sucks to not play with friends, but when friends force you to do something and you can’t, don’t force you. Imagine if people start to cancel Mage because they are in AoE Farming spec for dungeon …
And don’t listen to this men in upper side of this post.
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I wonder what the OP gonna do when zg/aq is out and he is forced to jump from frost to fire and back, since frost is never near viable in pve outside of blackrock.
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I quit retail at the start of BFA coz korean grind for the sake of korean grind 2 months later is not my cup of tea
Either way, I understood the general stance of you, classic players. No need to bump this thread any further.
Also, just hypothetically, how do you beat a warlock with mage unless you spec fully pvp, which I obviously am not specced. My world spec includes deep frost with a lot of slow talents like 3/3 blizzard and no specific pvp talents like blanket silence counterspell.
How do I not get feared into death?
needs? lol
choices matter in classic, choose one and stick with it. you don’t NEED to change spec.
you think you do but you don’t
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Definitely not optimal. Like nowhere lol
I levelled up with 2/3, it just doesn’t work at max level farming coz I can’t get a 2nd blizzard off before mobs get ontop of me which is annoying. 3/3 is just smoother. Costs me an 11 sec slow from cone of cold obviously, but its irrelevant if things die in nova -> dual blizzard -> cone of cold without hitting me once after getting nova’d