“hey gorkos you want to do toc 10″

sure !

“your healing ”

“……..ok”

like wise for my dk whos main spec is tanking. i got dual spec for him but in the last month since i got dual spec i have dpsd maybe 2 dungeons T_T

I guess having two specs in the same role (Tank/Healer/DPS) comes down to your class, role, guild and raid group. The old PvP vs PvE spec thing is still there, but I’m pretty much a pure PvE warrior and I ran most of Wrath with two Prot specs. Prot warriors have plenty of options which makes it more condusive to having two specs in the same role I guess which may not apply to other classes/specs some of which are pushed into defined cookie cutter builds (though Blizz has done a great job of limiting these in Wrath)

I typically had a threat and a survival spec. Depending on the fight mechanics, I then moved to a standard spec and a progression spec for whatever encounter we were working on at the time. Malygos, Hodir, Mimiron… hell even Patchwerk brought out the gimmicky Unrelenting Assault spec for extra DPS.

Currently we are on Anub’rak Heroic.. While in the past I would have had a specific Prot spec for Anub Add tanking, my current raid group needs me to DPS occassionaly (Prot/Fury). My previous raid group did not have such a breadth of regular, reliable tanks and allowed me to go Prot/Prot, but I am in a different environment now. So my current Prot spec is balancing act between a minmaxed Anub Add tanking spec and a general use one.

Another area where two specs are useful is glyph slots. While Glyphs are cheap and I keep a stack on hand to swap out much like flasks, depending on the content there could be call to use the specs change glyphs rather than change actual talents.

It’s funny, I had changed spec on my warrior about 3-4 times in total (5 gold respec costs) prior to Dual Spec coming along. Since Dual spec, I change spec all the time, its crazy. The flexibility that dual specs has brought to the raid group is very powerful and I guess that leads to more minmaxing efforts.

At the end of the day, its all about minmaxing

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I tried Balance once, and did abysmally. I tried Feral tanking once and did even worse. My druid has a balance dual spec but it remains largely unused.

It’s sort of funny. I have a hybrid that can do anything, but instead of doing everything on my druid I ended up leveling a paladin to tank with and I’m working on a hunter to dps with.
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On my main, I wish there were more than two dual speccing slots. At this point I’m resto/elemental, because I dps quite a bit. BUT, I miss a pvp spec, I don’t like pvp’ing that much and entering arena/bgs without a proper spec is even worse and let’s not forget Champions heroic. I also miss enhancement, because that was my offspec in BC, but the dual speccing has made a spec swap so convenient I’m just too lazy to rearrange all my action bars and reglyph.

I love the fact that I can swap between to specs so easily. But it’s horrible how lazy I got with respeccing from the scratch, something I would do on a weekly basis in BC.
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The difference is trivial, but sometimes I like to have those few points changed around, plus the Regrowth glyph on some hard-hitting tank fights.

If I was doing 25s still, I would likely go HT spec for Anub, I suspect.

Because I’m resto/resto, I haven’t taken offspec items for a long time. But, I also have two other druids, so I don’t really need an offspec set – I have a feral druid.

Great dps, if they focus fire, only need a tank in the first few seconds. If they pull aggro they can usually kill the mob before it reaches them or does significant damage. In this way I, as the tank, can just make sure my threat is evenly spread out and then I can move onto pulling the next group as the dps keeps on dpsing. The heroic only lasts 15-20min.

Most of 3.1 I was Resto/Resto though – I had a raid heal spec and a solo heal spec. Was very handing in raids, but painful out of them
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