Comments on: Dual specs bringing back the hybrids?

By: A holiday, a holiday, the first one of the year! Best of 2009. « Welcome to Spinksville!

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:06:20 +0000

[...] Dual spec bringing back the hybrids? (I love dual specs and this is my explanation of why it wasn’t going to ruin WoW.) [...]

By: Dual Specs and Why I Don’t Think They’ll Suck - Banana Shoulders

Dual Specs and Why I Don’t Think They’ll Suck - Banana Shoulders — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:08:37 +0000

[...] feels that pure DPS classes should outstrip hybrids as compensation. Spinksville points out that the issue is with raid design, not hybrids, and Aurik of /Hug posts an anti-rant in support of dual specs. There are doubtless many other [...]

By: Dual specs really won’t make much of a difference after all @ WarriorTanking.com

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:33:05 +0000

[...] Dual specs bringing back the hybrids? [...]

By: Syrana

Syrana — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:44:40 +0000

I think you did a great job of dissecting the arguments. Gave me some points to ponder that I hadn’t considered before.

By: My take on dual specs | Tank like a girl

My take on dual specs | Tank like a girl — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:48:55 +0000

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By: Tarsus

Tarsus — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:55:47 +0000

That Ghostcrawler comment made me exhale a little. All we have to hope for is that he keeps is word.

By: ixobelle

ixobelle — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:39:01 +0000

well written.

cutting the chaff of ‘this is a design issue, not a dual spec issue’ really boiled it down.

bookmarked.

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:21:06 +0000

That’s still a big unknown. I still think they expect most people will use it for a PvP spec and that’s one of the things they intend so I’m not really thinking they’ll design raids around it.

We really will have to wait and see on that. (And will save that rant for later ).

I noticed on WoW Insider they found a comment from Ghostcrawler saying that Blizzard don’t currently plan to balance around dual specs.

And I agree about sweeping design problems away, but I don’t think they ever really planned to solve them. So it may not be a perfect answer but it’ll do.

By: Green Armadillo

Green Armadillo — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:43:19 +0000

There is one balance issue that you actually can blame dual specs for, namely that Blizzard can now sweep certain design problems under the rug.

Can’t solo on your healer? Just push that dual spec button (req level 40 and 1000G, hope you have a rich level 80 alt on the same server to pay for it) and the problem is solved.

Some of your talent trees not performing well in raids? You should have a more raid friendly spec in your second slot for that.

Point being, the devs are now a little bit more free to treat the 30 talent trees as 30 different sub specialized classes with less need to have each be well rounded. And that WILL make an impact on content design – sure, you might assign a tank or a healer to put on their DPS gear and do crappy DPS now, but, with dual spec, the devs can and probably will assume that your unnecessary off-tank is actually doing as much damage as your melee DPS on single target fights.

By: Tarsus

Tarsus — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:29:47 +0000

If you ask me, being able to focus on a single gear set and tune it to the capacity of your pocketbook is an advantage. You can be at the top of your game way faster than a hybrid if you’re playing a pure class.