What is your main spec for WotLK?
How do you plan to spec for the xpac? Are you going to be switching from your routine and trying a new talent tree?
Try to make decision early and give that spec a fair shot. The worst thing you can do is change your mind after you have been gearing up for a spec for 9 levels. And by switching specs all the time you will wind up being undergeared for both specs. If you want to heal at 80 stick to it and try not to change your mind after winning that roll in heroic Nexxus. Many people will see this as being a loot whore and at best indecisive. Nobody wants to run with the player who wants to roll on every piece of gear that drops because they might use it one day. If no one else wants it, by all means feel free.
No one expects your decisions to be set in stone right after you walk into Northrend, but your guilds won’t look kindly on switching specs after you have won your full tier 7 set and will no longer be using it. You can save your heroic badges and instance badges for your off-spec set to get a good start if you do decide you want to change. Try to think of how you would feel if a holy priest won all thier tier loot by beating you in rolls and then decided to go shadow and was going to put that gear in the bank and start rolling against you again.
-Malhoof
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Nov 11th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I always level up main spec, that way when it’s raid time, i’m not fumbling around and wiping becuse i’m unfamiliar with the spec
Nov 11th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I’m considering respeccing to mutilate and regemming all my gear for crit instead of hit. I’m right now a 5/51/5 combat rogue with over +350 hit rating and over 2100 AP, but mutilate requires a high critical strike rating, and mine is rather low (about +25%).
Nov 11th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I’ve got mitigation and armor/HP gear as a prot paladin but I also have alright gear for retribution. Obviously ret is less painful to level and I’ve been through the northrend zones on beta about 5 times already.
I’ll probably stay retribution but shift some of the points around so I can get added parry and then swap out to a sword and board when I want to tank a 5-man.
Nov 11th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I’ll level to 80 as Discipline. I know it’s not the most opportune spec for leveling, but I love instancing and I can survive long enough to find another player to help me if someone is trying to gank me. So for me it’s the best of both worlds.
Nov 11th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Combat or bust. It just fits my playstyle too much.
Nov 11th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
as a warrior, tanking is in my heart and its what i think is most fun.
i hitted 70 with tanking gear but decided to respec arms (pvp) as i felt i didn’t had time for raiding.
but things happend and i joined a friendly raiding guild and began raiding as arms dps slam spec.
i got full epic dps gear but bored the hekk out of me when i looked over to the tank and saw how fun he had.(my task was to hit the slam button)
i respecced and couldnt tank kara or za as i dint had tanking gear.
i did normal instance’s and laters heroic to get tanking gear and it took ages.
so what i mean is: do choose your spec for what you think is fun, not what is most handy or best right at the moment.
so gonna level upp as protection in the expansion
Nov 11th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I will be leveling my druid (main) resto because why spend the gold to respec when I will be resto in a few weeks at 80? I might go a little resto-kin depending on how easy the rest of the instance bosses are for me to heal. My hunter might go from Survival to MM for the limited downtime. And my shame-an (my least geared alt) prolly enhance. Though I plan to spend more time on him this xpac.
Nov 11th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
i just hit lvl 70, i havent been playing for that long so i really dont know what is best. my warrior was specced as fury just because i thought TG was cool. i recently re-specced to arms pvp spec. i have ppl telling me all of the time that i should switch to prot, but i have no tanking gear and i tried tanking when i was low and i didnt really like it that much. i dont know if i should stick with what im doing now that i like or switch to being a tank which is something i have very little experience in….
Nov 12th, 2008 at 12:31 am
My main is staying Holy Priest I refuse to respec, I have had him Holy since his creation. I leveled him all the way to 70 as Holy … I mean how HARD can another 10 levels be? So really no point of respec unless you are currently spec in a way you dont like.
Nov 12th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Priest - Holy/Disc - Instance leveling.
Hunter - Marks - The others seem…unnatural.
Mage - Frost - Frost shield + shatter combos = fast times leveling!
Druid - Boomkin - This one isn’t “really” mine.
Warlock - Demonology - I loves me Felguard.
Shaman - Enhance - Though he’s not quite there yet.
I play what I like the most! I know they haven’t always been the ideal specs, but with the balancing out of the specs I can really compete where before I was lagging behind. Boomkin wasn’t that way until they made the 3.0 changes. He leveled completely feral, but will continue in boomkin since I spec’d him that way for LW. Oh and it’s not “really” mine because the kid I mentor plays that one.
Nov 12th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Meh, I always preferred fire for leveling. The quick burning down of mobs would be a top objective, I think frost for lvling is a lot of dilly-dally, for lack of a better term.
Nov 13th, 2008 at 10:40 am
True Ness, I know that most people level up fire for quick burning of mobs, but I found that I can still burn mobs with 2-4 frostbolts myself because of the shatters. The other thing I really liked about frost was that you had better survivability, which was always nice while leveling as well.
Though, I’m totally the type that doesn’t race to level, I just had that discussion with my roommate this morning actually. We logged in to see how many new Death Knights there were and what level they already were, and she said, “Geez! Is that even any fun because you don’t see everything?” I commented back that we probably aren’t the norm, most people see leveling as a grind. So I can understand that people would want fire for leveling a mage because it’s quicker. I’ve never raced to top level though, as I find leveling half the fun–I’ve been playing for a little less than 2 years now, but I still find quests that I haven’t done on any of my 70s. Each one has taken a different route.
Nov 13th, 2008 at 11:28 am
FYI I think leveling and questing is a lot of fun.