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Found this on twitter.

AWESOME! RT @cursenetwork Dual spec reduced to 100 gold in #Cataclysm, Allvatar interviews Tom Chilton: http://bit.ly/bFvSrS #WoW #WoWInfo

http://twitter.com/Fluxflashor

Oh very nice

All I can say is Why? The cost was fine. Especially as the inflation we've seen with every expansion so far has made gold much more easily available. I mean, 100% mounts were hard to get back in the days. Not so much anymore.

Saturo wrote:All I can say is Why? The cost was fine. Especially as the inflation we've seen with every expansion so far has made gold much more easily available. I mean, 100% mounts were hard to get back in the days. Not so much anymore.

Outland was also the only place you could fly back in the day and before that there was no flying mounts.

AdamSavage wrote:

Saturo wrote:All I can say is Why? The cost was fine. Especially as the inflation we've seen with every expansion so far has made gold much more easily available. I mean, 100% mounts were hard to get back in the days. Not so much anymore.

Outland was also the only place you could fly back in the day and before that there was no flying mounts.

I'm not sure I get your point.

Yeah, on the beta right now duel speccing costs a hundred gold. I think that's a lot more reasonable then the 1000g mark, especially with a lot of the changes being made to classes.

Eh. It's a one-time cost and it's WAY more reasonable than flight cost (which isn't that bad once you have a main and such).

Not hugely excited by this, since it just means it's much more likely to have to update the offspec bars while leveling. >_<

Well, I guess I'll wait, then!

Saturo wrote:All I can say is Why? The cost was fine. Especially as the inflation we've seen with every expansion so far has made gold much more easily available. I mean, 100% mounts were hard to get back in the days. Not so much anymore.

Not everybody has a high level to do dailies for their dual spec, 100 gold is much more reasonable

I actually like this change, normally I would say the price was fine and yadda yadda, but this time I welcome it. I tend to have a lot of alts, and dual-speccing is almost (almost) a necessity these days depending on your class. Having epic flight is one thing, it's a luxury really. But dual-speccing is just about required, so it helps me out to not have to dish out 1,000g every time I make an alt.

I will be able to dual-spec my future warrior that much more quickly, yay!

Oh, thanks for the reminder, Rhy. I didn't get dual spec on Nas until 80, which made questing hell. I guess the drop in price does make sense in that context, but it's pretty much easy mode on a main server.

This will be rather interesting, considering I'm wanting to level a new hunter/warlock/shaman, out. ^^ Thanks!

Zanidar wrote:

Saturo wrote:All I can say is Why? The cost was fine. Especially as the inflation we've seen with every expansion so far has made gold much more easily available. I mean, 100% mounts were hard to get back in the days. Not so much anymore.

Not everybody has a high level to do dailies for their dual spec, 100 gold is much more reasonable

1k gold is fairly easy to come by without a levelcapped character to help out.

ok i guess if you want it at lv 40 100 seems ok i can see why people think its a good thing, say you just started out in wow and want to be a tank and a healer ...
but i know some people just leave duel specc to 80 so i can also see why just leaving it 1000 is perfectly fine

meh cant pleas them all :p

I'm kinda wondering if this isn't them setting up for Tri-speccing or whatnot. Reducing the cost of dual-speccing, so that when they make it available to get a third (or maybe a fourth) spec it will cost a higher amount, so that with each additional spec you spend more money?

IDK just me brainstorming.
When I heard someone suggest that they make more extra specs available I thought it was a stupid idea, however then I rolled a druid and realized that a third spec wouldn't actually be completely useless.
Also I started thinking about making an actual PvP spec for my hunter, and realized I didn't wanna drop my two PvE specs lol

kairii wrote:meh cant pleas them all :p

Too true, Kairii...

Renle, I'd totally welcome that!! My shammy would get to be ele too, my druid would keep kitty when she goes boomkin!!

I'm looking forward to this tbhonisted.

If your just starting out, it'll be a while before you hit that 100g mark. I know when I level new alts, I don't send them any extra G to start them off, bags yeah, maybe some spauir gear from other alts that be useful that I picked up, yeah. But that's it. By the time they see their first 100g (if I don't mess with going crazy with the AH buying/reselling or selling farmed mats) they are just about or already into outlands, and even then for me I rather go flight mount training. Unless you really know how to farm up the gold at low levels, I don't think a new player will have 100g by the time they hit 40.

For those like me who do have higher alts, we can send the money for the duelspec early on.

As is the 1k amount is sort of a turn off, thus only four of my toons are duelspeced. My holy/shadow priest, my ret/prot pally, and my resto/tank druid my arcane/frost mage. I'd love to ds the rest, but that is a lot of gold when I could be spending it on epic flying (something, only three of my toons have as well)

I don't want tri-speccing. I barely want duel speccing. *Laughs* Respeccing is getting even easier in Cata anyway. Once you learn a glyph, you know it permanently, it goes in your spellbook. So you don't even need to rebuy and reapply glyphs anymore.

Palladiamorsdeus wrote:I don't want tri-speccing. I barely want duel speccing. *Laughs* Respeccing is getting even easier in Cata anyway. Once you learn a glyph, you know it permanently, it goes in your spellbook. So you don't even need to rebuy and reapply glyphs anymore.

0.o
That's some pretty serious Glyph changes... Why wouldn't you want to buy every available glyph?

I think that's the point. There's lots of people that "gotta catch 'em all" (see: mounts, companions, titles, achievements) and allowing people to keep every glyph, helpful or not, will both give collectors something to do and give flexibility to everyone.

I'm delighted with the 100g charge. Is the level dual spec becomes available also lowered, too?

I think this is a very necessary change with the upcoming talent changes. People are being explicitly welcomed to try their hand at tanking or healing very, very early in the game. At the same time, many tank/healer specializations are harder to use one-on-one for soloing purposes (especially considering that damage-oriented specs now get some of their best tools practically right out of the box). This will be a fantastic opportunity for those with little money or newbies that haven't amassed great big storepiles of gold like the rest of us.