Please allow dual spec or cap respec costs.

See my post at the bottom of page 84.

Explain to me why I should have to heal in PvP - it's not the same role or the same game.

(And while you are at it, explain to me how my having Dual Spec hurts your gameplay in any way)

Would you care to take a moment and explain the specific differences between your PvE and PvP spec?

I have browsed through this thread and this is the majority of what I see from the anti-dual spec crowd. More hyperbole, strawman, and fallacies.

Care to explain how me having dual spec harms your personal enjoyment of the game other than your need to dictate how I play?

Do you think that every place that serve hamburgers should taste and look exactly like mcdonalds aswell then?

One of the problems with this discussion is there are two moving targets.

You have the PvE/PvP debate and the Trinity Role debate. BioWare has already clearly verbalized that they don't view the need for separate specs for PvE and PvP, so that's off the list.

The trinity role issue is only slightly more valid, and only because a subset of players insist on being "optimal", as opposed to being "capable" of the role.

So in any case, BioWare currently gives you the flexibility to play this way if you want. You can go from a PvE Healer to PvP Damage Dealer just by visiting a Skill Mentor. I just don't see/agree with the need to make that an even easier, simpler, less costly decision.

This is COMPLETELY invalid.

Hardcore Guilds in WoW were sending their raiders out to respec in between Encounters in Vanilla loooong before Dual Spec ever came along.

Less hardcore guilds struggled to assemble the proper Group Compositions before it.

And people are now one-shotting raids because they put most of the raid up in the PTR for a month before it goes live so everybody can follow the "DBM Dance of the Lemmings" the day it is released

Correlation <> Causation

i would want it the other way around, i'd rather drink poison then eat a meal at MCdonalds.

Why?...

Dual speccing will only add more potential tanks and healers to the pool of already diminished tanks and healers. I have made enough money off of early slicing to respec quite a few times. At this point re-picking my skill points and setting up my action bars again is just tedious and serves no other purpose besides being tedious. What would be so wrong with me having the ability to have a second spec that saved my skill points and my bar configurations?

Off the list huh?

Very disappointed in you Lethality over that. Gameplay is completely different in Warzones. There is nothing remotely "roleplay-focused" about them. You auto-magically teleport in from anywhere in the galaxy, and you auto-magically teleport out. Level 50 PvP Gear uses Stats that don't matter at all in PvE. I know what BioWare said they wanted... but they failed, badly.

Maybe your favorite thing to do in Huttball is to zone in and /emote chat with your friends in RP clothes, but that is most definitely the one part of the game that should support competitive play - they are session-based mini-games for crying out loud!

I explained that in a number of posts.. Just not the one you quoted.. Please see the last few pages...

See no reason you should have heal or not heal.. But it is your choice.. I see no reason why people can't just PVP in the roles they chose for PVE?? Again, this is an issue of choice.. Why should a feature be added to allow you to be a combet medic one moment, and then a sniper the next?? You chose your path.. Why shouldn't you be forced to live it??

There is no reason that you can't DPS in your healing spec either.. Again.. People really need to learn to play the game..

Dual speccing hurts the game in general.. Anyone has to look no further than WOW to see what dual speccing has done..

Dual speccing decreases the skill level of the community at large.. It is why pugs for the most part a bad idea in WOW.. Even worse when their cross server LFG system was added..

Other than laziness.. There is simply no need for dual speccing in this game.. We have companions that can full multiple roles.. Your character is viable in any situation as any spec.. Just because you are spec heals.. Doesn't mean you have to heal.. You have lost of dps skills as well.. I was unaware that a trooper healer put away his gun when he became a healer..