Please allow dual spec or cap respec costs.

It's a problem with mob scaling, not classes. They clearly dropped the ball on balancing certain mobs at 30-40+. You're not suppose to respec just to defeat a monster. Just make yourself heard and it'll be fixed eventually.

Has nothing to do with your class/spec, it's the mobs that are the problem here.

if someone came into my group as "dps" with a heal spec, i would shove my foot up their *** and kick em the hell out.

i would much rather have a competent dps then people having to run hybrid specs because they are so broke they cant even respec.

I put the baseless accusations and embellishments in bold underline and italics.

To address everything else:

Companions are not viable substitutes for hard mode flashpoints.
If I'm a Sith Sorceror but not specced healing, there's no way I'm anything but a handicap to my group if I'm playing the healer role in a hard mode flashpoint, but hey if you're ever going to run hard mode Black Talon I'll be happy to heal for your group in my DPS spec
Please think outside of your single player/class storyline mindset.

This isn't a question about this games difficulty or a specs viability.

It's about a group of people who want more freedom in their choices on how to play this game and what roles they want to fill in a group setting, and another group of people who are staunchly against that for personal reasons.

And we'll see just how many Operations Groups want you with them when you DPS in a Healing Spec

It's obvious MajikMyst speaks from the mindset of questing and solo play, which makes it even more mind boggling why they would care what other people do with their specs.

How about we not talk about anyone's personal game play and you explain to us how dual speccing well have no effect on the game play at large??

Look at the big picture here..

Can you even give a logical and viable reason to have dual speccing??

Take any character and their companion and name a single situation where dual speccing is required..

What I see from the dual speccing crowed is hyperbole, strawman, and fallacies..

Dual speccing deminishes the quality of the game and the players playing the game.. That effects all of us..

WOW is a perfect case study in the effects of dual speccing.. WOW has been nerfed countless times because people in general lacked the skills needed to succeed.. People complained the raids were to hard.. They weren't hard.. People never learned what 'Don't stand in fire!!' means.. So they would stand there and die.. Nobody knew how to work as a team.. Nobody knew how to play their own characters.. Dual speccing lead to all this.

People could no longer specialize in the specs they like the most.. They had to have 2 specs to learn.. The loot issue.. Everyone rolling for off specs.. It is bad enough we have peeps rolling for companions.. All troopers will be looked up as tanks.. All Sages will be looked upon as healers.. People will be asked to change specs to ones they don't want to play to complete a group because the raid leader is to lazy to get the right person.. Or it is easier to get DPS..

There are a ton of things that dual speccing changes.. None of which are fallacies or hyperbol.. There are no strawman arguements here..

What is here is your desire to pit your wants against a single person and not the entire game.. Since when was what you wanted more important than all of us??

I see a lot of people not wanting this because people do not want a person to be a tank/healer/dps or saying it would break the game because there are only 4 classes. I feel that a lot of people are forgetting the basic mechanic of the game. You can not unpick your advanced class and they will not change that.

Duel specing would only allow people to be dps/tank or dps/heal. Unless there is something i missed no class would be able to be a trinity on their own.

I like duel spec because i like to pve and pve regularly and its nice to have independent builds.

You say there is no hyperbole or fallacies in your argument but the very crux of your argument is that dual-speccing led to people being less skilled overall in World of Warcraft. How exactly did you measure that again?

If people aren't up to par with "your idea" of what their personal skill level should be, then that's your personal problem. I don't see how dual speccing has any correlation to people not being able to avoid environmental hazards in World of Warcraft. Or how you even measured the effects of dual-speccing at large (hint: it's impossible) without resulting to your own experiences and making generalizations from there.

This is the second dumbest thing I've ever read on a mmo forums next to the other guy who said........................DUUUURRRRR?