Please allow dual spec or cap respec costs.

No there shouldn't, and there never will be.

I would have thought the whole 'different gear sets' thing would have been enough of an incentive. I mean while there isnt any means currently to seriously measure the effect of secondary stats some things are certainly better. You seem mainly focused on healer/dps difference as the primary issue here, that of switching roles rather than also factoring in the changing of dps skill points.

A healing sorcerer for example, in my view, would view gear with alracity as a stat far more favourably than a madness sorcerer. Without that other gearset (of which if your talking endgame its unlikely for a good long while unless you get stupidly lucky with drops and group composition) you are effectively taking that effectiveness nerf you desire.

Likewise people who tend to sit in one spec all the time (mostly dps though over time we may or may not see variances in this game depending on endgame activities and companions place in them) benefit from a single gearset, and in the dps case they can bank on the effectiveness of sitting in one spec over a person who heals or tanks and would be comparatively gimped in their ability to handle content speedily.

Plus the consideration of solo activities, if a player desires to swap between roles to benefit a group then considering the above I dont feel prohibitive credit costs need be a factor because the game is already set up in a way that minimum fuss is exhibitied by sitting in a single spec.

I'll say it again.

You know you can already respec, right?

I think alot of people are missing that point.

DPS/Healer is just one i think is flipped most often, though in this game from the looks of the LFG calls it might be DPS/Tank as I see lots of needs for a tank.

Without something to give us a better grasps of the impacts I don't think that the stats is enough. I'm an operative and for me cunning makes me better at dps and healing, so when my spec flips my gear is really just as good. Now things like power/alacrity etc might be more useful in one than another but they also don't become useless.

I see your point though about the gear, as someone not needing to support 2 specs only needs 1 set of gear...it costs half as much (time, credits etc). However since you can switch specs on a whim, the dual speccer will get into more groups there by increasing their chances at gear rolls etc. I'd say that comes out in the wash...they may need more but they get more chances at it, single speccer needs less but gets less chances at it.

So i can't fully deny that there isn't an advantage there as we are unsure of how much the secondary stats help, but i don't think we can say that there is truely an advantage there either. However dual speccing for pve group puproses does give you the clear advantage of doubling your chances at getting a group since you have 2 roles you can fill freely.

Dual speccing for pve solo versus group and dual speccing for pvp versus pve I think can be addressed with allowing dual spec, but the game forcing it (automatically switch to your chosen secondary spec when you enter warzone, or when you become only person in group).

I say there should, and there will.

See how that works?

Actually.. Dual Spec is so wrong....
Feels like cheating to me.
Or more like spoiling people who cant choose and want everything easy.

If you want to tank... roll a tank.
If you want to healer ... roll a healer.
etc..
Whats wrong with creating 3 chars?...

And if you dont want to roll 3 chars... then you have to pay for the privilege of not having to level up 2-3 chars.

Sounds normal to me.

Being able to create 1 char that can fill 3 rolls on the fly is not only "to easy" ... its also just plain unrealistic (yes.. i said it.. unrealistic in a fantasy game!!)

But hey.. it'll probably be implemented cause there are more people wanting easy-play then there are people that want a challenge

I say there should, and there will.

See how that works?

You want the game to stay this way? Wow i can already see the noumbers dropping.

There is no reasoning against dual spec, there are no arguments against it and BW is going to implement it even if there was a poll where 80% would be against it.

I wanna see how you cry once people start buying credits because respeccing is anti-fun (which is the whole reason why the newer generation plays MMOs)

Veterans dying out and I can't wait to see how the newer MMO generations give no platform for old griefing anti-newage people.

Georg Zoeller:
Currently, we do not see the need to allow for dual spec at release. It's something that we'll definitely monitor over time, but we do think there is enough flexibility in the class system to keep people occupied well past launch.

Georg Zoeller:
“To answer the question regarding doing PvE and PvP with the same spec.

We develop all skill trees to be competitive and viable in PVP and PvE. We don’t want you to feel like you have to respec to participate in different activities.

As it stands, should be able to participate in both PvE and PvP without feeling ‘gimped’. Your signature PvE abilities (e.g. Taunt) are viable in PvP as well and all classes feature utility helpful in both scenarios."

Why do you keep trying to make things so complicated?

I'm an Op as well. I have a PVP healing spec and a PVE healing spec. I do both each day I play. The credit cost is nothing TBH once you're 50 as long as you don't swap multiple time a day since you can cover the cost of the one respec a day in a half hour of playtime.

The onerous thing is the time plus the annoyance of needing to reconfigure Hot Bars and Keybinds. If they offered a fully functional Dual Spec option at level 50 that was on par cost wise with things like the Epic Speeder from the VIP vendor (1.5 million Credits) I would be all over that.