Dual Spec. Still want it.

It takes less than a minute to respec and change quickbars. Is less than a minute spent on "desirable play" going to seriously impact anyone's game?

I think the motivation behind these continuing cries for "dual spec" is summed up in the following post (emphasis mine):

How do we have savable quick bar profiles? If you can show me how I can respec and have my assassin tank skills switch out for my madness skills I'd really like to see it.

I'm for dual-specs. Well...more precisely I'm for the ability to save spec templates and spec specific bar configurations. Its not necessary, sure, but neither is guild housing or guild ships or field respec, and the list goes on. Its a QoL feature that is almost universally accepted as a standard game feature and its unfortunate SWTOR lacks it.

Edit: perhaps a better example is going from a healing spec to a non-healing spec. Sure you can have the bars re-arranged, but your skills still need to be manually moved everywhere. The keybindings from heal to DPS are going to be vastly different (assuming the player in question is not terrible and actually uses hotkeys instead of clicking).

So I specifically asked about this at the Boulder event tonight and I was told that its something they want to implement and have even gotten so far as to design (on paper) how the system would work. The delay, we were told, was because the same people that would be working on that system had to be pulled off to work on the housing stuff.

We were told at least not in the next three months but hopefully after that. The guy made it sound like the developers genuinely want to implement the system, but he gave no real timeline other than "not in the next three months". Here's hoping for not too long after.

Learn how to use your UI it is pretty simple use the little + symbol on your quick bar and set up a new profile for your new spec. then all you will have to do is switch gear and and talent points. being limited to 2 specs when you have 3 available is kind of silly just because you don't want to take the time to actually click talents or put on gear.

BioWare, even though I think getting housing is neat, I would prefer to get dual- or multi-spec, so don't push it to far back and make it happen sooner than later!

Field respecc is the best kind of multispecc imo

You're being disingenuous. "...all you will have to do is switch gear and talent points..." and every ability needs moved, unless you're a terrible clicker. Yes, I know how to make multiple UI configurations but I cannot save it such that abilities switch when I change the UI layout. My keybindings remain the same and when switching from heals to DPS or vice versa your suggestion falls flat and is not a true solution to the problem.

That is your opinion, and that's great. Many of us want to be able to have saved specs and action bar layouts however. The inclusion of these shouldn't impact your ability to respec manually and spend time setting up your bars manually each time.

So all of your toons use the exact same spell set and keybinds be it JK or SI?

You misunderstand. When you switch a UI profile, your keybindings stay the same. Sure, the bars might move around the screen but the same ability is in the same button which has the same key bound. This doesn't work when switching from heals to DPS or vice versa. What I have bound to "1" for heals is entirely different than I'd want for DPS. Same with tanking to DPS.

But, to directly answer your question, yes. I do keep things the same so that its more muscle memory. I don't really know the specific name of the spell I'm using at any given time, I just know what it does and what place in my rotation is has. I've setup my keybinds throughout all of my characters to have the exact same keybind layout in the action bars so it is more intuitive when I move between characters. Even this level of order doesn't help me put things back where they need to go, I have to refer to a screenshot to make sure I have it right. Perhaps that's just a bit neurotic of me, but its not at all convenient.