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40/0/21? ORLY?

i see that you are spec'd into afflication which is your choice, but is ruin really worth it? considering you wont be nuking all that much with that many dots?

is skipping a 41 point talent worth it for a 21 point?

i was thinking more along the lines of :

5/35/21

all the benefits of soul link, demonic sacrafice, demonic knowledge, instant corruption, shadow burn and ruin...

makes for a good pvp set and great pve.

overall from respec'ing at 70 i have spent 200+ gold..

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Druid:
1-58 Full feral
58-64 Full resto
64-66 Full Balance
66-70 0/20 Feral/41 resto
70 33 balance/0 feral/28 resto

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14+ times
Up to 50g once, and then afew more times after they added the cost degrade feature.

I think I'm back up to the 45 mark after dropping down to 30.

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on my mage...i dont know how many times i have respecced, from fire to arcane, to frost, to hybrids...my cost is 50g and has been for a while lol. but after it all, i always ending going back to frost.

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1-52 full shadow spec on my priest

53 switched to holy

53.01 switched back to shadow after taking 5 minutes to kill one mob!

53.02 another respec after realising i cocked up when selecting shadow specs.

Total re specs 3.

No idea of cost to respec now (lvl 65)but have no intention of changing.

My rogue however has specalised in every type of weapon and eventually went bankrupt due to respec costs.

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Well, I respecced Furey (Warrior) pre-BC simply because my guild wasn't raiding and I had never done it before. Switched back to Arms (I love big heavy hitting 2-handers) for leveling. Changed at 70 to include some tanking talents for my guild. Changed again and went full protection.

So four times since the 2.0 patch.

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I started to spec resto from 10-45 then tried balance (for moonkin) for about 30mins and then went back and respecced. Ive been resto ever since. It costs about 15g now to respec. (55 druid)

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I have re-done my talents 4 times. Once when I hit 60 (clearing up some leveling errors) Once when I was deep in raiding and threat became a problem (into demonology) then redid them into affliction when 2.0 hit, and redid them at 70 to adjust for leveling errors once more.

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40/0/21 is a not a good speck for raiding. (Living in the pre-BC world) You will get more damage out of Unstable Affliction then Ruin will give you on those few Shadowbolts you get to throw out. And with 40 debuffslots and 25man raids, you will be focusing more on recasting debuffs then you will be on casting shadowbolts.

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Once - went from elemental to enhancement at 30.

When I get into my 60's, I might consider speccing resto, but that depends.

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"40/0/21 is a not a good speck for raiding. (Living in the pre-BC world) You will get more damage out of Unstable Affliction then Ruin will give you on those few Shadowbolts you get to throw out. And with 40 debuffslots and 25man raids, you will be focusing more on recasting debuffs then you will be on casting shadowbolts."

This spec is ideal for raiding, simply because I have more flexibility. While DoT's do more damage over a longer period of time, a lot of the things I've seen/done/read about concern extensive and repetitive trash pulls. And Ruin > DoT's for trash that dies in 8 seconds.

I did spec for Intensity, I may drop that now since I'm not using Hellfire or Rain of Fire anymore (Seed of Corruption all the way).

Destructive Reach is one of the most overlooked farming talents. If you can find mobs that are -5 to farm, you can generally kill them before they touch you just with an incredible amount of damage gear, shadowbolts and max range.

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Is there a cool-down time on respec payments?

In other words if I respec today, and then respec again tomorrow I would expect to pay gold. What if you wait 9 months or so between respecs? Does the price still go up?

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1-60 Affliction

60 Respec'd to Destruction for raiding.

60-70 Respec'd to Demonology for leveling

70 Respec'd to Destruction for raiding.

3 respecs. Hooray for spending more time thinking and looking at talent calculators than respecing.

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Druid

10-22 Full Resto
23-60 Resto/Feral
Then I tried tree, then back to Resto/Feral
60-68 Full Feral
68-70 Balance/Resto

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I've respecced and paid for it once when going from a leveling to endgame build. Then I used the free talent refund from 2.0 to spec to a new tree. I suspect I'll respec once more when I hit 70.

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I have been thinking of switching my talents recently. When I started this character, I didn't fully understand the talent tree, nor did I know what I wanted to do with my warrior. I am starting to finally see what direction he is going in and how I like to play him, so I will be respeccing very shortly. I am hoping it won't cost me too much, but I honestly have never changed them except for when they were reset in the last two months.

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Started Ret Spec and stayed with it all the way. Will continue to remain Ret. I have re-talented in order to fix the Holy points I spent, but I've only done it twice (once pre-BC and once after).

My Warlock will respec after I get her to 41 available points. My Rogue has never paid to respec, but I have changed her up a little into Combat and love it. Druid was Feral when I started and I am glad that I kept him that way.

You can probably see the pattern here. I chose a tree and stick to it. I work with what I can in a tree and make my character the best that I can with those specs. I will always plan out my build on a Talent Calculator before I even touch a button. I do realize that, like with my Warlock, you may want to go so far in on tree and then switch over after you have new talents available to you.

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Um... Change My Talents? You're Kidding Right?

I was forced to redo mine twice--2.0 and Druid Patch--I still don't know/think I've ever used that first initial free respec? Or is there such a thing? What happened to planning out a character? It's not that difficult. I've been satisfied, and my guild let me raid Feral Tier1/2...

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I tossed points around poorly when I first started (I was one of the launch w/o beta noobs), So I was well into my 20's before I learned to have a purpose to specc'ing my priest. Then went shadow. Then went holy, then went back shadow (took too long to kill anything). Back holy as I got near 60 (pre-bc). In the interim, there was the occasional botched point assignment, requiring respecs

I actually had to borrow $$ from my guild at one point to respec. I make it a point to pay it forward from there...

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Number of Hunter respec... 0
Number of Priest respec... 0
Number of Mage respec... 4
Arc->(@54)Frost->(@60)Fire(BC)->(@60)Arc->(@60)Frost

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Priest
I started out with Holy spec until I learned that Shadow was the way to level. 59 now and still shadow. A few points in Wand Specialization and the one that gives you 70% chance to not break healing spell casting, but everything else is Shadow. I always assumed I'd switch to Holy once I got around 60, but with BC I may stay Shadow a while longer.

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