When 3.1 hits, players will now be able to have two specs they can switch between. Two sets of talent points, and two sets of glyphs. All you need to do is purchase this option for 1000G.

Right now I am 0 / 45 / 26 dual wielding. Mostly Frost, but balancing out things with unholy. Coming 3.1, things for my class and play style will be changing greatly and so I have no idea about specific class or even how many weapons I'll be swinging.

What I know for sure is that I will have two roles filled by my two specs. DPS and tanking.

When 3.1 drops, will you be taking advantage of dual specs and what will your two roles be?

And now, humor.

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Acknowledges humor

Dual spec plans: Possibly my warlock as affliction for raiding and demonology for questing. At this time I have no plans for my hunter (but that could change when I start pvp in another month or so) nor any plans for my pally (lvl 30) who will level Ret, Druid (lvl 41) will be feral/resto, shaman (lvl 22) enhancement / resto (enhancement option may change to elemental once I get to 80), and my priest (if I don't delete her; currently lvl 10) will be shadow / holy.

Aqua will be enhancement/resto and Io will be Resto/Balance - those are the only toons I feel like paying for dual spec for =D.

I'm debating between resto/tank and resto/dps - although the possibility of resto/balance is quite interesting.

I may go resto/balance for a little while, given our quite large tank count...unless the thought is that we should keep a fuzzy bear in play.

I was planning on my druid being feral kitty and Resto but the more I think about it I'm starting to wonder if Boomkin/Resto would be easier given that I might be able to get away with a single set of gear instead of two sets since they both use caster gear. Although stat reuqirements would be different so may not be able to use a single set. So maybe the kitty / resto might be easier to keep straight. I'm now thoroughly confused.

Actually healing/balance is pretty simple when it comes to gearing. Io is using mainly healing gear re-socketed for +hit, and she still hits like a truck. =) At least for leveling it is simple, raid dps set will need more +hit.

I really enjoyed Balance - the only thing that Balance had against it was flexibility.

With kitty form, your damage was all being done using energy - and if your healer goes down or in phase 3 of a fight - you could always shift out and have a full pool of mana to use, where you can shift back into cat form and pick up DPS again when you're done healing. In Moonkin form, you're using the same mana pool for damage and healing.

That being said, Moonkin is really fun. And you can swap into healing mode without being too gimped - whereas cat form really makes you a gimp healer due to completely different gear.

Mana regen is no issue if you take both mana regen talents in the balance and resto trees. =D

ORLY? No more oomkin?

No more oomkin. =) Once you get better geared you can actually drop Intensity form the resto tree and sometimes drop Dreamstate as well.