as you all know, one of the defining cornerstones in our guild is that we will not ask you to re-spec. ever. play what you think you will enjoy playing. having said that, i tend to let ‘nature take its course’ when it comes to specs and raiding. case in point: we have several healing-capable-class toons about to be 70 or at 70 but they are still planning on being DPS-spec. however, we do not have enough healers to raid Kara. i’m pretty confident that nature will take its course and those 3x healer spots in the raid will get filled. i know the 2x tanking spots are filled. and we have more than enough DPS to fill the 5x dps spots. now, it may be the case that if no one that can heal wants to heal — and we will respect that — that we have to recuit 3x healers in (no small task at all!) – but it is unlikely that we will be able to flat out recruit 6x healers in and therefore be able to run two raid groups so that we don’t have a long line of DPC-spec toons waiting for a raid spot. i.e. some of the healing-capable DPS will likely re-spec because it will practically guarantee them a spot in the raid.
caution: do not re-spec before you talk with me! if 8 of you go and re-spec all at once, well… actually… no, that would be fine by me! so ignore the caution!
but seriously, if you are thinking of re-speccing to healer, do it BEFORE you get completely geared up as dps and we recruit/assign the healer spots to someone else! 4x healers is a comfortable number to have if we are going to run one 10-man raid a week, 8 if we are going to run two raids. so far i have two 70 healers and Rhael is on a long vacation from WoW and Morepi has not re-specc’d yet nor has he played in weeks (but he will return when needed). so if we had to put money on it, we have zero active 70 healers right now.
the line to sign up for raids as a healer starts here! tell Ironhelm!
