I have never felt pressured about my Mage specs.. but then I have been a free agent for a long time with him. I was Fire when it was unpopular, popular, unpopular and so on. Tried Arcane once… no twice… 2 raid nights, but I didn’t like it. Frost I was very reluctant, for the longest time, and didn’t like it at 1st.. but have come to really enjoy it.

I don’t even have a 2nd Mage spec.. it’s just the one.

My heal/dps toons however, I like to mix up… but they are both pvp specs and depends on the team comp which I play.. I like to support/relieve our dedicated healers when I can, fill gaps if necessary, and the rest of the time blast stuff. As I normally rotate toons each night, I get a good mix.

PvE has dropped out of my life pretty much completely, no time, no dedication, but mainly no time… Bear might convince me to be carried some time of course.

One spec wonders are fine… play what you want… class, spec, pet battles… it’s your game, it’s meant to be fun, let it be an outlet, not a job… unless of course if you can earn a living through it.

Anyway, back to the main point. I’m curious to know if mages like yourself feel the pressure to be good at all 3 of their specs? As a warlock I certainly feel that pressure. I am also at the stage of my WoW life where I really can’t be bothered to learn 3 different specs once again, and in fact I feel now that having a pvp and a pve version of one spec is more than enough for me to have, even if it’s not the most optimal spec out there.

Is it ok to be a one-spec wonder?

Good to see you’re still kicking around.

The problem is, there is “fixing” and then there is relearning… One takes an hour, the other… well, I don’t want to make it out like I was an expert in any of my toons already, so that journey continues.

As I was just saying to Dara, worse case we have 5 levels of “easy mode” questing to relearn our toons… and plenty of time in the end game.

Wasn’t like I knew how to play all my toons when Cata pre-patch dropped… and I was away for Wrath’s drop…

In reality, plenty of time, but you know, its like wanting to nick off to the shops for a bottle of milk only to discover your car has broken down… the time it takes to get it going then is more frustrating then when you have nothing planned.

Time. Yes time. Although my time is currently competing with gw2 too. But I did take the time to enjoy travel form on top of a tundra stalkers mount with a chicken out too…

I worked on Gnomer till he was playable last night and on Squidly until I could at least make it look like I was participating in the BGs.

Chatting with a guildy last night and we have come to the conclusion that ignorance isn’t bliss… it’s just a bloody nightmare when reality sets in.