Looting rules for dual spec

[Swiss Mercenary]

This is why you have them declare as healers. If anyone objects boot the best geared pug healer and say "ok anyone know a well geared tank?":P

No, their alts are warriors, and their main healers need the torch (Which dropped only twice in our main raids).

By the same token, you can see asking someone to respec as an alternative to getting a replacement -- a replacement who will have a different main spec/off spec combination. It doesn't make much sense, honestly. If you ask someone to respec, you are asking them to change their role.

Their typical role is still their main spec. If we asked them to play their offspec more then their main spec, they could spec change. The raid benefits more from gearing up their main spec, then gearing up their offspec. Would you really give a BIS healing weapon to someone who specs healing 5% of the time? Because if so, in terms of raid performance, you may as well had sharded the item.

The people involved should get a choice of whether they want to stay with the current loot priority or if they want to switch. It is not fair to ask a Retribution paladin to spec Holy for a fight (if they don't have a dual spec, or if their off-spec is Protection), then deny them any chance of Holy paladin loot. Of course, once chosen, it should not be changed (at least not until another respec happens).

The spec change is required for raid success. The way we see it, is if someone is unwilling to do it, we would far rather bring in someone else who will - for that run, and subsequent ones. No incentives, besides not getting replaced, should be necessary.

Demanding to roll on holy gear on the same level as main-specced healers because you respecced for one fight, is me (Back when I played enhancement) trying to argue that because I was told to off-heal people who stood in the fires in Archimonde, I should be eligible on healing loot.

You pick a spec you want to get loot priority on, and you stick to it. Just because you are asked to respec, doesn't mean that you should be able to cherry-pick which bosses you get which type of loot off.