Yesterday brought us the 3.1.1 patch and with it a spec reset. I can only guess that this was to help clear out some of the disappearing talent issues players had been having. Always in the past a free respec was a welcome thing. However in the world of dual speccing this turns out to be a pain in the ass.
I spent a good chunk of my evening reapplying 2 specs each for 3 different characters, for a total of 6 rapid fire respecs. Luckily for me I had all of my specs saved in my email box. Inside of gmail I have a label called “Notes to Myself” which I use to email things I might find useful later. Habitually this has been the storage bin for all my spec ideas.
The only thing that kept me from pulling my hair out is that Talented has been fixed to apply imports from WoWhead. So For the most part I could just cut and paste my spec urls into the Talented UI and then hit apply. Granted in the case of my Boomkin spec this caused me to reapply the spec I had missing typhoon. I had a “where the hell is typhoon” while in the middle of fighting a mob, only to remember that my earlier spec design had starfall not typhoon.
Well knock on wood…. I had no issues switching specs. But I didn’t have any issues beforehand. The only issue I had was the missing talent points that were still there. Like I would have Improved Mortal Strike when I was arms but it did not show Mortal Strike itself as selected.
Best part is that it didn’t fix the problem it was supposed to. Before the raid I only took the time to rebuild my main spec. When I went in afterwards to put in my secondary spec, both talent trees showed no points spent. When I switched to secondary and back to primary, all my stuff was gone and I had to put it back in *again*. I fully expect to log on this evening to find it blank.