Yup spellpower dps offspecs for raiders in healing gear are fine.

Having played around with boomkinians a lot now, I’ve actually found the opposite to be true. When I’m specced boomkin I actually drop all my +Hit gear for dailies, farming and other such things. With 7% hit from talents, I need zero hit to cover everything Heroic and below with no miss chance. Therefore I use my healer gear because the +Crit or +Haste on it is better than the +Hit I get from raiding boomkin gear. I actually sacrifice the DPS stats for Hit when I go into a raid as a boomkin.

Plus the extra crit give me a better chance of 1-shotting mobs with a 12K Starfire

Perrins last blog post..Dual Spec – The impact on raiding

In 3.1 in Matticus’s guild you will have 3 different levels of gearing:

1) pure dps. Items are gained by dkp. Items are free. The guild bank supports expensive enchants on those items

2) healers with caster dps offspecs. Items gained for main spec actually are nostly pretty good for dps offspec. Just swapping out a couple of pieces with +hit should make the offspec perfectly viable and an expensive + spell damage weapon enchant will support both roles

3) tanks and healers with physical dps specs. Offspec items cost 100g beyond the first in a week plus you have to pay to gem and enchant it. Developing an offspec, especially if your two specs are tank and healer is expensive beyond your capacity to comfortably grind cash.

OK, perhaps it won’t work out that way for the particular players in Matt’s guild – sometimes these things come down to individual cases. Some healer might be rich from playing the AH or some tank might be a fantastic AOE grinder. Or people may have so much offspec gear already that one item a week is really all they need to get, especially if Ulduar progress is slow.

It’s basically a recurrence of a long standing game quandary. If you want to raid it’s easiest to get a spot if you are healer. But arguably it’s best if you can get a spot as a dps.

A raiding dps can grind and do dailies by simply two-shotting the mobs. It’s fun and it lures you to do more of it because you feel so uber. The more you raid the easier grinding and to some extent pvp ownage becomes because your raid gear supports the rest of the game.

With healing raiders your raid gear doesn’t help the rest of the game. Your dailies and grinding isn’t particularly fun. Now a dps dual spec offers a cheap and easy way to make yourself a grinder and for these guys it’s just as well. Because for the privilege of healing they will have to pay 100g for some of their items plus bear the cost of gemming and enchanting two sets. That’s a big burden of extra grinding required from tanks and healers who are the least optimised for out of raid gold generation.

The Holy Pallies and Resto Druids will be subsidising the Hunters and Mages, that seems pretty crazy.

On the other hand I do accept that players can sometimes fill a bank with offspec stuff they’ll never use.

It’s not a simple issue

For the record, I am resto, but do carry 3 sets. Because of this I’m expected to have them available and ready for action at a moments notice. I don’t have a problem with that since I’m being given the gear. That works for me.

What we do is charge an Abyss Crystal or the current market value in gold to cover the cost of the crystal. This all goes to funding the guild as far as items go (progression nights) and guild repairs.