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I confess that when it comes to my specs, I am incredible lazy. I’m not dual-specced. I don’t have a PVP spec. I’m just a standard PVE frost mage. I didn’t even change to arcane when arcane was the only way to be a «proper» mage. I’m not into theorycrafting, and I would rather let someone else do all the work. I poke around the internet for awhile, find a spec I like, and copy it. I then stick with that spec until major changes are made and I have no choice but to fix the spec.

Some of my good friends are the total opposite. They loiter on theorycrafting websites, crunch the numbers, and constantly tweak the numbers until their spec seems ideal. A few days later, they are ready to tweak some more.

Where do you fall on this spectrum? Are you a theorycrafter who loves the numbers game and could spend hours trying to devise the perfect spec? Would you prefer to sit back and yank someone else’s perfect design? Or are you somewhere in the middle? Do you study the builds and then come up with something of your own, roughly based on the work you’ve seen?
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This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the AOL guest writer program that brings your words to WoW Insider’s pages.

I confess that when it comes to my specs, I am incredible lazy. I’m not dual-specced. I don’t have a PVP spec. I’m just a standard PVE frost mage. I didn’t even change to arcane when arcane was the only way to be a «proper» mage. I’m not into theorycrafting, and I would rather let someone else do all the work. I poke around the internet for awhile, find a spec I like, and copy it. I then stick with that spec until major changes are made and I have no choice but to fix the spec.

Some of my good friends are the total opposite. They loiter on theorycrafting websites, crunch the numbers, and constantly tweak the numbers until their spec seems ideal. A few days later, they are ready to tweak some more.

Where do you fall on this spectrum? Are you a theorycrafter who loves the numbers game and could spend hours trying to devise the perfect spec? Would you prefer to sit back and yank someone else’s perfect design? Or are you somewhere in the middle? Do you study the builds and then come up with something of your own, roughly based on the work you’ve seen?
Filed under: Breakfast Topics, Guest PostsBreakfast Topic: How do you choose your spec builds? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 06 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments