Do you have to buy specific gear when you change to a spec that is a different role than the one you are using? For example: Retribution Paladin to Holy Paladin, or Feral Druid to Restoration Druid.
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Do you have to buy specific gear when you change to a spec that is a different role than the one you are using? For example: Retribution Paladin to Holy Paladin, or Feral Druid to Restoration Druid.
You don't HAVE to change gear, but it is highly recommended one do so, since the stats you need on the gear as based on the spec it was designed for.
For example Holy Paladin gear has intellect, while Retribution Paladin has strength.
Since Retribution Paladin gets all of its attack power from strength, intellect is useless, so you shouldn't use Holy Paladin gear. It won't even increase you're mana bar like it did in older expansions.
I hope that makes sense.
Yes you do have to change gear, a feral in resto gear or resto in feral gear is bad.