Respeccing Worries.Follow

If your guild is asking you to respec they should be helping you gear via instance runs.

Your a druid you should be hording gear for a variety of specs anyway. I have 3 bags full of gear. You can bank it if you want but I keep it on me to more easily check for upgrades.

I've never heard of a guild asking someone to respec to fill a certain role pre-70. It's usually not necessary. You can heal non-heroic Outland dungeons as feral spec with healing gear.

There really isn't much by way of feral tanking gear pre-69. You can get the three piece Heavy Clefthoof set made up for you. I think the boots can be equipped at 69 and the other two pieces at 70. There are (I believe) gloves and bracers from the Cypher of Damnation quest series in SMV. You can get various odds and ends here and there, but gearing even a level 70 feral tank is challenging to start out. If it weren't for badge gear and raid tokens, it would be damn near impossible. I was actually wearing my pair of Mok'Nathal Clan Rings (dropped from reg Ramparts) all the way through to level 70 for tanking, and even once you hit 70 you notice a severe shortage of suitable tanking upgrades in dungeons.

Honestly, I'd stay feral and pick up some cheap +healing cloth/leather from auction or, in those cases where you do a quest and there are no suitable tanking/dps upgrades, go for the healing option (if there is one). No point bending over backwards getting geared pre-70.

And tell your guildies to smarten up ;D

I actually had the Braxxis staff until recently when I completed the Ring of Blood quest line for that staff.

I'm now 1/4th of 69 Level bar away from 70 and I told the guild I wanted to go Balance. Thanks all for your help. The post about Shadow Moon Valley and Netherstorm was particularly enlightening.

On another side note I've managed to get Honored with all Outland factions I've encountered thusfar except for Scryers. So I can get the Honored gear too. Caverns of Time as well. Durnhold is SO fun.

Thanks all.

I have Braxxis Staff of Slumber. I got it as one of the first upgrades to my tanking gear. Best AH purchase I ever made.

As I leveled, the quest rewards I got more than built up suitable feral and resto sets. I rarely (if ever) had to choose between resto reward and a feral reward, it was usually one or the other.

But to answer the OP's question, I don't think it'd be very hard at all. While I have built up both sets from the get-go, they're always being upgraded. I have tanked and healed through ZA, so building and maintaining 2 (or more) sets is not very hard. When faced with an either/or decision, you have to determine which set would benefit more.