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Are you sure that your name isn't dimwit? You'll want to learn every specialization, too, I suppose!
I said that they should only allow 2 active primary professions at a time. Basically what I'm saying is that you should be allowed to swap professions without losing all the skill ranks you've learned. Maybe I should have just said that and then it may have been easier to understand. I'm not saying that you should be allowed to have every profession active at once. I understand that people would be OP'd if Blizz allowed that. I just meant that people should be allowed to swap primary professions without penalties.
And again, like I was trying to say in my original post, skills for you inactive professions will be inactive as well. If Inscription is one of your inactive professions then your shoulder inscriptions will be inactive too. Or if Enchanting is inactive then your ring enchants will be inactive too. Stuff like BS sockets and jewler's gems already have skill requirements that must be kept in order for those things to be active. Blizz should add skill requirements to more items like the shoulder inscriptions, ring enchants, and maybe even crafted BoP weapons and armor in order to make something like this work without everyone becoming overpowered.
I understand the complexity of doing something like this. I never suggested that Blizz should just allow everyone to learn every profession and have every profession active at the same time. I just really don't like the current penalty of losing all of your skills on one profession when you drop it for another. If you decide that you don't like one profession, drop it for another and then decide you were wrong and go back to your original profession then you've wasted a lot of gold that you can't get back.
I guess maybe an alternate idea would be if you drop a profession then you're refunded all of the money that you spent on skills from trainers plus some sort of predetermined extra amount to make up for the gold that you spent on recipes, and crafting items. There's no way you'll get the full amount of what you spent on that profession back, but if you could get some of what you spent back then that would be better than the current format where you not only lose all of your skills if you drop a profession but you never get any of the gold back that you spent on it.
That was my reasoning for my original idea. I never wanted people to be overpowered. I just hate that if you dropped a profession then you've lost everything that you invested in it and if you ever decide to go back to that profession then you have to start from scratch. I hope this post explains what I was trying to say better than my original post.
Edited, Feb 10th 2009 9:28am by Nimrook Edited, Feb 10th 2009 9:33am by Nimrook