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When you declare a raid main you declare it as both a class and spec. The spec, or choice of talents, is the most important part because it determines the role you will fill in a raid like healer, tank, dps and so on. If through the course of raiding you decide you wish to change your raid main's spec you may have some descisions to make.

First, check with your Class Champion and your class forum. You may not be required to do anything when you switch your spec. For example some classes are DPS only so changing your spec will not change your role in a raid. In those cases you do not have to contact anyone.

In other cases when changing your spec completely changes your role in a raid you should contact your Class Champion. The spec change will then have to be discussed to determine if it will help or hurt our current raiding situation. For example you may have a healer spec during a time when healers are needed and wish to change to a DPS role when DPS is not needed. This is a problem your Class Champion must discuss with you.

If changing your spec helps the current raiding situation you may be given an exception. If a new spec hurts the raiding situation then it will be treated as a Raid Main Switch and use the same 3-6-9 rule as Raid Main Switching. This means that changing your spec may mean you are locked into that character and that spec for 3 months the first time, 6 months if you switch again after that and 9 months if you switch again after that. This goes hand in hand with the Main Switch rule so you may not switch both specs and then you main immediately after.

This rule is enforced for the same reason as Raid Main rule, because switching too often leaves big problems for raiding progression. However unlike Raid Main switching spec switching has far more exceptions. Always check with your Class Champions when making big changes to your raiding character.