Quote:I haven't seen anyone not be able to roll need because of spec. Armor types, yes, spec, no. I was in fury spec, and needed the tank boots in FoS. I ended up trading them to the tank to replace his 200s, but I wasn't going to let them get sharded, either. I also needed a heal trinket while in DPS spec on my disc/shadow priest, and had no issues. Everyone else d/e rolled, so I just made sure it wasn't sharded in that case, too.
Here is a case from the WoW bug report forum that illustrates what can be happening at times.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...97738&sid=1
Note that this was a priest that was apparently in shadow spec (or at least had been cued as DPS player) that could not roll need on trinket due to it being classed as a healer only item for the 'Need before Greed' loot system.
My guess on the case that you had run into, would be that the item in question was actually set with flags that made in a caster item in general as opposed to heal only. Some of the item flagging for this loot system seems to me to be fairly arbitrary by whoever put the flags on the items in the data base. I do recall a blue some time back that had indicated that the armor flags were for the most part just done by the armor type (plate, mail, leather, cloth) and only a few specifically set to caster/heal only. And that their flagging some of the miscellaneous items took more consideration (cloaks, ring, necklaces, trinkets and some other odd nick-nacks).