All the specular nodes are cheats - they are so last century. I use them when I have to (interiors need lights so I need speculars from those lights).

I always use reflect and fresnel blend for realistic specular reflections of the actual scene.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)