Biggest class impact from Velious
 

There are several threads from years ago that mention some changes that Velious brings to the class dynamic, but am curious what you guys believe the most impacted classes are from both a positive and negative angles?

Wizard - from bottom 3 to top 3? Is this true?
Ranger - from last to pretty useful in raids?

Are there any other major transformations caused by the Velious release? If so, what caused them?

You will never have enough clerics on a raid.

Ranger imho; 2hander and skill buffs... CotP and Bowing becomes viable

Man I remember Rangers being fucking insane in PoP.

necro get buffed with root/snare stacking 1 month in. That makes epic alot better and gives them another dot to throw on/survivability when root wears off.

Rangers get no good 2 handers in Velious.

Sums it up....

8 cleric CH rotation.....8 more doing other heals. I am talking a 40 man raid. In case you don't know math, that's 40% of the raid.

On a serious note:

About 20 to 30% of the raids were clerics on big targets.

Early Velious release. 32 characters 6 clerics and about 6 druids (all healers) on a Vindi raid. We never had issues with DPS.....it was always finding enough heals. WHY THAT MUCH ON VINDI!? I don't know.....

Soon after there was a 4 cleric CH for Vindi and almost no other heals needed.

Live and learn

First AoW raid I was in on live, there were about 70 of us. I believe we had about 12 clerics and a bunch of druids. AoW hits were retarded. I think we had 3 tanks, managing agro, and DPS Had to watch out while switching tank agro.....we had good management so we got him down the first try. (NOT the first to down him on the server)

Primals are the ABSOLUTE best for Rangers in Velious. :)

I think the fact that wizards get Translocates truly sets them apart in the porting competition.

Iksar warriors become plate wearing...thus making us the elite tanks! =)