I don't think donal's bp is all that overpowered in velious. IIRC, they nerfed it to a 30 sec cast immediately when Velious hit. So if you want to maintain a 3 second rot, you need 10 clerics. If you have those 10 clerics using regular CH instead, still on a 3 sec rot, they cast a CH and then med for 20 sec. With a mod rod here and there and a couple necros around, you can maintain a CH chain for long enough to kill most anything.
Also, stuff will be dying faster here than it did back in the day. The fights may be all exactly the same, but the players are not. People are much better at optimizing their DPS now. I mean, I don't recall hardly anyone parsing back in Velious era.
There are 4 things that will make fights challenging, and donal bp does little to address these (and makes number 1 worse actually):
1) fear/gflux messing with ch rot
2) running out of defensive warriors on AoW
3) dps being killed off by ae
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