As a former Cleric from way back on live my recollection is that Bash was added as part of the "awesome" class balancing job SOE did back around the Luclin era although my timeline may be off.
They added Bash, upgraded the Yaulp line and gave us a summonable DD procing hammer so we could solo whilst they gave Shaman and Druids a version of Cheal to make them more desirable in group situations. I still remember wondering WTF difference bash was going to make to me meleeing a Luclin mob with 10k+ hit points. If Shammies and Druids got Cheal, I wanted slows and DS but SOE did not share my vision
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