[quido]

If you tune resists properly per era, root spam etc shouldn't be an issue - I've just never seen a box that is tuned properly in classic. On our box we think the debuff meta game that includes buff management makes for interesting and skilled game play.

What you speak of in terms of spells always landing against scrubs and never landing against beardgods is exactly what we are working on in balancing luclin. The curve needs to be scrunched such that (non-lure) spells always have a fair chance to land against people no matter how high their resists are, spells always have at least an existent chance to resist for all but the lowest of resists, and decreasing the amount of godlike status imbued by being ultra-geared. I want to scale down the effectiveness of the gear gap in each era, with each successive era requiring further adjustment.