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Originally Posted by Daldaen
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A lot of the power of DoTs is efficiency. Knowing when they are about to wear off or when to reapply other Debuffs such as fear, root or snare, makes them even more efficiency because you know precisely when to cast those Debuffs to optimize the amount of time they’re active each cast.
Removing the ability to see each DoT tick you can instead think of as a way to balance out those abilities. If you want to be efficient with them you need to get another system of keeping track of the time they’ve been on like mob HP or some other timer. Or you can accept a lower level of efficiency and root/fear/snare/reapply DoTs more often and overwrite these Debuff prior to them wearing off due to this new found lack of information.
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Daldaen usually has a good perspective on classic and I find myself agreeing with him most of the time.
As for a timer, you can use a text parse to voice program if you wish to be classic while using a crutch.. as the player is unable to keep track of this mentally by using the spells to get a feel for them. This made even more complex during a raid with things happening and trying to read the single chat box for information. GINA is a text parse to visual program that would not have been in era and why screenshots cannot be found of it or a protoprogram like it. Learn your spells, observe. "Hmm its about time for my dot to end, I will recast it" as human error factors in with game design.
Avoid making uncertain things certain.