The OG devs assumed content would take longer to burn though. They weren’t prepared for people to hit level 50 in a week during the release.
To limit progression you make something hit harder, give it more hps, or mess with mechanics to make to a challenge. Best tank in the game with less than an ideal aggro lock means people need to be on pins and needles for aggro. So did they just flub it, did it on purpose, or saw the results and didn’t care because they were swimming in sub money that wasn’t being affected? Um, yes.
The original devs did not like knights or hybrids in general so far as the raid scene, we never used them to tank anything outside group content, 20 years later p99 and other sims have repurposed these classes. Burning more mana to heal a worse tank with castable aggro so you can slow faster and nuke harder would have broken most of their brains. AA’s fixed some things but I like the nostalgia from this era a lot.
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