Melveny
- The patch they quoted is July 2002.
- My quotes are from January 2001, when Velious was only 1 month old.
- There is no other patch from 1999-2002 that addresses any DoT changes in regards to stacking
- Thus, the only logical explanation is that it was always this way.
- Unless you can provide evidence earlier than Jan 01 that says otherwise.
Necros were mad and to a lesser extend druids. Shamans spent their time slowing and spot healing, they sometimes had time for DoTs. They were mad you can infinitely add mages/wiz for DPS, but 1-3 shamans could land all the shamans DoTs. Necros were mad their lines didn't stack and only 1 necro was needed. Wizards can constantly cast IC til OOM. Once Plague/Ebolts lands you could only stack weaker DoTs. It doesn't do as much damage as you would think.
Wizard nukes 1.2k per blast for 400 mana. With 2K mana he can drop 6k dmg in less than 45 seconds. A shaman's damage is over time. His top 2 DoTs do 2k. One takes over 2 minutes, 1 takes 42 seconds. You're blowing DoT'stacking as being imba way out of proportion.
Unless someone finds some new and contradictory info between end of '99 and beginning of '01 my conclusion still stands.
Once again I am not arguing for Necros/Druids because the evidence is clear they had lines of DoTs that didn't stack. I have only proven Shamans DoTs all stacked since the beginning.