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Originally Posted by Castle
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- 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. |
This post makes no sense what so ever. Why are you even comparing a Wizard to a Healer/support/buff/dot class? Jesus you're stupid. Half the information you posted is even wrong.
You can throw 10 different nerfs to Shamans and they would still be the most fkin overpowered class in both PVE and PVP.
I don't even understand why people mention Wizard so much on this forum, most likely because of me. But it's like the most underpowered class in both PVE and PVP. Wizard can do 1 thing and that's nuke hard and go oom fast. Nothing else. It's a shit class especially in Classic when stuns or shock of lightning don't even work. A rogue is more powerful overall. There is a reason why Wizard is the least played class on Blue99 by MILES.