Right but Cwall has experience in EverQuest well past level 10 and he has his own reasons for not leveling up here.
The point isn't 5v1 dude, again, follow through a little with your thinking. It's in 20v20 when the strat is "okay assist me on this guy, all casters spam roots until it lands!" and root is way faster than almost every nuke, dot or heal. If you watch the
test of tactics vid (the 5v5 team tourney) you wont see anyone spamming root. Maybe some of the bluebie servers tried doing that and those teams were beat down in the first round on their home server. What you will see is a pet or two getting rooted, which is good stuff and should work.
That and whirl landed for a really, really long time here. The first time I got whirled at like 70ish magic resist buffed I was like ... okay we got some real problemos here. Trollborn and the like would have you believe that this makes their class viable.
Classes are viable without root and whirl spam, if you think otherwise then yeah a patch like this would "ruin the game for you". It's depressing to think someone is this bad at EQ but we have a few of these people here. Everyone with a brain cell, including your new guild leader sees the problem with this.