Short bursts is all that exists in GoD. There's no value to sustainability anywhere in that whole expansion. Ergo, slow sucks, slow healing sucks, slow damage sucks, shm... suck. Going back five levels & four expansions' worth of gear/AA/spells later, with heavy adjustments having been made to the base of shm healing ability, I guess I can see how that might be hard to understand.
Circa GoD:
Sylvan Healing (now 2441 base) : 2100hp
Daluda's Mending (same mana cost, same cast time, now is 2144) : 1550hp
Druid healing was 33% better than shaman. Mob dps was ferocious, fights were short. Heals with longer cast time need not apply. Heals that took longer than Duration:Instant need not apply. If you tried anything other than blast heals, people died.
So that was the situation. If it were the perspective you choose to take, GoD was one big experiment in how to marginalize the shm class. Velious did it to Enchanters. Prevamp Ssra did it to melee. GoD was the shm lowpoint, big time.
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by Tugela » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:18 am
One of the other groundbreaking things GoD did was the widespread use of the decentralized raid where individual performance played a much greater role in raids than in earlier expansions. Quite a few raiders found out that they weren't quite as uber individually as the thought they were, and that likely played a role in the perception of many 
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Another thing that GoD introduced were the first group events with a real raid feel about them, which for me was one of the most memorable aspects of the expansion. I think even today there is little content that compares with the original IK group trials in sheer hardcore quality. Which is a pity in a way, I have allways thought that the game should have an alternative group route to high level gear/achievement, through a series of progressively more difficult and complex group trials.
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Another thing that GoD introduced were the first group events with a real raid feel about them, which for me was one of the most memorable aspects of the expansion. I think even today there is little content that compares with the original IK group trials in sheer hardcore quality. Which is a pity in a way, I have allways thought that the game should have an alternative group route to high level gear/achievement, through a series of progressively more difficult and complex group trials.
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by Veril » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:28 am
[quote="Tugela. Not everyone is in a raid guild, and we frequently hear how these people should have access to what raiders have. [/quote]
I don't agree with that premis. 54 people getting 2-3 items of loot with 10+ nights of learning events does not equate to a group of 6 people getting equivalent loot - for one thing, they are getting 3-4 times as much loot. What's the point in raiding if that's the case?
I don't agree with that premis. 54 people getting 2-3 items of loot with 10+ nights of learning events does not equate to a group of 6 people getting equivalent loot - for one thing, they are getting 3-4 times as much loot. What's the point in raiding if that's the case?
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