Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
On the flip side, 4.0 gave us Neo Exdeath with a big gimmick that basically revolved around Shroud timing to deal with enmity resets. Given how conveniently it all lined up, I'd confidently wager that either this was the reason all 3 healers got the same shroud clone button or it that this decision had already been taken and set in stone by the time Neo Exdeath was getting developed.

There is always the odd potential that 4.0's core system changes and direction were being locked in much earlier in HW's life cycle, potentially explaining some of the decisions that would seem strange later on.
I'm not so certain that Neo Exdeath is the reason that every healer got an enmity dump, I farmed that fight a ton and the only times I've been flattened by an Earthshaker or Aero III is when I was on WHM. I'm pretty sure AST still had the halved enmity generation on their stances in SB and Eos was still a separate entity back then that had her own enmity table.

I think the second case is far more likely, changes already made and direction already picked. The Neo Exdeath situation was likely nothing more than a coincidence.

(Also, I believe WHM was MP-negative back in 4.0, so they'd never actually hold Lucid to halve enmity where it mattered and just get rolled by the Earthshaker anyway.)