Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
Terrible is probably a bit strong? It certainly wasn't perfect, nor were the jobs as closely balanced as they are now by any stretch. But terrible isn't really the right word?

That's not to say there weren't extremes of course, 3.0 AST was absolutely terrible. Every hardcore group I knew that ran one for Gordias either switched or failed by A3S.

Not quite as extreme but 3.4 WHM's rough MP economy was highlight and exposed by A12S prog asking a bunch of AoE healing whilst simultaneously offering opportunities for AoE DPS. SCH and AST both had the means to maintain the throughput, meanwhile WHM had to stand around doing nothing.

On the Tanks, DRK blew various degrees of hot and cold out of the gate but not to the extremes of AST. For the DPS, was this the period of piercing or get out? I honestly can't remember.
Sounds a lot worse than how it is today, despite some of the memes early on.