Quote Originally Posted by Sigma-Astra View Post
To you, it seems like a flip of a switch, in reality, this game is still using legacy spaghetti coding, that said, it probably should be an easy endeavor....but, I don't trust this dev team to draw a straight line.
But they've already drawn it. It's done. As done as any split-damage stack mechanic we've seen since ARR. As done as a %max HP-scaling shield. Perhaps they were difficult to create at first, but that creation is complete, and can now be copied from directly. Blizzard IV <> Fire IV is not fundamentally different from Fell Cleave <> Inner Beast. They are each made mutually exclusive based on the existence of a given buff.