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Originally Posted by Fammaden
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Soulfires are absolutely amazing in P99 raiding
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Not classic for it to be so prevalent. And even besides that, when the spawn for an item is monopolized, then it's not an ability every Paladin can use anyway. "FTE" raiding is not classic either.
There is no reason to want a Pally tank vs bosses for optimized raid composition in classic. They take more damage (even disregarding disciplines) and have less HP and magic resist than a Warrior. Pally's don't have any needed aggro benefit over Warriors with appropriate clicky usage and they do less damage. This was especially true pre-Velious, when spellcasting could reset the timer of melee attacks (and many hybrid spells also had longer cast times until several months into Velious). p99 has entirely ignored this classic mechanic, to the benefit of all spellcasters in fact. It was only the hybrid classes that received the ability in Velious to not have their attack timer reset by a spell that was still going when the next auto attack is timed. Note: before Velious you could cancel auto attack and then cast the spell and then turn attack back on, but the input delay still results in a lower effective attack speed.