AoE hitting group members

[socialist]

This is a silly mechanic. It has an enormous impact on how certain classes play, how good they are in groups, and how content can be approached. It essentially rules out any AoE ability and serves no purpose whatsoever. This was also the case on RZ, but that was one of four PvP servers. It doesn't make much sense to emulate a mechanic that only gets in the way of gameplay and does nothing for PvP when it existed on only 25% of the PvP servers. AoEs were fine on 75% of them. There's no practical reason to keep a problematic mechanic that didn't exist on most servers. At least have AoEs not hit guildies since your guild is your team and the team servers didn't let you attack your own team.