aye i read it. was a very intelligent post, and i agree with it. it was
not a call for a nerf, just an analysis of the game. it is far too late to
remove or nerf CH, because as you said, the difficulty of the game is in
every way tuned to this spell. there is no way we could do the raids we do
without warriors and CH. you can do certain experience groups without a
cleric, though it is rare. even before the SoT upgrade, you could do many
more experience groups without an enchanter, but then and now it is almost
always prerequisite that you have a cleric.

Shada

> Did anyone read the post on the Whineplay a couple of weeks
> ago that stated
> that the biggest mistake Verant ever made with EQ was
> including CH in the
> game? It was actually a very interesting post. In a
> nutshell, the poster
> claimed that because CH, when cast on warrior, is the most
> powerful spell in
> the game, Verant had to balance the game accordingly to
> compensate. In
> other words, Verant assumes that most, if not all groups,
> will have at least
> one warrior and cleric in them, especially when fighting the
> tougher mobs in
> the game. In order to make sure the game was still challenging, the
> difficulty of the game, i.e. mob toughness, had to be increased to
> compensate for the warrior/cleric combo.