Originally Posted by s4dfish
So, if the various debuffs don't stack would they not take up seperate debuff slots? Isn't' this how Sunder Armor works with Expose Armor?
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It is. However Sunder/Expose never stacked, and dropping CoE, Imp Scorch, Misery etc. would be about the same dps decrease as stacking sunder and expose would increase melee dps, either case it would drop quite a few "debuff stacking" classes to sub-par dps and throw melee a mile ahead. It's not too far off the lock-stacking everyone was complaining about with sunwell. Locks got more debuffs to improve their dps than mages and pulled ahead based on multipliers, add in the raid utility and you raid with one mage and 5 locks. I doubt this would be something Blizzards repeating, I'd rather see them reducing the class dependency on debuffs by making them more generic (all schools of magic instead of one) than plain removing stacking buffs. This way the raid utility from one class' talents won't make another class/specc useless but rather have them complement each other.