Can only be used to heal wounds inflicted more than 1 hour ago. Each recent use on the target reduces the effectiveness of the dagger's healing powers.
They could have changed the effect of the spell from being spread to just being blank, but during that time people would kill the now super nerfed boss easily, basically exploiting the fact that it is disabled.
They probably thought that "this will pass, no need to risk players exploiting just because some low levels die a few times", and therefore didn't do that.
There is no easy way to add that location check on to the spell itself, so it would have to be a custom c++ code written for it, which requires way more publishing approval than changing the spell (sql). This would also require downtime for each server to apply the core code changes, and maintenence etc, which they used to have one day a week, and for planned things.
Once they had that code in place though they made pets immune, but too many players had lost a lot of gold in repairs etc, and the rest of the game lacked players due to fear, that rolling back was the easiest way to earn back approval of players.
Spell fixes required a server reset, yes. That was still a thing until Legion or something. Definitely a thing in wotlk client.
That's how the spells work in wow. The BUFF would get removed if you left the room, but the issue was that pets would get it in the room and resummoned in cities, and since the buff removal thing happened while the pet was desummoned the removal didn't apply.
Doing a check each time the buff spreads is inefficient use of server.
Also, changing anything about the spell requires servers to be shut down, and they didn't want that for each fix attempt until they saw no other way and had roll back the servers.
I've always been like this as well. I forget everything unless I think really hard about it and trace the events step by step.
There's also the autism of not wanting to be observed, so if I am to remember I have to force myself to "observe" myself through asking my own mind what I did. Which might be the reason for the "forgetting" as a way of unconscious protection.
In the first half I was thinking there's no way this would actually be said by anyone in a company, how could this even make sense, then you got me in the last line, thst would actually be said by someone in a company.
I don't remember telling "anyone" the story, so I get excited I have a relevant story to tell, and they interrupt me 2 sentences in saying they have heard it before, which breaks my excitement and I get sad my memory is shit.
V3, your eyeballs are only visible when your eyes are open.