While playing my newish druid in World of Warcraft Classic, I’ve been reminded several times of an annoying inconsistency of how the rules of the game are applied, one that makes no sense to me as a player.

Now in Classic I have almost the full gamut of druid skills, at least those available to a level 24 character. I have heals, buffs/debuffs, damage spells and crowd control spells. It’s an interesting mix of abilities, one that attracted me to play a Balance druid as my main for most of the years I’ve been in Azeroth. Although my character is mostly just healing in dungeons I do get to do some other things – he can use Faerie Fire and Insect Swarm to weaken foes for instance.

He can also use crowd control abilities to make a fight less intense by locking an opponent…