Roots meant to be somewhat unreliable, chancy, non-perma, challenging CC.
Reliable CC meant to be the domain of chanters and bards.
Resist adjust on root makes it easier to land.
Mobs get a chance every tic to try breaking root.
Resist adjust does not affect per tic check.
Root w/ innate resist check does not count as a debuff.
Harder for mobs to break root when mob debuffed.
Shaman (and chanters) have an edge because they can debuff their root's resist check.
Shaman debuffs any mob that he needs reliably parked ==> problem solved.
Proposal: Have the root's innate resist affect mob chance to break per tic.
Result: Root would count as a debuff.
If roots re-adjusted to be checked every tic including the root's innate debuff, shaman root CC becomes very reliable.
Very, very reliable.
Shaman root becomes super reliable when combined with shaman debuffing.
More chanters out of work.
More shamans than bards and chanters combined.
Undisguised request: Make Shaman CC even better.
