Originally Posted by
SkillOverKill
You realize that currently Sin and Punishment is an 8 yard radius AoE horror effect with no DR right - and has been all expansion?
Of all that time, I've only landed two multi-horrors off it. One was in like the first month of Cataclysm in Isle of Conquest, I ran to docks, cast VT on a holy paladin who was running in the middle of his horde - and he aoe horrored his entire team dispelling it. That was awesome, but its very rare - and healers are much more conscious of how they are affecting their teammates than dps generally.
The only other multi-horror I've seen was 2-3 months ago in arenas where I feared a rogue, who randomly ran next to his hpal, who dispelled the fear - and horror'd both of them purely by accident. So twice that was a useful mechanic of the 50,000 dispelled VTs I've seen this expansion. 99.995% of the time, it only hits a single target - but currently while UA and Flameshock are far, far, far better dispel deterrents - VT is balanced around the near-impossible possibility of your teams healer trolling you.
VT is a 3 second AoE horror with no DR. Since melee don't dispel magic, the benefit of a horror over a silence is meaningless unless the healer is humping the melee (and against a spriest, that's asking to be multi-feared, so they'd have to be particularly dumb).
UA is a 5 second Silence with no DR and massive damage.
Flameshock dispel gives 90% haste for 6 seconds. That's a Sinestra level buff to my damage (and you know how much my damage skyrockets on that final phase). If spriests had that, I'd re-cast 14 tick VTs on people, it would be like me being able to put up two VTs on the same target - it would be absurd (and is arguably stronger than UA dispel effect for us).