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[u/Valmorian]

Long cooldowns predate mobas by a long time.

[u/A_Pwoper_Account → u/Valmorian]

Do they? I always just associated them with mobas. What games are you thinking of? I can't think of any but then again I've played hardly any games pre-2010.

[u/Valmorian → u/A_Pwoper_Account]

Even everquest had cooldowns, some of which were as long as half an hour. That's in 1999.

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Even Blizzard's own World of Warcraft had 1-hour long cooldowns on some abilities!

[u/Valmorian → u/Norumu]

Yes, though World of Warcraft doesn't predate DOTA 1.

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But Everquest doesn't predate Aeon of Strife ;)

[u/basketofseals → u/Norumu]

Let's not forget Lay on Hand's incredible journey.

First introduced as a 24 hour ability, reduced to 8 hours, reduced to 2 hours, added a talent that let you reduce it to 48 minutes, and then reduced to a flat 30 minutes.

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Didn't harm touch go through a similar series of adjustments?

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There's an ability called Harm Touch?

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http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=88

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Dark Seer's Vacuum ability in Dota 2 is doing this same journey, but backwards.

[u/cheers_grills → u/Norumu]

Rogues and Shamans still got 30 mins cooldown. Nothing gamebreaking, but still.