It’s got nothing to do with how simple the rotation is. It’s the fact that there were really significant buffs to base damage on all ranks.
Lava burst in Forever’s version wasn’t even a proc. It was just an unexciting 10 second cooldown with no extra crit chance and a long cast time still.
Basically lava burst was just a red lightning bolt every 10 seconds. There was nothing skillful nor exciting about it. It was just filler to the filler.
I’ll take it. That’s better than where they were yesterday, which was actually at the very bottom, below smite priests and healers.