tbh it wasn't awful back then. Obviously it was worse than old Holmgang back when it was on a 3min recast timer but LD was created back when healers still reguarly used GCD heals and this was true even through stormblood. And healing potency just hasn't kept up with player HP counts as the expansions went by; in other words you needed more and more resources to heal a DRK to full as time went on. Back in SB you just needed a SCH excogitation and AST Essential Dignity and if either of them crit then the DRK was pretty much at full HP. But in ShB and especially in EW before the rework, you just had to sink so many cooldowns or GCDs into the DRK to get them up to full health. Also in 6.0 WHM was really REALLY bad so there were less WHMs around to benediction the DRK, and all of that just came to a head in 6.1 when they finally changed it.
tbh it wasn't awful back then. Obviously it was worse than old Holmgang back when it was on a 3min recast timer but LD was created back when healers still reguarly used GCD heals and this was true even through stormblood. And healing potency just hasn't kept up with player HP counts as the expansions went by; in other words you needed more and more resources to heal a DRK to full as time went on. Back in SB you just needed a SCH excogitation and AST Essential Dignity and if either of them crit then the DRK was pretty much at full HP. But in ShB and especially in EW before the rework, you just had to sink so many cooldowns or GCDs into the DRK to get them up to full health. Also in 6.0 WHM was really REALLY bad so there were less WHMs around to benediction the DRK, and all of that just came to a head in 6.1 when they finally changed it.