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Don't think it's related in any way to wow thing aside from a fact you can stand in fire in both games...

But I remember telling our DPS "THE GREEN FIRE DOES NOT HEAL YOU" in some boss fight...

That’s mostly just poor game design as players don’t worry about standing in fire when leveling up. MMO’s tend to add such arbitrary new gameplay mechanics in raids and nowhere else. Then everyone gets annoyed because players can only really practice in raids.

In UO standing in fire walls was a method people used to skill up. UO was skill based, not level based. And you gained skill points by doing those actions. A good way to have a group build up spell resistance was to cast fire field, everyone stands in the fire, and have someone cast heals. Casting the field and the heals also improved casting abilities

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