The game just feels awfully slow while waiting for GCD to pass… It’s also no fun when you’re GCD-locked out of an ability that could otherwise prevent somebody from dying when something unexpected happens while healing or that finishing blow when you’re the last person alive that could down a boss in M+…
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GCD is there to guarantee fairness between players with different latency, as well as to prevent simultaneous use of multiple damage abilities which would completely break PvP balance.
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While simultaneously cucking people with good reaction speed out of split-second actions.
They can have GCD enabled for PvP but not PvE.
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Have you played other mmos? Because the global cooldown in this game is not slow at all. Being able to use literally every ability at once would be close to impossible to balance around and could possibly even cause the game to crash? Especially in a raid scenario.
As a FFXIV player of 6 years this games global cooldown feels very fast, try playing with an entire 3 seconds of it.
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The GCD is literally the same.
the GCD time has not changed from BFA to dragonflight at all.
You might want to try to focus on getting haste on your characters.
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Lies. Many more abilities were put on GCD in BFA compared to Legion. It was SL which reverted this, somewhat.
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BFA was the expansion that changed how GCD works if i remember correctly 
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Yes, but even a 0.25 sec GCD would suffice to ensure you cannot macro sequences - you do not need 1 - 1.5 sec GCD for that. And it is just that why GCD exists.
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No it also means you can run with some latency without being in a bad situation.
Also the GCD is 1.5seconds can be lowered by haste to a maximum of 0.5seconds. (that is more then in past when it did not go below 0.7seconds)
What that means is that you can run with a steady 250ms without it being a problem for you to play the game as long as you do not spike.
It means a more level playing field for everyone.
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The default spell queue is 400ms so blizz would never set the GCD below that. I’m not overly fond of 1.5 sec GCD but my main problem is reliably hitting the spell queue so I und up having to spam the next spell (which is what I believe most people are doing).
I’d like to be able to press the next spell any time during GCD and for the game to register it always.
No.
My fingers are legit hurting from playing guardian druid.
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This makes no sense. Why so they created 1.5 GCD for people with latency issues? I hardly doubt thats the case.
Why have it lowered by haste then?
Or why make Rogues have default 1 sec GCD instead of 1.5? Does Blizzard not want people with latency issues to play Rogue? Rofl.
I’m starting to think we should just ask Blizz to remove the game. Alot of people seem to unhappy with everything.
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There’s other games for twitch reactions. They usually have guns in, but they are there for that purpose.
WoW has never been about worrying whether to have high details at 60 fps or low details at 120 fps, and I’m glad for it.
There are some specific abilities that I think should not be on the GCD, and I wish there was consistency in which defensives are and are not, but on the whole, I would not want it removed from all buttons.
Oh, and it would invalidate energy specs, since they regen over time and time is meaningless without a GCD, so there’d be a big redesign needed there. Builders/spenders would just cycle their buttons at maximum speed, others would have to wait and press buttons at the same pace they do now.
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Casters inherently are casting an ability that means they hardly ever see the GCD.
Melee gets a 1second gcd because they always see it.
It is lowered by haste so things like bloodlust will feel effective still.
The game is balanced around it and would be insanely hard to balance without the GCD.
What people should ask for is not a removal of the GCD but have more abilities off the GCD.
As an example in Legion Bubble was off the gcd in BFA they added it to the GCD and it feels terrible.
But that has nothing to do with the GCD being inherently bad.
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I agree! Down with the GCD. I want to be able to spend my entire mana bar on my frost mage to fire off 100 Ice lances in one button press!
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My only complaint is that some defensive abilities share GCD with offensive ones, also some burst cooldowns make no sense that they share GCDs
Stuff like Bladestorm, Ravager, Infernal etc should be off GCD.
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I had this problem in pvp quite a few times.
Then I made stopcasting macros, that fixed the issue completely. You could try that.
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I strongly disagree but w/e.
I will just say this; especially in PvP when i see something and can react to it but cant cuz i get caught in a GCD; thats BS in its purest form.
I am not saying remove it but DEFINITELY make it 1 or 0.75 sec.
GCD sucks
especially at low haste at the beginning of an expansion
i prefer if they lower the GCD for all classes and make it completely unaffected by haste
like a 0.25/0.5 seconds max on it
put all major cooldowns off the GCD
and the game would feel way better to play
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