GCD change needs reverting

It needs reverting pronto.

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I am not a fan of Asmongold but sometimes he tweets some sense.

I would love for the GCD to be reverted. If it was such an issue that Warriors could macro too many things at once then maybe they should have looked at fixing things like that. I would like to think that isn’t the only reason they did it.

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Ion himself said, that they are considering reverts on some spells and that we should let him know, what doesn’t feel good. Asmon posted this particular tweet right after he said it in that recent interview or after it finished, I don’t remember exactly.
So when beta is here, go to PTR, hit target dummy for a while and see what doesn’t feel good and after that, do what he said, let them know.

Just to add a little more context that could be useful, Ion said they want specific examples.
But the GCD changes as a whole were ok from their side.

So threads like this aren’t too helpful.
But threads sharing examples are.

Some examples for me personally:
Skyfury totem.
Storm elemental.
Totem Mastery.

It’s abilities that enhance your rotation, but aren’t part of your rotation.
It sucks to pop a CD but then think youve just wasted a second of it.

Frenzied Regeneration is still on the GCD. It’s literally a defensive option Guardian druid, the least played tank for Mythic Raiding, has, that not only costs him a resource, but is also on the GCD.

Compare that one to Brewmaster with his purifying brew.

It’s not underpowered, I believe, it’s just awful to play with it being on the GCD.

They should revert most changes to GCD abilities, both for defensive CDs (bubble) as well as offensives (Ascendance, Seraphim, etc.)

First of all, not sure why you edited your original post instead of responding with a new one?

If you don’t care what the lead developer has to say, talking to you is completely pointless.

not sure why you quote me and reply to me on this topic tho:P

I would hate to make macro again to dps proper, a macro shouldn’t seperate a good and less experience player that doesn’t know any better.

Abilities should be tweaked instead.

Are you for real? This isn´t about macros, and you already need to since trinkets aren´t on the gcd.

the GCD change feels bad when I have to use two abilities in a row that are on GCD that empower your other abilities, basically two cooldowns in a row before you start your rotation

This would require a macro to avoid to empower abilities without pressing 2 buttons in a row

And another thing, this would mean we could blow up opponents in no time in pvp like we used to be able to do. Just press a macro and use all our boost damage abilities at once.

That would be a good thing, damage has been too way too low this expansion. Risk and reward.

In general we need more damage outside dps cooldowns though.

It’s not something to risk and reward when players can blow all their cooldowns in a stun.

It’s not skills to press a macro.

Well, if you blow all your cooldowns and don´t secure the kill you have nothing left. The choice should be the players, there are stunbreaks and other defensives you know. Someone could cc you as well.

Pvp is healthier in a more bursty environment.

Skill is to know what to use and when to use it.

the GCD change just broke my motivation to play Prot.
Shout ad Avatar off cooldown? Got to spam those buttons now repeatedly while waiting before i can go back to my rotation…

As a mist weaver main in pvp having soothing mist on global cooldown has completely changed how you play mist weaver. It’s awful, it’s not a big offensive cd like alot of the stuff people list but it’s a massive part of the constant gameplay style of a mw monk. It’s the one thing I want taken off global cooldown. Bloody ww takes forever now to set up their offensives it’s stupid.

I think it drove alot of people away, having spent years playing such smooth gameplay on whatever class to have to play this ‘clunky’ style now where everything is frustrating and slow… Sometimes I feel annoyed playing the game because of gcd’s I feel like playing another game. Always remembering what it used to be like and how awkward it is now.

Completely agree. I hope it’s reverted in Shadowlands. It’s one of the reasons I gave up with BFA. Everything feels so clunky.

when he’s not playing the character, he’s good at articulating his thoughts on the game design

I have heard that before, that his streaming persona is different from that which does the serious replies and gives feedback.

it’s very common for youtubers and streamers to have a “persona” they put on for their audience, his is being an a-hole neckbeard

and it’s obviously and predictably attracted a crowd of people like that

It doesn’t, ther is no need to macro and a lot of the times macroing is not even the right choice, unless you have cds that are only supposed to be used with all your other cds, but at that point it’s a design problem innit?

also this only slowed the pace of combat, nothing else changed, if they are so vital for pvp (idk nor care, i don’t pvp) keep them there.