MaxDps is terrible, are you just trolling at this point?
Not optimal is very mildly put to say the very least. I believe the word youāre looking for is useless here. If anything the only macro you needed was trinket + wings, something that you do now as well. Also use 13/14? on use trinkets shared a 30 sec cd between eachother
And after I thought about the next 3 spells, I still have to wait 1 second after each one.
You are completely missing the point. Paladin is like my 10th favorite alt (not favorite at all) so I just couldnāt care less about learning how to play it. I just slapped this macro and slapped mage tower with it.
Which shouldnāt even be possible, thus gcd changes made sure of that. Which is why its improvement.
Except that itās not an improvement and thatās an actual horrible macro. I think the other reply put it very nicely, at least gcd prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot now.
Again missed the point. There were a lot of one button macros for 2+ spells back in the day. Now its not really possible which is good.
Like what? Warrior battlecry bloodbath avatar + 1 trinket or SUB rogue shadow dance symbols shadowstrike (which is still possible) and holy pala healer cds? Everything else that got put on gcd sure you couldāve done it but it sure was useless to put in a macro and a waste almost always.
In general, I would agree but it canāt be a blanket reversal over all abilities. Defensives should be off the GCD. Offensives should remain on the GCD in regards to each other, but should have a smaller limit or no GCD when uses with an attack.
The problem was macro-stacking offensive cooldowns for one massive burst, but that shouldnāt have ruined things for Defensives or one-off Offensives.
In competitive play this GCD thing is terrible.
Hey, I look, I am big, on fire, there is an infernal running around.
Now I start casting my chaos bolt, please, remain in your seat until the aircraft has fully stopped and the seatbelt sign is switched off.
You see, this idea makes sense, so we canāt expect it from blizz.
I donāt understand people who want to keep gcd.
If you want to wait 1sec between every buff youād be free to do so even if they were to take the gcd off. So go on, keep waiting, enjoy your slack gameplay and let us have our fluid one back ?
Because it gives more problems and solves none.
Name 1 problem outside of pvp that is already being balanced separately. What exactly does gcd solve for a spell like icy veins?
In which way ? Care to expand ?
How can Blizzard not allow poor frost mages be able to throw their 270K Glacial Spikes and activate Icy Veins within the same second? Oh the humanity.
Or letās go back to 8.0 where retri palas could kill someone within 3 GCDs.
Iād be up for freeing some GCDs for the speccs that need it though, like Frost DK and Arms warrior.
Man sometimes I hope replies like yours are satire
How can Blizzard not allow poor frost mages be able to throw their 270K Glacial Spikes and activate Icy Veins within the same second? Oh the humanity.
You donāt use glacial with icy veins nor does it hit remotely close to 270k in either pvp or pve but ok. Either way, name one drawback to allowing both being clicked at the same time in pve.
Or letās go back to 8.0 where retri palas could kill someone wit
Donāt see how gcd is a problem here because 8.0 introduced the gcd change and itās still possible in pvp. Care to give 1 example for pve how wings and TV is a problem though?
Iād be up for freeing some GCDs for the speccs that need it though, like Frost DK and Arms warrior.
Both specs are in the same boat as every single dps class in the game. In fact arms is better than others unless you take avatar which is very situational.
Yo fun fact, dps numbers can always be tweaked, while gcd is either there or it isnāt.
Yo, fun fact. The GCD is part of the tweaking.
Thatās why every other skills had it before hand. They just added a number of cooldowns into it.
And they have used removing cooldowns from the GCD as buffs. And then 8.1 protection warrior happened thanks to it. So judging from that, removing something from the GCD right now is way more volatile than number tweaking.
How so? Each ability can be directly tweaked individually when it comes to damage, be it either base or %scaling with x stat. GCD is just a scuffed bandaid fix. Warriors are currently the most viable tank because of IP gcd ye, but their dps and burst has always been this big, the IP just gives them the survivability while being able to do the exact same damage.
No, it doesnāt. Thatās not how being part of the GDC works. And they donāt do āthe exact same damageā.
Every IP that was on the GCD is now a thunderclap when in avatar or a shield slam or a devastate.
Removing IP from the GCD was actually a DPS increase, because every IP of the rotation turns to an actual skill use.
Damn itās almost as if removing a defensive from the gcd allows you to input a damage ability in that window, who wouldāve guessed? Outside of that their dps/burst functions the same way.
Now roll back to the previous comment, how would removing gcd from abilities like icy veins (mageās first glacial doesnāt happen when you pop it gcd or not) or wings (especially for crusade where you have to ramp it up) be a bad thing in pve?