Mistweaver : please, remove the GCD on that spell!

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Greetings.

Ever since WoD’s release, Mistweaver has been my main specialization.
The one I’ve truly learned to master, the one I’ve spent the most time playing, and the one on which I unlocked my first ever elite set – I still carry every single piece of that set in my bags to this day, as a memento.

Over the years, Mistweavers have lost more things than I could list:

Our 2 stances, Chi as an entire ressource system and all the spells and mechanics related to managing it (most notably Chi brew and olschool Mana tea), Nimble brew, the ability to cast Cocoon while stunned, Spear-handed strike, Mistwalk, Pool of mists (which, combined with Chi brew allowed us to perform a small damage burst by using Rising sun kick three times in a row), our class buff (useful dispel protection against mage and shaman comps), Sheilun’s gift…and Touch of death is the only thing we’ll get back in Shadowlands.

Not to mention baseline abilities that were turned into talents (such as Effuse/Surging mist), or worse, PvP talents (Grapple weapon). This was especially true in Legion, where the core Mistweaver gameplay was locked behind a PvP talent called “Ancient Mistweaver Arts”, which made Soothing mist into an active ability again.

I can get over all of those. I definitely enjoyed my Mistweaver a lot less in Legion, after it’s been stripped of so many tools and gameplay elements - but I endured.

Something I’ve not been able to stomach however, is the GCD added to Sooting Mist in BFA. I haven’t touched my Mistweaver in this expansion so far. I completely abandonned my main character because of this one specific, awful addition, and it pains me that Shadowlands hasn’t done away with it.

Ever since Miswteaver was introduced, it was always the most dynamic healer, able to instantly channel healings through Soothing mist and immediately cancel to do other things. It was fast-paced, it was smooth, it was fun – and it’s been taken away, like all the rest.

As a Mistweaver, I could ask for a thousand spells back.
But I’ll only ask for this one thing: please, I beg you, remove the GCD on Soothing Mist.

Thank you.

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I’m actually in the same boat, I’ve mained mw monk since mop and loved it until BFA because they put soothing mist on GCD. I don’t care about anything else being on GCD at all, they removed the GCD from mana tea some defencive spells and others but personally they can keep all of them on GCD so long as they remove soothing mist from GCD.

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Indeed. It feels like playing Mistweaver on slow motion, or with lag. It’s extremely clunky.
They really need to do away with it, but it’s tough getting visibility. I’m afraid we’ll be stuck with that terrible change for another expansion.

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I never actually got into mistweaving prior to BfA, but I can see how this would make SooMist so much more sensible.

Right now, it’s considered a n00b trap in many situations, and the monk is better hard-casting something rather than losing the GCD to set up an instant cast. That’s a pretty poor showing for one of our more unique visuals.

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Reading it out loud sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it?
Makes you wonder if even one person in charge of class design actually plays this spec.

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It’s either GCD or queuing it. In BfA I key-pressed soothing and then start heal casting not waiting for “confirmation” via animation - so sometimes soothing was ignored due to active gcd and the spell I was trying to spam started casting normaly.

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