You still spend 3 GCDs setting it up regardless of if you do it in fight or just before the fight starts. Did you think you had a point?
And your point is? If youâre doing it before the fight starts itâs not detracting from your dps. Youâre literally complaining about nothing here.
That itâs boring as hell sitting there popping one CD, then waiting for GCD, then popping another, waiting for GCD and then popping yet another CD before you can do damage. Thatâs worse than assassination ramp up time in previous expansions.
Iâm guessing youâll just dismiss anecdotal evidence and want hard statistics?
Iâm just after someone backing up their claim. Not too much to ask is it?
No, but I feel like youâll simply dismiss any and all personal experiences regarding the volume of people who dislike the current direction that the classes seem to be taking with âwell thatâs not my experienceâ.
You know its not the type of claim that can be backed up and are using that to detract from his argument. Itâs dishonest posting at its finest.
I mean sure, he could create a script to find how many people have ever spoken in favour of it on the internet vs. those against it and if it was 99% negative youâd still come with some trite one liner to dismiss him.
Thatâs not what I asked. Youâre presuming my answer before the fact. If I was a lefty SJW Iâd be outraged and youâd be all over BBCtwelve
As it is I ainât fussyâŚjust asking the poster I quoted to back up his claim.
Iâve never encountered anyone in game that actually likes the GCD changes, itâs a few vocal on the forum that like it.
Donât make the claim if you canât back it up. Iâve played where GCD is as it is now and as it was. I just adapt and donât cry on the forums. I think (opinion not fact) that the majority of the playerbase is the same because they donât come to the forums to complain.
Forums have maybe a few hundred visitorsâŚgame has a few hundred thousand. Forums are a HUGE minority. HUGE!
Its nice to see that people with a common sense still exist on the forum, this is the post with which I 100 % agree with.
If by GCD being is as it is now you refer to Vanilla and TBC, youâd be right, it was very uncommon back then to have anything off GCD (only example I can remember being Counterspell, even rogueâs kick was on global), but the core philosophy in class design was so very different back then too.
Damage in PvP was generally not as bursty and classes had a relatively short window in which they had to get things done before needing to recover due to ooming and long cooldown timers, leading to a much slower pace of gameplay in more ways than just by putting things to GCD. Whole game worked around that philosophy then, which it doesnât now.
I also donât think that just because people donât flock to the forums theyâre fine with what the game is giving to them, nobody on my friends list posts on forums, but they all (100% of them) have grievances over pruning and BfA GCD changes.
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Youâve proven time and time again that youâll just accept any trash Blizz gives you. Thats not âadaptingâ. You also do zero challenging content where the change of the GCD is most noticed.
Also funny how Blizz themselves are reverting more and more abilities to their former state. Even the devâs donât agree with you on this hill youâve chosen to die on.
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I just play the game Iâve enjoyed for many years - and adapt to it. So what if I donât partake I the challenging content. Does that make my opinion less valid?
I never once said I agreed or disagreed with the gcd changesâŚI just said I adapted. Youâre the one putting words in my mouth. If they removed gcd completely Iâd adapt to that too.
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They tried to put it on GCD but reverted it after massive backlash. They removed GCD on all interrupts in TBC.
Did you even play vanilla? I did.
To kill a caster on my rogue, who was BWL/PvP geared it was literally:
Ambush â Backstab â Cold blood(Not on GCD) â Eviscerate
And most casters were dead.
On my paladin I could just press autoattack and even people in full BWL gear would get killed in less than a second with reckoning.
Nope, shaman and rogue at the very least had their interrupt in global up until Wrath when they did in fact remove GCD from interrupts, though shamanâs was a unique case because their interrupt was also a damage spell, albeit one that was meant as something to generate threat up until⌠late TBC(?) when they put the aggro gen into frost shock.
I donât remember warrior, I think they also had GCD on pummel in addition to needing serker stance for it, but not 100% sure.
Youâre right in Vanilla being bursty, I was referring more to TBC because thatâs what I remember better, my bad.
TBC too had itâs burst sure, but I think it was the least bursty time period in the game out of all iterations.
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Maybe you should start playing anything else than only tortolan quests 
I prefer it how it is, less button smashing and pulling off 1shot material.
From all I can find they removed it earlier than wrath. Posts dating to July 2008 talking about how good the changes to remove GCD on interrupts. Wrath launched in the winter 2008.