All the items with casting speed are bad for many classes. So many spells are already at 1.5 sec which is the gcd limit. So Spell haste does nothing. This is very unfun. Better gear is not always better because of this. Warlock 6 set for example is horrible for Incinerate. Incinerate goes to 1.2 sec spell time. Utterly frustrating. Why even is there a set bonus like this? Every class has similar spell. Chain lightning, scorch, wrath…
Sure, there is a new trinket that fixes that. And that would be fine if that trinket would be highly available. But it is not. It drops from the last boss in the latest raid with a low chance.
In my opinion the gcd should be lower without the trinket. Either by spell haste reducing the gcd (like in WOTLK). Or by generally reducing the gcd.
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GCD trinket is cringe indeed. It’s the carrot on a stick to keep us playing this game long term. Super rare, very contentious item that increases everyone that can use it’s dps by a stupid number. It should have been a reward from the quest item that Caldoran drops.
False it’s hunter prio everything is hunter prio
We should have a 1 button click that should be able to cast all our spells in the best rotation and detect whether it’s a st or aoe.
There’s an addon in retail that does that. It’s like hekili or something
Gonna make steady shot so OP!
Better gear is, in fact, better. What you meant was higher level gear is not always better, which is true: some classes like casting speed, others prefer crit. So don’t roll on gear designed for other classes.
it is really a bad stat, I agree.
The way Haste works is a bit different, since in retail - it affects ticks on DoT and HoT abilities…making it much more useful, and desirable amongst multiple classes & their roles.
As a SoD resto druid, I could care less about the casting speed stat, but it happens to be on a few pieces that I need for upgrades.
hope they put a little more thought into these end-game stats…or if they want to add more modern types of flavor to pieces, look at tertiary stats in Retail as an option, as I think they’d be much more interesting.