I said it at the start of the expansion and I’ll say it again. Change dispels to how they worked pre-Cata
After playing for the whole expansion, I still can’t get used to dispels now being castable when the target has no debuffs. It makes no sense, it’s counter intuitive and it wastes resources and time (a GCD). It used to be so you’d get the red error text “There are no debuffs to dispel”
Hoping they change it to how it used to be pre-Cata, in Pandaria
never noticed as i use an addon that changes color of their frame of the debuff. if it’s the same deal in retail then expect no change
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Or, you can have an addon that lets you know when your party or an enemy has a buff that’s dispellable. Is this really such an issue that it needs to be changed? I mean sure it’s a minor change but it sounds like such a non-issue.
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just wait until we get an 8 second cd on dispel.
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Don’t use it when there is no debuff up? In Pandaria you cd is triggered when you remove a debuff.
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made mechanics far more meaningful and dispels far more tactical.
I know, I know, there are thousands of ways to know when someone’s got a debuff
I think you guys misunderstood me, I didn’t clarify enough. I just want no unnecessary button presses during raids when more than one fellow healer attempts to dispel. I just liked the old way it worked. Only the first cast would go through, the others would just get the error sound. No lost GCD. To me, the new one’s clunky and wastes mana. And even when dispels are assigned to a specific healer, some still press it accidentally. Maybe, it’s an apparent “non-issue” for some because they’re not healers, but that’s what I like to play mostly, and I want it to be more efficient, not to consume a bit of extra mental power, lol. How could I read another healer’s mind to know they’re about to cast it, and I certainly can’t always claim the dispel in the moment, you feel me?
As a healer main, this makes me disheartened about Pandaria. If it keeps being castable while there are no debuffs on target, imagine accidentally using it and having to wait 8 seconds. It feels like punishment for trying hard, in a game that’s all about hard-trying, ya know?
Read their posts again. The cooldown is only triggered when you successfully dispel something
Error message with insta-cancel of casting can help classes that use two different spells for two different dispel types.