i dont think attacking me makes you look good. but here, let me elablorate:
good for them, but what is their justification? and you can’t say UHDK got it, that doesn’t work in 3rd grade what makes you think it works for adults?
if shaman can show they have a reasonable case for too many abilities on the GCD, then sure, whatever needs to be removed to resolve their issues should.
but it should be handled on teh micro level. you dont go “all spell that function like X will be identical among all specs” here’s why:
unholy is supposed to be a GCD slog. its how the spec is played, you fill every GCD with something to do, and good players fill the GCD with the right spells, bad players do not.
the fun of unholy is playing it well, we want it janky and cumbersome to play because that is what makes the payoff for playing it right all that much better. and this isn’t exclusive to wow, i’ll give you a perfect example: Shun Di from Virtua Figher 4. when i first got into VF4 i hated that character, you hit your buttons and all that happens is he falls over and basically lets his opponent hit him. my initial impression was he was useless, and i never played him. it wasn’t until i got my butt thoroughly kicked by a full time VF4 player using that character that i understood the problem wasnt the character, but my understanding of it.
right now what is in that thread you linked is a whole lot of people asking for wow’s Shun Di to be replaced with Eddy Gordo, they want to go from a spec that needs finese, timing, and proper execution to one that is basically a autowin button masher.
i realize this argument gets used a lot by players, but at the same time, as soon as the DT change was announced you had threads on every social media site with Dks QQing. and on the forums the names i saw in the against were for the most part the top dks(not the ones who think they are good, the actual top ones)
one of the things the Anti-GCD croud has failed to remember is that unholy wasn’t hit hard by the all-the-spells-on-GCD change. we barely lost anything, Dgrip i think. DT has always been on the GCD, so has gargoyle.
shaman and other classes may have right to want their GCDs back, but for unholy its asking for more than we had before.
to an extent thing slike CD length, but mainly for raid encounter design so everyone has a defensive ready for the boss’s nuke. they dont make classes equal otherwise we would have a pony.
the thing with dark transformation is that the reason given for it being on the GCD was that players would just macro it into their rotation and never think about it again. the reason everyone wants it off is varied. raiders want to macro it, but M+ and pvpers dont want it autofireing but instead want instant access to it. M+ in order to break into AoE smoother, and pvpers to get access to our interrupt.
since the devs have shown they may be okay with players macroing it(by macroing it themselves with their easybake oven) then there really isn’t a issue with removing DT from the GCD.
for new players, this wont do much, but they will feel like a sly fox when they find the macros for it and outdps players without it. and then after they get bored with that and get into managing their pet energy, DT is still there waiting for them to now unmacro it and graduate to he next level of manual control unholy.
this is where players get their power growth, from exploring the depths of their class, not by equipping more ilvl.
