That change they made to Blade Flurry, kind of goes against why you even use Blade Flurry. They mentioned the Shaman change to their healing CD and there may be more to come.
I just think all major CD’s should not be a part of the GCD and castable whenever. It’s not like anyone would go “Hang on, let me power up first than start attacking”.
Actually no it doesn’t because it does a burst of aoe dmg now when activated. Its purpose is to do aoe dmg. They are just making it worth a gcd.
They should be and they were but blizzard doesn’t want to do this for some reason. The answer to their question of which abilities feel bad on the gcd is all of the movement, defensive, and offensive buffs that don’t directly do damage. Skill and reactions should be rewarded.
Historically Blade Flurry historically is used to buff your other abilities. Why are they so insistent on having almost everything on the GCD, did they even give a reason why they have been changing things?
Nope, just Blizzard things. Why did it take so long to get account wide essences? They are just too prideful for some things. It sucks but if you love the game you are going to play it anyway and maybe they will eventually realize their mistakes.
Blizz doesn’t even play their own game which is why they don’t understand why the current GCD situation or proposed fixes don’t work.
I see Blizzard has opted for the long con. Make the use of cooldowns so godawfully slow and clunky that when they finally fix them in six years, we’ll be grateful.
I see your game, and I ain’t playing it.
…the expectations game, i mean. Still playing WoW. Shut up and take my money!
Reasons for GCD are explored on this thread:
I think they need to take a variety of cooldowns off the GCD
It’s hard to tell what and what not though
Like I’d want too see damage cooldowns with out a modifier for damage removed from the GCD but I can see why they’d keep cooldowns like avenging wrath on the gcd
I miss the old blade flurry.
They are being astonishingly arrogant about the GCD.
In terms of offensive CDs, I really dont care, there is no need for a twitch reaction for an offensive.
You usually know when you are going to hit it. In pvp, you are setting up for a kill, you have it somewhat planned. In PvE in M+ or Raids you have your window on a boss or you know a big pull is coming up in M+.
BUT, in terms of Defensive cooldowns on the GCD, it is completely, totally, egregiously, violently, categorically a punishment for good players.
If I am tanking, or doing 5 mask visions where I pull big, or in world pvp or arena and I see that I am about to take a lot of damage and need a defensive CD or a self heal and I AM ABLE TO REACT WITHIN THE GCD BECAUSE I AM A GOOD PLAYER, I 1000% should not be punished for being able to hit my key within a GCD, have it not go off and potentially die or fail a run because the game wants me to play slowly.
Do not give me the BS about ‘we want players to plan their GCDs’, if that was the true case the game would be a turn based game.
If I can play well and twitch hit a defensive <1sec before I see a potentially fatal blow coming, I damn well should be allowed to.
EDIT: In terms of offensives, I also truly hate having to hit 3 or 4 GCDs before you do damage, to be clear. That is something that MUST be changed, they need to roll them in to fewer buttons.
This is like… 50-60% of DBZ
Does t his actually happen though? Or are there hidden agendas we don’t see? Like Apple removing this and that and years later re-adding it to say “Wow look at that!”. If this is actually why they must think we are stupid.