I have an intention of maining one of 3 classes/specs, that being arms warrior, unholy dk and enh shaman, in shadowlands and seeing GCD changes made me wanna throw in my 2 cents.
Unholy DK suffers A LOT from GCD. Since depending on your talent set up you may need to do 4!!! buttons before you can actually start doing your rotation! Unholy Assault, Apocalypse, Dark Arbiter and Dark Transformation. My suggestion here is to take off Dark Arbiter and Dark Transformation of GCD. Unholy Assault and Apocalypse have cool effects tied to them. Assault gives wounds and then Apocalypse pops them. But having to press Arbiter and Transformation after that feels god awful. Like i have to do few extra steps to do my damage. So take Dark Arbiter and Dark Transformation of the GCD here.
Enhancement Shaman is okayish in a sense. But i think Feral Spirits should be taken of the GCD. They them self dont do anything. Plus if you have Ascendance it feels not good when you gotta press those in order before starting to do your damage. I know that they gave an effect on Ascendance for healers so they wont take it off the GCD so they could fix that problem by taking Wolves off GCD. Or remove healer interaction, take Ascendance off GCD.
Arms warrior is one that feels the best when it comes to GCD out of this 3 classes. Taking Avatar off GCD is great and Colossus Smash is an attack so its not really an offensive CD like other CDs. One thing that i would suggest is give Sweeping Strikes some sort initial damage attack so it does not feel like kind of a waste of time pressing it. Like some mini cleave damage. That is it for Sweeping. But honestly i am not bothered by it that much since i do much prefer playing with Cleave.
I dunno, summoning a pet, making a strike (apocalypse and unholy assault) etc, definitely shouldn’t be off the GCD. Dark Transformation is debatable but probably could be done with being off.
I definitely feel like it’s a lot better though with the initial changes. But if Dark Transformation was off GCD so you could tie it with Summon Gargoyle/Dark Arbiter it would probably be a nice change.
Yea… Apocalypse and assault should stay on GCD. They have nice effects tied to them where they impact stuff. So those 2 should be on GCD. Arbiter and Transformation do nothing by them self. I guess they can tie corpse explosion to pet transform and some initial AOE damage for Arbiter where she lets say slams the ground and deals damage. But as for now where those 2 things do nothing them self they feel awful since you already did 2 things before that. So you have to do 4gcds of buildup to do your damage compared to other classes that do it in 1 or 2.
Personnaly, I’d prefer if they made unholy gcd 1sec baseline like they used to have. It’s normal that unholy gets more buttons, they should just have a better/faster way to dish them out imo. When you get high level of haste that reduce your gcd the spec feels a lot better.
But yea else reducing/removing the gcd on gargoyle and dark transformation could be a thing. I know they reduced the gcd on some spells before.
Its also as Shalashaska said. Frost is no longer affected by GCD while Unholy still suffers greatly. Would feel really awkward to switch playing between those two specs. One would feel smooth and consistent and other would feel like you have to take a deep breath before even thinking about doing damage xD
I’m totally fine with unholy and frost playing differently.
And that’s what I like personnaly of unholy, that you have to think.
That would be great, tho I don’t feel they want that or are even ready to discuss deathgrip.
They’ve been for multiple expansions now trying to nerf death grip and have done it multiple time for massgrip.
