GCD's Needs to GO!

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Since GCDS were implemented the game has go down hills, does make the game feel much worse, what part of that devs havent figure out yet???

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Yea it feels bad and the game survived how many years just fine without it?

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just take sweeping strikes off the gcd and im gucci

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They have already said that this kind of feedback is useless to them. Tell them which abilities feel bad to press in the rotation, why they feel bad to press, and why they felt better when they were previously off GCD.

My feedback is that Light of the Protector (Word of Glory in SL) needs to be off GCD. I understand that you want Prot Pally’s to make a skillful decision of whether they want to do damage or heal, but at high level content that just isn’t possible. When you are taking 400k unblocked melees and you have 800k hp, there isn’t anything skillful about not blocking/dodging/parrying 2-3 attacks in a row, not to mention all of the additional passive damage that happens in Raids/M+. If content keeps being made where a Prot Paladin can take their entire HP bar in damage in 3-4 seconds while playing correctly, then LotP/WoG needs to be off the GCD.

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There has always been a gcd for most abilities in the game.

Gonna have to be specific man. Which abilities need to be off the gcd?

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So since launch?

Napkin math says…

0 years.

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I dont mind it at all, really.
I can go either way.

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It’s the undead pirate!! Reminds me of sneaky Pete!

I am with OP though, most GCDs must go

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I think you’re confused. The GCD has existed since the dawn of this game. BFA just put more stuff on the GCD. The GCD is never going to go away, but some things like burst cooldowns and such should be taken off.

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Take mage blink off gcd and remove cooldown.

Profit?

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I am indeed an undead pirate. I have the hat to prove it.

I only commented because the OP’s post is vague. The GCD has always been here since the very beginning. It didn’t magically appear in BfA.

So it comes down to what was off the gcd prior, that is now, that the OP wants off the gcd and why.

I feel like if players did that more often then their feedback might actually change something.

Blanket statements don’t really help them or even convey what it is they want exactly. It puts the devs in a position of inferring what it is they want and most likely means that they will “ignore” their feedback.

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I think most of the replies in here are just troll replies. He is obviously referring to CDs, like Avenging Wrath, for example.

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I believe there is an Anima power in Torghast that does exactly that.

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There has always been a Gcd. Otherwise people would be spamming abilities all at the same time.

“Here take a raging blow, execute, and blood thirst all at the exact same time. Oh I also popped enrage regen and both trinkets during that at the exact same time.”

The change was putting all abilities on the Gcd, including cooldowns trinkets and radials.

Personally I never even noticed the change. But I can understand why its frustrating for some people.

Rather than try to delete a needed ability management system that literally every mmo has, try suggesting the specific abilities that you are having trouble with.

The devs are looking to remove some and want to know which abilities are the most effected.

Edit: dang auto correct. I am not talking about God im taking about GCD.

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Then he should probably specify.

Is that really too much to ask?

It is in his best interests to do so, so I don’t see why asking him to do just that would be considered trolling.

Otherwise his post is just upvote bait.

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Yeah but if everyone is upvoting him, then it’s clear that his message is being understood.

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Not really.

If it is understood then why are people asking him to specify?

I try to not make assumptions about what people mean when they are being vague. If I took him literally then what he wants is to remove the gcd altogether which has never been the case in WoW ever, and never will be.

It is “useless” feedback. I think we should all encourage posters to go beyond vague sweeping statements and just specify what it is they want exactly.

If they did, they might actually get what they want.

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Preach dude. PREACH

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It’s a gray area to agree or disagree considering how it has had affected some classes and some not, though you are right GCDs has been present.

Perhaps OP may refer that it has increasing became big in BfA

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I actually agree with the majority of their GCD changes. There was and to a degree, there still is too great a variety of abilities that you can use all within the same moment. Meaningful choice needed to come back to combat- it shouldn’t have been a matter of ‘can I press four buttons at the same time?’

That said, damage cooldowns should have remained off-GCD imo. It’s awkward that they trigger a GCD while on-use trinkets, racials, and consumables do not. If you macro them together, you waste 1.5 seconds of your potion’s duration. So you pop, say, wings and then use your potion right before the GCD finishes. It’s really unintuitive and generally just feels terrible.

Also, specs like holy paladin that have multiple throughput cooldowns now have a long ramp before they can actually begin affecting the fight. That’s wrong and it hurts some classes more than others.

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