I get they want feedback but I honestly am not sure how we can submit this in a way they will even read it? I mean sure he asks, but how can we submit the correct feedback in a way that is meaningful to us both? I’m not testing alpha, so is my feedback by definition ignored?
I understand they want GCD to make decisions have consequences - so the game isn’t just twitch-reflex (or macro) to play and you have to have some sort of plan when you do a rotation and react to the battle at hand.
Here is my feedback on Protection Warrior
#1 it is not clear by hovering over a spell if it is on GCD or not
#2 pure defensives shouldn’t cause a GCD if you are expected to do 2 to 4 in a row; that is a lot of downtime on offensive, CC, threat or other roles you need to do; examples: Vigalent Protector (essence), Rallying Cry and Demoralizing Shout. Use of them is primarily defensive but they cause a GCD loss and thus you are pretty heavily punished to use them properly.
Ones that seem good when I use on a dummy: Ignore Pain, Shield Block, berserker rage, spell reflection. I can also live with Avatar being on GCD because it is offensive intended even though it also has defensive components (anti-snare).
#3 if a spell requires a large resource such as Rage - why would it be on GCD since you are already limited by total rage? I dunno that always seemed weird to me.
#4 given the above I lean towards only doing GCD on offensive-improvement buff like spells that aren’t limited by a resource; those are the problem children aren’t they… but what do I know haha