Can this happen already, the GCD being added almost all cooldowns was one of the worst game play experience changes they’ve ever done.
Some cooldowns just feel straight bad to use and it really interrupts the game play flow of some otherwise fine specs.
In case anyone is out of the loop, these abilities were added to the GCD in the BFA pre-patch. If you’ve been using them and they feel yuck, they didn’t always feel this bad.
- Class buffs
- Racials: Arcane torrent
- DK - Dancing rune weapon, Tombstone, Empower Rune Weapon, Pillar of Frost, Unholy Frenzy and Unholy Blight.
- DH - Netherwalk, Darkness, Nemesis, Fiery Brand, Soul Barrier
- Druid - Dash, Frenzied Regen, Tiger Dash, Innervate, Astral Communion, Incarn, Celestial Alignment, Berserk, Bristling Fur, Lunar Beam and Rebirth (ESPECIALLY WHY)
- Hunter - Binding Shot, Exhilaration, Bestial Wrath, Intimidation, Aspect of the Wild, Stampede, Hunters Mark, Trueshot, Intimidation and Coordinated Assault
- Mage: Charged up, Arcane Power, Icy Veins
- Monk: Invoke(All), Mana Tea, Storm Earth Fire, Energizing Elixir, Serenity and Fist of the White Tiger
- Paladin: Avenging Wrath, Aura Mastery, Holy Avenger, Light and Hand of the Protector, Seraphim, Shield of Vegeance and Crusade
- Priest: Rapture, Power infusion, Apotheosis, VE, Surrender to Madness, Dark Ascension
- Rogue: Crimson Vial, Vendetta, Adrenaline Rush, Blade Flurry, Shadow Blades
- Shaman: Earth Shield, Tremor Totem, Ancestral Guidance(goodbye…), Ascendance
- Warlock: Dark Soul, Cataclysm.
- Warrior: Rallying Cry, Avatar, Sweeping Strikes, Recklessness, Demo Shout and Ignore Pain(reverted after huge amount of outcry during BFA).
Blizzard, reverting this GCD change is a free goal. It makes the game feel slower for no reason.
If you don’t agree with reverting the GCD changes, could you argue a reason why the GCD change improved the game?
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what GCD is making your class clunky and unplayable?
Can you point out where I said my class was unplayable.
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can you point out the GCD? Often in these types of threads you hear “my class is clunky in unplayable due to GCD” yet they never mention the GCD that suddenly makes it much less fun to play.
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You know i love you. Perhaps this would be best posted in the prepatch forums. At least a post there as well
Wow, I liked and agreed with a Timbaeslice thread.
Yes I agree with this. Some abilities, especially “power up” cooldowns should be taken off GCD.
Like that video I saw of an arcane mage in shadowlands, think it was an arcane mage, they needed something like 10+ seconds of prep work to begin fighting the boss lol.
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With the great unpruning the GCD issue I feel will be magnified. 
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Why do you keep saying that word? I didn’t mention anything about any class being unplayable.
Ascendance feels bad to use, using an entire GCD to activate rapture is clunky and ridiculous, Mana tea/Invoke Chi-ji for Mistweaver and Innervate for resto druid feels absurd.
Those are the specs I play and yes, they were all added onto the GCD timer when moving into BFA and they are all bad.
Earth shield is given to Resto shamans(In shadowlands) as baseline again and spending a GCD is barely worth considering it’s doing 3-4% healing on PTR testing currently.
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many of the threads that people post state it’s unplayable. You seem to be focusing on that word I’ll change it. Thank you for actually answering the question though.
I feel that way with bestial wrath
Why are you bringing up other threads? I don’t care about other threads.
These changes made many abilities feel clunky to press and ridiculous.
Why should a warrior or shadow priest be punished in DPS to use Rallying cry and Vamp Embrace? They just don’t use them now because it’s a DPS loss.
Yeah revert the GCD changes
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so they are going to hurt their raid for a 1.5 sec gcd?
It’s not going to hurt anything though? It was a utility ability, If i don’t need it I’m not going to ask because it’s an inconvenience to ask.
I thoroughly do not why they haven’t done anything for specs with GCDs like they did for resto shaman with ascendency. Like why can’t paladins explode in holy light or drop a mini- consecrate once we use wings? It makes no sense to not have done something already in the almost 1.5 years since 8.1.
Pillar of frost still on the gcd is an absolute joke. Keep empower ruin weapon on it but we shouldn’t have to go through 2 GCD’s (3 really after remorseless winter) to start our burst.
The gameplay hardly feels any different anyway. Most of the unpruned abilities like slam for fury and death and decay for frost have very situational uses. It’s just BfA all over again.
Agree, dps CDs should not be “hit and wait around”. It’s just flat out clunky.
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Does it still give a 10% incoming heal buff to the target? Because that’s way more important than the passive healing if so.
The global cooldown… I swear anyone who defends this is either the ultimate pet farmer or someone whose never played this game before the change.
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Personally I’m of the opinion that it’s a minor change in the vast majority of cases and that the people screaming bloody murder over it just want to be mad.
I don’t think it’s a good change. I don’t think it’s making us make meaningful decisions in a way we didn’t before. The only thing it accomplished is adding a miniscule amount of downtime to rotations that didn’t need it.
But at the end of the day, that’s what it is – miniscule.
Having to wait 1.5 seconds like 4 more times over the course of a multi-minute encounter than you did before is not a big deal.
It’s about the disruption in the flow it causes.
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