It is easily one of the biggest reasons why bfa feels like complete garbage. It made a lot of specs so boring, mind numbing, and the only people that defended it were people that are not good at the game.
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It is for the same reason that Blizzard never reverted taking away flying, but gave us pathfinder or removed titanforging but gave us corruption that they won’t simply revert the gcd changes.
When they have to remove or undo a decision because the vast majority of the playerbase hates it they look like idiots for making a mistake. They don’t want to do that. That’s why they don’t just remove titanforging or return flying being purchasable. It’s to save face.
At best they loosen it on some abilities, they’ll never outright reverse it. I do agree it should be reverted. I makes me hate playing melee and I mained melee for over a decade.
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Only a couple offensive cds should have been put on the gcd like pally wings and legion warrior battle cry (but it got reworked so it wasnt as bursty and didn’t need one anymore). Fire mage combustion should also have been put on one, but mages got developper favoritism.
The whole defensives, mobility and etc. going on the gcd is absurd.
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Single worst change. Even worse then all the horrible bfa systems in place(And that’s saying something).
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for the reports to the shareholders,
every. second. counts.
Pfft only 3 specs have more than one ability added to the GCD.
The biggest thing contributing to how garbage the specs feel in BfA is that they were gutted in Legion, propped up by artifact weapons, and then those artifact weapons were removed leaving the specs shallow because azerite and essences didn’t fill the void left.
There are a lot more important changes to make to the classes than taking a single ability back off the GCD.
It honestly is the worst change. It was the reason I quit bfa very early on. Only reason I’m really playing now is just to get the kultirans and mechagnomes.
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Agree that some classes have awkward pacing due to GCD with current setup, but walking it back should be done carefully to avoid putting them at the other extreme where they’re uncharacteristically frenzied for an MMORPG classes.
I might totally off but I think combustion is off the GCD because it’s dispellable/stealable. Would be a pretty reasonable trade to put it on the GCD while making it undispellable.
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It’s not a measure of skill to make a macro stacking your offense cooldowns, your trinkets, and potions.
Knowing that you can only do X amount of actions in a GDC window and using that to choose whether it’s more important to go offensive with Recklessness or defensive with Die By the Sword is.
I would understand if like divine favor it was only the next spell that you buffed, like when presence of mind was used by fire mages. But the amount of burst that come from combustion makes it the highest burst cd in the game, and it isn’t on the gcd. And fire mages don’t channel cast during it so they can’t get interrupted, they can only get cced or purge, that’s already a good trade.
How the gcd is right now makes it so you don’t have to think at all. Because of the gcd you can play probably every class in this game with your toes and pull 2k+ rating.
At least when you knew someone was popping battle cry with all your trinks or whatever back in legion you knew they were gonna do a very high amount of damage and you had react fast to counter that. Now if someone pops recklessness I don’t even care and I just end up tanking it or just use some less effective counter.
Maybe the spell should be just be reworked then. In PvP would suck to burn both a GCD and a cooldown only to get purged half a second later.
Which 3 class can do if I am right? And blood elf but again purge needs to be lucky. You can purge any 1 buff on your target. Reworking the cd would be a good idea, but at this point it might be locked as the fire mage identity.
Stacking multiple abilities and consumables into a macro is what takes the thinking out of the game.
Seriously, if this is a defense for making one-button kill macros, this is one of the flimsiest arguments I’ve ever seen.
At least shammy purge can be spammed with impunity, not sure about DH purge. Spellsteal eats mana by the gallon barrel so it’s not super spammable, but it still gets spammed fairly often.
Dh purge is a decent/big cd. Shaman purge is like mages, it will cost them a lot of mana so they can’t spam it too hard. But yea that’s that.
I’m not even defending macros. I’m saying the gameplay is so slow right now it is a joke and can easily be played without taking the game seriously.
Like I said before, how the gcd is set right now makes it so you don’t have to think and if you have to think with all the time that you are given and are incapable of making the right decision within such an extremely large window then you just suck at the game.
If you revert the GCD you’re going to get these macros back, and the game is better without them.
What would you do instead?
It was the reason I stopped raiding completely in BfA. Suddenly it just felt like the class I knew was gone. It killed the fun for me.
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For starters, remove recklessness from the gcd and probably dragon roar for fury. I’m not gonna bother to look so deeply into it because that would take forever.