Going into Shadowlands, and with the addition on new abilities / “un-pruning” The GCD changes need to be reverted Asap… IMO Bellular couldn’t have explained it better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25zUG7aWtR8 He talks about it at 13:00 and Later talks about how Blizz wants Specific feedback on when it went wrong. As a community we owe it to Blizz to do our best.
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That or buff haste by 300%.
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They heard the message. It’s not going anywhere.
But keep fighting the fight, I guess.
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Blizz: wE’rE LisTenInG! (We just don’t care)
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Just now hearing about it and how they want specific feedback on when the GCD felt “bad” in bfa going forward with Shadowlands… Thanks for the info lol 
Oh people will. Look what happened in BfA. Lots of people quit. They had to buff 8.3’s content nearly 5 times to try and keep people 
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Yep I agree, It was fine the way it was in Legion and before that. They want to change things just to change them. Now they feel like they can’t just revert it completely, then that would be them owning up to their failure and us telling them “we told you so”.
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See Blizzard’s way nowadays is to just do what they want. They’ll keep it like this for 4-6 months, evaluate how many subs were lost/metrics lost and THEN decide.
They’ll tote something like “after listening to feedback…” 6 months in and be praised . So stupid. This company sucks.
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I have nothing against your post. Just that they won’t ‘‘revert the GCD to how it was’’ as your title says. They are keeping it. They just would appreciate more specific feed back on it on a spell by spell basis.
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They care. But they don’t bow down to every players cry and demand. I don’t agree with things they do BUT be real.
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My specific feedback to blizz is that the new gcd is absurd, and to revert it back… did that help? 
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That’s not specific … 
ion wants “specific” skills…
they are not removing the GCD all together.
which in my opinion is just terrible.
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Exactly this. That’s exactly what Blizzard means when they say that they want specific feedback. If you want spells to be taken off the GCD you need to do it case by case and put forth arguments as to why that spell specifically shouldn’t be on the GCD.
The new reality is that all spells by default are on the GCD unless they have a very compelling reason why they should not be. oGCD spells are the exception, not the rule. A design philosophy I happen to agree with since the GCD is the thing that sets the pace of the game so we need a very good reason to come off of it.
And if you look at the spells that did succeed in escaping the GCD purge, things like Warrior spells or Symbol of Death, they all used this approach to come off of it. You won’t find any success if you use a bad tactic or ignore the design intent Blizzard is going for.
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GCD isn’t just a few players complaining… It’s a vast majority.
They should listen to the vast majority. Because the vast is majority is what’s keeping them subs up.
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Why do they even need feedback if they play the game? Don’t they know it feels bad? We went from fast, fun gameplay in Legion to running underwater.
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Revert the GCD to how it was in Pandaria.
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Comments like this are exactly why this issue has never seen any traction and why the feedback needs to be significantly better than it is if y’all wanna see any results.
The GCD is exactly the same as it was in Pandaria, as it was in Legion. The thing that changed are the spells that are are on the GCD vs. the ones that are off of it. The problem with statements like
is that they make no sense. This player is an Assassination Rogue. The ONLY change they saw to their DPS rotation going from Legion to BFA is that Vendetta was put on the GCD. Their 2 minute throughput coolddown, a button the press maybe three times in a fight. Their combat is otherwise exactly the same. Whatever “playing underwater” means, it’s not caused by the GCD change unless you are very specifically referring to exactly Vendetta.
Just saying “it feels bad and clunky” is not helpful feedback and the number of people saying it is irrelevant if they can’t give good feedback. You will find much more success if you take the issue spell by spell and argue each one on its individual merits for being taken off the GCD. That’s the structure the change was originally made under so that’s the structure you need to follow to undo it.
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Do I even need to point out that what you just said there is exactly what I’m asking for?
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Yes you do. That’s my point. Be specific in your feedback. Just asking for every spell that was included in the GCD change to be put back on is a great way to get ignored by Blizzard. Hone in on specific spells. These vague statements don’t communicate any useful information.
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