I have no idea why they did this, perhaps a bug, but having shadowstep trigger gcd is horrible. It wasn’t like that in previous versions of shadowstep so I dont know why they’ve decided to add that in. It takes a way a lot of the usefulness of shadowstep away. You can longer shadowstep+kick, shadowstep+gouge, shadowstep+CS etc…even for closing the gap on a class thats kiting a rogue becomes very hard against good players
For example: if I shadowstep a mage/hunter/druid has a full second to nova me,wing clip me, root me before I can do anything.
The purpose of shadowstep is to close the gap but you cannot effectively do that if shadowstep is on GCD.
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This, why give out shadow step if its super budget. I would understand if it was not a rune and some sort of small buff. But if its taking a rune slot it should be working as intended and a pretty effective spell at that.
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Surprised its even on GCD. My experience in PvP so far has been getting cheap shotted and double mutilated for all my HP. If I do blink out of the cheap shot, I get shadowstepped on immediately to continue to receive the siege.
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Rogues are super strong and this guy out here really asking for buffs lol.
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Rogues are op enough, mutilate doesnt even require positioning like backstab, maybe once mutilate is nerfed you can ask for buffs
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Yeah, it’s super clunky to be on the gcd. Increase the CD if needed, but I hate shadowstepping and then having to just stand there with my dagger in my hand before I can hit my ability.
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im not asking for a buff, im asking for shadowstep. druids shouldnt take just spam moonfire and starsurge and 1 shot ppl lol
Earth shield hasn’t worked correctly for 2 phases now, and no blue post has even addressed it.
Good luck!
With the current version of Shadowstep, Rogues are already strong.
I don’t know what to tell you. Off-GCD is basically non-existent in Classic.
But not completely right? I would begrudgingly understand if its not off GCD because it wasn’t possible. But if it is, then I and many other rogues want the unbutchered version of our Iconic ability.
Like someone here already said; if they are going to give us SS then they should fully commit to that or otherwise they should have just given us something else.
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I say just give it an energy cost of 10 or 20 if necessary. CD is fine as is imo.
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As soon as they came up with the idea to give us a shadowstep rune, wouldn’t their first thought be to emulate the tbc shadowstep?
The shadowstep we got even has a different sound effect. Is it the retail sound?
As above, either commit to shadowstep or give us something else.
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Lets be real…all rogue runes/books for phase 2 are complete garbage except fur one.
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I would accept they take away mutilate with a no gcd step.
If they shadowstep the ice goes with them. You can still move and they are still cc’d.
The boot tank rune is nice.
Shadowstep should be off the GCD
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Have it, no-one asked for a mutilate buff, we were pumping fine with savage strike.
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