Spell batching -> interrupt juking

My first 60 was a warrior, so when people complained about spell batching I didn’t think much of it. It didn’t seem to have that much of an impact on gameplay and I thought people were just being whiney.

However, my second 60 is a paladin and I have not been able to juke A SINGLE FREAKING INTERRUPT yet. Over and over again I stopcasting, see my opponent kick or counterspell or whatever… I think to myself “got ya sucker!” and then all my abilities go on cooldown anyway. Again and again and again.

I take back anything I may have said about spell batching not being a big deal. It is.

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Yeah, there were a few of us against Vanilla Spell batching from the start. I tried linking the post from Celestalon explaining why it was awful and why they spent so much energy getting it to down to the level it is today in Modern WoW.

Now most of the people that were for batching seem to be against it. The only thing is, instead of admitting they were wrong, they’re claiming that Blizzard hasn’t correctly implemented it. Blizzard thinks they have it right, constantly claiming it’s wrong will not do us any good here.

People need to eat crow and ask nicely for Blizzard to abandon this awful system. Batching was changed for a good reason, it’s bad.

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I personally “love” stunning a mage right after they blink, but still too soon for the game to realize they shouldn’t be immune to the stun.

The instantaneous stun immunity that ends up being half a second.

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my favorite is when i move to end a cast before it goes off but the game batches me standing still with me moving so the cast goes off while im moving

It is a bit too large of a window, honestly having some batching isn’t a big issue but having it feel like a full half a second after to still be effected is too extreme, it really needs to be like a 150-200ms kind of deal.

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If I time it right on my warlock, I can be both casting a drain soul and hitting the mob with my staff in a melee attack that kills it.

How can I be channeling and hitting something at the same time? Don’t ask Blizzard cause they sure don’t seem to have a clue how their game played.

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That was possible in Vanilla. I used to do that very frequently. It feels like the window is just a little wider now, easier to do.

It’s funny most of the time

Intercepting a mage that just blinked and seeing that big ol’ yellow “IMMUNE” over their heads is a really great feeling.

It’s like you get rewarded for having Dad Gamer reflexes in Classic, because if you’d been a full second slower on that Intercept, you’d actually have gotten your stun off.

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You are not exposed on the batch…It’s a bit laggy but you are not open for .4 seconds lol

Not even close

I have juked many cs’s. If i get a telegraph like a blink or at the end of a global i have well over a 50% success rate. That would never happen if it was on the batch.

You probably just don’t have great ping

Pro-tip: Use your Hearthstone to bait the kick

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Fixing spell batching would hurt ele shaman so much. Currently they get double crits off of ele mastery even though tooltip says one.

I still dodge plenty of CS’s. It’s not impossible, just end your cast a little after the halfway mark and you’ll dodge it 9/10 times

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I have both experiences.

A lot of the time, I’ll be casting, and get CS’d right when I was about to juke; I deserved to be interrupted, but thanks to batching, it was a miss.

It actaully could work as a druid healer.

I love when I attempt to kick around .8 seconds remaining on the cast, and am sitting as a sheep with my kick on cooldown.

It’s great, really nothing better.

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whats this mean? GoT reference?

Eating crow

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Eating crow is a colloquial idiom, used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.

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huh, you learn something new every day

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I have watched my heal land, my target get healed, and my holy spells get locked.

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