Why Does WoW Have Cooldowns Instead of Realtime?

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Ok I will try:

I use a modern FPS scene as example.

Real-Time:
I run through a corridor with my team. Enemies are firing at us. We fire back with our automatic weapons. I pull out a grenade and throw it. Enemy Eliminated. Saved my entire team.

Cool-Downs:
I run through a corridor with my team. Enemies are firing at us. We fire back with our automatic weapons. I try to pull out a grenade and throw it. But…I gotta wait for 10 minutes before I can use a grenade. Now most of my squad is dead.

I yell for the Medic! The Medic yells back that the F**cing Mass Heal Timer is still on Cool-Down. Ohhhhhh…F.

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I knew it. You lack the understanding. WoW is built on a turn based combat system.

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Or maybe Mario actually does have cooldowns when he jumps. It’s not like he can just infinitely jump, he has to touch the ground first, maybe that’s his cooldown

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Didn’t I point that out already lol. Huh? Didn’t I hehehe.

Oh wait is this like the Matrix: “They changed something in the program.”

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WoW isn’t and never was trying to be like a FPS game though, or even really an action game for as much as combat has been sped up since vanilla.

I wouldn’t say it’s built on turn based, but it is kind of a half way point between action combat and D&D where once you use up your spell slots you can’t use them again until you’ve rested for 8 hours.

Cooldowns are there so we can have cool powerful spells without our characters being reduced to “just spam your most powerful attack at all times because there is no limit on doing so”.

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Grenades have ammo. Spells have cool downs. Barely a difference in actual gameplay.

A 10min CD in wow is equivalent to a long kill streak bonus. Something you’re not doing in your average rotation.

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Dragon age 2 did the whole “1 click for 1 swing” thing and it was miserable.

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Yes please.

We ran the Torghast Gauntlet with 4 Warlocks, and there were 15 Infernals pounding on the end boss – as it should be.

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I really enjoyed reading your post. Concise, to the point. Elegant.

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You also have to consider: The MMO (and RPG scene as a whole) was very different when WoW launched. You have action RPGs like Diablo and…Diablo-esque games and that’s about as far as it went at the time.

The concept of mixing action games with RPG mechanics wasn’t really all that common at the time. It’d be neat to have something like that in WoW now but that would take serious reconstruction of just about everything in the game.

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I’m pretty sure OP only makes bait/troll threads.

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I’m glad this game doesn’t have the pacing of those other retarded games mentioned.

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He’s really leaning into the bit. What’s the end game?

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Most games tgat are NOT mmo’s dont have cooldowns. But with mmos you have to have the cds or you will just have monks spin kick everything, mages arcane explosion everything constantly. Then to add since wow is an online game and now everyone has no cd and using thier flashy power spells, your gonna lag like crazy as the game has to process all that instead of a shirt cd

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I thought he might be referring to the global cooldown, but im not sure. I also hate global CD, but you get used to it.