How a thread like tihs has 20 replies?
Errr, what? WHAT?
What kind of D&D are you playing? O.o
Why I’m replying to this? O.o
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The worse cds are 20 sec and below ones
I don’t think you know what this actually is based on the context of your post. If you wanted to argue the game should be more consistent and have less 2-3 minute CD’s on classes, then whatever. Pop off. You’re wrong, but g’head and pop off. Hating the global cooldown feels ridiculous.
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The one cool down i would gladly be rid of forever is the rez timer.
Why on Azeroths ginormous butt do I have to wait X min to rez just because i died 3-4 times already.
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3m dps cds are trash, to be fair. Ones for tanks/healers is different obv.
We didn’t have GCD (effectively) in Remix. It was kind of awful, to be honest.
We all hate CDs but they are needed. if not we would not have powerful abilities, and the game would be boring. Part of this game is learning your class. And that includes when to use what CD.
If all you are doing is button mashing you should just play Street Fighter with EZZ mode turned on. You should be mindful of what you have available and use them accordingly. If there was a way to mass spam Lunar beam and Thrash non stop I would get bored super quick.
Mobs DO and bosses DO have CDs. Take a look at DBM next time you are in a raid. You know those timers for certain abilities? Yeah those are mob/boss CDs
But you are not waiting for others, you are waiting for your spells to come off CD. You know there are abilities in DND that have hour long if not day long recharge time right?
Oh God people would just make macros again to spam everything at the same time
Yes. Even in some of the turned based, isometric pc/console games have day long recharge times. And I hate those too. I like it when games just give you the abilities to use as you see fit. When you need and want to use them.
Imagine having casting restrictions in Wow that made you wait 24 hours to cast a spell.
NO, I’ve seen this game without it.
This isn’t what GCDs were meant to do.
There is a technical and a balance reason for them.
For the technical, remove the GCD and your server will crash regularly.
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Well people have been using macros in Wow as well a plethora of third party add-ons to cheese the game for ages.
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Adding in the fact that people would resort to botting/macroing everything into one key if that was the case.
Outlaw and Fire mage have huge APM requirements to keep up in damage. Most people complain that they can’t keep up with the speed of those specs with their procs and reduced GCD windows.
Yeah, let me know if you can even play the game with zero GCD. You’d be further down bottom of the DPS chart and never get into a single ounce of group content, if you think removing GCDs is going to make you look/play better.
This just screams “skill issue, can’t do dps because I can’t spam one button forever”
Oh get over it. Cool downs are not necessary in a game or mmorpg. Just because some developers program games with cool-downs doesn’t make them absolutely necessary.
They very much are. Not a single successful modern MMORPG has zero GCD.
Server restrictions and players not being robots requires it.
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Enhance is no slouch in terms of APM demands, either.
I don’t really know what OP’s goal is, anyway, the only actual problem they expressed was fixed long ago with spell queueing.
And idk what you’re trying to say with this, even when spells took multiple rounds (the then term for what we consider turns now) no one was waiting on you, and you were still making concentration checks fairly often.
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Very much is either a bait post to get attention or an actual bad take from someone who doesn’t play the game beyond World Quests.
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Yeah sure, sure: Casting aspersions and insinuations makes the thread better right? Nope!
Creating poorly thought out arguments for worsening the state of the game due to misunderstanding or completely not recognizing the need for something because of a lack of experience in content is very relevant.
I don’t expect everyone to have worked on the technical side of a video game on any level for an opinion. But it doesn’t take someone having worked in the code or engine of an RPG game to realize how bad the game would be without CDs.
It does, however, take playing the game in more than 5 minutes of world content to recognize class nuance and playstyles that create the need for the GCD.
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Yeah, yeah you are still jumping to invalid conclusions. Just because you think it’s so, doesn’t make it so.