i don't like DPS CDs either, i hate them being on the GCD to as it lowers the skill-ceiling just another foot but they overall force the base power of the class to be just a bit lower for their existence which has killed the constant pressure and threat alot of classes capable of 3min CD instant-death are made virtually meek while those CDs on inactive.
As long as Combat and ranged Surv are gone, I'm not playing.
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thus, why i stipulate reactive(self-heals, escapes), and preemptive(most defensive are ideal preempting damage incoming) are what should ALWAYS be off GCD.
pick up a dictionary sometime, k?
furthermore, tighter key-bind locations in a configuration relative to the intended rotation does help pull-off off-GCD side rotations without interrupting the main rotation relevant to role-performance.
having them off GCD lowered skill ceiling as people made one button insta nuke macros. Now you need to think about the order of abilities instead of slappin all that shit together in a macro
/cast racial
/cast megabuff
/cast cooldown
/cast prepot
/cast nuke
and be done with it. Never to be bothered again
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It still feels shit, I have bound q2ezxcrf134 for most abilities, don't even go beyond 5.
Will never understand why people want ammo back, is it fun to be useless if you forget to buy more? Hunters literally fire magical arrows and such, is it hard to believe every projectile isn't a little bit magical? Traps magically appear out of nowhere, should they be bought too?
That just means Blizzard needs to be better about what buffs do. Slapping GCDs on them is super lazy.
Know what else feels like shit? Wasting several seconds of a cooldown because you need to use other cooldowns to stack with it that are also on the GCD.It still feels shit, I have bound q2ezxcrf134 for most abilities, don't even go beyond 5.
i have 1-12, 1-12+ctrl, 1-12+Shft, and 1-12+alt.
all bound to a 12 button mouse and i use the "pinky" finger on my left hand for ctrl or shft and the left hand's last knuckle for alt.
i never have to stop the movement of my character or the camera to hit any of my 48 potential selections.
on casters i do however include the buttons near the WASD as additional keybinds for hard-casted spells.
Last edited by Malikath; 2019-09-21 at 02:31 AM.
I disagree, if anything having some abilities off the gcd adds to the flow of the class. It punctuates certain ability chains into a quick procession through a few abilities interwoven in the gcd. Everything on the gcd slows down the rotation and makes it all kind of monotonous. I also think it has the added effect of giving haste too much priority within the stats. Until they started pulling things off the gcd again, haste was king, which also pushes white damage too far up as a priority.
doesn't mean i support their existence, but i despise the GCD as an over-all control interfering system.
the fact that there are currently classes with defensive CDs on-GCD is a good point to the argument of firing Ion.
as is i hate DPS related CDS that aren't rotation resets or accelerators because they don't have any effect on the rotations at all other then the numbers out-put, but i don't support restricting them on-GCD to obstruct the DPS rotation, i'd rather they just not exist and the class just deal that much more damage overall.
maybe pay attention more and you might notice that.