BFA GCD changes, good thing or bad thing

[Kumorii]

Bad...there is no reason for it to be there. They wanted to slow down gameplay, but all it did was making it all feel clunky for no pay-off. You still wanna maximise CD stacking, you just have to lose time on buffs and keep pressing CD's until you can start using your rotation.

[D3athsting]

As fire mage it feels like playing with lag, absolutely terrible 0/10

[Dadwen]

Made bad class design feel worse.

[ercarp]

Unanimously bad. Anyone who disagrees is probably a one-trick pony playing a class that isn't affected by them.

[Dizzeeyooo]

People make it out like it’s classic or something where every thing is on the GCD

Which is ironic, since cooldowns like Arcane Power are off the GCD in classic (as they were in Vanilla, TBC, WotLK, Cata, MoP, WoD and Legion)

[Rootsbum]

I dont mind it, but there are still some abilities that feels weird having a GCD.
Like empowering abilites, where you get X amount of stronger, but you have to activate 2 of them.

First you activate one, get a buff, then activate another one. And you lost 2 sec on the first one with for example 10 sec duration and just got to aut-attack.
Meanwhile, you were CCed

[GreenJesus]

It feels horrible especially as a holy paladin since we have so many healing cooldowns that used to be off the GCD. Wings, holy avenger, and aura (and trinket). Not to mention how they removed the aura of sacrifice from legion.

[vsb]

Just curious how many people here agree with the BFA GCD changes, im personally with streamers like Preach and them that its a negative for the game but lmk why or why not and im sorry for the bad poll.

I like it. I don't like complex fast rotations. Ideal rotation for me would be frost bolt spam. That's one thing done right in Classic.

[Dizzeeyooo]

I like it. I don't like complex fast rotations. Ideal rotation for me would be frost bolt spam. That's one thing done right in Classic.

Yet Arcane Power is off the GCD in classic - are you managing to cope with that?

[Nerovar]

the gcd change, along with the general pruning that happened in wod and legion is what killed the game for me.

I'm inclined to agree.

[Boricha]

Defensive cooldowns should never be on GCD imo. It still feels awkward on dps cooldowns, but thankfully I at least don't play a class with multiple cooldowns.

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

Neither really.
Forgot they even happened at this point.
Not like every other ability you press isn't on the GCD already.
It does make for a lot more planning ahead though, especially as a Blood DK with Death Grip on the GCD now.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Which is ironic, since cooldowns like Arcane Power are off the GCD in classic (as they were in Vanilla, TBC, WotLK, Cata, MoP, WoD and Legion)

Can’t speak for any thing but pallys for classic but as far as I can tell every single pally spell is on the gcd.

[Morgaith]

They are a major contributor to people disliking BFA so no, they are not good.

[Nfinitii]

I feel the gcd change itself isn’t that bad, but they either went to far or didn’t adjust some classes properly.

Like ww monk had multiple dps CDs, hitting touch of death and sef feels terrible. But fury warrior only has one cd so it’s really not that big of deal. But I think they still had more than one when they first made the change and it was terrible.

[Ssateneth]

what gcd change?

[Dizzeeyooo]

Can’t speak for any thing but pallys for classic but as far as I can tell every single pally spell is on the gcd.

Do paladin's have dps/hps cooldowns in classic? Apart from Divine Favor, which you presumably know is off the GCD?

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Do paladin's have dps/hps cooldowns in classic? Apart from Divine Favor, which you presumably know is off the GCD?

No I don’t believe they do other then define favor which you’re right isn’t on it.

[pharma]

There are a lot of changes in this game that I eventually got used to... but popping CDs in such a slow pace still annoys me right to this day.

So... its a NO for me.

[vsb]

Yet Arcane Power is off the GCD in classic - are you managing to cope with that?

Classic is not ideal, yeah.