In Blizzard's defense some classes were using a single macro for 6 abilities at once including trinkets, to dish out big numbers for 15 seconds and then do garbage dmg for 2.5 minutes until the stars aligned again. What kind of skill or player choices did that provide? Sure we do it now still but not to the extent that was happening before the changes.
However they went a bit overboard with how many things they placed back on the GCD so it's nice to see them opening it up again.
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They obviously realized that they failed to accomplish their goal with the GCD changes. Players still obviously stacked their CDs because it's the most effective way of doing things. They should have known this back when the change was still on the drawing board because player behaviour is absolutely predictable. As long as something is mathematically speaking the best course of action, players will commit to it.
Therefor the GCD change only accomplished making this game slower and less responsive for most players (somehow the worst sycophants still managed to defend this on the grounds of "it's not that bad"). All of this was 100% foreseeable. If they wanted players to stagger their CDs they should have simply introduced an internal CD for burst CDs like they did with on use trinkets.
At this point, I can't think of any other explanation than incompetence (unless their goal was to actively harm player experience).
GCD changes didn't change anything for these classes though. It simply made their "feel good window" of big dick DPS smaller because they had to wait before the game allowed them to actually play.
I mean, what do you expect? This was a change that A) no one asked for B) failed to accomplish its stated goal C) made the game less fun for a lot of players. It took them more 2 years of constant criticism to partially revert these changes and their reason for as to why they're finally reverting it was stated again and again as soon as they announced this change pre-BfA. Are we supposed to fall on our knees and thank them for rectifying a dumb mistake when it was long overdue?
Last edited by Nerovar; 2020-09-02 at 06:24 PM.
Paladin auras still on GCD , *yawn* wake me up when they realize how shit that is. Goodnight.
So? it makes no sense at all when frost mage got icy veins off the gcd then
1) its way more powerfull than trueshot
2) rune of power will auto apply if you pick the talent
3) it's the only offensive cd mages have (time warp is off the gcd already, mirror image is a defensive cd so is alter time)
So...why did they got away with that but MM and Surv got screwed? yeah, im salty af about that UwU
And to make things worse, i dnt have beta acess to go to hunter feedback thread Q.Q
I just hope its a foresigh and blizz will fix it soon™
Last edited by Pigglix; 2020-09-02 at 06:21 PM.
Of course their opinion matters. The same as my, and yours, matters. I also like to watch them and see if they match with mine.
There’s also sometimes I might think a feature is shit, or amazing, and watching and hearing other people’s perspectives can sometimes change that.
It’s also a reason I watch a variety. I find T&E and Hazelnutty’s generally good outlooks are a good counter to Bellular and Preach’s pessimistic tendencies. Kalani usually has a good balance.
So yeah, I watch them, and I tend to listen to their opinions. That doesn’t mean I don’t form my own or disagree with things they say. That’s called being an adult and making informed choices.
You're having a bad day I guess? It's not like pressing a key on my keyboard makes me depressed or actually makes me feel bad. The using of a DPS cooldown with a GCD feels bad. Also, my "feelings" make up the high majority of all Reddit, WoW Forum, and MMO-Champion posts back when they first added the GCD to those abilities in the first place. They'd come up in every single guild/PUG raid in WoW. They'd come up in every single BG. It was the topic of Trade chat for about half of every day for like a month. Then it still continued to come up every day but finally started becoming less and less common. Because of this, I've been thoroughly shocked that this thread isn't 99% full of "hell yeah!" replies. Instead, people are simply wanting more than they ever had to begin with, which is to be expected and I should have expected.
Your feelings, on the other hand, are your own problem and no one else's. You could also seek professional help, if you so choose, but I'd assume your case would be the attempt to control your outlashing feelings that seem to overpower your sanity. Maybe you should not think people actually "feel bad" for pressing a key on a keyboard and read words in the context in which they are used in the future.
okay, i might have be a little bit "overboard", but the fact is both spells works the same way. Trueshot is even worse now, with the increased focus cost for aimed shot and reduced focus gen from rapid fire.
So my question is, why one got off the gcd while the other remains? makes no sense at all, it's almost like blizz went full arbitrary mode or is just a marketing stuff like, next week they will make a blue post with the tittle: here, more spells off the gcd! forget about covenants for a bit!
MMO-Champion is the official home of contrarians who's only purpose in life is to annoy anybody they can by championing utter garbage. Blizzard could force players to wear a shock collar and electric nipple clamps that jolted you whenever you opened your inventory these people would be on here telling those of us who didn't like it that we're "entitled" and "need to get lives". Then they'd go off and randomly find some tiny example of pro-shock collar S&M fan players and elevate their whacko opinions.
Stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew how the end always is...
Last edited by Perkunas; 2020-09-02 at 07:09 PM.
Stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew how the end always is...
Great, now just tank alllll tank defensives off the GCD, kthx
You pick one and then you can't switch. So yeah, good luck if you play a hybrid. Also good luck if you enjoy more than one aspect of the game.
I know Blizzard will fix it with 9.1 or 9.2, might be better off just skipping the first half of the expansion until that happens.
Gotta love the people that, whenever a good change comes around go like; "ah yes, now perhaps if they do x and y this expansion may be borderline mediocre, which is certainly an improvement *sips wine*"
Like fuck off, Shadowlands does not look like a bad expansion at all. It has issues as every product does, but to even pretend it will be as bad as BFA is insanity. Honestly for a launch expansion I think it will top Legion and WoD for sure.
great news for dk
Just revert to old GCD. So much stuff is missing, like frenzied regeneration, light of the protector, dancing rune weapon, etc. That GCD change only made the game feel worse.