Blizzard Looks Into Changes to GCD Changes in BfA Beta

In the previous Battle for Azeroth Alpha testing, Blizzard added some changes to the Global Cooldown. However, the World of Warcraft community has been giving feedback about how slow the game feels since the update went live. Now, in the latest developer Q&A, the director dev Ion Hazzikostas are talking about reverting the changes. Besides, Ion also mentioned Artifact Traits and Class Design, Azerite Armor, Island Expeditions, PvP Gear, Large Battlegrounds and more changes. You can search online and watch the full video to get more details. Here are some highlights on GCD changes in the Q&A.  Come to raiditem to buy WoW gear and WoW power leveling cheap and safe!

     

“Why would we ever make a change that people don't like or doesn't feel good? The team knows the initial reaction would be negative. At the end of the day, they want everyone to enjoy the game and it to feel good. If 

This change was made for the long term health of the game.  

In Cataclysm you could take a portal to all of the zones and your guild could use a summon, so players could log in, teleport to the raid, and log off. Taking guild summon away was met with negative feedback, but the ease of transportation was bad for the game.

The team needed to pull back some quality of life improvements for the long term health of the game.

The team is making a few changes, such as Heroic Leap, Infernal Strike, Disengage off the GCD. Bloodbath has an upfront damage component.

The first part of the change was about offensive cooldowns. The team is trying to pull back the power of multiple stacked cooldowns. The team had to tune around the worst case all cooldowns active potential, but then you felt weak during the time when your cooldowns weren't up.

This isn't a change the team is going to make and then walk away from. There is further modification that has to be done to classes after this.

Feedback about what feels bad about your spec after the GCD changes is helpful. Asking to revert the change because it is bad isn't helpful.

Fury Warriors had too many cooldowns that empowered future actions. Changes to Avatar are coming.

All specs still have rotational adjustments that are on the table.

The team isn't looking to slow down the game, WoW is a fast paced game, especially for some specs.

WoW is a game with a series of rapid fire decisions. Evaluate the circumstances around you and then decide what you are going to do.

The GCD sets the pace for the game. The more things are off the GCD, the more they remove potential decision making. You aren't choosing between A and B if you can just do both. It also makes the game more about your latency.

WoW is a fast paced game, but not a twitch reaction arcade game.

If you are a Resto druid healing a dungeon and your tank is almost dead, and you are almost dead, and you have fire under your feet, you need to heal your tank, you need to move out of the fire, Swiftmend is on cooldown. You either use Regrowth on the tank while you stand in fire, or move out of the fire and throw a Rejuv on the tank. Maybe you Wild Charge out of the fire and then heal the tank. If everything is on the GCD, that is a decision you have to make. A skilled player can make the right call based on the situation and encounter. If Wild Charge isn't on the GCD, you can just get out of the fire and heal the tank. This makes the difference between two player's skill more about their reaction time. Should WoW be about reaction time or making the right decision.

There probably aren't any other abilities that will be put on the GCD and some will be coming back off the GCD.” 

It is seems that the team really care about the feedback of players as well as why players don’t like the system. You can also go to Battle for Azeroth to share your opinions about the reverting the GCD. Battle for Azeroth will officially release on August 18, and it is not far away. We believe many players are curious about what the new expansion will look like and will it bring new experience for players. Let’s looking forward to seeing a best expansion in August. Besides, don’t forget to choose the best WoW gold site to buy all you want while playing World of Warcraft, including WoW gold, WoW mounts, WoW power leveling and more. 

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