Sunday, July 27, 2008

The Beta Change Nobody Is Talking About

You can no longer fake casts. Starting any cast triggers a GCD. Stopping the cast does not cancel the GCD triggered.

Filefront link, here.

You can see that when I cancel frostbolt about 3/4 second into the cast, the global cooldown continues to tick on my bars. Pretty interesting. =p

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

That has to be a bug. Even blizz isn't dumb enough to let that go through.

Kolenzo said...

It's a bug, the only result of this would be lowering the skill cap of the game needlessly.

lionrtpc- said...

I HOPE IT STAYS

Anonymous said...

kind of silly

magdain said...

Not sure how this does much to fake casting at all. You just have to wait an extra ~.5 seconds after blowing their interrupt to cast your next spell. Still better than the 4+ seconds you'd eat from an actual interrupt.

Anonymous said...

0.5 seconds can be killer...

Kawklee said...

because you dont have to ever fake-cast 2-3 times till someone bites, right? =(

Anonymous said...

its a fix for all the bads that gonna roll dks and will have to deal with their 3 interrupts(mind freeze/stangulate/ghoul ability)

Anonymous said...

Here is the real question: If you are hit with an Imp Counterspell/kick after the self interruption but before the end of the GCD, does it still lock you down?

Anonymous said...

god i hope its a bug

Klaus said...

mage seems pretty booring in wotk and if this is true it's gonna be even more stupid.

think im gonna play my green rogue in wotk and leave my mage.

Oppo said...

Gotta be a glitch.

Anonymous said...

pretty gay

Anonymous said...

the devs did it for the lulz

Tef said...

That completely ruins things.

gablo said...

this hasn't changed at all, raddy, unless you're saying that you can't activate a new spell while this gcd is ticking.

to be more clear, it's the same with wow right now, when I start a spell it triggers a gcd that makes all my buttons (except for cs, nub!) go gray for 1.5 seconds. however, if I mash a

/stopcasting
/cast wreckafool

macro it'll happen regardless of the apparent gcd. the same is true if I just hit escape and cast another spell while it appears I'm on gcd. the spell goes off regardless of the wow interface saying I'm on global.

ps I like you a lot