August News/Discussion

[Mordekhuul]

undocumented change in current push:

Apparently any spell cast initiates the GCD, even if canceled. So you cannot start a cast, move, then re-start a cast as was common in PvP to attempt to get an opponent to pummel / kick when you weren't casting.

Well, you can do it still, but with a 1.0 to 1.5 second pause between casts instead of the 0.5 to 1 that people would generally use in PvP. It also would severely affect the cast / cancel way of healing which would need to happen with the downrank change. I really don't see both downrank and this GCD change staying. One or the other (or both) will need to be re-worked some.

Yeah, that sounds odd. I'm not sure what about cancel-casting Blizzard would dislike.

Really, on another note, I'm very anxious to see the full implementation of inscriptions after they quit monkeying around with it.

Between rumors it is like jewels where once a glyph is slotted you have to overwrite it to change it, losing the glyph you overwrote, to rumors (fed by a Blizzard post or interview, if I recall correctly) that you will be able to swap glyphs in and out as desired from your inventory....

Damn I'd love to be able to swap them out as desired. It would be a fun side-game to optimize glyph use per encounter, and the alternative would be just annoying as hell for those of us that both PVP and PVE and use multiple specs even for straight up PVE.

EDIT - Also, some glyphs just seem designed to be swapped in here and there, but not kept up all the time, like the glyph that makes Avenger Shield only hit one target, but for increased damage/threat. I'd love to use that when pulling the hunter boss on Karathress or some trash pulls, where I want one mob on me, but don't want the MT to have to run around trying to pull the extra off of me, but would never want to give up multi-target AS altogether.