Patch Notes 18/05/2022

[Boursk]

The GCD change is most definetly, WITHOUT a single doubt; the most IDIOTIC change the dev team has put through so far.

remember 25% guard only for 2h tanks ?

Yeah that was really **** bad too, but this affects everyone - **** ridiculous.

[Grock]

This will just cause people to macro using mouse/keyboard stuff. Big DPS increases from perfectly timing the presses and huge penalty for pressing the key too early as you miss the skill. Most raids and a lot of PVP on ESO were made up of people with macros to perfectly time the GCD. Harder in War as pvp is more conditional but with 0 tolerance and no skill q it will be very attractive for people to macro 3-4 skills in a chain.

Its no different from how it was before, if you wanted the shortest possible GCD of 1.15 seconds you had to time it manually - it wasn't an input buffer, it was just shorter real GCD which you had to time without any visual indication (although there were addons to display the "real" gcd duration)

They might add input buffer later though to make 1.5s gcd feel more responsive and dynamic

[Shogun4138]

Was there also a hidden nerf for the classes that can not log in now?

[Tanski]

Also, IB cannot even use basic tank skills and get basic buffs up when casting only 6 skills per 10sec period.

Time constraint for IB was already pretty stupid but now i really don t see why play a snb IB at all...

Agree with both your points. Ap change will be huge for slayer, GCD and ap change will make IB pretty obsolete.

GCD change feels robotic and clunky. Wasnt too bad on the wl, but testing timestamp on bw it just felt... bad.

All this talk of ttk but as someone stated this is a huge nerf to healers.

[anarchypark]

we're all accustomed to key press slightly shorter than 1.5 sec .
now minimum is 1.5 s
ofc it's clunky if you keep doing in old ways.
it feels like skill queue takes extra millisec, probably my ping.
i think u can avoid it by timely 1.5s key press. key spam is bad idea, specially on zero CD skills.
bw/sorc time stamp rotation is still possible.
re-learn 1.5 GCD timing. it's perfectly sync with client GCD graphic.
i think it'll solve many things.

[oaliaen]

we're all accustomed to key press slightly shorter than 1.5 sec .
now minimum is 1.5 s
ofc it's clunky if you keep doing in old ways.
it feels like skill queue takes extra millisec, probably my ping. -yes-
i think u can avoid it by timely 1.5s key press. key spam is bad idea, specially on zero CD skills.
bw/sorc time stamp rotation is still possible.
re-learn 1.5 GCD timing. it's perfectly sync with client GCD graphic.
i think it'll solve many things.

[Dabbart]

After short testing on DoK/Sorc/Chosen in PvE/SC; I notice no discernable difference. Now, I am in California, so my Ping has always been dogshit. I always get random interrupts on casts, I might be getting more now, too early to tell. Time stamping on Sorc still works, it's just slightly more annoying now(at my ping). I could see how RDPS would hate this change.

I think that players used to low ping GcD timing will notice this the most. Unfortunately, spamming an ability to make it fire is pretty standard in NA. I will often chase after an enemy spamming KD for Xseconds before the server allows it to go off.

Also, this game has had a terrible cast cancel system from the word Go, so you can't blame this change for that.

Again, short testing.

[Tyrex2017]

We are old people playing in a old game...i think the logic is perfect to nerf the GCD.

This.

[oilpourer]

who asked for this change and how does it make the game better?
stoutness of stone kd duration 1.5s +gcd 1.5s = nice change

[zayabis]

You are looking for a balance in the wrong places© as the world-builders decided so it will be! mortals must suffer.