You and I went back and forth at beta and blizzcon about hunter GCD's. Our GCD was clunky long before AotM became viable (see: glyphed). Prior to the monkey glyph AotM wasn't even on most arena hunter's bars. Our GCD was clunky and non-fluid simply when ALL we were doing in beta arenas was switching back and forth between AotH and AotV. Do you remember how often, or do you play enough to realize how often this switch is made?

Think about what a smart hunter would do if he were in AotV getting mana back and a partner on his 3v3 just got a string of crits on an isolated target. He'd decide to QUICKLY switch back to AotH and attempt to help burst, even though he may still be sitting at 10% mana. The operative word here is QUICKLY. Most likely he'd only have a few precious GCD's worth of time before something major happened (target LoS'es, target gets heal). There is NO "QUICKLY" with our aspects being back on GCD!!!!!

Just because some raid hunter can go 1+ minutes without aspect dancing while mindlessly steady spamming some boss, DOESN'T MEAN ARENAS PLAY OUT LIKE THAT.


Putting aspects back on the GCD is a mistake. 2 steps in the wrong direction, GC. That direction is backwards.

Summary: Basically even with just AotD and AotV there is enough "aspect dancing" in arenas required that the new aspect GCD will be cumbersome, if not a major class arena hindrance.

just in case...

LMAO... this is just funny now

For context, I don't read the forums every day, so it just seems like a quick back and forth on the issue... but cool beans on it coming back off.

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Q u o t e:
No, it's not over. We took them back off the GCD.

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O.o

See Plops all you have to do is ask real nice and GC won't hit you with the nerf bat...

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Q u o t e:
No, it's not over. We took them back off the GCD.

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Gracias GC!

I'm glad you did. You'll see that split second decisions to switch between defensive regen or offensive burst will be a FAR more impressive skill showcase for hunters that know what they are doing.


Bravo.

well that sucks. zomg AotD macro.

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Q u o t e:
well that sucks. zomg AotD macro.

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There's still an internal aspect-only cooldown to prevent the massive server lag hundreds of hunters exploiting aspect macros in between shots would have caused.

GC had the foresight to recognize that and put it in before beta had even ended.

*COUGH*Version2freezearrow*

"OMG will plops every shut up about Version 2 freeze arrow????!"

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Q u o t e:
*COUGH*Version2freezearrow*

"OMG will plops every shut up about Version 2 freeze arrow????!"

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Cough Trap Mastery Cough Cough

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Q u o t e:
well that sucks. zomg AotD macro.

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you really don't know how macros work. i tried explaining this to you yesterday but apparently you don't really care to learn.

Cough Make Scatter Shot trainable Cough

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Q u o t e:
No, it's not over. We took them back off the GCD.

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Thank you GC and thank you Plops <3

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Q u o t e:
Cough Make Scatter Shot trainable Cough

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The old grenade mechanic for freeze arrow was even > this

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Q u o t e:
No, it's not over. We took them back off the GCD.

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yay. Little things like this can make someone's day.

woot for making things more fluid. :)

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Thank you GC and thank you Plops <3

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Sup my old bro Huggerz I was glad to see you back :)

I'm totally casual these days because of RL, but I still try to keep up with the current hunter arena "pulse" lol.