Guild Wars 2

Preface; I’m not saying I’m suggesting this, right off. I actually wanted to discuss this so please, no hostility, I’m not trying to nerf anyone!

My question is do you think it would be beneficial for the game if “Instants” had a 1 second global cooldown (Kind of like Putrid Explosion does from bone minions) across all instant spells only, so people had to think out their use of instant casts, rather than front load them via keyboard macro or “facerolling”. The reason I suggest this is it would cause people to have to consider the order of buttons they press, it’d help with spam a little bit, and it could potentially increase skill factor in timing player’s instant ability gcd, so at least there would be a little bit of ability to dodge even instants when playing impatient/instant spamming builds.

Again, this is just a discussion, but what do you think?
This number could even be .5 of a second, for the sake of arguments. Thoughts?

No.

Instants are instants. If you put a CD on instants from chaining with each other then you would have a bunch of classes’ core mechanics broken.

Fortus.6175:

No.

Instants are instants. If you put a CD on instants from chaining with each other then you would have a bunch of classes’ core mechanics broken.

Guess it’s ok for you to make 2-3 threads a month about backstab but if you touch ele’s rediculous and ACTUALLY uncounterable as opposed to “in my forum poster mind” uncounterable damage, then we’re touching “class core mechanics”.

Fortus.6175:

No.

Instants are instants. If you put a CD on instants from chaining with each other then you would have a bunch of classes’ core mechanics broken.

I wouldn’t say so, but even still, this could be only for utilities/weapon skills, that’s part of the discussion, work with it before you jump to “no”.

Personally, if a guardian couldn’t go F1/2/3/4 in .1 second I’d kinda be okay with that, but for sake of argument, assume all F-abilities were unaffected and I’d say activating Death shroud wouldn’t trigger it as Death shroud is essentially a weapon swap. Does that fix your dilemma?

Writetyper.1985:

Fortus.6175:

No.

Instants are instants. If you put a CD on instants from chaining with each other then you would have a bunch of classes’ core mechanics broken.

Guess it’s ok for you to make 2-3 threads a month about backstab but if you touch ele’s rediculous and ACTUALLY uncounterable as opposed to “in my forum poster mind” uncounterable damage, then we’re touching “class core mechanics”.

You heard it here first; elementalist OP…..

Dude, if you are dying to eles then you might have a bigger issue in your hands than “instant spells”