Flurry/Bloodthirst question and possible bug?

jeskah · February 2017

Recently i had some fun with the target dummies and playing with bloodthirst, i noticed, that while the tooltip says 0.6 sec channelling time, i simple cannot met it. ie: in 3 secs, i can only cast(channel) 3 bloodthirsts, not 5 , in 6 secs, 6, not 10 etc.

Is it me (aka user error), wrong tooltip or something i misunderstood or... a bug?

fred4 · February 2017

There is a 1 second global cooldown for all abilities. You can only perform one ability per second, be the ability itself instant cast, or a 0.6 second channel.

You may be able to activate 2 abilities in a row, but there will still be a 1 second gap between when they are executed.

You can fit a light attack, ability and a bash within 1 second, or close to it, but not two abilities.

Where the 0.6 seconds becomes relevant is in your ability to block. Instant cast abilities can be cast while holding block. Flurry will cause you to drop block for 0.6 seconds.

jeskah · February 2017

fred4 wrote: »

There is a 1 second global cooldown for all abilities. You can only perform one ability per second, be the ability itself instant cast, or a 0.6 second channel.

You may be able to activate 2 abilities in a row, but there will still be a 1 second gap between when they are executed.

You can fit a light attack, ability and a bash within 1 second, or close to it, but not two abilities.

Where the 0.6 seconds becomes relevant is in your ability to block. Instant cast abilities can be cast while holding block. Flurry will cause you to drop block for 0.6 seconds.

Thanks, i feel stupid now - of course there is a GCD.

Xerton · February 2017

To be more accurate, the GCD is 0.9 seconds