GCD questions

[Zojha]

A cast time shorter than the GCD means that you can use that time to get out of your princess circle or AoEs without losing DPS.

See it as a nice little perk.

[Sylvain]

A cast time shorter than the GCD means that you can use that time to get out of your princess circle or AoEs without losing DPS.

See it as a nice little perk.

So beside that, there's no gain from having a shorter cast?
That's a bit disapointing.

[Zojha]

So beside that, there's no gain from having a shorter cast.
That's a bit disapointing.

There is another - Your OGCDs will clip less with your GCDs (or even not at all, depending on how short the cast is - see instant cast for reference). That allows for some rotation optimization.

Doubt that would matter much with 2 second cast, tho. 1,5? That's one second free time. I think you could squeeze one in with good latency.

[Sylvain]

There is another - Your OGCDs will clip less with your GCDs (or even not at all, depending on how short the cast is - see instant cast for reference). That allows for some rotation optimization.

Doubt that would matter much with 2 second cast, tho. 1,5? That's one second free time. I think you could squeeze one in with good latency.

Do you think they do that because of some rusty coding to prevent clipping with OGC spells?
I don't recall having any issue in WoW casting any number of OGC spells between 2 cast having the same casting time as the GCD (1.5)
like scorch for instance on fire mage.

[Zojha]

Do you think they do that because of some rusty coding to prevent clipping with OGC spells?

No idea why they do it. But I like to think they're not really all that concerned with it - took them a while to realize how problematic mudras were in that regard. I have my doubts they truly learned the lesson.

As for WoW: I think they don't have animation locks on their skills. Like, when you do an OGCD in FFXIV, you'll have 0,25-0,75 seconds (plus latency effects) in which the animation will play and no other commands will be allowed (sometimes also locking your movement). I don't remember that being the case in WoW.
So using OGCDs in general should be less of a DPS loss in that game and the emphasis of using GCD windows for OGCD windows seems smaller (I think my Rogue GCD was like 1 second?)