Quote Originally Posted by Khalithar View Post
I haven't played WoW in a while so bear with me, but I think by making it like consecrate they're asking for it to have the same duration/cooldown. If I remember my WoW abilities correctly, consecration had something like a 12 second duration and a 10 second cooldown. It was part of your aoe rotation to always hit it on cooldown as it would provide great threat and damage with 100% uptime.
Depending on the expansion, it would have worked similarly to that, yes, but at least in the times I've played between WotLK and now, it was never an on-cooldown CD, and far better for it. It tended to have a period of overlap, wherein duration exceeded cooldown, as to make it less annoying to maintain; you just had to avoid using it too early, before you could hold your position. Now, though, it's made mandatory by its augmenting so many different skills that the overlap is practically meaningless...