Quote Originally Posted by complexxL9 View Post
Hello fellow players, I want to take few minutes of your time to discuss on Instant Off GCD mechanics in ARR, which in my opinion will hurt the game in the long run.
Here is the video: http://youtu.be/sEMkGhlcwUw
It is working as intended. Instant and/or off-gcd abilities will not fire instantly because you can't use abilities if there is an animation still running from previous ability. Different animations can't "overwrite" each other (as they do in for example in World of Warcraft) and in beta forums developers commented only by saying it is by design. So for example in your video you try to use Rampart. It doesn't fire off until your previous animation ends.
That being said it is still pretty annoying and there was same mechanism in SW:ToR but it got removed pretty quickly, mostly because of PvP if I remember right.

I hope they will realize how restricting it is and change it.