The problem with "Instant OFF GCD" abilities makes combat feel less rewarding.

[Kanzer]

Thinks he speaks for everyone

If I were like one of those '1.0 players' you described, then, well, I daresay I'd have that stance. But I don't, if you haven't noticed I'm actually enjoying the game. And I'll post as much as I feel like posting, thanks.

And just a side note, as much as you think or wish you did, you don't speak for everybody, or even the vast majority, unless you actually have some cold hard data to back up that claim. And no, this thread doesn't count as cold hard data, it's a very small representation of those who play the game as a whole, and even then it's the whiny loud representation, so...yeah.

I totally agree with you, the biggest problem with this is that not all skills share the same animation and have varying degrees of length, so for this to work the system would need to determine the recast cooldown based on the previous skills animation, I don't see SE doing this.

This isn't a problem.

Going by the recent feedback from the dev team they are happy to sit idly by and not fix any of this stuff because it takes too much time and effort.

That's because the issue introduced in this thread isn't a problem, and their official response is directed at that. Is there Latency? Yes. Should they optimize their rather slow .3 second location check? Yes, definitely. Should they completely redesign their animations and every boss encounter in the game cause a bunch of whiners are incapable of making critical choices and somehow think 'twitch' reaction is the very definition of skill? No, no they shouldn't.

This still doesn't tackle the problem of reactive skills such as Shield Bash and Blunt Arrow sharing the same GCD as the rest of the skills.

The only one of those abilities that shares GCD with anything is Shield Bash, cause you know, it's on the same GCD. Blunt Arrow is not. If you know you're going to need it in the next couple seconds, the don't shoot your arrow for some other purpose. As Ricky says, it doesn't take rocket appliances to figure that out.

Are we really supposed to stand there and do nothing until a monster uses an ability in fear of missing the chance to stun or silence them, its just really bad design.

Are you afraid your epeen will shrink if you fall behind a bit on the damage meters because you ensured the groups survival?

Endurance means squat when you are on the floor dead because you didn't evade an attack, or someone didn't stun or silence the monster in time.

How asinine, it means plenty. Do you have the endurance to concentrate long enough to know when it's your turn to interrupt and when you should be prioritizing that over other things? How is that any more 'mindless' and 'boring' than pressing the same sequence of buttons over and over instead?

If I was being held in a prisoner camp, I would have to deal with it, doesn't mean I would like it ! (Stupid analogy I know, but I am fighting stupid with stupid here.)

Right, comparing a video game to a concentration camp, I'm sure those who lived it would love to know how much you downplay their suffering. You're not fighting stupid, you're just living it.

But bu bu but !! this game is heavily twitch based go fight Titan if you haven't already, thankfully Titan is scripted so we can "plan ahead" otherwise we would all be completely screwed.

Bu bu bu bu Titan is super twitch based, and it's not! That's basically what you said right there. And I think no more needs to be said about that. lol.

Planned ahead standing there doing no DPS just so I can stun something is hardly planning ahead that's being restrictive.

So doing a particular job is restrictive? I'd have to disagree, only a whiny kid would think doing something important and not being able to do 'SUPER AWESOME COOL STABBY STUFF' at the same time is restrictive.