Is it time to kill the global cooldown?

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11-15-2011 @ 7:05PM

mournelithe said...

Indeed, the global cooldown is also the primary reason that someone located in the states next to the server with a 30-80ms ping can play well with me located in Europe with a 280-400ms ping and we both see the same things at about the same time.
Otherwise without it, he would get off 4-5 attacks for every one of mine, hardly "balanced".

Casters have two things to control their output - the GCD for instant spells, and the cast time for more powerful attacks. These throttle the amount of damage they can do in a given amount of time and that can be balanced against the other classes.

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