Blizzard is reverting unpopular World of Warcraft changes after player feedback

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Last month, Blizzard pushed a patch to the Battle for Azeroth alpha. The patch added several abilities to the global cooldown, frequently referred to as the GCD. But since then, the World of Warcraft community has been up in arms about how slow the game feels since the update went live. Now, as announced in a Q&A this morning with World of Warcraft’s game director, Ion Hazzikostas, the developers are walking some of these changes back. The global cooldown is a period of downtime that follows after almost any ability you cast in WoW. The GCD prevents players from being able to spam fireballs as fast as they can hit their four key. For years, offensive cooldowns — abilities that make players more

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