Escape Artist not Instant?

[darkreignfox]

You don't want to be running away from mobs or even other players and have to stop to do a 0.5 sec cast.

It completely negates the point of having escape artist on your bar.

I know they introduced the 0.5 cast time at one point in Vanilla, but it was soon reversed back to an instant cast.

Even if you up the cooldown to 2 minutes, I'm sure most alliance gnomes would prefer this to the current state of the racial.

Out of interest does any other racial have a cast time?

[Lorilay]

War stomp has a cast time.

[AverageJoe]

Do you have any links or citations that can demonstrate it was an instant cast circa patch 1.5?

[Youfie]

It was actually longer than 0.5s cast and was reduced to 0.5 at some point in Vanilla, iirc, and made instant for BC.

[darkreignfox]

It was originally instant cast from day 1.

I know this because a lot of gnome players got very annoyed when they introduced it.

[Youfie]

It was originally instant cast from day 1.

I know this because a lot of gnome players got very annoyed when they introduced it.

Do you have any source for that? Cause the only change during Vanilla I can find about Escape Artist is the following : "Escape Artist - Casting time lowered.", patch 1.9.

[darkreignfox]

Yes I'm sure, I played the original vanilla on mostly alliance gnomes.

It was one of the more handy racial's for getting out of slows/roots.

[Youfie]

Yes I'm sure, I played the original vanilla on mostly alliance gnomes.

It was one of the more handy racial's for getting out of slows/roots.

Well, find a better proof than a patchnote (since the 1.9 patchnote clearly suggests it wasn't instant either before or after the change) and better than you being "sure" and post it to the Bug Tracker for it to be fixed .

[AverageJoe]

You'll need more proof than "I'm sure cause I played back then." Everyone and their mother says that anytime they make a suggestion thread "I'm sure it was like this in vanilla cause I clearly remember it," then usually Aunstic slaps them with a patchnote that completely contradicts their claim.

[darkreignfox]

Well I found this, which has various posts going back over the years. Some of which mention instant cast:

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=20589/esca ... t#comments

I'm honestly not sure how many changes it went through.

Its just freaking annoying having to stop to cast escape artist, only to be caught as a result of doing this.