[Demon Hunter] [Havoc] Fel Barrage vs under GCD spells

[Fanca]

WoW Freakz spell link: https://www.wow-freakz.com/spells.php?spell=211053&&&&name=fel-barrage
Bug description: Fel Barrage always unleashes 5 bolts over a base 1 second channel before haste. Also, you can move and use any abilities during the channel and not break it, unlike Eye Beam. Though because the channel time will ALWAYS be under your GCD, this only applies to Consume Magic, Darkness, and Arcane Torrent. Right now on freakz the following spells cause Fel Barrage to get interrupted.
Proof:
Fel Barrage vs Consume Magic - https://youtube.com/watch?v=HGeyXh_YiaY:


Fel Barrage vs Darkness - https://youtube.com/watch?v=tLlTQjDiC_Y:


Fel Barrage vs Arcane Torrent - https://youtube.com/watch?v=KymBU4K0dbA:

[Lerona]

Seeing that this report was made based off of the Wowhead comments as well, I'd also like to ask for some further proof if you can find regarding this. I couldn't find further proof from Legion of this. I've tested it on BFA as well and the same thing happens like in the last report; Fel Barrage gets interrupted after you use any of those spells Darkness/ Consume Magic / Arcane Torrent. Now it could be that, as I said, because of the changelog of the ability's charging from 7.0.3 to 7.3.5 this perk was removed, but then again that's just a speculation and I couldn't find proof of it.
Only thing I found was this comment which is from BFA;

Quote:

Fel Barrage if you are talented into it. You can't use your other abilities during this channel.

https://www.wowhead.com/guides/havoc-demon-hunter-pvp-rotations-strategy

[Fanca]

The best I could find are the changes and people's opinion about the spell.
Fel Barrage no longer uses charges, and now has a 1 minute cooldown (was a 30-second recharge time). Your damaging abilities now have a chance to reduce the cooldown by 5 seconds.
Fel Barrage damage increased by 100%, and now deals damage over 2 seconds (was 1 second). Source : https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20812012/world-of-warcraft-725-patch-notes

That is then next refference that I've found. (It's not a blue post) - https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2216174-7-2-5-Crit-Haste It is the very first comment, though, I am unsure about it since it's not really understandable like that.


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[Lerona]

Yeah that's the main change to the spell, it stopped being a spell that relies on charges and has now a fixated cooldown (1 minute) with the option to get it reduced by 5secs from damaging spells as the patch notes say.

From the second link, you can't really know what he means with "the fact that you can do anything else while it's casting (you need to try to understand what I mean)". Maybe he means the fact that you can move freely while channeling it unlike Eye Beam so that's also just a speculation.

I'll leave the topic open anyways and I'll try to look for more proof, I'd really much appreciate it if you do the same.

[Fanca]

I have just found a solid proof in my personal opinion. https://youtube.com/watch?v=eFpeH5bn5uk:

- at 0:30 he casts fel barrage and somewhere in the middle of the cast he casts throw glaive, however fel barrage keeps on going.
Update : At around 3:20 minute he casts fel barrage, then fel rushes and in the very end of the fel barrage cast he uses Consume Magic. None of the spells interrupts the cast of fel barrage though.

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[Yassine324]

Nice catch

[Fanca]

I didn't know that, but we have to note the issue goes for Fel Rush and Throw glaive as well from what it seems in the video.

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[Lerona]

Confirmed.

So based off of those videos, spells such as Imprison, Fel Rush, Throw Glaive and Consume Magic shouldn't break the channel of Fel Barrage.
With this, there's a possible assumption that Darkness and Arcane Torrent shouldn't interrupt Fel Barrage either as I couldn't find proof of those spells in particular used in videos. The only confirmation for this assumption for now are the Wowhead comments from 7.0.3.

https://trello.com/c/HIxXynUb/1074-demon-hunterhavoc-fel-barrage