Post by Archibolt
At lvl 50, we get one of our first decent trinket from the class quest: the
Enamored Water SpiritThe act of activating this trinket counts as casting a Water Totem, in this case an empowered Mana Spring totem - this makes this trinket rather unique as it is about the only one whose use activates the GCD.
Now, why does this matter?
Several addons and macros have the ability to activate trinkets by casting a spell - Trinkets are normally off-GCD so the game can simultaneously activate trinkets and cast spells.
However, in this case, the trinket uses up a GCD so the game has to choose: Cast the spell or use the trinket, whichever came first in the command. If the first one is not available (Cooldown), the game would simply block the command.
So basically, if you have this trinket, and you use a macro or an addon that automatically activate trinkets - this trinket could pose you some problems.
I need to emphasize on "could" because it all depend on how the macro or the addon is written, for example:
#showtooltip
/cast Chain Heal
/use Enamored Water Spirit
This macro would simply cast Chain Heal, the game would attempt to use the trinket but it finds out that it requires a GCD, thus cannot be cast until the GCD is available, but since Chain Heal doesn't have a CD, and has a higher priority, the game will always cast Chain Heal.
Result: Spell casted, Trinket blocked - not too big a deal since you've casted what you needed to cast.
However if you use:
#showtooltip
/use Enamored Water Spirit
/cast Chain Heal
The game will attempt to use the trinket, succeed if it's not on CD, fail if it is on. If you spam this button - the game will merely attempt to activate the trinket - it automatically ignore the rest of the command.
Result: Trinket activated, Spell blocked - This is a major problem since you were looking to cast a spell (a heal in this case) and it just doesn't work.
For macros, the fix is simple enough, just switch the command lines around; the true problem lies with addons that automatically activates trinkets.
I use Vuhdo so I can only speak for that addon - I am almost certain that it uses a variant of the 2nd command above and it assumes that we use a trinket whose use doesn't activate a GCD (Which makes sense because this is probably the only exception.) Vuhdo will always attempt to use the trinket first, and ignore any command afterwards, which is a big ugh oh, espiecelly in dungies.
I haven't found a fix yet but you could walk around it by simply disabling the auto trigger option.
I stumpled into this problem while healing in BRD, it did put me under alot more stress than I'd care to admit.
