#32 Purify / Cleanse / Dispel Magic incur GCD and consumes mana when casting on a target without dispellable debuff.

Status: Not a bug · Area: Classes & Specs · Shared Mechanics

Dispelling a target with nothing to dispel still costs mana and triggers the global cooldown, whereas in Classic it just fizzles so you can switch targets.

Current behavior

Dispels currently behave like they do on retail. On retail (starting from MOP) dispels have a 8second CD and they dispel every dispellable debuff on the target. Unless it's cast on someone without a debuff, they it doesn't go on the 8sec cd (but still casts + cost mana).

Expected behavior

In classic if you try to dispel someone without a debuff, the spell just fizzles and doesn't cast and doesn't incur the GCD. Allowing you to quickly adapt and find a new target. In classic (and forever) your dispels have no CD, and don't dispel every dispellable debuff. Scenarios like a raid where you have multiple important debuffs to dispell, and people are dispelling same targets, will be frustrating. Not that bad for very organized raids, or in the worst case, one where addons might play a part to assign dispels.

How to reproduce

Learn Purify / Cleanse -> Cast on a player without debuff.