Movement Without Losing All Your Damage

Boss fights are won by players who move efficiently, not by players who stand still and hope. The skill is spending the fewest possible global cooldowns being unable to cast.

The toolkit

• Instant casts are your movement filler. Most specs have instant abilities — spend them while you run instead of going silent.
• Mobility tools — blinks, dashes, charges — cover distance without cast time. Save them for real movement, not convenience.
• Stutter-stepping works: cast, take two steps during the global, cast again. Many 'must move constantly' moments actually allow this.

Plan your feet before the mechanic

Most movement mechanics are telegraphed seconds ahead. Drift toward where you will need to be while still casting, and the final dash is short. Moving early always costs less uptime than moving late.

Mistakes to avoid

• Sprinting the whole mechanic. If you have three seconds to be out, you have two seconds of free casting first.
• Stopping entirely while moving. Even a weaker instant is better than nothing.
• Forcing a cast through a ground effect. One tick of avoidable damage costs more healing than the cast was worth.

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