I don't believe that it's alacrity that's doing this, I've tried with fury from the console as well, and it feels like when reapplying boons from the console, it also strips one(?) stack of quickness, making it last for much less longer than intended. I asked a friend to provide alac to me while on the golem to make sure it wasn't alac that was stripping the quickness. So I feel like this is more of a general bug tied to the console than to the Catalyst itself (although it makes it hard to test quickness uptime x dps on the golem with the spec)
Also I agree that the sphere mechanic feels bad in an opener. In raids, when you /gg or die, your energy gets reset to 0, and you most likely won't have an opportunity to refill it (unlike druid), so you'll have to rebuild all your energy at the beginning of the encounter meaning that you won't be able to provide quickness, if that's the role you're given. This feels especially bad compared to all other quickness providing classes and I don't feel like it's intended. Maybe Catalyst needs to refill energy on /gg ? At least, there needs to be a way to refill it out of combat
Hi! I've been having fun trying out the new specs in the golem training area, but when I was testing the Catalyst's aptitude to provide quickness, it felt like something was up with the buff uptime. Long story short: it looks like when you apply buff from the console, the reapplication will mess up your self applied boons. As said in the Catalyst bug thread, I've tested that it was not another specific boon that messed up quickness (by having a friend apply said boon to me), but in fact the boons from the console, making it hard to test self applied boon uptime against dps. I've also tested as Druid, and I can confirm that the issue can be reproduced with regen on a non beta character (and probably might as well, although that one is a bit trickier to make sure of).
