Stop Cast

[Shirobi]

There's already a hotkey that you can bind for cancelling casts.

Yeah, but the functionality to add it to a macro would ensure it goes off every time as needed with 1 less button push. It would enable you to be orders of magnitude more efficient than jumping or hitting another button. If you've ever played that other MMO with the purple elves, you'll know what Im getting at here. Using /stopcast at the beginning of a macro can be a substantial DPS increase over a moving or jumping to clip cast times or hit procs.

[StouterTaru]

Using /stopcast at the beginning of a macro can be a substantial DPS increase over a moving or jumping to clip cast times or hit procs.

Macros in this game don't work like that, your stopcast and bloodletter would try to execute at the same time. See any thread about dps macros and why they are bad.

Also, DoT ticks on the 3 second timer server-side, procs happen on that timer. There is no reason to cancel a 1.5s cast to use a proc.

[Shirobi]

Macros in this game don't work like that, your stopcast and bloodletter would try to execute at the same time. See any thread about dps macros and why they are bad.

Also, DoT ticks on the 3 second timer server-side, procs happen on that timer. There is no reason to cancel a 1.5s cast to use a proc.

Stopcast wouldnt try to go off at the same time. Its not an ability and it wouldnt be on any sort of cool down. Why would you think that?

And yes, you most certainly can get back to back bloodletter procs. It is not always a 3 second wait between procs.

[StouterTaru]

Stopcast wouldnt try to go off at the same time. Its not an ability and it wouldnt be on any sort of cool down. Why would you think that?

Unless you put a full second wait after it, it would attempt to go off at the same time. And unless your ping is 0 nanoseconds and this non-ability occurred faster than instant abilities, it wouldn't work (again look at why macros are bad for dps threads, abilities don't queue).

And yes, you most certainly can get back to back bloodletter procs. It is not always a 3 second wait between procs.

Back-to back being 3 seconds apart, yes. DoT ticks on the 3 second game timer with HP/MP regen. Procs happen when a DoT tick hits critical.

[alphamax112]

Can the macro be executed instantly in server-side without dealing with the same server-client delay? And why bother to use macro, when u can just tap strafe button