Stop Cast

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As for losing procs as a bard, there are actually intervals for river of blood between each procs. You could easily finish your current cast to use whatever proc you have after that aside from Straight Shot.

It's a bit more complicated for Machinist where reaction speed's a much bigger factor

Just to add clarification; Bloodletter can still overlap if you're multi-dotting. While it's not a problem on it's own (multi-dotting or not), it does become a problem when you have a cast time on top of reseting oGCDs, as well as the entirety of the moveset which also includes an oGCD with cast time.

On MCH, it's entirely on their reaction time. If you ever have to stop cast because you got a proc, that's your own fault (or latency, but that's an outside factor that should never be considered).

Not for bard. You can easily get two procs back to back. If you could stop a hard cast, fire off a proc then go right back into hardcasting, its not gonna be a dps loss. Not to sound like a broke record, but since I keep getting the same replies, look at how things worked in 2.3 or earlier WoW. Thats the same system we have going here, and there is a reason people used stopcast and addons to give them a view of when the cast had areached the "point of no return" as it were so they could stop cast and begin another one.

It actually is a dps loss since you're delaying the use of your weapon skill by half a GCD if you have to cancel it. Getting back to back procs is more of an annoyance which still shouldn't exist due to the circumstances (until you actually hit SS the same time you get the proc, which is a different issue all together)

While it's nice to have some more expansive macros (including stopacst, other features like cancelaura or casting AoE on your cursor without a recitle), I don't think it'll help that much due to the gameflow of FFXIV (and the less-than-ideal serverside-detection)