We interrupt your current server woes to talk about casting

[Atoli]

Oh great, Dzemael runs will be fun now..-.-

"Hey where are you going?"
"We have to hurry, I thought we wanted to clear this dungeon in 25 min?"
"Noo, you have to stand still so I can throw a heal and stone skin at you because I'm no longer able to run after you and cast at the same time because someone thought it would be a great idea to kill supportive gameplay for his stupid vision of PvP thaumaturges...although I'm a conjurer and it shouldn't affect me..yeah, so stay still and let yourself get killed while I cast stoneskin, okay?"

Also, the whole "Press H"-business seems like an even worse step in between than having to reconfirm you REALLY want to use cure on your dying tank =__='

[Kikosho]

Interrupt isn't instant. Complete fail.

[Choyi]

Oh great, Dzemael runs will be fun now..-.-

"Hey where are you going?"
"We have to hurry, I thought we wanted to clear this dungeon in 25 min?"
"Noo, you have to stand still so I can throw a heal and stone skin at you because I'm no longer able to run after you and cast at the same time because someone thought it would be a great idea to kill supportive gameplay for his stupid vision of PvP thaumaturges...although I'm a conjurer and it shouldn't affect me..yeah, so stay still and let yourself get killed while I cast stoneskin, okay?"

Also, the whole "Press H"-business seems like an even worse step in between than having to reconfirm you REALLY want to use cure on your dying tank =__='

wow I didnt even think about situations such as darkhold, theres gonna be a lot of animosity between casters and the rest of their more "eager" party members for running away from buffs more often then before.

Surely there must been any other way to implement easy way to interupt spells? The basic casting system we have in the current engine doesn't realy seem built for this kind of DONT MOVE casting system. : s

Oh well, might be not as bad if other factors has been(or is planned to be) changed to acomodate this.

[Estellios]

What the hell is the big deal?

Just ask "can you please gather together so I can cast my buffs". Once this system gets put into place people will get used to sticking together and if someone isn't listening they are dead weight and deserve to be booted.

[Atoli]

Just ask "can you please gather together so I can cast my buffs".

Seeing as you have a CNJ R50 yourself, I guess players on Istory are different from any other player in the world..
Because no matter how nice, angry or however I asked, people always ALWAYS ignored this request. Even if I asked them in teamspeak or ventrilo.
And it's been the same for every MMORPG I ever played (I always play supportive classes).
Nobody ever cares for the problems of the healer but everyone is mad at him/her when the party dies because everyone ignored the request to stand still for a second.

Oh well, whatever, I already gave up being angry about this change, Yoshi mentioned it coming last year already.
What I'm mad about is mainly how it's not even instant spell cast stopping and how you now will have to press H for every little thing you want to do.

[Andrien]

Players have the ability to buff and cure on their own. If they got themselves killed its their own fault.

It is time to relearn. Back to bootcamp!

[Dreadnought]

I could have sworn they said they were redoing all of the spell animations for 1.21.......................... /wrist

[Chardrizard]

Oh great, Dzemael runs will be fun now..-.-

"Hey where are you going?"
"We have to hurry, I thought we wanted to clear this dungeon in 25 min?"
"Noo, you have to stand still so I can throw a heal and stone skin at you because I'm no longer able to run after you and cast at the same time because someone thought it would be a great idea to kill supportive gameplay for his stupid vision of PvP thaumaturges...although I'm a conjurer and it shouldn't affect me..yeah, so stay still and let yourself get killed while I cast stoneskin, okay?"

Also, the whole "Press H"-business seems like an even worse step in between than having to reconfirm you REALLY want to use cure on your dying tank =__='

What are you smoking? have u even tried darkhold post 1.20? there was no reason to heal anyone while running when everyone have 3k-4k, it's even less of an issue when you are doing 25min run because at most you will only be hit with the eyes once.

The only times you need to heal is on post-first blue light portal where u have multiple mobs beating on you and guess what? people are actually standing still there, lol.

[Aion]

What are you smoking? have u even tried darkhold post 1.20? there was no reason to heal anyone while running when everyone have 3k-4k, it's even less of an issue when you are doing 25min run because at most you will only be hit with the eyes once.

The only times you need to heal is on post-first blue light portal where u have multiple mobs beating on you and guess what? people are actually standing still there, lol.

and also, if people moving around(and the caster) it will be likely the heal/buff wont hit all of them.

[Nyx]

what sucks is the huge recast timers for Burst. 15 minutes is way too long. What's the point of getting black mage if you cant use it's specific abilities without waiting a quarter of an hour? (I'm assuming freeze and other ancient magic are similar)