stutterstep/slidecasting nerf?

[Risvertasashi]

From the 4.3 patchnotes:

The following issues have been addressed.
-snip-
An issue wherein moving after beginning to cast a spell would not correctly interrupt casting.

Is this what it sounds like?

[Rongway]

Maybe, but it could also be talking about the times when you try to interrupt your cast immediately after you start casting, and you keep casting anyway; that is also a thing sometimes. It's not usually a big deal, except when a Verslowspell starts long casting instead of consuming Dualcast, or Flare ignores Swiftcast.

[miraidensetsu]

Maybe, but it could also be talking about the times when you try to interrupt your cast immediately after you start casting, and you keep casting anyway; that is also a thing sometimes. It's not usually a big deal, except when a Verslowspell starts long casting instead of consuming Dualcast, or Flare ignores Swiftcast.

That's VERy annoying. And when Holy ignores swiftcast is annoying as well.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

I wonder...It specifically says when beginning to cast a spell, not when the spell is almost finished.
It would feel pretty awful to fix this now when people are so used to slidecasting for mobility.

[Risvertasashi]

I wonder...It specifically says when beginning to cast a spell, not when the spell is almost finished.

Well, not exactly... it says "after". But even were that true... people got caught up reading specifics into specific wording at the expac release too and well, quite a lot of turned out to be reading too much into the phrasings.

Still, I'll hope you're right.

[HyoMinPark]

Mmm, I don’t think it means slidecasting... because slidecasting results from client-to-server latency, where as you move your character at the very last second of a cast and the server hasn’t registered the movement yet and the cast still goes through even though you moved... Makes me think they’d have to actually fix infrastructure for that... I’m not an IT expert so I can’t say for certain, but I don’t think it’s slidecasting. It would be really crappy if it was though.

[Risvertasashi]

because slidecasting results from client-to-server latency, where as you move your character at the very last second of a cast and the server hasn’t registered the movement yet and the cast still goes through even though you moved...

Well... supposing SE did want to "fix" this... couldn't they add an interrupt-on-movement mechanism to the client?

I suppose this will be something to test once the servers are back...

[HyoMinPark]

Well... supposing SE did want to "fix" this... couldn't they add an interrupt-on-movement mechanism to the client?

I suppose this will be something to test once the servers are back...

They probably could have configured something to download client-side with the new patch... But hopefully that isn’t the case. I like to take advantage of slidecasting on healers, and I would be pretty salty if they took that away from me. >.>

[Risvertasashi]

and I would be pretty salty if they took that away from me. >.>

I think a lot of us will be pretty salty if they take that away xP We find out tomorrow, I guess... Unless one of the community team, if you read this, would be kind (and brave) enough to clarify this for us?