We interrupt your current server woes to talk about casting

[Davorok]

When the Face Target option is activated, the player character will immediately turn to face the main target. If the player character is in motion when Face Target is activated, the character will come to an immediate halt.

Not being a Mage myself nor have I fought Ifrit yet so I may be wrong but the bolded part sounds like a good thing...is it?

I interpret that to mean you can run towards a player who needs a Cure and hit H to lock on, halt and cast.

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

At least do an animation for turning.. It just flips the character ... Super fast.. Moving animations on this game are awsome... Why just flip it like that ..

[Jinko]

At least do an animation for turning.. It just flips the character ... Super fast.. Moving animations on this game are awsome... Why just flip it like that ..

Because that would just add to the animation lock.

[Rogue]

I really hope we dont have to be facing a mob to be able to cast on it.

[Estellios]

I really hope we dont have to be facing a mob to be able to cast on it.

It's not or it would have been brought up already. I think the facing thing is to make it easier while soloing, you can only parry from the front and it feels like you get interrupted less if you're attacked from the front. Also it makes it easier to stop moving if you're mouse/kb and using autorun.

[silverdragontyr]

I'm a little confused why people are saying Burst looks weak. I see people all the time now talk about the strength of Thundara, and Burst is 40% stronger then that in the video, and not even at full strength. If it's because of the 15min recast, I suppose I can understand that. However, using Ifrit as an example, does anyone remember the days of > 20% HP Ifrit Chaos Thrust would drop his HP very fast? Imagine what 5-6 Burst would do to him.

[Darte]

or it could have been done really fast, here there is no animation at all. I don't mind, but it looks super wierd...

[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 =__='

[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.

[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.