Double Casting

[Jinko]

Agreed, they need to remove the two clicks to cancel, we don't really need it now that we can move to cancel.

I have also noticed this problem of spells not going off, both on BLM and WHM and have lost party members and myself because I couldn't cast a heal, its frustrating as hell.

[Coldfire]

When I'm trying to cast Flare I hit the button like 20 times and hope that it casts. If it didn't work the fight is usually already over anyway :/

[Kyra]

Yeah spell casting sucks now, its so buggy, another bad design decision. Sometimes trying to cast flare for 5 seconds after ive stopped moving and nothing, and in cutters cry timing nukes is essential especialy for a speed run.

It blows my mind the developers that come up with this shit.

patch 1.19 - "I know, lets remove skill ques and piss off all the players and make it more anoying to play the already anoying battle system"

patch 1.20 - " ok it was a bad idea to remove the ability ques, here have it back but you need to do a hidden text command to turn it back on"

patch 1.21 - " ok lets piss of mages this time around and make spell casting really anoying and buggy and make spell casting stop if you move even though the server structure is in a mess untill 2.0"

[Quesse]

Its not just casting either, DoW timing is completely off after patch. Sometimes button presses register and action, sometimes they don't. Its close to what it was like before when you had to wait until an action was fully complete before starting a new one.
Its not awful. Its just sort of disappointing that things are getting worse and not better.

[Asiaine]

Is it possible to use the /facetarget option before casting (if it is pre-cast moving that is causing the problem)?
Is it possible to try to use /macros as well (I have no idea if you can do this with a controller, I am sorry).

All I can say is so far, I have no issue with casting, but I may be unusual (for many reasons ^.^; in that I use a keyboard macro for spells (cure, fire, etc), and only use non-macros for self-targetting spells (shroud of saints, etc.).

I'm sure there are many areas for improvement, and always will be, but perhaps there is some way to work with what is there and still be happy ^.^;

I am hoping in future actions will be more responsive (you press it you KNOW right away if it was accepted or not). Then that will solve many problems including this ^.^

[Validas]

I'd say it's fairly awful!
I play normally duo'ing as a GLD or PLD usually without another healer and sometimes that 'Cure' HAS to be cast NOW!
As I use a controller I'll click the Cure icon (expecting it to work as it should) then I'm immediately off navigating the action bar looking for my next skill, fully expecting the spell to work.

If that click of the Cure doesn't go off (as it hasn't been lately) it often results in rage/death.

(yes I'm aware I should be using macros, thx)

[BrusselSprout]

Hmm so it's not just me then. I've been way less "on the ball" with my casts since patch, missing heals I've never had a problem with before now. I hope it gets fixed soon, it's pretty infuriating to be honest.

[Jinko]

(yes I'm aware I should be using macros, thx)

Thing is I don't know why we should be, the macro system in this game is archaic to say the least, sure it may work but I don't think we should have to result to work arounds for something as important as the action bar working correctly.

[Akira_Tenshi]

Using macros does seem to help and I recommend that is what everyone does for now, until Square fixes yet another giant mess they have made. They really are not filling me with hope for 2.0.

[Asiaine]

Using macros does seem to help and I recommend that is what everyone does for now, until Square fixes yet another giant mess they have made. They really are not filling me with hope for 2.0.

On the plus side.... 2.0 is meant to address these specific issues (server and UI). So if anything, it may be understood that these are not ideal yet because the (much better) solution is already planned/implemented in 2.0