Spellcasting after an Enemy Dies

[Rukkirii]

We’ve been receiving feedback about magic spells not being canceled until the end of the cast time when enemies die mid-cast. We wanted to explain our reasons behind why we do not have any plans on changing this system in version 2.0:

• Canceling magic is easy due to the fact that simply moving will interrupt casting
• MP will not be consumed if an enemy has been defeated
• Besides the time spent casting, there isn't any downside

[Rau]

What about the time it actually takes to cancel the spell?

It's almost impossible to stop a cure after its past the 40% on the progress bar, and spells like thunder or blizzard are hard to stop after 50-60% because of lag.

[BlackomegaKingofwaffles]

What about the time it actually takes to cancel the spell?

It's almost impossible to stop a cure after its past the 40% on the progress bar, and spells like thunder or blizzard are hard to stop after 50-60% because of lag.

This needs to be on every page of this thread.

[Rau]

This needs to be on every page of this thread.

I can haz waffles?

[Nakiamiie]

We’ve been receiving feedback about magic spells not being canceled until the end of the cast time when enemies die mid-cast. We wanted to explain our reasons behind why we do not have any plans on changing this system in version 2.0:

• Canceling magic is easy due to the fact that simply moving will interrupt casting
• MP will not be consumed if an enemy has been defeated
• Besides the time spent casting, there isn't any downside

But the real question is, what are the advantages of keeping it?
I don't see any... The target is dead.
What are they?

I understand it would cost resource to fix this bug and it is not a priority.

[Sephrick]

We’ve been receiving feedback about magic spells not being canceled until the end of the cast time when enemies die mid-cast. We wanted to explain our reasons behind why we do not have any plans on changing this system in version 2.0:

• Canceling magic is easy due to the fact that simply moving will interrupt casting
• MP will not be consumed if an enemy has been defeated
• Besides the time spent casting, there isn't any downside

The problem isn't what it costs. The problem is not being able to attack a group of mobs because the one you were targeting happens to die.

The downside is using the horrible targeting system to try and find a mob with enough HP left that you can use and AoE spell like the fire line.

[Jinrya-Geki]

Or why do you target friendly characters with offensive spells? Caravans as my example.

[Gukie]

or it could also be because they don't want to buy better equipment since we still play this game.

[Gukie]

because they don't want to spend money to purchase a better server- and don't want to admit that it cost less money.