Bug: Animation Cancelling a Hardcasted Crystal Fragment causes the frag to get stuck and not fire

s7732425ub17_ESO

Almost 100% reproducible.

Channel cast a crystal frag- 1 second cast time. While in the process of casting, repeatedly click the left mouse button to try to animation cancel it. At the end of the 1 second channel, the frag will get stuck on your character and will not be activated.

This is infuriating. It happened maybe 20x time over an hour of playing in IC. Reported on PTS but unfixed in the live patch.

Emma_Overload

Don't cancel Crystal Shard/Frag/Blast with a Light Attack. Use a Medium Attack instead; it's much more reliable.

Waffennacht

I have noticed this, you can use light attack, you must wait just a bit longer to cancel it. It is annoying but I thought it was to prevent too much frag awesomeness

Cyrediath

Same thing happened to me too.

Lefty_Lucy

Animation Cancelling should be used with instant cast abilities. You can cancel channeled/cast time abilities but the cancel will result in the ability not working (as you have observed). This extends beyond Crystal Fragments.

FriedEggSandwich

s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

Almost 100% reproducible.

Channel cast a crystal frag- 1 second cast time. While in the process of casting, repeatedly click the left mouse button to try to animation cancel it. At the end of the 1 second channel, the frag will get stuck on your character and will not be activated.

This is infuriating. It happened maybe 20x time over an hour of playing in IC. Reported on PTS but unfixed in the live patch.

I don't know how to recreate this bug, sorry. If I tap-block immediately after a hard-cast it just cancels it, I do this a lot if I just miss the proc. If I wait a second and then tap block it cancels the animation but the frags still flies, not many people know this is possible and it does allow for hard-cast spam. The timing is hard to nail down 100% of the time though.

Edit: just re-read the op, cancel skills with a 'tap-block' instead of a LA. LAs have a lower priority to skills so they don't work as animation cancelers.

Igglez

You're trying to report a bug for an exploit. Quite ironic?

Waffennacht

Igglez wrote: »

You're trying to report a bug for an exploit. Quite ironic?

No dude its a game mechanic. Many games have it to (people argue zeni just say its a game mechanic because they mssed up coding, but you can't prove that)

In fact I get the feeling (frags for example) will take longer than the tool tip time if you don't cancel.

But everyone does cancel even if they aren't aware of it, in the excited state people slam those buttons causing a cancellation