Why is There no Cancel Cast Button?

Aggrovious · April 21

I want to bring up how ridiculous AOE ground spells can be for casting. THEY SUCK. In Smite, if I hit a spell, I can cancel it. ESO has no such feature so you have to cast ground spells twice. I have had the worst experience with this as a healer or necromancer casting avid boneyard. I heard an addon exist to fix this problem, but I have yet to find it. Before you says its a you problem, do you play on controller or keyboard.

Would like to see a function to cancel a cast because otherwise, you are force to cast something twice. When you have to left click to confirm the cast we should also have a right click option to cancel the cast.

CP5 · April 21

Under the Settings->Gameplay->Combat category there is a setting for this, "Quick Cast Ground Abilities", which makes it so you need to cast the ability again to place it, with the first press being to bring up the circle to aim it.

Aggrovious · April 21

CP5 wrote: »

Under the Settings->Gameplay->Combat category there is a setting for this, "Quick Cast Ground Abilities", which makes it so you need to cast the ability again to place it, with the first press being to bring up the circle to aim it.

This doesn't solve the fact that ground abilities are casted twice.

Ilsabet · April 21

I just checked in-game to verify how this worked, and with "Quick Cast Ground Abilities" set to automatic, I am able to cancel the yellow skill placement circle by right-clicking. I tested with warden's Winter's Revenge, but I'm quite sure it works with things like Endless Hail and caltrops too.

So basically how it works is that I hit the ability button, and a yellow circle appears. I can either left-click to cast the skill at the circle's location, or right-click to remove the circle and not cast the skill.

Is that what you're looking for?

CP5 · April 21

There was an addon back in 2020 that made it so pressing the key down brought up the circle to aim, and releasing the button made it cast, but it doesn't work anymore. But if you want to avoid casting the skill twice, that's how, though it does require the additional key press.

Aggrovious · April 21

I'll mess with this a bit to see if it resolves the issue

tsaescishoeshiner · April 21

Aggrovious wrote: »

CP5 wrote: »

Under the Settings->Gameplay->Combat category there is a setting for this, "Quick Cast Ground Abilities", which makes it so you need to cast the ability again to place it, with the first press being to bring up the circle to aim it.

This doesn't solve the fact that ground abilities are casted twice.

Agreed, even with Quick Cast Ground Abilities on, my targeted ground AoE abilities frequently get cast twice. I believe it's because the targeted ground AoE abilities are programmed to aim when you press the button once, and fire when you press the button again OR hit your light attack button. However the Quick Cast was implemented seems to be interpreting extra triggers somehow--for example by queuing a second press of the skill button, which sometimes gets processed after the skill fires, therefore starting a second cast.

That's just a random guess. It just seems that the "Quick Cast" isn't actually automatic, but triggering some second command to be entered, since it sometimes takes slightly longer to fire.

Soarora · April 21

The setting everyone’s mentioning also has an option for casting as soon as you hit the button, centered around your cursor. It helped me with winters revenge (an AoE that tends to get double cast) to turn it on.

Aggrovious · April 22

Here are my current settings. I turned quick cast off. @Ilsabet

The result is unfortunately not as fast, but I have the option to right click to cancel the cast now. The skill I am casting is Daedric Tomb to show a ground aoe cast view.

I will test further to see if this is the fix that just works or not. Thank you all for responding. This has been driving me insane for years.

the1andonlyskwex · April 22

Soarora wrote: »

The setting everyone’s mentioning also has an option for casting as soon as you hit the button, centered around your cursor. It helped me with winters revenge (an AoE that tends to get double cast) to turn it on.

This is the way.