I might be missing something about how skills in this game work. But I feel like a large amount of the time when I try to cast a skill with right click or a keyboard key it simply won’t do anything.
This isn’t a KB ghosting issue because it does it with my mouse too. For example, while playing a soldier build, I’ll often just hold down left click 100% of the time for Cadence and then also try to use skills like Blitz, etc. while still holding down the left click key.
Sometimes nothing at all happens. Sometimes I see the icon “press down” but then the ability doesn’t actually cast. Sometimes it will go through, but it feels pretty random.
This happens constantly. Are my skills being interrupted? Do I need to stop holding down left click for skills to go through? i.e. is it a matter of needing to time the cast between frames of animation? I feel like every time I want to Blitz or use another skill I need to spam it 3-5 times before it actually happens.
You aren’t alone. Myself and a few others have been complaining about this for years but insofar as we can tell there’s no clear repro for it and the devs haven’t been able to replicate it themselves.
My intuition says there’s something odd with holding LMB and trying to interrupt autoattacks with other skills, but it sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t.
Dying because your Mirror doesn’t go off despite 18 presses is the worst feeling.
i’ve fixed that with autohotkey for some builds, i know its meh, but i don t have to push the button 5 times to be cast while spamming cadence, but this is the case only when i play cadence or savagery etc…
If that’s true then this mechanic is going to make whirlwind Oathkeeper builds significantly less fun.
It seems like default attacks like Cadence should always be the skill being interrupted if I hit another key instead of vice-versa. I never had an issue with this in games like Diablo or PoE.
You’re pressing your skills too fast, therefore first button is not cast properly.
You unintentionally press your Cadence again after pressing Blitz.
Tip: Do not hold any buttons while pressing another. For example, if you hold LMB for Cadence, and want to press Blitz, let go the Cadence button and then, after you “land”, press Cadence again.
Its a simple script, that when i press the right mouse button it also pushed the key 8 for example, so i don t have to push it 5 times in a row to get cast.
This is something that has been annoying me as well, but only certain builds of mine have this issue. Can’t remember which ones exactly since I have so many, but I’ll look into that when I find the time, maybe it helps pinpointing the issue.
It might have something to do with targeting. Some skills do not work when targeting a monster, some skills don’t work when targeting the ground.
Although that doesn’t explain the case of Mirror not activating, which I experienced a few times as well.
These things happened to me until the 64 bit version of the game came out. A lot of things feel way more smooth for me now. I’m on Win 7 if that makes a difference