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Casting Spells.
Stormbrew
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Ive decided to be a spell caster starting off for now. For some reason im having trouble casting spells half the time. Some fights i do fine and everything cast ok. Then the other half of the time i have to keep hitting the spell over and over to get it to work. My character just sits there like a moron like i never hit the spell icons. Is there something im missing? You need to click the spell icon at the exact right moment? The problem always occurs after ive engaged and gotten a spell or two off and my magic points isnt low either.
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there is nothing you're doing wrong, unless you have difficulties targeting a mob and pressing a spell hotkey, it's just one of the treats of FFXIV
Yeah, what you're missing is some of the code needed to make the game play properly. They haven't completed it yet, but I'm sure you will have everything you need by the 3rd or 4th expansion.
Does it happen when your trying to cast spells back to back? Nukes like fire have like a 2-5 second cooldown I often failed to notice, even though you can confirm the spell as an AE, it won't go off unless the cooldown has reset.
edit: Not sure on this, but the casting cooldown might be global across all spells, to prevent you from chaining nukes and heals i suppose.
Yea im checking cool downs and their ok. Sometimes it happens for an entire fight almost. Ive tried to ask other casters in area if they have same problem but no one ever speaks in game. Ive never seen a mmo before where not one person makes a comment and there s no region chat going on at all lol.
I played a Caster yesterday and can not say i had trouble.
At one point after hours of playing the client became unresponsible and i had to restart at all.
Casting requires to look at the target and the special spells need extra targetting which is a uncommon system but a matter of a tenth of a second - the ability to switch special spells from AE to DD is quite cool.
Its easy to miss some error message like "you are not looking at the target" as the chat is hard to read the way they did it and sometimes a lag makes your spells hit late.
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There is currently a spell lag and it's a pain in the arse when you get hit with it. I highly suspect it's tied to the UI lag. There's something up with the way the servers are processing requests. Pretty typical of a new release until the servers get optimized and all the kinks get ironed out.
It's server lag.
if your falling into old MMO habits by button spamming, then you're interupting your cast.
watch your spell and the stamina building, if you cast prematurely youre going to interupt it every time. Regardless of what people trolling these forums are telling you about this game being a button masher, its not.
Sometimes you'll have to select a mob, then the spell, then the attack button to cast it when the stam builds up without interupting yourself. It takes time to get used to, just dont spam attacks and you'll do fine.
*edit* and yes, there is lag to deal with so just try to be more patient without going into a rage :P (I know ive almost thrown my keyboard because of this when I first started my caster)
I have a caster and I was noticing the same thing occasionally. I figured out afterwords that perhaps 25% was a server lag. The rest was overcasting' (spamming) the buttons and either canceling out my cast or draining my Stamina. Another thing was the AoE popup. I cast, get a 'Area Effect' popup and missed seeing it. Hitting the Enter key does the trick nicely in such circumstances but when you don't see the bloody thing...
Anyway, slowing down and watching what I was doing helped me a lot.
had the same issue in ob/cb
target creature, hit fire, no response so re-click the target and it got fire cast directly
however, if you target a mob, hit fire, then press enter (dont click the aoe button lol) you got a really good aoe.....
it took me 12 levels to work that out.... and increased my survivability dramataically.