Channelled abilities and actions sometimes auto-cancel

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As per multiple reports on the forum and reddit, a lot of classes are having their channelled abilities auto-cancelled sometimes, resulting in huge losses of damage/healing.

Spinning Crane Kick, Void Torrent, Conduit of the Celestials, Ultimate Penitence, Spiritbloom, Evoker Breaths (damage and healing), Rapid Fire, Eye Beam, are just a few examples. Morever, hearthstones, eating, ressurrections also get randomly cancelled sometimes, as well as summons. Although apparently rarer, there are some reports of profession channeling being cancelled at times (crafting, fishing, etc.).

I personally experienced this on my evoker, with my Spiritbloom often channeling to one empowerment and cancelling itself, losing huge hps potential in raid ramps and critial moments in M+. Both evoker breaths behave similarly at times.

I also channel hearthstone at the end of M+ runs and sometimes it just stops. Similarly, I eat and my character sometimes gets up and stops eating (out of combat).

From the reddit post:

Evoker empower spells feel a little whack lately too, not sure if it’s just me. But it feels like sometimes it just picks a random person for something like spiritbloom, even if they’re out of range and I’m not mouse-hovering on them/have myself or a tank targeted and as a result it just will not cast and I have to hit the button 2-3 times to get it to start empowering, and when it does it cuts itself off due to multiple inputs.

Mistweaver monk here. You know how many times I’ve used Invoke Yu’lon, tossed out a bunch of renewing mist then plan on using the hero ability to do giga aoe heals and it insta cancels after half a tick?

I’v noticed this while fishing sometimes but maybe that is actually a feature? Ill cast and it cancels right away and i need to re-cast a couple of times before it stick.

Is anyone else here experiencing these cancels? We should discuss this further and ask for fixes.

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I believe I’ve had the fishing one once or twice and I’ve pretty much gotten used to losing a Rapid Fire cast on my Hunter a few times each day at least.

I got annoyed with empowered abilities so no longer play an Evoker but I think I’ve had it a few times there too. Not too sure whether it was me doing some sort of micro movement or not though as I have a tendency to move more than I should with casters.

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I was thinking this could be the cause at first but it wouldn’t explain the cancels that can happen even while you don’t touch the mouse or keyboard (hearthstone for example) or the cancels to abilities you can cast while moving (the monk kick).

Warlocks are reporting the same issue with summoning people and warlock pets, or abilities like health funnel or drain life. Have you ever noticed this personally?

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Now that you say this I have with summoning pets, I usually provide the stone and let everyone else do the player summoning so can’t comment there.

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So, channelled abilities in general seem to be affected. Typically you’d expect the pet summon channel to fully cast (obviously without you moving) but sometimes, as you noticed, it can stop mid-cast. It may not be that annoying with the pet summon itself, but when it happens to an impactful cooldown, it feels awful.

Thanks for your comments!

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Priest hymns in Battlegrounds. They auto-cancel like 20% of the time it feels like.
It’s been a problem for ages, so I kind of assume Blizzard knows, but doesn’t know how to fix it.

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That seems like a good estimate.

Still doesn’t hurt to keep posting or report in-game.

Thanks for the answer.

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Add to this personally i have had this with stealth on rogues and druids too it just randomly leaving stealth every quite often

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Oh yeah, an entire separate thread could be written about the stealth bugs, especially rogue’s.

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Bumping because this bug infuriates me. It is a bundle of fun to do a boss that spews out a high burst of pulsing AoE dmg (e.g. CoT 3rd boss, DAWN 2nd boss), and then have your prepped healing CD (Celestial Conduit) instantly cancel out itself. Much fun.

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I often forget when playing Archon I tend to unintentionally break my Void Torrent’s casting… Void Weaver has a talent being able to move while channeling it. :confounded:

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Maybe try something like this macro

/cast [no channeling] Spinning Crane Kick

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Happens to me when fishing, very annoying.

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it’s also fun to echo and cast spiritbloom or simply cast it and have it occassionally empower to the first level then stop :melting_face:

I do that with the empowered mind flay :sweat_smile:, but this post is about auto-cancels when not moving.

same for me :face_with_spiral_eyes:

so would this check if it’s already channeling before casting it? if this works, it’s a solution for spammable abilities, but unfortunately not for important damage/healing cds

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I didn’t want to blame the game but yes, my evoker breaths can stall and empowered spells may not start on the first try.

Thought it was me fat fingering the buttons…

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yeah, and you have to pause for a second to see if they’re on cooldown and try again if they’re not. their respective play sounds going off anyway doesn’t help either

same :joy:

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i noticed it on my monk but i don’t notice it on my affli or spriest

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I get both of these happening relatively frequently. It’s annoying as hell. I’ve tried to figure out what’s triggering it but haven’t found anything yet.

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Are there procs or something triggering it maybe? Trinkets, temporary combat activated buffs from other players, etc?

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I thought I was just being an amateur having these interrupts(fat fingers or something), but this thread made me realise I would not be the only one if so…

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