Quick cast is nice, but not all skills are good for quick cast. How about they add in the game controls on each skill to enable/disable quick cast for that button. I thought it would be like that to begin with. Kind of disappointed in this feature.
Another problem, which is very related - mouse button 2 - cannot be assigned as a skill button!? It has to be set as active - that is the only way around. Releasing mouse 2 when attacking with mouse 1 makes sense, but releasing mouse 2, now not having to use mouse 1 for attack… Not good enough.
Another problem… Quick cast breaks the other cast, which is held to cast. Case:
I teleport with right click, have to cast a spell with quick cast and to teleport again I have to release right click and click again. This makes the quick cast so very pointless now…
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I agree - I liked the Quick Cast on PC more than I expected, being an old school D2 ‘purist’ I am, lol. However, the setting is totally usuless for me since it does not work with sorc enchant skill. I cannot even target my merc or other players with that skill. I like your idea to enable/disable it for certain skills selectively.
There’s a workaround for that: you hold down the bind for Enchant, and while it’s repeatedly casted you can change target with LMB click. Clunky, but if you aren’t allied with, like, summon Necro, castable.
Alternatively, you can bind “Next skill”/“Previous skill” to mouse wheel and use it for easy access to normal-cast Enchant.
I came to request this feature as well so I am bumping the thread (if things get bumped around here?).
Quick Cast is great for certain skills! CE, Curses, Etc.
RMB is better for other things like teleporting around, freeing up your keyboard hand from holding down a key (since navigation is [often] mouse specific anyway). The only way to do this in Quick Cast mode is to set Teleport to your RMB and never, ever change it.
I want to be able to say to Quick Cast ‘Okay, we’re going to use teleport, I want to take my hand off the keyboard now, so when I press this key: leave it as teleport (but Quick Cast reverts to the default skill).’
Both modes make me wish I was using the other.
i ended up setting teleport to mouse button 4 ( my normal back button for my browser) but i still wish i had the option to choose each skill/button if i wanted it quickcast or swap
Turn it off for the characters whom its not useful for, and on for the ones that it is. I use it on my Hdin, but not my sorc as an example.
Zeiss said “not all skills are good for quick cast,” not “Quick Cast is not good for ‘certain characters.’”
It’s the individual skills that we’re saying determines usefulness; not the character you happen to be on.
Ok well dont you have the option to use quick cast for the skills you want, and the mouse for the ones you dont?
Or I guess not since you cant select them without casting, hmm.
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imo quick cast works very well … fe ive lightning sorc - mouse1 chain lightnig m2 teleport m4 nova m5 lightning … buffs on f5-f8. With old setting i cant do such a rumble 
also zealer, summoner, poison nova necro, bone necro, smiter, foh, hammerdin is much better with quick cast … i dont see issue really
A lot of Quick Cast’s problems would be solved by allowing individual QC assignment per skill and ditching the stupid injection of the QC skill into the UI, which causes movement to be interrupted until LMB is clicked again. It’s the clunkiness that ruins the feature. Of course, had they actually given this feature a PTR release before it went live they’d have been told that so they could fix it before it went live.
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It’s a good point you have if you can add per skill qc but then I want to ability to qc abilities and hard swap abilities in synch with qc.