Are Empowered Spells Bugged?

Classes Evoker
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I’m not sure if it’s an addon, or something wrong with my computer, or if the class is bugged—but I started getting some very broken behavior with empowered spells recently.

I will hold the empowered spell down for 1 tick and release, then sometimes one of two things will happen:

  1. The spell will cancel without me pressing anything or moving my character

  2. The spell will continue empowering as if I was still holding the button down until it reaches the max timeout and fires. If I move my character during this time it will cancel the cast.

This is throwing me off so much. I’d love any leads if anyone knows what could be going on. And if others are experiencing this too then maybe there’s a bug.

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Make sure you’re not trying to queue a spell while you’re casting the empowered spell. It used to be a major problem that empowered spells would just fizzle out without going off but that seems to have been resolved for a while now.

Empowered spells don’t play nice with spell queueing since they have a dynamic cast time and initiate a GCD after they’ve been cast.

This happens to me only with Dream Breath. It will randomly switch from hold-and-release style of empowering to press-and-tap, while Spiritbloom and Fire Breath remain hold-and-release. To deal with it in the moment you just have to tap it again when you want to release it.

It’s been a bug forever and i’ll be amazed if it ever gets fixed. The only solution is to /reload. The only other time it happens is when i’m lagging.

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This is an older issue. It’s the reason i swapped off hold to cast to tap to start and tap to stop in options.

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No Sure about class specs, but lately experiencing a lot of bugs in game.

Most recent bug, yesterday in Heroic Downbreaker the ship after the first pack was not present for me. My entire group could see and get into it, but it wasn’t present for me. Reload and restarting the game didn’t help. I had to teleport out/in to get into the ship.

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I created a second evoker recently to learn how to play Preservation, and my Dream Breath is bugged every time I try to empower it. It channels to fill up the first bar and then releases. Even if I don’t do anything else, it never goes to 2 or 3 bars. Maybe I’m not holding down the button long enough, but I never have this problem with Spiritbloom or Fire Breath.