Bug #1
Deep Breath, Dream Flight and Landslide. All of these range-selecting abilities get finnicky when set to a combined hotkey.
What happens is every time I’m in an area with lag or “lag” [As in the game needs to work harder to keep up with a higher demand for it’s resources] the spell will auto-cancel one to two to several times followed with an alert that my target is too close.
This has happened to me at the pre-patch events and even when soloing Raids [Most memorable occurrence was doing Mythic Demonic Inquisition boss in Tomb of Sargeras].
When there is no height of activity [spells, effects, enemies/mobs] surrounding me in a certain abundance I can press Alt-1, Alt-3 or Shift-Space [The combination of hotkeys doesn’t seem to matter when it comes to the bug] for the ability and it will go into select-range every single time without fail.
Here are videos of this bug occurring for each of these 3 range-selecting abilities on Evoker. I don’t experience this bug with any other class and Evoker is the only class with these types of abilities. I would say the bug is very connected to them specifically.
Note the “Target too close” alert near the top of my screen when I try to cast these abilities.
Landslide
Deep Breath
Dream Flight
Bug #2
Trying to work around this by setting the abilities to a single hotkey [Such as 2 on your keyboard] seems to drastically reduce, if not entire negate, the above bug.
However, instead of getting Bug #1 you now get a new bug, where the abilities occasionally cast off [with the same prerequisites for Bug #1] on their own before you even have a chance to select your range and click with your mouse.
I have seen this as well happen when the ability is set to a combined hotkey but it’s a much more rare occurrence. There’s nothing to capture on recording for this as evidence because it would just easily look like I’m instantly clicking my mouse when I didn’t even get to before the ability cast off on it’s own. This bug makes them behave like a regular instant cast aimed wherever your mouse is.
These are bugs that occur for me with all of my addons disabled, and when I also turn off all third-party software that may impact hotkeys such as my gaming mouse. They are very debilitating when it comes to doing DPS, PVP, Healing, etc.
Few things feel worse right now than seeing a perfect moment to cast one of these abilities, only to encounter these bugs that mess it all up not just for you but for your group/raid.