Druid spell Typhoon disables ESC key

[Lastcares-pagle]

Hey, another post! Bump for visibility!

[Trinimac-thorium-brotherhood]

Thanks for posting this. I had figured it was an issue with an addon or something disabling the escape key

[Déjá-faerlina]

Same here. Seems Blizzard has no problems call it “classic” with farming and other modifications done which apparently probably contributed to breaking/causing this issue and then “collecting money” for their hard (*coughs, chokes, swallows hard) work! But CAN NOT fix GAME BREAKING items! Chalk it up to today’s gaming companies!

[Askr-remulos]

Bumping as issue is still occurring.

[Obzên-emerald-dream]

I am having this same issue but along with the Esc key not working I cannot use auto attack. It seemed to also coincide with using the dark iron mole machine.

[Cassandralol-spirestone]

Bump bug still happening. Affecting interactions with some quest NPCs as well. Requires a reload to fix usually, but still irritating.

[Wòódy-windseeker]

Devs should be forced to disable their ESCAPE key binding until this is fixed.

[Cassandralol-spirestone]

Honestly could care less about the escape key it’s the animation and cast bar delays that are really screwing up gameplay, especially for PVP.

Did I cancel that spell? Did it get interrupted? Was there kickback? Who knows?

[Cyano-atiesh]

Same issue, hope Blizzard reads this and fixes it. Getting so tired of dealing with it! As a reward, I think Blizzard should let us use Deviate Delight in forms.

[Barkblood-sargeras]

@Astrogazer-mankrik

As of the Wrath pre-patch, there’s a really weird bug with the Druid spell “Typhoon”, where if you use it in front of a wall, or hill, or anything large/solid in front of you, it will entirely disable the ESC key. As in, pressing ESC will do absolutely nothing in any situation where it would normally function:

I have this too wtf?!!?!

[Wòódy-windseeker]

@Astrogazer-mankrik

When the bug occurs, any other spell that I try to cast does not properly play a casting animation, my character just stands still until the cast completes, and then the “completed cast” animation plays.

So the game thinks we are still casting, hence why pressing ESC does nothing, because the game is trying to use ESC to cancel a cast…except we’re not actually casting anything. That’s my guess, anyway.

This makes perfect sense. I’m ashamed it didn’t occur to me first. Software Engineer?

[Holyenvy-bloodhoof]

I’m so glad someone raised this. It was driving me insane not being able to figure out what was happening

[Barkblood-sargeras]

@Cobblepot-azgalor

Can confirm bug is real and still happening

I HAVE FOUND A SOLUTION. PLEASE DO NOT SKIP OVER THIS, AND READ THE BELOW

Create a macro with /m and insert the below. This will cast highest typhoon rank, and cancel it after. No more bug!

/cast typhoon
/Cancelcast

[Wòódy-windseeker]

It doesn’t seem to work. Do you mean /stopcasting?

Edit: /stopcasting does appear to work. I haven’t had to reload in a couple of hours.

@Barkblood-sargeras

I HAVE FOUND A SOLUTION. PLEASE DO NOT SKIP OVER THIS, AND READ THE BELOW

[Shifftted-pagle]

Same is happening to me. This is making leveling really annoying especially that I have to play boomkin

[Cassandralol-spirestone]

Both of y’all are heroes.

[Terreb-grobbulus]

Thanks for identifying the cause. I couldn’t figure out what was happening and kept looking at addons. But disabling addons wouldn’t fix it.

[Astrogazer-mankrik]

Bug is still happening, but yes, adding a /stopcasting macro for Typhoon seems to prevent it from happening.

It’s mindboggling how nobody at Blizzard ran into this bug, seeing as it happens super often when I’m just out questing.

It really does seem to be a bug where the game THINKS you are still casting a spell, but you aren’t. The casting animations don’t play properly, you can’t sit down, you can’t use certain emotes (which also don’t work while casting), etc.

Only logging out or going through a loading screen fixes it.

[Myrtlee-stormrage]

shocking that this bug is still not fixed… can confirm it is still happening to me… even with the /cancelcast… will try /stopcasting macro instead to see if this helps

[Galadríel-westfall]

The macro worked thanks, but this has to be fixed asap