This has been driving me crazy ever since the pre-patch of Dragonflight came out with all the new option settings, auto casts, press and hold abilities and what have you.
I’ve made far too many reports on these issues, it’s been almost 2 years and they’re still not fixed. I’m tired of my area spells just auto casting over my character at completely random times instead of reliably letting me click and choose where I want to place/direct them or auto-cancelling themselves over and over again.
I’m tired of my mouseover cast setting turning itself on at completely RNG times mid combat and automatically casting my spells over unintended targets. I have made so many points to ensure ALL of my auto cast settings are turned off ever since this started but. they. keep. happening.
This has been consistent across evoker abilities as well with wrongful “target too close” errors for the range-selecting spells.
I’ve been told in every colorful spectrum you can think of that the problem is me, the problem is on my end even though I’ve literally played the game with virtually every single one of my processes on my computer, save for the necessary system ones, turned off including all of my game related software and all of my addons uninstalled and disabled and the problem persists with just the game alone in it’s absolute barest state.
I’ve heard of so many others with this issue and I’ve seen on other forums and on Reddit, etc how Blizzard keeps blaming the player for their addons or third party software and so on, but it’s not the player it’s the game.
Please, for the love of hell and all things unholy and cursed can Blizzard please fix this issue. It’s nearing 2 years now that this problem has existed and it’s not like I at the very least haven’t reported this over 5 times both in-game and on the forum with video recordings and more since the issue started.
I am not going to adapt and change my hot-keys or click my spells every single damn time for Blizzard’s sake. This should have been fixed a loooong time ago.
P.S: If I seem a little ticked it’s because I feel as a player who has tried time and time again to make Blizzard aware of this particular problem from the beginning since it seriously disrupts my playing experience, that I have been only blamed or ignored from the very start about it.
My Evoker was the first I ever experienced these issues on during pre-patch but in relation to range-selecting spells auto-casting, for my evoker in particular they’ve auto-cancelled but I have dealt with it from the start as well on my Hunter, my Druid and I was reminded again about this issue and how unbelievable it is to still be a problem today when casting my Death and Decay spell on my new Death Knight today, which has auto-cast itself over my character 4 times and mouseover casted like 3 times and I’m not even 1/3rd through the intro quests yet.
It’s always the same, it either auto-cancels, or auto-casts.
Here are all the previous topics I have made about these “auto” bugs. I have presumed a lot of factors to be the cause from using modifier hotkeys, to lag, etc and to be honest I don’t even know what the heck is the possible cause anymore.
I don’t get paid by Blizzard to find this stuff out, they should be the ones to do it. I’ve provided and explained as much detail as I could, that’s all I can do as a player.
I’ve gone through the exhausting effort to record and relay all of this information out both in-game and out of game over and over and over again.
Use it, otherwise I honestly don’t see any reason to report bugs for this company anymore for any of its games ever again.