I was thrilled when this feature was announced. I hate spamming buttons. I don’t like what it does to my hands and keyboard & mouse. I’ve been very disappointed with how it has been behaving.
As a main frost mage, I’ve been doing a lot of testing and I’ve noticed fingers of frost stops press and hold. Here’s what I’ve noticed (all of this with 0 addons enabled):
- The easiest way to recreate the issue is with frost bolt. Frost bolt casts when pressed until I gain a fingers of frost charge.
- Casting ice lance on its own will cast endlessly when pressed, as ice lance cannot proc fingers of frost.
- Ice lance will cast when pressed like this unless it’s expending a fingers of frost charge, making chaining two back-to-back FoF ice lances impossible.
- Brain freeze does not seem to affect it.
- When making a new mage, press and hold casting worked with frost bolt until I got the fingers of frost talent.
However, any spell’s press and hold casting is disabled when gaining/losing fingers of frost, not just frostbolt or ice lance.
Eg: If I am holding frost bolt, and brain freeze procs, I switch to holding my flurry key while the current frostbolt is casting. If that frost bolt procs fingers of frost, my flurry press and hold is cancelled. If that frost bolt does not proc fingers of frost, switching the held button mid cast casts flurry after frost bolt is finished casting without issue.
This is how I’ve observed the problem on my frost mage, however I have noticed it on other classes. Demonology warlock’s shadow bolt is wildly inconsistent with what stops it from press and hold casting. I thought it was stopping on gaining demonic calling, but while that does stop it from casting, it seems to stop without gaining any procs.
Fury warrior’s whirlwind will randomly stop while holding, however sometimes it will start back up if the button stays held.
I’ve seen other posts with balance druids losing press and hold when gaining eclipse.
What have you noticed with this feature?