As someone that bounces between CW and SC on aug and plays a good deal of dev, it absolutely does not feel the same as not being able to steer it.
That said, I feel for the PvP use case and hope they do something for you all. In PvE the goal is to be in it for as little time as possible so it doesn’t feel nearly as bad.
I’ve also had turn left/right unbound and would turn with my mouse while doing deep breath. I was wondering how some dragons were seemingly able to have way more turning ability than me but I guess they’re just keyboard turners and it’s the one place in the game where being a keyboard turners gives you an advantage
You could still do it without keyboard turning, just a matter of not holding down both mouse buttons to strafe vs turn.
I’m not sure what you mean because when I deep breath I’m pretty sure I only ever steer with the right mouse button pushed down. Are you saying I should be pressing strafe for sharper turn radius? I never even thought to press strafe while casting deep breath.
Previously, yes lol.
Now it clearly does not function that way anymore so it doesn’t really matter. Better that you got very familiar with how it’s currently working. I specifically didn’t use strafe with it because I assumed it was a bug they’d (eventually) fix and didn’t want to be reliant on it.
yea that it suks hard I agree
Just started leveling my evoker and wow the spell feels really clunky.
Is there a way to cancel the breath once you pass the mobs you are aiming for?
You just press the button again.
Alternately you could make this macro:
/cancelaura Deep Breath
This allows you to cancel it much faster. Very handy for fast paced situations.
I personally hate this macro as I tend to get spammy and will insta cancel, though I wonder if the internal reset timer got removed with the newest patch because I’ve insta canceled a few times now for the first time ever.
I was having the same issue by double-tapping the Deep Breath button too quickly, but I caved and just made a /cancelaura in things like, Dragonrage or Azure Strike so I would be less likely to hit my Deep Breath keybind twice and it’d be on buttons I wouldn’t normally be hitting so separate keys function for the double purpose as either land if flying with a double-tap to quickly use the ability immediately after, or to just use the ability if I wasn’t in the air. Usually Azure strike defaults to my ‘just land’ button and dragonrage being the ‘land and fire’ one.
Yeah that’s definitely the better option if you’re going to macro.
Truthfully it may just be my ex-fury main apm but I have yet to feel like I couldn’t cancel breath when I wanted to 
Pretty sure you can only cancel deep breath when talented into manueverability.
Sadly, sometimes it insta cancels without that macro.
Well, that’s what everyone does.
Good for stopcasting macro, to interrup reflected Disintegrate while Hover.
Bro there’s no way! Gotta get out of deep breath inside that first global cooldown to get casting the next dps spells without any downtime.
You can literally still do this without a macro. Maybe it’s a latency thing if people can’t, IDK, but I literally have never pressed to cancel where I was outside a global or mashing the button with it still continuing.
If anything, I have to consciously fight my ex-fury-warrior main urge to mash buttons and hit it too soon.
Really? I used to just cancel normally, but since changing to a cancel macro when I can cancel inside that first GCD, I feel like I can get into my rotation way faster. Has felt so much better for me. I like it in places like City of Threads where on that first boss, I have deep breathed and been mashing it to try to cancel and it’s just not stopped and yeeted me into sludge. Never have that issue now with the cancel macro in other spells.
Yeah, have never had a situation where I was like ‘wtf please stop’ .
Esp since the patch, it feels like the button itself has no ICD on the cancel anymore, because on a few occasions I’ve just insta-canceled.