Guild Wars 2

Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this topic

On guild wars 1 there was a key that you can bind to cancel most actions wether its a spell sigent or even auto attack. Some attack skills could also be caceled by also changing weapon while hitting said key (was tricky) yet this game is hopelessly at canceling action (mainly attacking) . So many times have hit esc repeatedly even when the menu screen pops up and yet I still auto attack, even clicking of the target my char still wants to attack which is very bad when you have x amount of confusion stacks on you. How do you guys deal with this?

Why can we not have a dedicated cancel action key/button?

weapon stow is unbind on default

It will cancel actions

You can use the Stow Weapon key to cancel many actions (maybe all, I havent used it much myself).

Also turn off Auto-Attack, that will prevent your character from continually doing things even when you dont want them to.

TBH, I would like to have a dodge roll or hitting #6 for the heal skill cancel any other stuff you are doing, like accidental rezzing a suicidal NPC, “involuntary mining” because you stand close to an ore during a fight and picking up event items (like oil drilling in EotM). I know that swapping weapons works (or dancing , but you might have those on coold own (or not available as a Ele).

1. Bind “Stow/Draw Weapons”
2. Use bound key to cancel actions
3. ????
4. Profit

Gorani.7205:

TBH, I would like to have a dodge roll or hitting #6 for the heal skill cancel any other stuff you are doing, like accidental rezzing a suicidal NPC, “involuntary mining” because you stand close to an ore during a fight and picking up event items (like oil drilling in EotM). I know that swapping weapons works (or dancing , but you might have those on coold own (or not available as a Ele).

pretty sure all the situations you listed can be canceled by simply moving backwards.

Like many said before you can use stow/draw weapons key to cancel actions. But netherless an extra cancel key would be nice and is something Anet should consider adding.

I dont see why pressing auto attack cant cancel an action. That would be so nice.

That topic came up several times already, often in conjunction with the engineer bundles (kits). I know it’s poor style, but for the Eternal Alchemy’s sake let me just quote myself this time.

Short point: pretty please add a key-bindable action which consistently stops every other ability build-up and auto-attack. No matter if it’s a rezz, a kit, a bundle, mining, dance, weapon or utility ability.