Guild Wars 2

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve accidently started using my heal and wanted to cancel it (to prevent full CD) or how many times I’ve been stuck reviving someone and have been unable to move to avoid a big attack!

Up until this point I’ve had to dodge to cancel both of these actions. This isn’t terrible exactly but, I’d rather conserve my dodges as much as possible in combat.

Just browsing through the Control/Keybindings settings in the Options menu and I was kinda shocked to see that there was no “cancel action” hotkey to assign. My guildies said that the Escape key works to cancel actions, and indeed it does, but I don’t have anyway to assign it to anything more wieldy… unless I’ve completely overlooked it in the options menu.

On a related note: I would love the option to have “weapon swap priority”- whatever action you might be doing would be automatically interrupted to favor weapon swapping. There’s been a number of times when casting a slow attacking spell like Winds of Chaos and I’ve needed to quickly change to MH Sword for blurred frenzy but WoC needed to complete casting before the weapon swap took effect, leading to a very frustrating death! Turning off AA has helped but has not remedied the problem.

If these options already exist, please let me know. Otherwise, in lieu of implementation, I would love to hear any tips you guys have for the above problems of self-action cancelling and reliable weapon swapping.