Guild Wars 2

Is there a way to remap skill cancel/esc?

I can remap it to a macro key on my keyboard but the key isn’t very convenient to press. Can some something like this be added to a future patch? I’m sure others have mentioned this before. The feature was in Guild Wars 1 as well.

If worst comes to worst you could rebind it with a 3rd party tool.

The solution I discovered works:

Open your options, go to your key bindings, and bind a key for “Sheathe Weapon” (or “Store Weapon”, whichever it may be called). Anytime you try to sheathe your weapon, it will cancel whatever skill you are activating.

For example, I can begin to activate Guardian Hammer #4 “Banish” (the knockback, which has a short wind-up time), then at any point during the wind-up I can press my “Sheathe Weapon” key (which is E for me) to cancel the skill before it completes, sending it into reduced cooldown (and likely baiting a wasted dodge or block from the enemy).

But yeah: bind a key for “Sheathe Weapon” and that will give you a usable Skill Cancel key other than having to press ESC (which is hugely inconvenient).

Exemplar.1479:

The solution I discovered works:

Open your options, go to your key bindings, and bind a key for “Sheathe Weapon” (or “Store Weapon”, whichever it may be called). Anytime you try to sheathe your weapon, it will cancel whatever skill you are activating.

Gave this a shot on my warrior. Sadly, instant activated skills will not be interrupted and the subsequent animation/skill will go to conclusion. Using ESC doesn’t help interrupt them either. Some skills can be interrupted by moving but the ones I tested on warrior such as Whirlwind Attack, Rush, and Bull’s Charge cannot by interrupted by trying to move during animation which makes the lack of this feature even more frustrating. I don’t want movement to cancel skills, I just think a interrupt key bind would make a lot of sense given my and others comments.