Guild Wars 2

When I play I instinctively spam my keys even if I just want to use them once, on other MMOs if you stop spamming before the casting is done you just use the skill once but when I’m playing GW2 if I spam my keys there’s always a second cast of my skills, I’m just wondering if anyone else has experienced that or if it’s just me, I’m playing Thief and it gets annoying since I waste all my initiative for nothing when this happens

It’s because thief’s initiative mechanic allows you to quickly spam skills, hence the large burst damage. All other classes have cooldowns for skills, so they can’t do that. Unfortunately it does mean you have to learn to be more controlled with your key presses.

I see, for me it seems more of a bug than anything since if I press the key, even if it’s one time, during a cast when it finishes it casts it again, I guess I’ll have to get used to it.

If your talking about your #1 skill it’s default is set to auto cast so after you use an attack skill the #1 skill will continue to attack until the enemy is dead. Now you can set other skills to auto attack which might be what is happening in your case.

The mechanics of the game also have the effect that if you press and Hold the skill, it function as auto cast. You’ll have to press the key once and then leave it be, for it to not cast again. On the thief this means that if you hold the skill’s button for longer than the skills casting time, it’ll cast again.
It’s not a bug, it was in the update notes with one of the last few updates.

Ah, that must be it, when I spam my keys it must count them as maintaining the key pressed hence the auto spam.