Guild Wars 2

Folks, for some strange reason my # 9 skill has this faded “lock” icon above it and so when I use my # 3 skill, it always auto-casts! This is really a huge pain and for the life of me, I’ve not a clue how this happened. What’s even worse is that it only does this on my Mesmer and not my other characters. Did I screw something up in the UI settings or something? I restored them back to the default but yet, it still has this lock icon above it.

What did I do?

For your autocast on skill 3 you’ve probably just accidentally set that up during the heat to battle. To put it back on #1 or take autocast off completely you click the skill with ctrl+right mouse button.

Not sure about your #9 – have you actually unlocked it – is your mesmer at a high enough level (20+) to put a skill in that slot of the UI? Not being familiar with the problem you describe I’d probably have to see a screen shot to offer any further suggestion.

Yeah, my Mesmer is at 80 and I think I just accidentally clicked something that locked the #9 skill so that it casts automatically when I use #3. I’m on the road right now but when I get a chance this evening, I’ll drop up a screen shot so you can see it.

Oh I see, so when you cast 3 you also cast 9 as well? Pretty sure that shouldn’t happen, goes against the ‘1 button = 1 action’ rule. Is it with a specifc mesmer weapon set and specific utility skill on #9 or can you swap things around and it still happens? As far as I know you can only have auto-cast set on one skill – will be interested to see a pic of your UI when you get a chance later.

It’s strange… I use the GS as my “main” weapon and that doesn’t happen. When I change over to the S/F as my secondary set, the #3 and #9 skills are locked together. It’s a pain as when I try to cast one my clones on the target, my other skill activates at the same time. If I was trying to, this could easily be an exploit.

So can I ask what you have in the #9 slot which triggers when you cast Confusing Images (3 on your sceptor)? I am now thoroughly intrigued.

Pretty much anything I want to put there. Seriously, I could put in mantra of pain, charge it, and then it casts the exact same time as I cast confusing images. For PvE though, I’ve just been using feedback.

Have you checked your keybindings to figure out what they are bound to?

Make sure your 3 is bound to 3 and 9 is bound to 9. My only guess is maybe your 3 is unbound and your 9 is bound to 3, so then when your 3 auto casts it hits your 9 too?

Yeah, I checked that as well and even reset everything back to the default just to make sure I didn’t change something by accident. Pretty strange isn’t it?