Evasive Arcana cancels spells ?

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Posted by: Satakal.6971

Satakal.6971

If I cast a spell right out of a dodge, it gets cancelled by the effect of Evasive Arcana. It doesn’t get a cooldown, it just cancels as if it wasn’t triggered in the first place.

I’ve only just started playing around with this trait but I know other ele’s have used it for a long time, so presumably this is either a known bug or it’s like that by design? It can be detrimental in a situation where I want to heal out of a dodge and die because the heal didn’t happen, and I raged at my keyboard and mouse at first because I thought they were buggy.

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Posted by: PinCushion.7390

PinCushion.7390

Yup. It does.

You learn to adapt. And die a lot.

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Posted by: hihey.1075

hihey.1075

Evasive Arcana is one of our best traits. Water Dodge is a AoE heal+condition cleanse. Churning Earth is a Blast finisher.
Anyway, I have rarely encountered the issue you are speaking of – Mostly because the spell it triggers is insta-cast: by the time you recover from the dodging animation, the spell is already “completed”.
I too tend to spam 6 when in low health and dodging, but I never had to blame Evasive Arcana for dying because the Heal did not trigger :/

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Posted by: Satakal.6971

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But it’s not just the heal, it cancels all the attack spells too. So it’s really odd in fast paced situations. I don’t think the guardian’s dodge heal cancels his attacks? Skills should at least be put in a queue to execute after evasive arcana’s effect instead of being plain cancelled. I don’t think there is any other situation in the game where skills get cancelled.

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Posted by: VitalSuit.1980

VitalSuit.1980

You mean dodging cancels your attack? No duh. Its like that for every class except warriors axe #5

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Posted by: Satakal.6971

Satakal.6971

^ Not dodging. If you activate skills during a dodge they are put in a queue and executed when the dodge completes. Unless you have evasive arcana.

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Posted by: Ray.2640

Ray.2640

Same thing used to happen when the phoenix returned to you, not sure if that’s still around. It’s really annoying and can screw you up really badly.

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Posted by: Demon.5082

Demon.5082

Somebody post this in the bugs thread to get it tested and posted there by josh.

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Posted by: TGSlasher.1458

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Evasive Arcana is one of our best traits. Water Dodge is a AoE heal+condition cleanse. Churning Earth is a Blast finisher.
Anyway, I have rarely encountered the issue you are speaking of – Mostly because the spell it triggers is insta-cast: by the time you recover from the dodging animation, the spell is already “completed”.
I too tend to spam 6 when in low health and dodging, but I never had to blame Evasive Arcana for dying because the Heal did not trigger :/

You need to experience lag there my friend.
EA for me and everyone I watch using it happens when they are running off. Not during the dodge (or end of dodge). Not to mention you can get hit during your dodge, and your not refunded the endurance it costs. Funniest thing I saw was me mid dodge turned to stone, flying like super man, defying gravity. Also you can double dodge when lagging enough. On a thief with caltrops on dodge you get 2 stacked on top of each other and 0 endurance left, it is also not refunded.

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