Guild Wars 2

I hate how I can’t “break out” of the third attack in staff auto. It kinda roots me and if I see an attack coming, and I want to use staff three for the evade, It won’t let me until the auto animation is finished. Is this intended?

This is how it works with basically every weapon evade. It’s been a problem with sword for awhile.

This is, unfortunately, intended. The devs don’t want players canceling attacks to boost DPS, so they require the entire animation to finish first. My advice is to keep at least one regular dodge in reserve, as those can cancel an attack.

If you’re fast enough, you can weaponstow->next skill. This could be handled by a macro, but ANet strictly disallows that.

Edit: Does not help with after-cast animations though. S/d auto suffers immensely from this.