Guild Wars 2

I apologize beforehand if there is a post about this already, but I could not find it. I’ve also reported this issue in-game a while ago.

Basically, there’s a bug where if you cast a spell next to a downed player, you start casting your stomping animation instead. It has been there for a while, but for some reason it seems to be happening a lot more since the latest patches.

You can just cancel the animation and proceed with what you were doing, but every second is precious when you’re trying to interrupt revives/damage downed players, so I find this to be a big issue, not to mention that it’s plain annoying.

A fix would be very appreciated! Thanks for your time.

I’ve been talking to a few other players about this issue and it seems to be happening as well when you try to cast spells near other things which you can interact with, such as the portal and cannon in Skyhammer (as in, your character interacts with the “object” rather than casting the spell that you’ve ordered it to cast).

found this aswell, thought it was messed in my control options but it’s not + apparantly more people have the same issue… really annoying

Would be nice to get some response regarding the issue. Thanks.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Hello!

What is happening is you are accidentally clicking the target likely due to the slowcast/fastcast mechanic of ground target based skills.

Turning off “Right-Click and Double-Click to Attack/Interact” in the Combat/Movement options will fix this.

I guess this was just me trying to move my camera with right click next to a corpse. I’ll try to find a way around it since I don’t really want to drop the right click.

Many thanks for the reply!

‘Right-click to interact’ is possibly the worst option to default ‘on’ in the game. I thought my character randomly interacting with things was some horrible bug for weeks after it was added. It made using siege in WvW extremely frustrating because my character would stop using it every time I moved the camera. In the future, if options are added that default to ‘on’, please say so in the patch notes rather than letting us suffer until we figure out what’s going on ourselves.

I guess my issue is that I really don’t want to get rid of the option, mainly because I quite like right-clicking for targeting and starting ranged auto-attacks. Shame it also interacts though, I suppose. I’ll try to practicing not interacting with stuff by mistake when flipping my camera away.