Healing Touch can be cast while running

11/14/2016 7:29 AM
Title: Healing Touch can be cast while running
Reproduction Rate: it randomly broke on me while I was in a scene
Blocker? No
Details: when I started the scene, healing touch worked as intended (with a 1 second cast time that forced me to stop running due to the "prevent movement while casting" option I have ticked. After about 10 minutes it started to be able to be cast while I was running, making the skill appear as though it was instant cast (but the cast timer still appears on screen). I re-scened several times, moving to a different area, and this behavior persisted. I tested the other spells that changed to have a 1 second cast timer (such as strength of earth buff) and these still acted as they should by forcing me to stand still while casting.
Steps to Reproduce: Randomly happened while playing.
User Specs:
OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz (12) System RAM: 24567
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU RAM: 6047
SotA.EarlyAccess.Win.64.416.Date.11.10.16
Area: HiddenVale_Hills02_Tier5
Area Display Name: Moors of Northshore
Loc: (-46.3, 40.4, 102.7)

 

Thank you, @Elnoth, for the report. I will submit this to the team.

 

intended mechanic.

 

Can you reverify this? Pretty sure it should still be treated in much the same way as an instacast, despite the interruption timer you now see.

 

I thought it was a bug, as I was running and seeing a cast bar, but I now see this as an intended mechanic. I must have been mistaken thinking I was forced to stand still when I first entered the scene (maybe my first cast I stopped running manually as I knew spells with a cast timer would force me to stand still?)