Since the last Update (Elsweyr patch, monday 20/05) there has been an issue for me on all of my healers: I am at times unable to cast ground-targeted abilities (illustrious healing, budding seeds, conduit, spear shards)
I have since tried to find the reason for this and was succesfull:
- When doing a lightning staff attack, that is neither a light attack nor a fully charged heavy attack, the game seems to assume that you want to finish the heavy attack and thus 1) slows you down and 2) prevents you from casting ground-targeted abilities.
You can still: ele drain, combat prayer, send orbs; everything but aimed abilities is still possible.
Now, since it is mostly healers, that use a lightning staff backbar and use that backbar to often to non-fully charged heavy attacks it makes sense, that in my trial groups it is always both healers complaining about this issue. It is 100% reproduceable for me.
I made a point to only do light attacks or fully charged heavy attacks on my lightning staff bar and could thus successfully not trigger the bug, medium charged attacks on my restoration staff also do not bug me out.
The problem is: sometimes players need to break off heavy attacks, before they are fully charged, especially healers (since we might want to give our group members some attention and 2 secounds is a long time in some fights) and it is very punishing to not be able to cast illustrious healing, one of the strongest ground based heals used mostly in situations, where we expect high damage incoming for a limited amount of time.
Even when specifically trying to not do medium charged attacks, if you have a targeting issue when trying to light attack I still got the bug, because the game assumed I was charging up a heavy attack.
To sum up the rant:
PLEASE fix medium attacks on lightning staves! They are widely used by healers and depriving us from placing ground-targeted attacks is a big issue for us.
