Spell Casting Cancelation

Have you ever used your first spell tried to go for a melee but instead begin casting another spell? For example, you are an assassin you just used spin attack and are trying to use a melee but end up using multihit or realize you are about to cast multihit and have to wait for the spell casting to cancel. This happens pretty often and is especially impactful to lower leveled players or melee builds which have a tight mana pool.

Solution
By pressing shift you completely cancel the spell you are in the middle of casting. So if you are about to cast meteor and you are at the state "Right-Left-" by pressing shift it cancels any inputs. As for the mage in 1.19, this feature might be problematic since holding shift activates the teleport momentum cancel. A potential fix for this is for the spell canceling mechanic requiring a player to tap shift twice? Still, his feature would be a great feature to help melee and low-level players where mana conservation is crucial. In general, it is helpful to all classes and in general, any spell cancelation mechanic would be a good thing to have in the game. The only downside for this idea might be that it lowers skill a bit since one doesn't have to be as careful when casting spell since they can just cancel it midway.

 

hello the new warrior uppercut mechanic would like to have a word with you

 

(not like there's a reason to want to shift with uppercut)

 

What about using M3? This would get rid of the shift dilemma and its all on the mouse so it would make sense

 

Ice Bear says that would probably be the best solution thanks!

 

iirc one of the admins said that they couldn't actually detect Mouse 3 and that is why they don't use it for more spells.