Holding key For Ranger AOE skill not working properly after the fix

[light trail]

When holding key was 1st release its is working properly for ranger AOE skill, holding all the keys makes the AOE rotation smooth and continous without interuption of Auto attack after the lastest fix was done holding the keys now make AOE worst than spamming the keys. I hope devs will also look on to it and make it work like before.

[urban flower]

@light trail Can you please send us a evidence video ? So we can fully try to understand what is not working ? ty

[robust lantern]

I just tryd with my ranger and found 2 general issues that are not just ranger related.

1.) I need to hold the button down for like 1 second before it start to spam, which is way to much time. 0.3 seconds would be much better.
(i have 8ms ping so connection isn't the issue)
2.) And after holding the button, the automatic spamming is to slow, spams the button like every 0.5 seconds i think.
It's better to spam it faster like every 0.2 seconds.

When playing on my RM i noticed when holding a button down for healrain, it takes way to long for the auto button spamming to start
and in this time the tank looses to much health. it's a very long noticable pause.

[unique charm]

I think due to the general cooldown of the skills, you are not meant to hold down ranger aoe skills anyways. Couldn't we just excluse some skills that have ultra long cooldowns anyways? Holding keys only really makes sense when the cooldown is low.

[digital pumice]

Hard disagree with this. If a ranger is facetanking why wouldnt they want to be able to hold down the AOE keys to cast right off cooldown? Its still a useful QOL

[light trail]

Well it seems it is not intended to give convinience for ranger got tired of discussing it with MOD this morning. Its just so good on wilds when it was first implemented.

[lusty rapids]

The feature is helpful, but if it's affecting player gameplay, then maybe make it a setting option that you can be toggled on/off?

[digital pumice]

That would probably be a nice option either way, enable or disable key holding spamming skill

[unique charm]

sorry, maybe subjective, but holding down 3 keys at the same time feels weird, you are not playing a chord on a piano, you are playing a game.

[covert zealot]

The hold down key is working as intended. Yes it might be a lil bit clunky sometimes but it works as it should. Now this issue is due to being using skill that have CD. This feature is not meant for you to hold down 5 keys and have them go off CD when they are up. You don't see Ele complaining about it and they have it much worse while doing HnR and using like 10+ skill. A solution for your ranger issue is asking them to let jobs use CD skill on action bar. Hold down keys is not meant to be used like that.

[robust lantern]

My biggest issue is that i have to hold down the key for 1 second for the auto spamming to start, which for me personaly feel like a looooong time.
It's a very simple fix, just need to reduce the 1 value in the code to like 0.3 - 0.4 seconds.

[digital pumice]

Then dont hold them?? I dont see how someone not wanting to hold the keys leads to the idea of removing the ability to hold keys from making sense. Like no one is forcing you to hold the keys down if you wanna click manually yourself? 😂
Or am i misunderstanding the issue?