08-05-2005, 05:37 PM
This was kinda hidden in another thread and since quite a few people didn't actually know how to fix it, I thought I would post here to let more folks know.
Last night I took my dwarf priestess into a Molten Core run. When we got to Lucifron (however you actually spell it), at one point I got mind controlled. Whenever I get mind controlled, the first spell the game decides to fire off is holy fire - nice long casting spell. So I'm sitting there, making the long cast of holy fire and just as it was about to go off, I was dispelled of the mind control. And yet, I was still in the casting animation and still had the full cast bar showing. As a result, I couldn't cast any other spell or even use my wand because "another action is in progress". The way I fixed this (besides just dying ;) ) was to try to logout. You'll leave your custom chat channels, but get the error message "You can't logout now". After I got that message, I had to take damage in order to be fixed, but many others haven't needed that apparently so it could have just been lag or something. After having to do that so often with my warriors to fix the charge bug that then desynchs you from the server, I should have known to try that first, but it just never came to mind.
To sum up, if you're stuck casting a spell forever, try to logout and then cancel the logout (if it doesn't automatically do so for you) and you'll probably be fixed.
Last night I took my dwarf priestess into a Molten Core run. When we got to Lucifron (however you actually spell it), at one point I got mind controlled. Whenever I get mind controlled, the first spell the game decides to fire off is holy fire - nice long casting spell. So I'm sitting there, making the long cast of holy fire and just as it was about to go off, I was dispelled of the mind control. And yet, I was still in the casting animation and still had the full cast bar showing. As a result, I couldn't cast any other spell or even use my wand because "another action is in progress". The way I fixed this (besides just dying ;) ) was to try to logout. You'll leave your custom chat channels, but get the error message "You can't logout now". After I got that message, I had to take damage in order to be fixed, but many others haven't needed that apparently so it could have just been lag or something. After having to do that so often with my warriors to fix the charge bug that then desynchs you from the server, I should have known to try that first, but it just never came to mind.
To sum up, if you're stuck casting a spell forever, try to logout and then cancel the logout (if it doesn't automatically do so for you) and you'll probably be fixed.
Intolerant monkey.