Void Knight Devouring Orb Skill - Cast Animation Flow while moving

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Hi, im playing mostly a Voidknight Build that shoots Abyssal Orbs with Devouring Orb. Devouring Orb’s orbit around like an aura, so i cast it with numpad.
To make the build work i have to invest alot in offense that means movement is my defense, but the cast animation of the Devouring Orb is done while standing. since i cast it with numpad i move around alot, but the cast interrupt this flow, it whould be more enjoyable if the cast could be done while moving or has a shorter standing part in the animation.

Thanks for reading.

PS: jfyi my other skills in the build are “Volatile Reversal”,“Anomaly”,“Lunge”, and “Rebuke”.

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Do you already use the node that gives cast speed?
I think devs want to try to avoid autocasting skills like this. maybe it wil lget a rework someitme soon.
But they could probably add a follow up node after the cast speed node for instant casting

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Being able to instant cast is a very powerful tool and should not be given to all abilities. Especially on the sentinel as they have warpath. Cast while channeling prots/damage would be op af if this was instant.

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Yeah, I complained about the jankiness of Devouring Orb not being instant, but it does feel better if you have more cast speed.

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thanks for the replies. i can see why there has to be a balance with instant casts, just hear me out on this. i reduce my cooldowns to 45+%, thit sets my devouring orb under 3 seconds cooldown. its just annoying to recast it permanently and being stuck for a short preriod every 2+ seconds feels like unintuitive gameplay.

How about a way around it like casting 3 at once then having a longer break etc. Another idea is to make it only instant if you are not channeling to balance it with warpath ( which i dont use in this build ) but in the current state its not really a good combat feeling, yet i enjoy the build so far.

PS: Yes im at +23% cast speed for Devouring Orb.

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Considering you can get 10% cast speed as an implicit on gloves, 23% sounds pretty fucking low. Try it again with 50-60%. Then you will say well I have to give up power somewhere else to do this. And yes, that is the entire point.

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Hello Shenanigans, there are definetly builds that dont use warpath but devouring Orb. Have you read about my Suggestion to balance it with channeling Skills to make it feel less janky yet not too powerful ?

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