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Pro Tip for Archers for Faster Attack Speed | Easy Animation Canceling

Class and Rank Archer
#1

How to maximize ATK Speed on Archer classes:

First of all I have an average of 195-205ping to the server and I can feel the difference between Left-click and Z.

Being in Mouse mode and using **Left-Click for normal attacks is a tad bit faster than holding down the Z button.
Reason behind this is that, if you move while using left-click for normal attacks you’re basically pressing at least 3 buttons at the same time:
1 for Movement keys are for movement (for Mouse mode default its W, A, S, D)
1 for Normal Attack which is Left-click
and… (surprise surprise)
1 for another Movement key which is also on Left-click

This chain of keys causes the Normal attack key on Left-click to be easily animation canceled.

Actual Animation Cancelling keys:

  1. Click and hold Left-click on the monster
  2. Hover your mouse somewhere else while still holding Left-click
  3. Move your character with your directional Keys (which is W, A, S, D by default)
  4. Enjoy your animation cancelling. Much more visually evident if you have Atk speed buffs.

Naturally, for more attack speed you’d need to equip a Crossbow for additional speed.

Could someone try this out with Kneeling Shot? I have a hunch that it’ll also work with Kneeling Shot.

The only annoying thing about Mouse-mode is that it’s harder to aim charged up skill for example High-Anchoring Shot (Ranger) especially when you have to kite a little bit just to fully charge the skill.

That’s all for now :smiley:
For those who have found another method on doing Animation Canceling please do enlighten us :smiley:

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#2

Here is a video example just to give you an idea of what it looks like.

Video notes:
Normal = Z button
Animation cancel = Left-click

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#3

Game doesn’t even let me bind my mouse buttons…

#5

u cant do anything with more than 300ping :))

#6

lukaspreidys
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Uhh… what do you mean withdrawn?

#7

huynhquangn3d
u cant do anything with more than 300ping :))

Yea, unfortunately normal attacks are slower when you have higher than 300 ping :confused:

Nevertheless, you can always do a Spammer build for Archer based class :smiley:

#8

am play from SEA so my ping ~0.3 to 6.0 :wink:
do dame with normal attack like impossible :thumbsup:

#9

Unfortunately, I’d rather keyboard… but the speed gap is so big that I ended up using the mouse…

#10

Nice tip, but this guy do it more crazier and i’m struggling to figure out how he do it.

Can anybody explain? He does even faster than dagger animation cancel and kneel shot.

And he have no attack speed buff skill.

#11

Umm mind you in kToS they already fixed the animation cancelling on mouse mode has been disabled dont know if it will be applied here

#12

It’s not possible to cancel with Kneeling Shot, is it? I play with mouse mode and I can’t seem to find a way to do it (although facing diagonally seems to be faster than other directions for some reason)

What units are the attack speed boosts in, if anyone knows?

#13

No longer need to worry abt this anymore. Patch 7 June fixed. Lol.

#14

use mouse to target
then click and hold to start and keep attacking
while AA’ing, just press and hold W,A,S, or D
you can see/feel the speed difference, as long as your ping lets you

#15
  • In mouse mode, the attack speed will no longer be faster than normal.

Welp, there goes the mouse mode.

Off Topic:
Seen some Archer 1 bots that has the same Attack speed as being with a running shot. They even have good/better ping than me.

#17

In mouse mode, the attack speed will no longer be faster than normal.

Welp, there goes the mouse mode.

This patch did nothing. Mouse mode and its animation cancelling works exactly the same as it did before.

KR users also saw no difference after the maintenance they had that contained that same patch note.

Either it’s a bad translation or they were referring to another class or skill all along.

#18

I can confirm this. Nothing changed for my QS C3, still attacking fast as ever.

#19

Maybe it actually made other modes as fast as mouse perhaps? That’s one way to interpret the patch notes at least…

#20

Third confirmation, yeah no change. Horray~ But on reddit someone was upset that his fencer could no longer skill animation cancel and move. Lol.

#21

I have this problem on my sorc. I could easily kite in mouse mode by keeping left click pressed and hoovering on the ground (if i press w,a,s,d it would cancel) but now it doesn’t work anymore.

I’m guessing archers don’t have problems because their normal attack is made to be used while walking. Any other class I believe now needs to click or mash buttons for every action (attack-move).

#22

the Mouse mode ani cancel affected swordies… in a bad way :frowning:

I think Archers are untouched