During the open beta of Diablo 4, some clever players found out how they can easily deal more damage. They just need to spam their abilities instead of casting automatically in a relaxed manner. Whether this will remain the case is unclear.
What is this trick? In principle, it’s quite simple: if you hold down a key or button in Diablo 4, you continuously use the assigned ability – or until a resource is depleted.
Depending on your attack speed, you will be slower or faster. However, you can make yourself faster. Instead of holding down the ability, you simply activate it repeatedly manually while moving via forced movement in between.
This way, you cancel the animation of the ability and can start again faster. According to RaizQT on YouTube, this is about 30% faster. The method is called animation cancelling and is common in many action-based combat system games.
According to RaizQT, this should work with any ability that has no cooldown, thus can be spammed.
In the video, we present you with some other games similar to Diablo that are good alternatives:
“Animation Cancelling” makes every skill up to 30% stronger
Is this how it should be? In fact, this method has been known in gaming for many years, not only in action RPGs but also in fighting games and, in a way, in shooters.
On Reddit, a user claims that the druid only felt good with animation cancelling. Druids are currently considered quite weak in Diablo 4, but with the faster casting, they are not as clunky.
Others note that such an option should not be in the game as it is too unfair and apparently does not work as intended. It should be the top priority to remove animation cancelling from the game.
Will this stay in the game? Probably not. Blizzard does not like unfair advantages. Since there will also be PvP in Diablo 4, this method would be considered an exploit.
On the other hand, animation cancelling is even possible in games like The Elder Scrolls Online. It could well be intended for such systems to be used, similar to the so-called “i-frames“ that make you briefly invulnerable.
More information from the developers about the future of Diablo 4 will be available in April, hopefully also with news about this trick:
Diablo 4 will reveal its endgame only in April – we already know a little bit more
