Introducing Instant Skills

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In the future, we plan to use this tech a lot more to open up design space for additional skills where you want to use them at a moment's notice to react to events in combat.

Thank you Lord! This will improve combat greatly. If you also introduce half-animations, the responsiveness will be sooo much better.

Did not expected this coming out at Delve, great surprice and a welcome one too! Thanks GGG!

Was Vaal Cold Snap also made instant? Since it's self applied. Elemental Hit builds use it extensively vs bosses whenever the cast animation permits.

nice *-*

sweet, now I can channel while doing skills

Nice! I was already planning on starting Delve with a miner.

Sorry about the wall of text but this is what I imagine happens while playing POE. No, I do not do drugs.

Now this should no longer happen:

Mob conversation 1: Did you see what he just did? He set a freeze mine
Mob conversation 2: That little punk. First, he wants to keep us at a distant with that damned ranged attack, and now he wants to use a mine? Less than a man bastard.
Mob conversation 1: I know. That's what I like about the guys who use melee. At least they come to you like men and fight you face to face, hand to hand. Sometimes I wish they put up a better fight, they're so easy to kill.
Mob conversation 3: Don't worry about the mine, you know there's always an opening when someone uses one of those.
Mob conversation 1: Look at that coward, now he set a decoy totem. What a wussy move. Oh. look there go the new guys running towards the totem. You tell them, "Don't follow every totem"; but they always run to the totems. They have no idea how lucky they are it's not a Warchief.
Mob conversation 3: Just wait for the opening, we only need a second or less. You'll know because the slowest action you've ever seen.
(Player swings bow to back, reaches in pocket to get detonator....)
Mob conversation 3: NOW, NOW, NOW, there's our chance!
(player dies horribly, denied the chance to scream in pain, or pray to his god. As a final disgrace the detonator is shoved up the player's rear end as a message to others, "This is what got him killed"
Mob conversation 1: You know, if one day they figure how to strap that detonator to their chest and get a more instantaneous detonation, we are screwed.
Mob conversation 2: Like that will ever happen. I get his gear. It was supposed to help him evade attacks. Yeah, Right. Evade this (kicks corpse in the face) Punk

yusssssssss

Sick!

Warcries should be instant by default. Change the guardian passive to do something more interesting.