Unable to cast ANY spells - "You are already casting a spell! You prepare this spell as a follow up!"

Started 4 Mar 2019
by Sathariel
in Resolved Issues
Problem:
I'm unable to cast any spells. Trying to will prompt the "You are already casting a spell! You prepare this spell as a follow up!" message.

Environment:
This happened while I was in a Sidi Raid with many players - a lot of client induced lag was present. I was spamming [Tab] (target next monster) and [1] (LvL 50 Theurg base DD). Then every spell queued, but nothing was cast.

A few things I tested:
-Casting normal spell (Buffs, Base DD, etc): Doesn't work. "You are already casting a spell! You prepare this spell as a follow up!"
-Using Quickcast: Doesn'T work. "You can't prepare a quickcast while casting a spell!"
-Using personal bind: Doesn't work. You are already casting a spell."
-Using a pot: Works.
-Using a Tinderbox: Doesn't work. "You are already casting a spell."
-Using Purge RA: Works.
-Using Instant Debuffs: Works. This one gives correct messages when trying to use it without or with friendly targets, too.

Possible solutions I've tried - none of them worked:
-Death.
-Changing zones.
-Hitting monsters in melee with my staff.
-Unequipping all my items.
-Emotes.
-Sitting.
-Destroying the Personal Bind Stone and using the new one.

Interesting:
Not selecting a target while using my base DD prompts the "You are already casting a spell! You prepare this spell as a follow up!" message, as opposed to the "You mustselect a target!..." one.
Selecting a friendly target gives the same message.

Issue Timeline

4 Mar 2019 Sathariel created this issue
5 Mar 2019 Vivien triaged this issue
5 Mar 2019 Sherany triaged this issue
5 Mar 2019 Sherany changed the status of this issue from new to open
2 Jul 2019 gruenesschaf assigned this issue from Nobody to gruenesschaf
2 Jul 2019 gruenesschaf changed the status of this issue from in_progress to resolved
Tue 5 Mar 2019 7:14 AM by spell
Had exact thing happen to my Wizard in a 300 man Sidi raid over a month ago. Had to relog. Only time ever on Phoenix it has happened. Must be something with Sidi.
Sun 21 Apr 2019 5:31 AM by tomhardly
I just had this happen to my BD was switching to a second target while casting my dd and the last spell that fired was my insta debuff

You cast a Bolster Bonecaster spell!
You must wait 6 seconds to recast this type of spell.
You begin casting a Ossify Skeleton spell!
You are already casting a spell! You prepare this spell as a follow up!

and then that's all I see when I try to cast anything.

Zone seemed pretty quiet, in Faraheim when it happened. Logging out and then back in on character resolved the unable to cast.
Wed 15 May 2019 6:21 PM by Tool73
happens randonly to me too, cant say yet why, seems to be when switching target while casting. Cats then is completly broken until relogg, whats really annoying when in the middle of rvr....
Tue 2 Jul 2019 5:42 AM by gruenesschaf
Was working on reducing the garbage collector pauses and while doing some work there on spells I ran into this after some changes which made it rather easy to find. Including the fix for that in the changes a bit later today, while I didn't find anything it's possible that it might break something.

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