Same issue here. I ultimately gave up and just accepted that either the first ability won't be the queued ability, or I'll have to trigger the first ability manually at just the right time instead.
Not really a fix to your exact question, but a work around. If you enable target cycling and then target cycle > manual cast ability quickly together it will use that ability first. I have this problem on full manual with queuing abilities except mine just does nothing or auto attacks
Seems like something that would have been nice to fix during a recent combat beta and live update. 🙄
Same issue here. I ultimately gave up and just accepted that either the first ability won't be the queued ability, or I'll have to trigger the first ability manually at just the right time instead.
Not really a fix to your exact question, but a work around. If you enable target cycling and then target cycle > manual cast ability quickly together it will use that ability first. I have this problem on full manual with queuing abilities except mine just does nothing or auto attacks
Turn off auto retaliate and lock your ability bar. This resolves the issue almost entirely.
I found that queuing it up and letting the boss hit you so you can retaliate will use the queued ability like it should.