[cutelilmurderer]

Not true, move the mouse to yourself to cast on you. I do it often to go shopping with friends (charisma) or cure a whole group of people consecutively. The whole thing is especially accurate if you use hotkeys (as apposed to typing "/cast restoration" and then pressing attack) for faster casting and quick use of commonly used spells.

I have the first five keys bound as follows:
Keep in mind this is a shopping bind!
1.Armor (with cha -5) removal
2./cast charisma
3.Dagger of Fortune Equip
4.Cha +2 equip
5.Cha +2 equip

Since you can't cast indoors this is an instant way to boost up your CHA in order to get that special item. It allows for versatility without error margin. Like I said earlier mistakes are due to lack of exploration or practice. Sometimes with the old system I would "/cast charisma" and nothing would happen, meaning I probably just charmed someone or something else. I could drag it out of the menu but it's drastically slower and everyone around you can see the spell you are using that way. I know that the hotkeys have been greatly used these last few days because of it.

When the system came out, I took two friends and helped them with the trouble ("casting in weird directions" as they put it) they were having with the magic system. They praised it and told me how great it was in places like West Haunted House and beaches.
I took a small group of new players aside and asked them to cast using the old system and they complained about missing and even slow moving targets being frustrating. The system needs to stick, It's very useful to primary casters and would make a positive use of the underused "Brigid" altar.

A little "off key" here, I noticed that with a hotkey like LBullet assigned I could do quick melee turns in association with the mouses position when a weapon was equipped and a spell was not used. Made melee fights a little more interesting with multiple enemies.