PVP_attack_rate

stridefar

(broken_space-key).

I_just_died_in_PVP_combat,_which_happens_very_often._What_I_don't_understand_is_the_other_player_hit_me_in_less_than_one_second_5_times_with_three_different_attacks._How_is_this_possible_or_is_it_is_a_lag_issue?_I_detected_no_lag_at_the_time_or_at_other_times_this_happens._I_can_never_get_off_multiple_attacks_like_this_myself_ever.

Thanks.
Stridefar

Cagro

Animation cancelation I believe. I am still learning about it but in summary some players are very good casting a skill and before the animation finish they follow it by a light attack then another skill etc. Something like that but they can attack super fast.

Wing

I don't know what to tell you, some attacks to go off fast, but animation canceling is not as big as people make it out to be, as a Dev confirmed at the guild summit a while back that all skills and actions have an animation that does play and can only be interrupted so much, or it does not go off.

it would help if you posted a screen shot as you more then likely got hit with a glass cannon build timed just right, example:

Fire a snipe (long travel time)
charge a heavy attack (pretty fast)
venom arrow (very fast)

if timed right (hard to do on purpose due to range and the frantic nature of pvp) they will all land at about the same second. this kind of burst is being relied upon because of shield stacking, so people are trying to kill each other giving them the least amount of time possible to react and bubble up.

even some 2H builds don't use wrecking blow because it just takes too long and is easy to block, interrupt, dodge, or move around the person to get cancel the attack, and are replacing it with faster skills to lesson time to kill.

stridefar

Thanks._You_gave_me_a_number_of_ideas_to_ponder.

Stride