I have the same problem and I am in NA connecting to NA. It seems kind of random and I kind of assumed it was my razer naga mouse bugging out, but sometimes I will have to hit an ability 3-4 times before it works even if I'm not chaining abilities back to back.

I have the same issue, playing in the UK on the EU server.

The number of times I have died while mashing buttons and waiting for a response is too high.

If ZOS could at least acknowledge that the EU server lag is an issue that they are working to resolve (along with an ETA), it would go some way to lessening frustration and preventing people like me from unsubbing.

I'm mostly have issues with doing a heavy attack with the Resto staff and it not responding. Almost asthough the animation isn't going through, and when you release the mouse button it takes a few attempts for it to reregister and doing the heavy attack.

Clumsiness of combat is my biggest turn off with this game atm. I've noticed that it is specifically bad with bow with abilities not going off/problems with weapon swap. After playing Wildstar beta this weekend and seeing how amazing fluid/responsive combat feels I'm turned off by ESO even more. Its a shame cause I love everything else about the game but might move on to Wildstar cause of the above mentioned reason.

I've had this issue happen a lot as well. It seems to happen mostly in dungeons and PvP. Charged bow attack will be completely charged, but then i will have to click several times for it to fire, also the regular attack wont register sometimes and then a few seconds later it'll attack 2 or 3 times like its finally caught up. Can be quite annoying.

Yes, I have the same problem and it's very annoying..... I am very disappointed because Zenimax don't say nothing about this.

This is looking bad guys. I doubt they will ever be able to fix it. I can smell leftovers of the Hero engine everytime ESO act like this.

/sign
playing from west eu with huge ping also makes input lag more terrible, especially in cirodiil...

we need ETA on physical server move to eu

In PvP im not even swapping weapons anymore it just gets me killed...

This is a problem for like 90% of the people from what I'm gathering ingame, youtube and forums. I also have the same issues, I'm in EU. Atm i'm using bow, for the past week, and it's reaaaaaally frustrating I might add. Often times my skills are not responding, or the delay on them is so huge, or sometimes double casted, wasting my stamina for no reason etc. Very unpleasant. Specially in big groups and fights sometimes I need like 2-3-4 seconds for magnum shot to cast on a monster that is In my face, can't talk about targeting problems there. Many other skills suffer from this also, like... casting invisibility. Mashing the button few times untill it actually happens, meanwhile my character is sitting there taking hits. Not to mention all the bugs related to the skill itself, like monster keep following you even when you are invis, or game not rendering me invisible but I actually am, good that I have an addod that shows active buffs, otherwise you cannot tell if the skill casted or not. It's sad to have more info on what's happening using user made mods, then the actual game.

One other major issue with the bow is the light and heavy attacks. It's so different then the melee weapons. There atleast you can mash the keys and the attacks will still happen at max sequance. With the bow, when the game decided to be excesivelly unresponsive I have few seconds of delay between attacks even though I'm mashing the keys. Sometimes it's ok-ish, sometimes not. For example I need like 3-4 light attacks to kill a mob, which takes me let's say 10sec. Sometimes those attacks take 15 seconds. Same damage, same setup, same everything but it's just unresponsive.

Annoying indeed, what if the problem is not strictly the game engine or their server performance?
I am more keen to think the issue is simply tide up to the global internet connections around the world. In other words the game is perfect as it is but it is thought to be played within a more "solid" and up to date internet broadband connections.
All these related "delay" on execution features seems to me are more a lack of communications between server and client, i understand they might optimize the code in order to have less "load" but that would be a different game. Game such as this one are engineered several years in advance, and most of the actual features are "thought" to be in line and up to date with an evergrowing data transfer capabilities. it s a guess most of the time. Nonetheless, i find my game experience frustrating when pvp is the matter, i do not like it and i wish it will soon change, either that or i will be forced to play a different title

Yep, I'm seeing this as well. This is especially frustrating when I want to use several consecutive high cost abilities - I attempt to use the first one... nothing - I press it again, still nothing for 2-3 seconds... then all activate in the same 500-1500ms, boom - out of resources. I'm to the point of customizing my combat bar around it - Heavy hitting abilities and toggles only, situational abilities with instant cast times only get me squished.

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I think some people might be confusing animation locking with button lag. If your character is mid animation (e.g. is winding up before it hits the target) you can't make anything else happen such as a weapon swap. So if you're busy click spamming for light attacks it feels like 50% of the time you can't weapon swap. Easy way to replicate it is with a fire staff: start to charge a heavy attack let go and click ~ for swap. If you click before you see the fireballs flying off the staff, you won't successfully swap. As soon as the balls are in the air, you can successfully swap. Same goes for every single weapon/power; until your characters animation is past a certain point, you can't give any other successful input to the game (use another power, swap weapons, etc.). It's clunky feeling for sure, you hit the button, again, again, again, it does it twice, etc...

Not saying there isn't interface lag for some people; just that some people are confusing interface lag with animation locking.

I agree entirely that this could be happening in some situations. Having several abilities go off one after another, in a shorter time then it takes the animation, however... sucks. It feels and looks laggy, when i have as little as 70 ping. My guess is that there is a lag-compensation internal ability que that isn't very well optimized.