Bug report: Templar's Focused Charge / Explosive Charge / Toppling Charge

Naietz

I'm not sure how long this bug has been around and whether it's been reported before, but currently the Templar's Focused Charge and its morphs will sometimes get stuck with the charging animation after closing the gap.

The stuck animation prevents the character from doing practically anything except walking. The character disabling part of the bug ends after combat, and usually the light lance particle effect disappears too, but dying with the bug and immediately respawning had caused the light lance effect to stay on my character for several minutes.

I had found the bug most likely to occur when charging at an enemy at a different ground level and/or partly behind obstacles, though I cannot reliably duplicate it for the purposes of this submission. I wonder if it could also be caused by packet losses on the connection's part, although I don't think that would cause my character to be completely disabled until the end of combat.

This bug had existed since prior to the whole justice system patch as far as I know, so I am assuming it's been a long standing bug. Please do look into it as it is actually game-breakingly broken.

Also if any helpful soul knows of a way to un-disable my character before it dies or I manage to run so far to escape combat, please let me know.

Edit: Sorry, posted in the wrong section, moved to General Help.

BRogueNZ

Any feedback on this? Have reported in game as well.

A number of related posts and no response/s.

Isolated occurrences? Would like to know it its a bug or perhaps a latency issue.

SlayerTheDragon

I keep getting this. Drinking a potion breaks the animation, but it seems to want to get stuck after that again on the next charge. Also doing a light attack just before charging seems to help stop it from happening.

It is a bugger up though, you get stuck for 30 seconds and mostly end up dying.

Krysalan8415

No mention of a fix for this in the new patch notes despite /bug reporting

Gonna try the light attack you mentioned DonoVDV until they sort it...

neutrinoz

This is happening about every 5-10th charge executed. It's absolutely unacceptable and breaks the ability. Understand you're using the ability charging into a fight. So you rush in, get stuck, lose your element of surprise, and you get killed because you can only stand there for 30 secs while people beat on you. It's not a lag issue on my end. I have 100MB internet. Earlier released didn't have the problem.

regge5

I also have this bug. I made a ticket about it cuaze the bug report was unknown to me. They said i should repair my client etc and if it doesn't fix it i needed to make a bug report, i repaired few times withouth result. So i made a bug report.
Still waiting for a fix, meanwhile made up another rotation:/ quite frustrating.

Patrick831

Repair will do nothing. Starting the game as admin and running in compatibility mode will also do nothing. My guess is that the game code is the problem. I was told to put an in game bug report in for each character/skill that has the problem. For me it was toppling charge for my Templar and Ferocious Leap for my Dragon Knight.

Pyrocyborg

I necrothread this because this keep happening to me, especially when going fast (i.e. grinding and leaping or charging my way toward mobs). It might be because I'm weaving or going a bit too fast, I don't know.

It doesn't happen with standard charges (Critical Charge or Shield Charge), but only with "flying" charges like DK's Dragon Leap and Templar's Focused Charge. Seems like a pathing issue: if something is in the way (a tree, or even a slight slope), it might happen. Then, you "lag out" for 30 seconds or so, unable to do anything else.

This need to be adressed sometime in the future. Put someone on this and you'll be able to reproduce the bug quite easily as it happens few times every hour.

Supernovas

God bless, this has been a issue since the beginning of the game.

EQBallzz

Sorry to necro an old thread but how is this still a thing? This has existed since forever. I recently came back after a many month break and I'm still experiencing this on my Templar. Use explosive charge and then you can't use any abilities for about 10 seconds while mobs beat you down. I'm surprised this is the most recent thread I could find on it. Anyone know of any workaround type fix for this? Explosive charge is my only gap closer atm for my Templar but this is pretty awful to deal with.