Ground Target Abilities and Their Functionality in Lag

Zheg

While the performance work is appreciated (if albeit much slower than we'd all like), as you work to make changes to skills and calculations to reduce the strain on the servers, can you also work to increase the reliability of ground targeted abilities in poor performing battles? Templars would like to be able to get shards to land (particularly since you made it our only CC that can go through block), DKs would like to drop eruption/cinder storm, sorcs would like to drop the new morph of their mines, NB would like to ... well, who cares, all of their abilities work.

These skills likely work fine for you on your test servers, and they work fine on Live when there's no lag, but when performance takes a nose dive, most knowledgeable players just stop using these skills because they won't land.

Robbmrp

I tested the PTS with the ground target turned off so that I didn't have to place the circle anywhere, just cast the spell. Hopefully everyone will be doing this same thing once it goes live as it can help reduce signals to the server. The spells cast exactly where your mouse is looking so no double "clicking" for shards or grand healing. Anything that they can do to reduce signals to the server can help out for sure.

Zheg

Yeah, I know they added that feature, but the problems with these skills always emerged in lag, and that's not something they can reproduce well on PTS or their test servers. I really do hope this fixes the issue I'm talking about, but optimism isn't something I do with ESO any more.

I just want these skills to go off as reliably as steel tornado, impulse, or any other pbaoe.

Robbmrp

Zheg wrote: »

Yeah, I know they added that feature, but the problems with these skills always emerged in lag, and that's not something they can reproduce well on PTS or their test servers. I really do hope this fixes the issue I'm talking about, but optimism isn't something I do with ESO any more.

I just want these skills to go off as reliably as steel tornado, impulse, or any other pbaoe.

For sure. Nothings more frustrating than casting a spell that never actually casts.