Are abilities whose base cost is higher than your Maximum Mag prior to % buffs supposed to Flicker?

Avran_Sylt

Edit: Included a vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS2k7kqAauU&feature=youtu.be

Old Content:

I intend to use the Support Skill: Siege Shield I

It costs 9,261 Magicka
In this case, I'm in a non-CP Cyrodiil, playing a NB who at the moment has: 8778 Maximum Magicka

I slot siphoning strikes in order to increase my magicka by 8% to: 9441 (Siphoning: Magicka Flood 2/2)
I have to bar swap for the character sheet to be updated.

Once the bar character sheet (and I assume the chracter UI window) is updated, I can now cast the skill, but the icon begins to rapidly flicker

Is this intended behavior based on how you verify a skill is slotted? Or is this a Bug?
How are slotted skills checked to make sure they're slotted? Is it continually checking or is it done by update events to the ability bar, and this flickering is an unknown bug?

Sanctum74

When you switch bars your max magicka is increased, but you still will only have the same magic from the previous bar until you recover some magicka to fill the new higher magicka bar back up. Recovery is every 2 seconds so you have to wait before you can cast it on that bar.

Avran_Sylt

@Sanctum74

I get that.
The flickering occurs while I'm on the higher mag bar, on the other bar it's just grayed out as it should be since I don't have enough magicka.

What is happening is that the icon is rapidly flickering between greyed out and ready (strobe like), while I'm on the bar where I can cast it.

Edit: Added a vid to the main post.

Alanar

I've seen this as well, but hadn't realized it was the %increase buffs that determined when it flickered. Nice sleuthing.

wolfxspice

this has been around for awhile, it does the same thing to your ulti when you have the powerstone passive on a sorc when your in between how much you need and the original value, it does also it with akaviri dragonguard and Blessing of Potentates, they really need to fix this because it can cause issues for people who have sensitivity to this.