ZAP!! I'm dead...

Shantu

Ok, so my StamBlade is a little squishy compared to my beefed up, impenetrable heavy armor DK, and I need to be considerably more ingenious to stay alive. I get that. But can someone please explain to me how I can occasionally get blasted with a half dozen or so attacks in less than a half a second and meet up with instant death? I know there are some really good players, but no one can execute that many skills in an instant. So what's the deal here? Is this a lag issue where attacks are delayed then all unleashed at one time?

CatchMeTrolling

Can be lag. It’s times where I’m not visually lagging but the skills are and damage plus healing is registering late. You can usually noticed this by looking at your incoming damage and healing in a clip.

Slack

A sorc nerf would stop it

olsborg

Lagg

CyrusArya

Shantu wrote: »

But can someone please explain to me how I can occasionally get blasted with a half dozen or so attacks in less than a half a second and meet up with instant death?

By layered attacks and damage combos. The game only allows for one skill to be cast per cool down, but some attacks such as curse, power of the light, sub assault, etc are delayed damage and so can be cast and timed with other abilities to unleash burst combos. Then you have damage over time effects that can be applied to deal steady pressure on top of regular abilities.

Really the only solution is to get better at PvP. The initial learning curve is steep. With time and experience you'll be more aware of what cues to look out for and how to react to certain situations. I know it may seem like you are just blowing up out of nowhere and ppl are seemingly casting a dozen skills in a second (which is impossible) but eventually you'll better understand whats going on, why, and how to deal with it.

Crixus8000

Lag, dysnc bugs and animation canceling can do crazy things together.

I have 26k hp and 30k res in no cp, with full impen and extra impen from shield yet I have been killed instantly a few times from one player.

A few days ago I was walking past a resource and I dropped dead before I could even use block. Someone hit me with multiple snipes, a veli proc, an incap and I'm sure much more that wasn't on the recap and all before I could even react. No sound played, obviously no animations since it was instant, just no counterplay possible. It will happen in cyro with how buggy it is, especially if you play a squishier setup.

Shantu

CatchMeTrolling wrote: »

Can be lag. It’s times where I’m not visually lagging but the skills are and damage plus healing is registering late. You can usually noticed this by looking at your incoming damage and healing in a clip.

Yeah, I'm not visually lagging either at these times. Some kind of issue is definitely interfering with the skill execute and damage timing. When some ganker can pop 2 Lethal Arrows, 1 Poison Injection, and Ballista on you at one time, it's definitely a "Oh, give me a friggin' break!" moment.

LeifErickson

Lag or you are getting hit by delayed burst such as curse frag fury, deep breath inferno leap. Both of those combos happen in one global cooldown. Or a two global cooldown burst like shalk dawnbreaker executioner, dawnbreaker power of the light executioner etc etc.

technohic

Do you play with a wired or wireless connection OP? I've been running wireless and I think it really can play hell with this game sometimes. I'm about to drill some holes and pull a cable as my internet connection is faster than my WiFi connection to my router; and thats before you get into possibilities of interference and packet loss.

Kadoin

Shantu wrote: »

Ok, so my StamBlade is a little squishy compared to my beefed up, impenetrable heavy armor DK, and I need to be considerably more ingenious to stay alive. I get that. But can someone please explain to me how I can occasionally get blasted with a half dozen or so attacks in less than a half a second and meet up with instant death? I know there are some really good players, but no one can execute that many skills in an instant. So what's the deal here? Is this a lag issue where attacks are delayed then all unleashed at one time?

Once the server computes damage equivalent to your hp you are dead, even if wearing a damage shield from what I've seen. If you mean crushing shock and/or 2H sword light attack, I've seen both sometimes automatically hit more than one cast in the same instant and it wasn't lag. Pretty sure its a bug...but you know no one will report something like that.

Shantu

CyrusArya wrote: »

Shantu wrote: »

But can someone please explain to me how I can occasionally get blasted with a half dozen or so attacks in less than a half a second and meet up with instant death?

By layered attacks and damage combos. The game only allows for one skill to be cast per cool down, but some attacks such as curse, power of the light, sub assault, etc are delayed damage and so can be cast and timed with other abilities to unleash burst combos. Then you have damage over time effects that can be applied to deal steady pressure on top of regular abilities.

Really the only solution is to get better at PvP. The initial learning curve is steep. With time and experience you'll be more aware of what cues to look out for and how to react to certain situations. I know it may seem like you are just blowing up out of nowhere and ppl are seemingly casting a dozen skills in a second (which is impossible) but eventually you'll better understand whats going on, why, and how to deal with it.

I wouldn't argue that I have plenty of room to get better at PvP, but I don't think these are layered, delayed damage combos. I look pretty closely at what killed me when this happens and that's not what I see. When one guy hits me with 2 Lethal Arrows, a Poison Injection, and Ballista at the same time, something is buggy.

Waffennacht

Even 1 snipe desyncs other abilities

Lag

Burst damage

Bugs

Multiple opponents

Oh the possibilities

usmguy1234

Slack wrote: »

A sorc nerf would stop it

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Shantu

technohic wrote: »

Do you play with a wired or wireless connection OP? I've been running wireless and I think it really can play hell with this game sometimes. I'm about to drill some holes and pull a cable as my internet connection is faster than my WiFi connection to my router; and thats before you get into possibilities of interference and packet loss.

Nope. I run with an 80MB cable connection. But lag can be caused by a lot of things between your computer and the server. Then you're also dealing with any lag occurring in your opponents connection also.