Necromancer Combat Bugs PTS v5.0.2

TeIvanni

Stamina Necromancer is basically unplayable right now.

I ran into 3 glaring issues:

1. Caltrops would not register.
2. Endless hail would not register.
3. Blastbones becomes uncastable.

I'm not sure what happened between v5.0.1 and v5.0.2
But ground dots are simply not firing off as they should be.
This has always been an issue, but is significantly worse with necromancer.
Specifically caltrops is not registering at all.

I did several parses without any issues on Stamina Nightblade/Sorcerer both of which use Caltrops/Endless Hail.
Which leads me to believe this is a necromancer issue.

I think this is mainly because of the long necromancer animations.
These necromancer abilities are causing you to flail your arms around wildly.
And I think that the game is trying to "catch up" so to speak with your charcter's skill animations.
This leads to issues where your character is significantly twitchier, or just casts abilities without animations.
It causes skill weaving to be quite painful and the abilities (specifically ground dots) are likely to fail to cast.

Here is a video showing the issues:
https://youtu.be/mj3Gxhw3O6w

XiDiabolismiX

Oops, I actually posted a thread similar to this, and had I seen this first, I wouldn’t have.

It’s really bad right now. My raid group tried running Sunspire tonight and we had 3 stam and 1 tank necro, and the vast majority of our skills weren’t registering at all.

Even summon skeleton wasn’t working half the time. Completely unplayable.

ecru

I've been having the same issue with Boneyard on PTS since Necro went live. I don't know if it's the animation or something else, but I'm definitely having a problem where instead of the ground aoe being casted (with quick cast on), I just fire off a light attack. Doesn't seem to be related to lag because it happens during parses and in Sunspire.

wheem_ESO

I think at least some of this is related to the GCD issue I mentioned in the thread for reporting Necromancer bugs. Whenever a Necromancer pet expires "naturally" (which includes the Blastbones exploding on its target), it triggers a global cooldown, interrupting any other ability that's being cast. I thought this might have something to do with a corpse being generated, but I tested Bone Armor and didn't experience the same problem; it appears limited to the pets expiring (recasting before the duration runs out, which isn't possible for the Blastbones, doesn't trigger a GCD, whether or not a corpse is generated).

Ankael07

It has something to do with pets dying. Some skills become uncastable and I keep getting dismounted when my arcanist or ghost dies