Skills Refusing to Fire

JamuThatsWho

This is an issue I've only come across in Southern Elsweyr delves since the last patch, but sometimes my skills just flat-out refuse to cast.

My character does a jerky sort of half-animation then stops. Anyone else come across this? It might have something to do with elevation, but I'm not sure.

JanTanhide

Yep. Game was not fixed. Running dungeons in Vet last night we had this exact issue.

JamuThatsWho

JanTanhide wrote: »

Yep. Game was not fixed. Running dungeons in Vet last night we had this exact issue.

I didn't even realise it was happening until I died.

Prrasha

JamuThatsWho wrote: »

This is an issue I've only come across in Southern Elsweyr delves since the last patch, but sometimes my skills just flat-out refuse to cast.

My character does a jerky sort of half-animation then stops. Anyone else come across this? It might have something to do with elevation, but I'm not sure.

I've had it in delves, I've had it in dragon fights (so not in delves), even on fairly flat ground (the "central" landing spot for the southern South Elsweyr dragon, with the fairly-smooth tile floor).

And not just attacks; even "smart heals" like Healing Ward, which should just target me if the game thinks I have no line-of-sight to anyone else... the flinch-and-no-cast.

PTTE

same here

daemonios

Southern Elsweyr delves have something that isn't skill lag. It's something different. Some of the enemies there, especially in Moonlight Cove (in fact, I don't remember if this happens at all in the other delve), have some sort of invincibility frames where they can't be targeted by skills. It's absurdly annoying. It's not like they're getting a damage shield, you literally can't make a targeted skill go off at them for a couple of seconds.

Kagukan

I mostly just play Cyrodiil lately and it is horrible there at times. Nothing for 5, 10, 15 seconds and all of a sudden everything fires off at once. Ridiculous!

Katahdin

It's everywhere and it sucks

mav1234

the behavior you're describing - skills half firing - occurs everywhere in the game. pvp, pve. fun stuff.

only way I've gotten out of it so far is to haplessly switch bars and mash keys until something works.

Lixiviant

Same here. Only way I can get sorta around it is to switch bars and hope something happens.

KappaKid83

This is really bad timing for ZOS and Bethesda to have their bread winner title be experiencing what is quite possibly their worst performance with the largest number of concurrent players. It has to be somewhat embarrassing to keep releasing "fixes" that are far from "fixes" and more so are further hinderances.

furiouslog

Had this is multiple trials and dungeons in the past two days, on different toons. It happened for an entire party in WC2, when we tries to kill a skeleton and nothing was firing for anybody. Also happened for me in SS, WGT, and AS.

Scion_of_Yggdrasil

PS4: I get this even just while farming mats sometimes. Its all around, but come and go for me usually. PvP is definitely the worst, and dungeons get a little skippy when theres a big horde.

SHANKS_63

Same thing happened to me. It almost seemed like I was disconnecting, but then realized all of the overland mobs were still attacking as usual. After several bar swaps, skills started firing again. It was very annoying.

Skullderic

Katahdin wrote: »

It's everywhere and it sucks

Yes, Yes it is.

Its like youre frozen in time, cant cast any skills for 2-4 sec. its everywhere in the game.

Its like some skill get cross w/ each 0ther & freezes up.

A dodge roll can fix it sometimes, odd.

Granicus

Yep, still an issue and no word from ZOS on fixing it. I think it’s actually a side effect symptom of changes they made to ‘improve performance’.

You want better perceived performance, well so what if you die a lot more often because your skills fail. It must be your add ons ... /s Just my guess.

madman65

I have noticed the targeting has been alot of my problems. I can be standing in front of a target and simply trying to Light attack it, my player won`t even swing.

bri5

madman65 wrote: »

I have noticed the targeting has been alot of my problems. I can be standing in front of a target and simply trying to Light attack it, my player won`t even swing.

fbours

KappaKid83 wrote: »

This is really bad timing for ZOS and Bethesda to have their bread winner title be experiencing what is quite possibly their worst performance with the largest number of concurrent players. It has to be somewhat embarrassing to keep releasing "fixes" that are far from "fixes" and more so are further hinderances.

The latest DLC was all about performance improvements. Imagine that you use resources to fix something only to make it way way worse, I mean way worse than before.

To top it all off, no communication.

MasterSpatula

There's a bug I've encountered a lot as of the last update where abilities, looting, and summoning horse stop working. It's a lot like being stuck in a Heavy Attack. But the fix for this one is just a weapon swap.

And then, there's just the dramatic delays in abilities, also a big "feature" of the latest update.

doomette

daemonios wrote: »

Southern Elsweyr delves have something that isn't skill lag. It's something different. Some of the enemies there, especially in Moonlight Cove (in fact, I don't remember if this happens at all in the other delve), have some sort of invincibility frames where they can't be targeted by skills. It's absurdly annoying. It's not like they're getting a damage shield, you literally can't make a targeted skill go off at them for a couple of seconds.

Maybe it’s both, but I definitely noticed my spammable not going off even though 1) I was definitely close enough and 2) I was not targeting the NPCs you’re talking about (I’m aware of those too, but it’s not just them). Specifically in Moonlit Cove. I haven’t had issues with my skills refusing to fire that badly outside of there.

Tigertron

Last night I thought I do some pickpocketing. Hit my BoW hot key and my toon just sat there. Mashed it more. Started thinking my key was broken and then bam! It fired. Had to be at least 3 or more second delay.

So I gave up on that idea.

It's not annoying or frustrating, is just stupid. At this point I think tetris is more fun.