Even one-button "rotations" failing.

krachall

Like a lot of players in both PVP and PVE, I've been experience multiple occasions where skills simply refuse to fire. It's mainly been ultimates for me (most noticeable in vMA...thanks ZOS).

I recently made a gear change on my stamblade and wanted to test my DPS on a dummy. I hadn't parsed since U25. I went to my own house were I was the only player. My FPS was pinned at 100 and my latency was 55-65. Things just didn't seem right. Weaving wasn't working well, my DPS was low, and things were just clunky.

So I systematically started removing skills. It turns out that my spammable, Surprise Attack was only firing once every 3 presses. Even sitting there hitting that one skill every one second wouldn't work. It would fire once, then the next 2-3 presses, the button would blink, indicating the client received the command but the skill wouldn't go off. I tried a different dummy in a different house and that fixed things for a bit but things quickly degraded again.

The game literally couldn't handle me activating 1 skill once per second. I'm not sure what the "performance upgrade" was supposed to do but this is a level of incompetence I've not seen in 20 years of online games.

Lintashi

Yes, I literally have 3 button rotation, and since Harrowstorm, when I press 1,2,3, I sometimes get only 1,3 or 2,3. I cannot even reliably fight overland bosses, because sometimes, heals just do not happen. Only thing left, that I can do without lags is fishing, house decoration, and finishing whatever overland quests I missed.

UrbanMonk

Lintashi wrote: »

Only thing left, that I can do without lags is fishing, house decoration, and finishing whatever overland quests I missed.

That's the True ENDGAME.

LadyDestiny

krachall wrote: »

Like a lot of players in both PVP and PVE, I've been experience multiple occasions where skills simply refuse to fire. It's mainly been ultimates for me (most noticeable in vMA...thanks ZOS).

I recently made a gear change on my stamblade and wanted to test my DPS on a dummy. I hadn't parsed since U25. I went to my own house were I was the only player. My FPS was pinned at 100 and my latency was 55-65. Things just didn't seem right. Weaving wasn't working well, my DPS was low, and things were just clunky.

So I systematically started removing skills. It turns out that my spammable, Surprise Attack was only firing once every 3 presses. Even sitting there hitting that one skill every one second wouldn't work. It would fire once, then the next 2-3 presses, the button would blink, indicating the client received the command but the skill wouldn't go off. I tried a different dummy in a different house and that fixed things for a bit but things quickly degraded again.

The game literally couldn't handle me activating 1 skill once per second. I'm not sure what the "performance upgrade" was supposed to do but this is a level of incompetence I've not seen in 20 years of online games.

Agreed. Been grinding a necromancer and having some real issues with blast bones and the explody skull not activating after the update. Constant presses and nothing happens. Also targeting feels really strange to me. It's almost like the hitbox has been made a lot smaller or something and even then you can be dead on targeting an enemy, but can't fire a skill. It's getting frustrating and makes classes lackluster feeling.