Frequent skill/ability lag for the last couple of days.

ThePlacidHatter

For the last couple of days, I've been having frequent problems with skills just not activating or doing anything.

Most noticeably has been when trying to parse on my dummy. I'll swap to back bar to put down arrow barrage and half the time it doesn't to anything. The yellow ground place circle will activate, do indicate that the skill has been placed but nothing happens. My guy just stands there.

This has also been happening in dungeons and Battlegrounds.

I have a continuous ping running against an external address showing little to no fluctuations so I don't believe it is at my end.

WhyMustItBe

Same issue has been happening to me for the past few days as well. A couple times I have even had the freeze, then hyper speed catchup thing happen, only with a steady normal ping. A couple times there was a ~1 second lag in abilities firing, and a couple there was a hard freeze for ~1-2 seconds that seemed like a crash only it then went back to normal.

My ping during all this has been 80-110ms. I think there are just a lot of people playing and the servers are getting crunched in prime time in PVE now like they often do in PVP.

Thannazzar

I had this too, disappeared when I turned on multi-threading.

Kel

Dizzy swing is almost unusable.
With a player right in front of me, half the time it canceled itself out, for no reason.
I just don't understand

tomfant

Same here, mines and other ground abilities sometimes take forever on my magsorc. Multithreading is on.

KMarble

I wonder if what you guys experienced is related to what happened to me last weekend. I ran the 3 Craglorn trials with some guildies, and the moment we engaged combat in HRC I noticed that I couldn't change bars nor use any skill.

By the time the group split for the next fight I tried the /reloadui command, but it was like the server didn't receive the command. After trying a few times to reload I eventually let a gargoyle kill me in hopes it would fix my problem. It did not. The game froze as I was reloading and I had to force quit and restart.

The problem continued in AA and SO. Although in those I could, at the very beginning of some fights, swap bars once or twice and do one rotation, then it was back to light attacking with nothing else.

The oddest thing was that after each fight, I'd see the commands I tried to input - things like swap bars, skills etc - go off about a second or two after the battle had ended. At some point I noticed that my health, mag and stam bars weren't showing up during some encounters.

Mouse and keyboard worked perfectly fine before, between fights and after. My computer is hooked up with an Ethernet cable. From the conversation during the runs and the fact that I could dodge attacks, I don't think I was desynced from the rest of the group. The animation was working fine with no stuttering.

I've ran these trials before but never had anything like this happen. Before I updated my graphic's card I ran SO and had to lower resolution because it looked like a slideshow. In fact, I was worried about what would happen in SO last weekend, but HRC was the one where the problems were worse.

I have an older computer and multi threading is on.

Scraps

I've noticed some really weird lag lately, but mostly when I'm unlocking chests. I've got multi-threading on, but I haven't tested it yet to see if it's the culprit. I haven't noticed the lag as much with skills triggering.

ThePlacidHatter

I've had multithreading on since it was introduced but I've only started to notice this issue in the last two or three days.

WhyMustItBe

ThePlacidHatter wrote: »

I've had multithreading on since it was introduced but I've only started to notice this issue in the last two or three days.

Same. The problem goes away when it gets late, like past 11pm PST, which makes it seem like server load at least to me.

oldbobdude

I have seen this too. Bar swap fails, skills don't fire. Just the last couple days. Reloadui took about 5 or do seconds but did help temporarily. Just normal pledge type activity.

Supreme_Atromancer

Yep, and its with ground-based abilities. So far seen it with resto and bow ground targeteds.

I know it happened with liquid lightning a while ago when they seemed to have changed the time between casting it and the spell going off, so if you were used to how it used to be, you would often have to relearn the timing or inadvertantly cancel it out. In fact, there seems to be all sorts of weird crap happening with skills having different cancel thresholds for me.

peacenote

I have been having issues since the patch - notably with barrier. Sometimes I have to hit it 3 or 4 times to get it to fire. It's a weird thing. I play on multiple computers. One has multi-threading turned on and the others don't, but barrier consistently has been "not always working" across all the machines.

Jameson18

WhyMustItBe wrote: »

Same. The problem goes away when it gets late, like past 11pm PST, which makes it seem like server load at least to me.

Pretty much.

MEBengalsFan2001

I wonder if the Dark Convergance set used in PVP is impacting server to the point that players in PVE content can't play the game as designed.

Adremal

Same issue in both overland, dungeons, cyro and imperial city. Comes and goes. Multithreading is on, average ping in other MMOs is 5-15ms, 1-3ms in speedtests, 2500/500 FTTH. I don't think it's load-related because the issue is there in the morning and late at night too.