Anyone facing an issue with skills not triggering?

Hygiliack · August 30

Happened to me a bit in the past few weeks, then stopped, and now it started happening again.
I have not opened a ticke tbecause I want to know if this is only me

What happens is at some point during a fight, I will click(PC) 1,2,3,4,5 and nothing happens, if I swap bars the other bar works, but not the one I had when this happened first, then after a few minutes it works again, IDK if it is after a fight is over, or after some time, and it reocurs a few times a day.

Destai · August 30

It’s been a problem for me since Greymoor, tbh. There’s periods where it’s very frequent, others where it’s not. But it never fully goes away.

YandereGirlfriend · August 30

Yes, it's a huge thing in this patch with loads of people reporting it.

There's also massive issues with taunt and blocking randomly dropping.

ApoAlaia · August 30

I have experienced this as well.

It also seemed to be more frequent after being staggered. It was a royal PITA in Lep Seclusa where everything is a stagger.

Fortunately it didn't take minutes to recover, just a few seconds. Unfortunately when you are pushing for trifecta a few seconds of skills not firing feel like an eternity.

frogthroat · August 31

Yes, since U47 sometimes skills just don't fire. My system (client) does register them because my timers start running, but the game (server) doesn't because nothing happens - no animation, no damage, no nothing.

LPapirius · August 31

Skills not firing off in ESO. Surely you jest. /s

DoofusMax · August 31

LPapirius wrote: »

Skills not firing off in ESO. Surely you jest. /s

And don't call me Shirley. (it had to be said)

Thumbless_Bot · August 31

frogthroat wrote: »

Yes, since U47 sometimes skills just don't fire. My system (client) does register them because my timers start running, but the game (server) doesn't because nothing happens - no animation, no damage, no nothing.

Yaaaaaaas. Been like this since 47. They arent acknowledging it, which likely means they did something without telling us or letting us test it on pts and were hoping no one would notice. They probably convinced whatever change governance board they have that it was a backend thing with no user impact, even though it wasn't and did.

A lot of changes in a SAAS platform get conveniently filed under this sort of category because devs dont think people need to test certain things or, more likely, they dont want us to. It just removes the hassle.

And now they are cloistered away trying to solve it without acknowleding it or reverting the change because, exactly what we need is for them to change something else without testing it to trying and address this and then break that. It's why the game is where it is.

This is my opinion and I could be wrong, but I highly doubt it. We'll likely see some obscure reference to them addressing 'skills not firing' or something like this in a few dev/release cycles... maybe.

Vonnegut2506 · August 31

The game has always had skills misfire for as long as I have been playing (day 1). It has gotten much worse in the last year, and that, coupled with the heavy attack bug, makes combat feel more like random clicking to see what goes off on any given day.

madman65 · August 31

I was in a group going through Lep Seclusa as a healer and my single target heal stopped working. I have been posting for years about this problem but no one has fixed or even addressed this issue. There are other topics that are of the same issue. This is just another that will be ignored.

silky_soft · August 31

Happens all the time. You can nearly count on 4/5 melee heavy attacks not working. One that is also pretty constant is dual wield ultimate or drain power or cloak from nb.

I've just got used to it failing and it's now part of the game. Sort of an rng mechanic that I just blame on akamai and my aussie ping instead of just bad design.

Unholy_Holywarrior · September 1

i have to repeatedly do break frees because i dont know if its pings not registering, or if its that many stacking stuns that drains my stam bar

all the 'server upgrades' they do are likely reducing their capability, seeing how in the chain of ownership, microshaft has put everything into 'cutback mode' trying to reduce costs while raising prices, it wouldnt surprise me to find out they are reducing servers...

duagloth · September 1

What year is it? It's been going on for way too long

skyrimfantasy · September 1

Yep, between that and the other bugs in Graven Deep (vet) we gave up before finishing today. Ping looked fine, skills just didn't go off or were unusable when there was no reason for them to be blocked.

ADarklore · September 1

Perhaps they aren't acknowledging the problem because they don't know how to fix it. Typically they announce a problem to be addressed AFTER they have a clear idea of how to fix it.

Asdara · September 1

This week more than ever, happens daily

Elsonso · September 1

ADarklore wrote: »

Perhaps they aren't acknowledging the problem because they don't know how to fix it. Typically they announce a problem to be addressed AFTER they have a clear idea of how to fix it.

I am sensing that they're maybe a little over committed. Maybe they need to take a break and just sit down and figure out how to fix things for a couple or three years.

blktauna · September 1

Skill delay is just becoming impossible. I don't mind so much on my levelled toons but when levelling I don't have the resistance buffer to eat the incoming damage when my pots or heals don't go off

Al_Ex_Andre · September 2

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

Yes, it's a huge thing in this patch with loads of people reporting it.

There's also massive issues with taunt and blocking randomly dropping.

That's probably why I got stomped by this minotaur marauder in Infinite Archive recently, where it should have been kept taunted all the way thru^^ (because I reapplied the taunt from my follower all the way thru, even if she does it herself)

Gothmaug I know it hardly can be taunted, didn't know about the new marauders, but this^ may explain.

moderatelyfatman · September 2

Combine this with high ping and ranged taunting stops being a thing for tanks in trials.

Gabriel_H · September 2

Skills not firing has always been a problem, especially for those with high ping, BUT since the last update it is getting way out of hand for everyone. I typically run less than a 100ms ping in a Trial, I do not expect to have to press taunt 3 times in a row to get it to fire, but here we are.

Some content is starting to become unplayable because of this, ZOS. You designed content that requires precise timing and that timing is now random.

PurpleScroll · September 2

I have been bothered with this bug for at least two years, but the last big update made it far worse, even though my ping hangs around 50ms on average and my frame rate is a constant 75.

The game itself knows I've pressed the key for the skill as I can see the icon being depressed, but the server just goes 'nope'.

Mathius_Mordred · September 2

Desynchronisation (desync) has always been an issue in ESO, but it has recently become worse. Audio desync is also much worse than it used to be. I especially notice it on werewolf; howling in combat often makes no sound until one second later. Also, when parsing, I'm doing well, getting close to a good score, and then my character just stands there because the button I pressed did not register, and the parse is ruined. My ping is around 60-80 ms.

ArgoCye · September 2

Yep happened to me today in vet BGF - fun!

Ardriel · September 2

I've been experiencing this for about 5 years. It doesn't just affect skills, but all actions such as mounting: the whistle sounds, but no mount appears. Or drinking a potion: the sound for the potion is played, but no potion is consumed. Having to press E multiple times before activating something like doors. This often happens with ultimates too: the typical ultimate sound plays, but the ability isn't fired. I've also had it happen that I wanted to fire the war horn and the sound played, but nothing happened. After the bar swap, however the ltimate on the back bar (barrier) was fired. Really weird and very annoying when blocking wont work as a tank.
Having to press skills two or three times before they activate is almost routine for me. It's not always equally bad. Some days it's really bad, other days everything works fine.

MincMincMinc · September 2

Yeah ive had a similar issue since like 2014-2015 in pvp.....still no idea what it is.

Giraffon · September 2

I've noticed it being more of an issue recently. Even bar swapping is hit or miss especially during times when you need it most which is when there is a lot of PvP activity in a small area.

BXR_Lonestar · September 2

This is common, especially in PVP IMO. The behavior of the game seems to be a little weird sometimes. Sometimes your skills just won't fire, even there appears to be no lag occurring, and then other times, they won't fire, and its as if every button press you made before that moment ques up that skill, because then all of a sudden a bunch of stuff will fire when you didn't cast those skills. It's a particular pain point, especially with your ult because if you have a sequence where you hit lb and then rb, or rb and then lb, it will sometimes use your ult as if you hit them both together.

Just one of my many complaints about this game's combat system though. IMO, this is game is 9.8/10 with a combat system I would rate as 5.5 or no higher than 6/10.

Aylish · September 2

I always had such issues here and there but they were getting worse since U47.

YandereGirlfriend · September 2

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

Desynchronisation (desync) has always been an issue in ESO, but it has recently become worse. Audio desync is also much worse than it used to be. I especially notice it on werewolf; howling in combat often makes no sound until one second later. Also, when parsing, I'm doing well, getting close to a good score, and then my character just stands there because the button I pressed did not register, and the parse is ruined. My ping is around 60-80 ms.

Yeah the lag and eaten inputs when parsing it so inexcusable and bizarre.

Like, it's JUST ME in this room and the game somehow cannot manage that?!

Rkindaleft · 2:29AM

There's also the bug where your character gets stuck frozen in the attack animation when you use channeled abilities or heavy attack. I don't know how many times I've used Snipe or jabs in a rotation where my toon has ended up freezing in the animation meaning I have to roll dodge/block in order to to be able to do anything.

I had a similar thing happen like 2 days ago where my character was frozen in the blocking animation but could still attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZf5bQtvwkI