Error 318 - You have been dropped from the server because you hit the message rate limit.

Elder_Martin · November 2016

Why does this happen? I don't even understand this error because I haven't send a single message.

Iselin · November 2016

There are some addons that can cause this. Why addons are interpreted as messages I have no idea but I've been told to "slow down" (lol) several times when I've used one of mine called "Swaps" to change my weapon bars when going from healing to DPS in dungeons or solo outside a few times.

Elder_Martin · November 2016

Iselin wrote: »

There are some addons that can cause this. Why addons are interpreted as messages I have no idea but I've been told to "slow down" (lol) several times when I've used one of mine called "Swaps" to change my weapon bars when going from healing to DPS in dungeons or solo outside a few times.

Just saw this response. It's Xbox. I could understand PC giving me that error, but Xbox?

goggs25 · November 2016

i have not had this problem yet but my friend was in the middle of creating a customer support ticket from in game when it popped up for him.

lolo_01b16_ESO · November 2016

Message in this case means any information that has to be sent from the client to the server. So if you have connection issues and spam some buttons, it can happen, that your client queues up a lot of commands and then sends them to the server all at once, which causes the kick.
The addons some others mentioned can let this occure more often as they send many tasks in a short time, but you can also hit that limit without addons.