server is borked. basically unplayable

Needs to be fixed ASAP if thats the case. That can't touch the live server.

Every single person I dueled was having these issues, myself included. Skills just not working a good 25% of the time, and not working full stop in certain scenarios. For example, the classic "Incap -> Merciless resolve" combo seems to not work full stop - every time I try to fire the bow proc immediately after the incap, I hear the audio queue and the skill just fails to fire.

Feels completely awful.

Yea, can barely parse due to it.

Perhaps we should tag @ZOS_Kevin so he can make sure the appropriate team hears about it.

I can confirm this as well. Did about 10-20 parses on a few different setups. Single target skills are the main issues.

It's almost like....there are consequences to just introducing 100,000 more combinations of skills and passives

i am glad i'm not the only one. the highest parse i was able to do was 108 which is pitiful compared to my normal 120+

This is the most worrying thing, I wonder if they will able to completely sort everything before it hits live, because not even the most awesome skill bar combo can make up for problems with casting skills.

Extra stuff to add - sometimes animation plays, but the skill did not fire. I can see Potl sword closing on a dummy, but my skill duration counter shows zero and then I recast it for real. Invalid sword still plays. This is extra annoying on NB, because you play the spec bow animation, arrow flies and plays impact sound, but stack counter go up and there is no hit registered.

@ZOS_Kevin

This is severely hampering combat. Some additional info from today's testing;

Bash weaving and block weaving cause this to happen at an extremely high rate. I was seeing more than 50% of my casts fail to fire when I would bash weave them (Light attack -> skill -> bash), and seeing similar failure rates when block weaving/cancelling (Light attack -> skill -> block). It isn't just when doing these things either, skills seem to just be failing to fire randomly.

I've never seen anything like this, this is by far the most combat-destroying issue I've ever seen on the PTS or live server in the history of the game. Really hope to see this acknowledged during week one, as if it goes live there is no point whatsoever in playing for a player like me.

Edit: Just want to add, if this is a result of some sort of animation change, you have to roll this back. It will cripple the combat completely.

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@ZOS_Kevin

This is severely hampering combat. Some additional info from today's testing;

Bash weaving and block weaving cause this to happen at an extremely high rate. I was seeing more than 50% of my casts fail to fire when I would bash weave them (Light attack -> skill -> bash), and seeing similar failure rates when block weaving/cancelling (Light attack -> skill -> block). It isn't just when doing these things either, skills seem to just be failing to fire randomly.

I've never seen anything like this, this is by far the most combat-destroying issue I've ever seen on the PTS or live server in the history of the game. Really hope to see this acknowledged during week one, as if it goes live there is no point whatsoever in playing for a player like me.

Edit: Just want to add, if this is a result of some sort of animation change, you have to roll this back. It will cripple the combat completely.

That was my hunch to be honest... they shadow changed animation... but i don't know that. I hope this is the case and, if so, they roll it back quickly. It's terrible. Also, more.desyncs lately too. Not sure if it's related.

Why haven't we gotten any acknowledgement that this is be9ng looked at? It's still happening on live a lot.

It's happening in pve, cyro and bgs for me. I

hit polar and the polar animation happens but no heal. Or it doesn't animate at all when I hit it three times.

Beetles too

Bird of Prey too

@ZOS_Kevin