Rev Rielle wrote: »

I always thought it was just the inherent latency I experienced (playing from Australia). What I generally experience is getting the 'death' screen (goes all grey and UI disappears) but still being able to move my character about for a few seconds before they fall down and die. Usually happens in situations where you've clearly dodged a dangerous attack or the like, but the game still recorded your character as being hit, and then dieing from it belatedly. I just put it down to playing a reactive combat style game, online.

I thought the same thing too in the beginning when only one of my gpu was running and the other sat idle, when SLI kicked in they were still doing it. I then watched carefully on how the game handles damage, heals, and absorption effects. Melee attacks are set on a delay so they hit when the animation plays, charge down a line is 1-2 meters ahead of where they are at, and dodging moves are applied before the target plays the animation such as when they jump over you. Heals are set on a delay after casting, there doesn't appear to be a uniform standard, normally its hard to noticed; however, when they increased the animation time for Rushed Ceremony / Breath of Life, it really shows the delay effect, animation play time is cosmetic.

Range attacks fall in two categories the normal non-charging is on the same delay as melee with the damage applying a little after the animation starts playing but still before it actually lands on you; while charged up ranged attacks like the blade toss you have to enable block before it finishes casting as damage is applied immediately as they finish casting and is already applied to your health pre-struck, you already got hit it just doesn't show it until the animation connects no matter what heals or protection you set up.

On another related topic this is also very annoying when performing certain attacks like Crescent Sweep where if one mob has dodged the attack then all mobs in range also get the applied dodge effect. I once had 4 mobs all dodge my Crescent Sweep, thought there was a built in miss factor but later found out its Dodge mechanics applying to all or none when dealing with AoE.