Guild Wars 2

I’ve had this problem for some time but particularly since the Tower of Nightmares patch. I am in a fight, ooh 1/3rd health left, hit 6 and the heal goes 1/2 way then cancels. I didnt dodge, I didnt move back, it just cancels!

Am I alone here?

Oh, also all my contacts and guilds rosters are totally blank. Since I am in TTS, which is, I believe full, I don’t think for a moment that everyone left except me… <.< >.> >.<

Yes, I thought it was just me but it honestly feels like every time unless I’m standing stock still when I cast, more often than not it’ll cancel. I never paid it much attention till I read your post. I always just silently cursed myself for messing up using the skill somehow. On saying that though it doesn’t happen with any of my other skills so probably not my fault after all. I owe myself an apology :P

My guild roster was also empty about 1 hour ago (it was at 1/250 members online) and there were other guildies on. One pm’d saying the party function was broken too and wanted to test it. I got the invite but when I clicked accept nothing happened although the game said I was in a party. Might be a Euro’s on US servers thing.

I’ve seen this problem too. Also, sometimes the skill activation will delay by a second or two, which can easily mean certain death.

I’ve seen it too, but I chalked it up to the amount of Knockdown and knockback that’s in there.

Never investigated further.

Can’t any skill be interrupted by various means and often be put on a tiny cooldown before you can activate the skill again?

Happens to me all the time in PvP and WvW…

Also, skills are queued, so if you have any lag there will be a delay of somekind or skill won’t activate at all. Honestly, no word of a lie, I have pressed my heal skill 30 times in 30 secs in WvW and it never triggers once due to extreme lag…

Dude, nothing angers me more than when I’m almost dead, I hit my heal, literally see my health fill, I have a split second of relief, then bam downed. This happens to me on a daily basis and I die a little inside each time it happens. An obvious solution for me would be to heal sooner, but I like to live on the edge. No joke though, I see my heal land and heal me but it doesn’t seem to take. Only happens when I’m really close to death and my heal would be making it in the nick of time.

Draknar.5748:

Dude, nothing angers me more than when I’m almost dead, I hit my heal, literally see my health fill, I have a split second of relief, then bam downed. This happens to me on a daily basis and I die a little inside each time it happens. An obvious solution for me would be to heal sooner, but I like to live on the edge. No joke though, I see my heal land and heal me but it doesn’t seem to take. Only happens when I’m really close to death and my heal would be making it in the nick of time.

That’s the thing: ‘in the nick of time’. I think the problem was to do with latency. Ive had similar things with heals and blinds… hell even a dodge, i once got downed in the middle of a dodge animation and i didn’t have any conditions on me.

It’s still no reason to not live on the edge though

sinzer.4018:

It’s still no reason to not live on the edge though

Amen, brother. I will risk it every time.

I also thought this was just a skill interrupt thing, but I do find it infuriating when I hit my heal and it doesn’t work. Maybe ANet should look into it just to be sure there’s not a bug? Seems like it happens a lot. Apparently if anyone touches me, ever, I can’t heal.

I thought it was a problem with chilled causing heals to cancel, but it all happened so fast, it was hard to tell.

I suffer the most from this anomaly when I am playing my Guardian. Any movement with him and the heal will not fire and I have to wait a couple of seconds for it to reset so I can try again. With my mesmer it is not as prevalent while the other classes it seems like just once in awhile.

It’s a hell as a Guardian if you go with Shelter.

You can’t cancel your heal. If you press your heal, and cancel it, it will not heal, but it will go on cooldown anyway, because of the block it gives.

The number of technical issues this game is having recently is getting out of control.

So glad you asked this question! I’ve been playing my warrior in WvW today and kept having to come to a complete halt to heal myself. I thought at first that I was being interrupted, or that i’d done it to myself by having to dodge an attack….but it’s just the skill. Something is keeping it from working unless I stand still and press 6 (sometimes mash 6, even).

Hope this is getting fixed in the Nov 26 patch….or soon, anyway.

Off topic: anyone else having weird music glitches? As I zone from one area to the next, or as I walk along in open map areas, my music will suddenly change to the Log-In screen “GuildWars theme music”, or I’ll be walking in a city and suddenly get the “In Battle music”…what’s up with that?

Yes! I have experienced this as well. Glad to know it’s not just me.

Heh, this almost seems to be turning into a forum game. Someone describes a bug they’ve experienced. Someone else who has experienced that bug chimes in then gives a new bug they’ve experienced. It could go on for a while. :P

This sounds like a kittene to reproduce. I do periodically have issues with the game’s action queuing system. Excessive after cast dead time will put a block on any skills coming after them for a seemingly random amount of time. Very rarely, that second skill will act as if it was interrupted. The engineer’s Flame Turret toolbelt skill, Throw Napalm, is one skill I can pick out that did it enough to be noticeable.