Guild Wars 2

For some reason I’m just not able to queue up my skills quickly enough. For example, if I want to lay down two wells and tainted shackles, I should be able to do all of these in under 1 second:

1. Well of suffering: 1/4 sec
2. Well of corruption: 1/4 sec
3. Tainted shackes: 1/4 sec

I should be able to execute this combo in less in a second.

Yet if I try and do it after landing dark pact which immobilizes for 3 seconds, I find that the immob has already run out by the time these three skills have finished activating.

1/4 of a second is a really really short time. It’s as good as instant. My reaction times are way less than that, so these skills should be executed almost as fast as I can think.

Yet, it doesn’t work that way. Any thoughts?

Also, do ping rates impact this? My ping rate is 340 ms.

340 ms ping FeelsBadMan

After-cast delay is one of the worst things about this game’s mechanics.

Ristillath.6745:

340 ms ping FeelsBadMan

Will that have an impact on the speed of skill chaining?

Skills have a cast time, AND an after cast delay that prevents further actions. This delay isn’t clearly documented though.

Aftercast of certain skills is the key here. A lot of skills have it and you have to become familiar with which skills can chain directly without the aftercast effect.