Guild Wars 2

Really frustrating mechanic -

You cast something like, idk, updraft. At the same time, your target casts something like shield of absorption, or a daze, or a kd, or some other disable and – thanks to latency or whatever – their instant goes off before your instant. After you come out of the disable, the updraft (or whatever other skill you were trying to use) goes off and obviously whiffs since your target is no longer in range, wasting the cooldown.

This might sound like a when the stars align scenario, but it actually happens pretty kittening often in practice.

Can you (ArenaNet) either -

1. Make it so that a player’s skill queue clears out completely whenever they get interrupted by anything.

or -

2. Give us a slider to adjust the queue latency.

or -

3. Give us a toggle to disable the skill queue altogether.

Or all of the above, idk.

Thanks.

Yep. I totally agree. A slider would be fantastic.

I’ve had this happen to me in matches several times. I like all three options, especially #1. You will never want to use the same skill after you get launched as you wanted to use before you got launched.

Yes please look into this. This is easily one of the most frustrating features of combat in GW2.

It’s ridiculous for a skill you pressed before being disabled, sometimes for several seconds, to go off when the disable ends.

Any or all of Noctred’s suggestions would alleviate this issue almost entirely.

Think about thieves. For this skill queue thieves burn their initiative totally if they use two times in a row a skill that use 5 ini.

We need to destroy this queue on skilll. Is useless.

The funniest is when I get immobilised for an extended period (or mabe stunned idk) then come out of it and my character moves in some weird direction, often backwards due to the ability queue. Took me a while to realise it was the queue, never had this happen in another game… It is a bit disconcerting not having control of characterl ike that

Aside from this, abilities queueing way too early and getting locked in, basically as Op describes.