Guild Wars 2

Hi,

if important: I’m on Desolation (EU)

I’m really enjoying WvW most of the time, until the following thing(s) start to kick in!

I (and I have heart of others) have quite often the problem that some skills don’t trigger when I activate them in WvW. I see the skill icon flashing for a second, but nothing happens, no matter how long I wait after that. It isn’t the same like with lags, because with those you see how the skill icon keeps flashing until it finally triggers… Only help here is to spam the skill and after ~5-10 activations it will hopefully trigger!

Together with serious lags more often then I want to experience them, this activation bug is destroying the hole combat (for me at least) when it’s present, where your reaction time is kind of important, isn’t it?
To die because of lag or skills that just don’t want to trigger is absolutely nerve-racking!

Thanks for listening,
Rep

I’ve had it where one still will not activate but every other skill does just fine. No lag at all. Really confusing.

I get this a lot on my #2 skill on my mesmer / 2H sword build. I’ll hit the button, the button will glow, the countdown timer kicks in before I can use it again, but nothing will happen. No clone appears, no damage, nothing. I’ve had it happen several times in a row with that same skill. I’m in range, have a target, no apparent lag, it just doesn’t fire.

I’m wondering why there isn’t not much response here, that is a serious issue.
I mean, not being able to use skills at certain times…

this happens regardless of where you are. it is not due to being in a large fight or a place in the map where there are a lot of players.

i’ve had this happen defending/reinforcing a tower with a few people, running supplies by myself. seems to only happen in WvWvW though, for what its worth…

Yeah, I didn’t say that this just happens in bigger fights or so (at least it shouldn’t sound like that), just that I experienced it only in WvW so far!

Just was doing the jumping puzzle in Eternal Battlegrounds and using my elite Signet of Rage from time to time… The hole team chat was complaining about lags of 1-2 seconds and I, additional to the lags, experienced the problem I explained here again with that named elite for example.

Activated the signet, nothing happens, I just saw the effect on the skill icon as long as I pushed and hold the button (tested this out) and it was gone immediately after, but it didn’t trigger. With the lag at the same time I could see how a skill that was activated had this flashing effect on the skill icon until the skill finally triggered after 1-2 seconds later. But as said, I saw the flashing icon, different to what I experienced with my signet quite often while doing jumping puzzle!

So, for me that is an additional confirmation that there is something going on with some (random?) skills within WvW, that just don’t want to trigger all the time!

Just want to confirm as a Thief this problem happens to my Steal ability all thekittentime. Every other skill I have will work perfectly except for that one, there really seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.

This happens a lot with venoms for me as a Thief. And as a Venom Spread build thief I feel pretty useless.

I notice this happens a lot when there are big fights going on inside stonemist, where the lord is.

its a common problem even in PvE too, i was killing claw of jormag and just couldnt move, everyone was a ghost (render), some skills took ageas to cast, and at the end i had a critical error so no chest for me.

I’ve noticed this problem in PvE as well, on my axe as a ranger.

Well, I said till now that I experienced that just in WvW so far, but after the last minutes with the fight against the dragon Jormag, I’ve to change my word!
Had problems with activating skills in this PvE boss fight as well, just like what I described for WvW before… And we all had serious lags within that fight as well!
No way to enjoy such good presented bosses, with lags, not triggering skills and the sadly also existing easy difficulty in those events! :-(

So, with that knowledge, could a GM please move that thread to the Game bugs sub-forum or where it belongs to, because it doesn’t belongs to the WvW only section anymore!?

I’m pretty sure the other night I pressed my elite skill for a MINUTE straight and it never triggered. Also same thing with my heal, I had to hit it maybe 10 times before it activated. I can stand a little lag but the complete inability to fire off a skill is very problematic. Hopefully it can be fixed.

Same here. I’ve seen it happen mostly with Windborne Speed.

I’m (and know of others) still experiencing this! Are they aware of that, are they working on something here?

I am experiencing this on engineer toolbelt and elite skills all of the time.