Guild Wars 2

I’ve been noticing some anomalous skill behavior. For instance, in the midst of combat, I’ll select a pistol skill and it will not engage, but instead, a very short cool-down of a second or two is displayed for that skill. Is this a known issue (perhaps related to lag) or is it my keyboard? This seems to be happening with greater frequency. Some insight would be greatly appreciated.

aye are you in WVW

This has been happening to me, too. I notice it mostly with blowtorch, but I think that’s only because of the obvious graphic associated with it. My elixir (maybe all utility?) skills seem to get caught in this weird state where the icon is flashing, but it doesn’t do anything. I have to continually press the key to get it to activate out of this state.

While it’s flashing, and I am outside of combat, when I try to swap it out for a different utility skill it says that the current one is in use. If I use a different utility skill the one that was flashing stops flashing and I can swap it out.

PvE

FROGJON.3094:

aye are you in WVW

Skills not engaging followed by a short cool-down happens in PvE and WvW. But regarding WvW specifically, the inability to swap to different slot skills is definitely a problem for me and it seems to be getting worse.

ubwcgm.2415:

This has been happening to me, too. I notice it mostly with blowtorch, but I think that’s only because of the obvious graphic associated with it. My elixir (maybe all utility?) skills seem to get caught in this weird state where the icon is flashing, but it doesn’t do anything. I have to continually press the key to get it to activate out of this state.

This is exactly what I have observed. Also, I am unable to detonate my active rocket turret via the function key or left-clicking the button. This happens all the time, especially under water.

I’ve had this happen to me as well, I am not sure what the exact cause is either….

Are you sure you have valid target in front of your character when this happens? For me the short cooldown triggers when the skill is unable to execute, for example because my target is behind me.

The continiously flashing icon is due to lag I believe.

In my experience, this tends to happen when lag occurs, like Netsu mentioned.

Netsu.3769:

Are you sure you have valid target in front of your character when this happens? For me the short cooldown triggers when the skill is unable to execute, for example because my target is behind me.

This is certainly something to consider. The short cool down does happen when an enemy maneuvers around and ends up behind me, even though I still have a positive target lock.