Guild Wars 2

Since I have been playing my Warrior more often than my Necro for the past month or so, I’m not sure when this problem first arose… But I’ve been finding that upon entering Shroud, Life Transfer immediately goes on about a 5second cooldown and Tainted Shackles often interrupts itself when I try to use it. I literally have to mash the skill until it casts otherwise it does nothing.

I’ve asked in chat a few times if other Necro’s have been experiencing some problems and I’ve gotten a lot of “yes” so I’m assuming it’s not anything to do with my end.

If others have been having the same problems with Life Transfer and Tainted Shackles please post it here so that when the thread inevitably gets moved to the bugs forum someone who can fix this issue potentially sees it.

I’ve never seen this problem. Are you sure you’re not just going into DS 35 seconds after you last used it? Or does it not show as being on cooldown?

You have to make sure to DS 5 then 4, since you can’t be doing the lifetransfer channeling while trying to activate tainted shackles at the same time. So Tainted Shackles have to be activated before you attempt Lifetransfer.

If you see lifetransfer on cooldown it’s likely you got interrupted when you tried to activate it. This can also happen if you press Lifetransfer and immediately try to dodge roll, as that’ll interrupt it and put it on a 4 sec cooldown. Same thing if you dodge roll immediate after pressing Tainted Shackles.

Also in ZvZ skill lag can happen, so if you press DS 5 and don’t wait for it to activate, and immediately press DS 4 lifetransfer, sometimes DS 5 won’t fire off and would fire DS 4 instead.

Look. I’ve experienced this in the past week or two. I haven’t been actually doing things in this time that requires me to use my skills alot, but, there has been some weirdness.

I first noticed when I was tweaking a build in HotM. It requires me to go in shroud, cast tainted shackles then come out of shroud and use axe skill 2. This was something i have done so many times it’s basically muscle memory now. Axe 2 didn’t fire, it ruined the sequence as there is a very short amount of time I needed to get a sequence of skills done in.
Also, sometimes I had flashed in and out of shroud and tainted shackles hadn’t fired. I just though I was coming out of shroud too quickly before it fires. I don’t know.
This happened inconsistantly a few times during that time that I found myself mashing the keys on these skills to make sure they fire. not ideal.

Yesterday, I played alot in silverwastes and there were some rare occasions where it wouldn’t fire again. (I wasn’t running with an axe, just tainted shackles). Still this might be dropping shroud before it could fire. but, again, I have done this so much in the past I’m surprised it failed.

I remember seeing a dev post about them testing some lag compensation stuff recently and thought it could be related? I play from a country where I get a pretty constant 250-280 ping. And these all seem like channeled skills. related?

In the end it’s just a gut feeling, I can’t say for certain.