Guild Wars 2

Since the specialization update (about a month ago), I and several other users have been unable to activate skills rapidly after each other, as we used to be able to. Several threads have addressed this issue, but the problem have yet to be acknowledged by ArenaNet. There’s even a video showing the bug.

Somehow, we are currently unable to activate skills in fast succession. As seen in the video, it’s like we never tried to cast it at all. No weird cooldown or blinking skill, it simply doesn’t register our button press. It’s unclear what causes this, but people speculate it has something to do with skill queuing. For me, it’s very noticeable after a weapon swap, after Illusionary Leap, or after summoning a Phantasm.

From what I can tell, most users have this problem when playing either Mesmer or Engineer, but it is likely not tied to any specific profession, as I – and other users – have experienced it on multiple different professions. It doesn’t seem to affect all users either, as I’m one of the only ones in my guild who have experienced it.

It’s definitely not my ISP though, as there has been no change to that, and my initial problems perfectly coincided with the specialization update (like all other users). Also, skills with no cast time still works perfectly.

This bug is extremely frustrating, as it’s pretty much impossible to play any sort of PvP or WvW. For someone like me, who rarely ever touches PvE, it means I literally can’t play the game at all.

As seemingly lots of users are affected by this, some sort of reply from ArenaNet would be much appreciated. Until then, it’s not even worth trying to play.

Having done some testing, I’m fairly certain that AlphaK explained the bug very well, about 1 month ago:

AlphaK

I have a good hunch that all the traits that cause a cast/summon create issues with the skill queue. The prime offenders being “Swirling Mists”, “Static Discharge”, and “Illusionary Inspiration”.

I suspect that while being auto casted, these are treated as a skill added to the skill queue after the first skill is pressed causing the second skill pressed to be ignored as if you were attempting to queue a third skill with the first skill + autocasted second skill from trait.

This would explain why it primarily affected Mesmers and Engineers.

Please look in to this bug. It’s very frustrating, and is completely destroying some builds.

Anet have already pointed out that they are aware of the bug concerning the Revenant: Stating that traits that proc instant skills break the Skill Queue System. Apparently adding a fix will take a while still though, else they’d have made sure to have it for this beta.

Thanks for the information Sold Out. Have not been following news on anything HoT related, so was not aware.