Guild Wars 2

Hi All,

I and several other members in our guild have been experiencing a very unusual type of skill lag where our skills would stop working. We would press a skill (mouse or keyboard) the skills wont light up or attempt to be executed.
We will be running around in a zone and all of a sudden all character skills will stop working (we can continue to run about, jump, talk to others in party/chat).

There is no noticeable lag or any packet loss (confirmed as I was ran a wireshark network capture as the issue started – so I can confirm all packets were reaching ANET servers and communications were working correctly with no packet loss occurring and network traffic was responding quickly ).

It is not a server side lag issue as others in our party are all working fine (they can use skills and do stuff). We know this via chat/voice comms as our team can see us running about fine avoiding monsters in PvE (not in a high population map zone) and kiting the baddies to avoid damage. They do see us running around without any noticeable lag on map (from the team members – hence it does not seem like ‘lag’ between an individual and the server)

The only fix we have found is to close and reopen the GW2 application and then this allows skills to work normally instantly. Unfortunately this can mean a loss of event rewards if a map goes into overflow or a long que if we were in WvW.

This seems to be an intermittent bug (not easily repeatable) and random to when it will occur (low populated maps, high populated maps) and infrequently (eg once a month or week). I have seen people report this bug in-guild during WvW and PvE. This is not a Zerg issue as we can move to a quiet corner of a map and our skills do not start responding (even after 5 mins) – we can still use waypoint and move about. We just cannot use any character skills.

I am wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this issue with the same symptoms?
- I think it’s best if people chime in here if they have this problem in “quiet” areas of a map (not in a wvw Zerg) when in a party with voice comms to confirm that you can move without lag from your party members.

Many Thanks,

I had this bug just this last week. Only restarting the game fixed it.

I think the skill lag might be related to 2 keys combined. What I have noticed so far that if I switch weapon using the ~ key, it will response. However, if I use Shift+Tab (my regular key binding), it just doesn’t do it. I have to hit that key many times and one of that many times, will work. This is just an example of skill lagging keys binding (my case) and I wonder if it has anything to do w/ those mouse combined keys bugs were fixed not long ago.

Doesnt seem to be skill-key/lag binding related.

Seems to be a definite client-side only issue.
Had this issue yesterday mid-major event which resulted in client-side reset and no world boss chest.

i get this too and it seems to be insane desync lag

Having this same problem, but the difference is that restarting the game doesn’t even fix
it. I’ve had the problem for about a day and even uninstalling the client did nothing. It’s extremely frustrating and is really upsetting me.