Guild Wars 2

Hello,
Me and a fellow guildie are experiencing bad skill lags in all areas, but only on the guardian profession the other professions we’ve tried (mesmer, necro, ele, ranger) have all been fine. It’s not like normal lag either. I’ll try and explain it;

You’ll be fighting fine and all skills will be firing normally, until suddenly your character stands still and gets stuck in the last animation that it was doing.

You try to trigger the skills as normal, but the character doesn’t respond at all. The skills flash as if they’re working but in the end you get a rave on your skill bar. Esc does nothing. You might be able to move but not attack.

Sometimes enemies don’t attack you either.

Then as if by magic the game catches up with you, all the skills fire at breakneck speed, and you have no idea if you died in that mush of 6 enemies going down or not.

only trend I’ve noted is it happened more with the greatsword skills (possibly linked to the jump)

Is anyone else having this issue? As said before, all other classes worked fine.

I am having same issues with my guardians skills not working properly. Seems to be getting worse (or maybe I am just losing patience with it). Skills worked fantastic in the past, not really sure of when it changed but it has gotten to the point where using leap of faith wont work even when there is nothing around me (ie not server lag from too many players). If someone knows what’s going on please tell me. I am horribly stressed about it given the amount of time and effort I have put into my guardian. Please respond

I’m going to hop on my guardian and do some testing.

Anything in particular you want me to try?

In town?

In a specific zone?

Certain skills/weapons?

Fatfox.4915:

Then as if by magic the game catches up with you, all the skills fire at breakneck speed, and you have no idea if you died in that mush of 6 enemies going down or not.

only trend I’ve noted is it happened more with the greatsword skills (possibly linked to the jump)

Is anyone else having this issue? As said before, all other classes worked fine.

Guardian here, and I can confirm that it also occurs with the Hammer, as it did so during my past few Fractals runs. Due to the way it resembles a severe lagspike, I instantly checked my connection and modem, but had no issues anywhere. It comes from the game, and the game alone. Usually, my voice on our chat turns robotic during connection issues – my guildies were all curious and confused why I asked if I sounded like a Dalek. They said I still moved on on their screens, although it was merely auto-attacking.

On that note, it hasn’t affected me outside of the Fractals instances. In there, it generally only occurred when our group took on several opponents at once.

Have to say, I am uncertain if it’s tied to the jumping/leaping skill, but Hammer does have one. I’ll try and keep an eye out on what I bashed last, if I freeze again.