Guild Wars 2

Just experienced this tonight;

My weapon skills, heal and other skills stopped working completely.

I could still chat and weapon swap, access my inventory items etc..

After exiting WvW they now work again.

It’s a weird bug several people have experienced, including me, that occurs all over the game, not just in WvW. Re-logging, or a map change, character change, etc. seems to alleviate the problem for most, if not all.

I’ve had it several times, but never outside WvW maps…it’s been quite more frequent in the past 2 weeks.

And I’ve only had it outside WvW. Strange bug, indeed.

Did you try to pick up a bundle from the ground (FGS, Ice Bows, Rocks, Boulders, etc.) by any chance? That seems to be causing the problem for me.

For me, there were no bundles involved. Though, some times I might have been gathering. Other times, no.

I would encourage you to feedback on this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Official-state-of-skill-lag-and-server-optimizations/first

This is where I have reported this issue directly to Bill as I have also experienced this issue.

Support ticket ID:#128071
→ they asked to add to the thread I mentioned.

this isn’t the skill lag?
there’ve been many times (particularly when capturing SM) when skills can’t be used, and it’s clear both sides have the same problems. I always attributed it to overloading the server. funny how we never used to get these problems.
it’s also funny how you know huge engagements are going on even if you’re not part of them. Bears are not such pushovers when you can’t cast anything and they can.

Nope – it’s not skill lag if you WP away from the Zerg to another location on map and your skills still fail to activate.
I have even run to the other end of the map to a very quiet area – where you are less likely to be affected by any zerging that may be going on in the map.
I have seen this in both PvE (high and low population maps) and WvW (often hear of it in TS – requiring some people to restart the client in worst case scenarios). We tend to hear about it first via the voice comms (in TS).

Skill lag during large zergs for the most part has been fixed. This is where your skills refuse point blank to fire even after the Zerg fest has finished and will not reactivate (even after 10mins) until you do something about it (die, use a WP or in severe cases restart the client).