Guild Wars 2

I have observed this since….well since I’ve bought the game. At first I thought it might have to do with my Wireless connection or my slightly rather worn keyboard.

But after moving flats and having access to a solid landline and with a new mechanical keyboard at my disposal I’m still seeing it happen.

Quite simply, sometimes skills just don’t trigger when you press the buttons. It’s like the button-press just doesn’t register for some reason. This doesn’t happen constantly, but often enough to be more than just random flukes.

I admit I notice it more often in WvW than elsewhere but that#s because that’s where I spend most of my time. But this is not due to lag as it happens both in PvE, sPvP and during low-pop hours.

It happens with all sorts of skills, on all classes. Instant skills, channeled skills, utility skills or weapons skills. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the button you pressed just does not register with the game.

It’s really frustrating trying to finish a Guardian, activate Dolyak Signet while doing so, and then still get knocked-back because somehow the skill did not trigger.

What happens most frequently though is that a finisher won’t start when pressing the F-button. My character will stand there, the prompt will say press F to finish, I press it….and nothing happens.

I really don’t know what else to say. I can’t recognize any pattern or any correlation to in-game events. It seems to happen to all buttons, in all situations, on all types of occasions. It’s like the game “swallows” player input at times and I don’t know why.

I’ve encountered skills not firing off after pressing them many times despite no other skills currently being active. So it is not a queued skill issue of a skill being dropped by firing off another skill with higher priority.

Main issue I run into is with traps on my ranger with “Ground Targeting – Fast with Range Indicator” set – I hold the key and get the green ground targeting circle where my cursor is and release the key and no trap gets thrown. I sometimes have to throw traps several times before it actually throws it.

Honestly, I’ve learned to just spam the button until it gets registered for weapon skills since it happens so often. I even manually spam my 1 key (for my bows on ranger) even though I have auto attack enabled on it as it sometimes just stops firing (despite the enemy being only feet in front of me) or fires slower and has a longer delay between shots than it does with my manually telling it to fire repeatedly.

I don’t know how much of the skill drops can be attributed to just latency. It happens often enough to become quite annoying and sometimes rather frustrating.

Mostly known as “skill lag” and acknowledged by ANet.

I added an “add skills to queue if lagging” as feature #10 in this list. Meanwhile i just keep the keys pressed to ensure the skill triggers.