I am not sure if this is a bug or not but many of the mesmer skills will not work properly if you are fighting on a slope or small hill/bump.
I am not discussing being on battlements or considerably up high… but on slight slopes or small bumps in the ground. In terms of skills, I am mainly discussing the sword and pistol skills (mostly the sword skill – swap). The recharge will often happen but the actual skill will not fire. Many of the problems occurred after the adjustment for line of sight… I am not discussing being out of line of sight but often very close to the opponent (as sword and pistol combo tends to bring you). It is perhaps a line of sight issue that is causing the misfiring because the opponent is lower or higher than yourself.
There is also considerable difference between the activation time stated and the actual time it takes to activate the skill (especially magic bullet and illusionary wave particularly badly affected). This is not just about skill lag either.
I have the same issues, and because of it, I rarely use sword 3 unless I’m just trying to spam clones to shatter, I rarely use it for its intended usage as it is too unreliable.
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