skill activation delay??

Splatter Mcnasty

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Utah

W/Mo

I'm STILL getting the skill activation delay that began earlier this week. Anyone else still experiencing it?

remmeh

remmeh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Apathy Inc [AI]

R/Mo

yup... me too... interrupting as a ranger is hell now.

Caleb

Caleb

Nil nisi malis terrori.

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/Me

I thought I was alone in this, or that it was my PC acting up.

Not enjoying the long que time of skills.

SirErnieMacGloop

SirErnieMacGloop

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Area 52

I have the same thing, about a 1/4 sec, maybe a little less delay.
Thought it was me or my pc.

zakaria

zakaria

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

I thought that i'm the only one has this problem, i can't interrupt or make hammer or sin combo with this delay.

Havoc of PhoeniX

Havoc of PhoeniX

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

England, UK.

Don't Leave a Message After The [Beep]

R/E

Same for me, its getting rediculous now, i would have thought it would have been something they addressed immediately

Silent Kitty

Silent Kitty

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

Netherlands

[TYW] "The Young World"

A/Me

Me too. It is hard to be spike healer, when every heal is delayed for at least a second or two.

King Kong

King Kong

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/R

Barrage seems to be the worst for it!

metalone

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

yea i still have it too, getting quite bothersome, had it since the UI update

morphium

morphium

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Random Arenas int dis 1

W/

Same for me.

NeVeRLiFt

NeVeRLiFt

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

Clan Acoma

Mo/N

I have this problem too, I also have the problem where monsters appear on my screen and we attack them but it shows my character or henchmen standing off somewhere else a little ways and attacking thin air.
This all started when they did the update that first shows the store.

I hope this gets fixed soon.

raven214

raven214

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

R/

I was getting incredible lag/delay consistently last night... haven't tried it out today yet.

Twonaiver

Twonaiver

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

S??o Paulo Brasil

R/

i wish the delay was taken of, for god sake anet take the delay off, i cant even manage to heal my teamates anymore, my sin combo take twice as long to activate now, whats wrong with them, is this considered an improvement, bring the newkid back and shoot the one who had this idea ( you dont deserve to live dude ).

sad sad sad.

D I Z Z O

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

{DfX}

W/N

same here, not easy to 55
i thought it was just lag, then it happened all the time. then i thought "nerf"
possibly.. so i couldnt get healing breeze up in time and die from one stroke of the aaxte and never get an ecto. hah

TriXor

TriXor

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

Ascalon City

Guildcast Listeners United [GLU]

Mo/

I experienced lag and delay's too, although it's acting recently normal now..

i even cleared the crimson Skull leaders in 1 go with a lvl 8 rit ^.^ (i think it's good, it being my first ritualist )

maybe it has something to do with the nightfall test-weekend.

maybe their servers are whacky

or maybe the ISP's of all of us are having problems simultaniously :P (very improbable, but not impossible)
Grtz, TriXor

Asuka Raimei

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2005

Dragon de Jade [jade]

R/E

same for me.
it is horrible to interrupt with my ranger.

I hope the dev's will take care of this (major) problem as soon as possible because our life is in danger... how could you infuse health to someone with such a delay


please Gaile !!! I don't want to die

wilebill

wilebill

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mt Vernon, Ohio

Band of the Hawk

W/Mo

Yeah, me too. Already complained about the ~1/4 sec delay in another thread. This has to be fixed.

Lady Frost Bite

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2005

america

Dark Wing Cadre

N/W

the delay is really bad still, it was most noticed last night when my guild did some GvG. our ranger couldn't interrupt heal sig, and it wasn't the rangers fault. it needs to be fixed asap, its throwing off major game play

eternal pho

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Licious Fame Farmers {TLG}

W/E

It acted up ever since I Dl'ed that huge update.

Zonzai

Zonzai

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2005

E/

Yes. I have skill delay too. (Besides my slow reflexes.)

Batou of Nine

Batou of Nine

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

California, USA

Angel Sharks [AS] (RiP [KaiZ] T__T")

Mo/E

i too have this skill delay. Seems it delays ALL my classes.

Another broken aspect of GW since the latest update. lolz

Bahamut44

Bahamut44

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

Sweden

Stop Stealing [agro]

W/

Delay here too, its aweful, aweful, aweful, can't interupt, heal or pull off a combo.

Plz fix soon anet this is killing my gaming.

Monez

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2006

Minnesota, USA

Brotherhood of Kai [Kai]

R/

And here I thought it was just my Wi-Fi acting up...glad I'm not alone on this issue. Please resolve this problem Anet!!

Retribution X

Retribution X

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Check behind you again.

N/

Did they nerf all the interrupters now?

Please, Ms. Gray, Is this intentional, or is it lag?

KANE OG

KANE OG

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

Ogmios Graybeards

W/

All of my Guildies plus myself have the delay also. Maybe we have to buy new character slots to stop it.

Azrael1309

Azrael1309

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

ABQ, NM

LF Guild

I assume everyone is just referring to a delay in the skill going off. I think there's also a delay in the recharge as well. After it finishes recharging, it still can't be used for a split second. And after that split second, there's another split second to wait for the skill to execute. Its not very bothersome while playing as a warrior, but I can see how bad it can be on other classes. I think I'm gonna pull out my ranger to see for myself how bad it is.

Knoobish

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

Weak and Ineffectual

Me/

No, they're most likely referring to lag. Which, I think is caused by Anet streaming me data during my GvG's or whatever other playing I may be doing. It's fun to lose to a ranger spike that a sloth could infuse because your monks have a 1-2 second delay on their casts...

Holoman

Holoman

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/Me

I have this delay too since the update from yesterday.

Ninetail Trickster

Ninetail Trickster

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

A pleasant place that needs more rain. T_T

The Rose Society

Delay'd here, too. >_<
-really- glad I'm not trying to use my mesmer right now.

SirErnieMacGloop

SirErnieMacGloop

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Area 52

I'm not talking about lag, haven't really had any for this PvP weekend.
I've seen lag, rubberband lag, attacking thin air lag, jump ahead & behind lag etc.

I play mostly casters with 1/4 & 3/4 sec casting spells, I don't chain, because its the surest way to get interrupted.

What I'm talking about is a delay that wasn't there before in activating any skill, it shouldn't take almost 1 sec to cast a 1/4 sec spell with no spirits or enchant/hexes. what I get is a delay between pressing the key for the skill and when the skill starts firing/casting. This is noticable with stances too, which should be immediate.

This is something that wasn't there before the first updates started rolling out tuesday or wednesday.

shadowfell

shadowfell

hamonite anur ruk

Join Date: Jan 2006

Echovald Forest

[PhD] Teh Academy

Me/A

We have lost about 450-500 places in rank by losing matches from just sheer... lag... We found that our interrupts had to go out randomly and hope they catch something. Funily enough, I caught AoE, but missed res sig. There is just no control over it. Since it seems AN is unable to do anything about it at the time, we have had to stop gvg's for the weekend, or well, indefinitely, until this is repaired.

ilovecp

ilovecp

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2005

Plopville

R/Rt

It is definitely NOT LAG. We can still walk around smoothly and everything but there's a delay when using skills.

ChrOnic_Seizures

ChrOnic_Seizures

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

Demon Soldiers Elite

Mo/

Same here ...........DELAY im not playin till they FIX IT !!

NeVeRLiFt

NeVeRLiFt

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

Clan Acoma

Mo/N

Seems better today, I will test it some more and see how it goes.

shadowfell

shadowfell

hamonite anur ruk

Join Date: Jan 2006

Echovald Forest

[PhD] Teh Academy

Me/A

Definitely lag. Lower fps, lag, and skill delays..and no, the new sound changes are not enabled on my client

Loralai

Loralai

Purveyor of Useless Info

Join Date: Oct 2005

Perpetual Motion Squad [PMS]

Mo/

This isn't the normal actions of lag issues. The skills not only have delays activating, but they activate differently, and it's very annoying.

raven214

raven214

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

R/

Haven't noticed the delay as much today, but man did I just hit some heavy lag in Droknar's Forge/Ascalon City (stuck in one place, no text chat/emotes/actions).

lyra_song

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

Anyone else notice how when in the middle of typing a long sentence, sometimes theres like a stutter and all of a sudden all your windows open, your char autoruns, because it registered what you were typing as in game commands and your input prompt has to be clicked back. o.o

arcanemacabre

arcanemacabre

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Kryta Province

Angel Sharks [As]

Quote:
Originally Posted by lyra_song
Anyone else notice how when in the middle of typing a long sentence, sometimes theres like a stutter and all of a sudden all your windows open, your char autoruns, because it registered what you were typing as in game commands and your input prompt has to be clicked back. o.o
Whoa, haven't had that happen. Craziness.

Although I have been noticing the skill-delay since the UI update. I posted it in another thread, the one about the new update, the second I noticed it. It's definately a problem, though I haven't played tonight so I don't know if it's been fixed or not.

God I hope this isn't intentional!

BlackRecluse

BlackRecluse

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

[Dark]

W/

skill delay, it sucks. sucks when your kiting and try to cast RoF when before it goes up, a warrior final thrust's you...