skill activation delay??

I was getting this randomly, but not consistantly. I'd seriously only get about 1-2 small periods of delays spread throughout a 10 RA streak.

At first I thought this was only a problem I was having, but it seems that pretty much everyone is experiencing it. I noticed it earlier tonight while I was playing my Warrior...when I'd use Heal Sig it'd take longer than usual to start...about half a second or so. Then I switched over to my Necro, and it became VERY obvious that something's messed up/different.

OMFG I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME

Yes we are all having it. Its most likely do to the fact of the mass on line use this 28-30 july week end. IN PvP its like shooting your own foot! and not so much PvE for me.

I can barely interrupt a chiken with my ranger now due to this damn delay. FIX THIS!!

This definently has to be changed.

Pretty new colours at the expensive of accurate skill casting.

No good. /crossarms

Seems like my keyboard isn't broken after all.

I tried to play, but I can't keep people alive. I lost my shot for survivor title too. This is getting serious here

It's really bothersome. Other than the new bar graphics giving me minor seizures, this skill use lag is making me slam the numbers on my keyboard and I cant help but squeeze my mouse harder. I think I cracked something in it already.

It's lag. Don't over-analyze.

Now the question is has ANYONE here taken the time to log up a support ticket with A.net support?

Now I'm sure no one has

But really the best option is to log up a ticket so we know if A.net consider it a bug or not.

Personally I've not experience any skill delays... but it has been laggy.

I'm sure that if someone had logged a support request, they would have asked for the person to post to the forums to find out whether others had seen the problem and could reproduce it before they'd do anything about it anyways.

I have been having similar problems. I died several times this weekend duo farming UW due to prot spirit being savage slashed. I'd never had any problem with the savage slash, only to have it happen many times in a row. I was wondering what I was doing differently from the weekend before - contempting whether I'd lost my mind that sort of thing - but these complaints of previously unseen skill delay and lag are reassuring.

I've chatted to others and they've mentioned that under lag the behaviour of the client is different now, for instance, before the skill on the client end would have the activating pre-animation on the skill bar but not cast the spell, and you could have several selected showing the skillbar precast animation. Now, with lag it seems you can no longer even select the skill you want to use in advance, it makes the 'click' noise similar to the sound you get if someone is using spell breaker and you try to cast a spell. Another noticed that if they were interrupting, the cast progress bar seemed to jump back a bit from where the client originally reported the skill progress to be.

I didn't see a lot of lag myself, but it seems almost like the client is asking the server whether it is ok for me to use the skill which has introduced some interesting problems.

Well, best course of action would be waiting for the Nightfall event to end.

Yeah, it's happening to me, too. I don't know how many interrupts I've missed because it takes nearly a second for my skills to activate. That plus my reaction time (I'm OLD, OK?) really makes the fast casting skills a real challenge to put an end to.

anyone else notice the priest level in RA that 4 skills on your skillbar would be disabled?
sometimes happens at the start, sometimes 2 minutes through, but for me its the first 4 skills im not able to press at all
one of my teammates once said a message with like "1222222222222222313233333331111111112111111111111 " and said after "wtf my skill bar is frozen"
gave me a lil laugh but still, not being able to use any skills on any char for 10 seconds or so cant be good for anyone

I haven't been on since last night, but I'm experiencing weird sound glitches (I have full hardware support & before the weekend everything was slick), and some crazy delay with the casting as well.

Going to make a support ticket soon

It is lag issue, can be pretty annoying

I have the same problem...quite annoying when you're trying to heal someone (or yourself).

I have experienced sound glitches, as well as the skill delays that all of you are mentioning. I think this is simply a result of A.net altering so much code due to the preview event and I'm sure that they've heard about it all. I'm just going to wait a couple days and see what happens. Remember the cap sig glitch?