What's with the skill icons loading?

very annoying. whenever you go into an explorable area/pvp, it should auto-load every skill into memory, so you only have this lag at the very beginning.

yea, this "feature" is giving a hard time to rangers that do interrupts (not including leet choking gas rangers of course).

If it was an added feature please oh please remove it.

yeah they take a second to load for me as well. I figure to keep the stress factor down they did it. I'm not sure but i have a feeling it will go away when the event is done. I wouldn't start complaing untill then.

yeah, this hourglass thing is very very annoying, not so much the rangers having a hard time, but the mesmers the most, you cant identify if its a spell or skill before its too late, and that being most of the mesmer skills require most skills to be spells, be all the more fustrating

please remove the hour glass,

Lag for me. Lag for most people, it's not Anets fault, it's not our internet's fault, it's no-ones fault.

this is quite terrible.

*skillicon loading*
caster casts spell
.........

oh crap, that icon was probably Diversion


GG.

This is a bug. Fix it. This thread should be in the technician corner part.

It's not an intented "feature". Yes it's annoying. They will fix it. Remember you are playing a Beta. Chill.

Yea, not harmfull in the skill lists, but when comes into a fight, might get tricky. "I got...err...hourglass...on myself. REMOVE IT !!!11"

"....this person is casting something....hmmm...(The icon finally appears) OH MY! I have to interrupt that!" oops....too late.

so what..because you dont have lag we all must have the problem....ohhhh it makes so much more sense now. if i ever get that dam message that says check my connection, even though i can check the speed after i close gw and it is running at the regular speed. dont really know how u can say a comment like that when thousands upon thousands of other people are having the same exact lag issues

I don't have lag, and the skill icons still come up as hour glasses. This is an Anet change, not peoples' computers.

It's obviously an intended feature. They added new loading icons for it, and the large amount of skill icons now suggests a reason. We can hope they provide an option to disable it, or a better solution.

If preloading all of the skill icons (from 3 campagins) is too much, then why not preload just those that my party members and opponents have?

Hehe, with this lag some invisible pixies must be casting diversion on me permanently...

Truly, TRULY annoying to no end.

Most..
annoying..
update/bug.
Ever.



Gah I can't stand seeing the skills load so slow. I hope they fix/ change this soon. And btw, I havent had lag all weekend.

Hawt! Omg yeah, awesome (if its true, btw ). Now all those they need is "Parallax Mapping : For Dummies", and "An Insider's Guide : 'Specularity'" editions from their 3d engine mentor's back in Harvard or wherever they came from, and this game might actually be at a level required to compete visually with most of today's releases. Imagine it!



- Tremere


PS: Even though graphically, in a 'technical' sense, the spell and skill effect's are (like most of GW), quite dated, I've always bloody loved them... and they have alway's been one of GW's gfx portfolio's more stronger aspects, imho.

I am glad I not the only one who has this it might have something to do with saving your own builds on your own computer.Your own comp is trying to figure it out to the server.