Strange bind glitches

Hey all,

As I finally got a hero 50 last double XP weekend, I've been slowly leveling up a warshade. And while she's an absolute blast when things are working properly, I've noticed an increasing amount of strange behavior from her form-switching binds that's really getting on my nerves.

I've got what I imagine are three very standard form change binds:

/bind g "powexec_toggleon Dark Nova$$goto_tray 5"
/bind j "powexec_toggleon Black Dwarf$$goto_tray 6"
/bind h "powexec_toggleoff Dark Nova$$powexec_toggleoff Black Dwarf$$powexec_name Gravity Shield$$goto_tray 1"

The vast majority of the time, all three work just fine. However, on a number of occasions, I will hit one of the three and my tray will change, but the transformation will not take place *and the binds stop working*.

This is *not* the same as simply trying to drop a form before a power is finished animating. I've had that happen too, but all that requires is that I wait a split second and then hit the human form key again. What's happening here is that I hit the key, the tray changes, but the transformation (either way) doesn't happen, and the bind key no longer responds.

For example, say I'm in nova and I want to drop to human to mire and stygian circle, as I'm getting low on health. So I hit 'h' to drop to human, the tray swaps back to 1, but all the human form powers remain greyed out, I don't drop the nova form, and hammering the 'h' key just doesn't do a darn thing, no matter how long I do it - I've sat there hitting it for easily 5 seconds, more than long enough for any animations to finish (and I'm not mezzed). I can't even get back into nova mode by hitting 'g', as that key doesn't seem to do anything either.

The only way I've been able to find to get out of this stuck mode is to hit the key for whichever form wasn't involved - like 'j' for dwarf in the previous example. Of course, by the time I realize that it's not working, I'm usually dead (and even if I survive, I don't end up in the form I originally wanted to be in). This can also happen when trying to switch from human into a form, or trying to detoggle dwarf instead of nova. Needless to say, I'm getting tired of being smushed because I got stuck unable to execute any powers or switch forms.

Has anyone ever had this happen to them? And if so, does anyone know how to *stop* it from happening? It's really getting on my nerves.

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@MuonNeutrino
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This is what it means to be a tank!

This happens to me more often than I like and I use the same method of correcting it, i have no explaination as to why but I have gotten used to it to where if i dont switch on the second key press i'll hit the other form then human afterwards and i lose very little time.

Sorry, no help to you here but yes your not alone by far.

Best guess latency of some sort that sticks the bind.

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Same thing happens to me, and I'll usually manage to die from it, too.

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I use bind files rather than direct binds and have never noticed the issue personally, or at least only part of it.

I still get the part where I stay in form but the tray changes, but hitting the key again then changes the form.

It might be worth trying to load those binds from a file. I think technically it works the same but it is probably worth a try.

Otherwise I think Obsidian is sadly correct and the issue is lag related.

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