I've noticed this a lot on trials. You get hit for major damage by a mob - click click click click on a green insp.
Nothing happens.
Bam, you're dead.
I really wish they would focus on performance for a couple issues instead of more incarnate stuff. Lag is killing the game...
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No lag issues here, at least not persistently (now, on a full BAF with plenty of MMs? absolutely). Sounds like the problem is on your end.
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This has been going on since the day I first logged into this game back in May of 2004. I'd oftentimes hit a number key to activate an attack, watch the graphic show up to tell me my power has been queued for activation, see the system message telling me it is, then see the power unqueue itself and then... Nothing. I've gotten in the habit of hitting my binds four or five times every time just to make sure.
It's a lot like clicking on doors. You click on the door and nothing. You click on it again... Nothing. You click on it a third time and only THEN it starts to open and let you through. At least we don't get stuck for 10 seconds unable to act when nothing happens.
I blame this on packet loss, myself.
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So I'm standing on a beach with nobody around me, click on my flight power and launch myself into the air, only to fall back on the beach and try to figure out what's going on. Was I rooted? Did someone hit me with -fly? Nope, it's just that all clicks are not made equal, and I'm not sure why.
When this game started out, I could pretty reliably click on things and know that they were clicked on. Some time shortly after that, they "fixed" it so you have a limited amount of space to click on an enemy in order to target him. Ok, I can live with that, regardless of the reason. I can always use the tab key. Powers, however, used to be something that only failed under significant lag conditions. Not so any more.
I can understand if powers don't activate instantly when I click on them in combat. I'm used to having to click a power three or four times to get it to activate just because there's so much going on. Occasionally this kills me because my heal or un-root or whatever just plain refuses to fire, but those are the breaks. My wife is quite used to watching me (or a teammate if I'm playing support) die to the sound of "click click click click click...." waiting for something to happen. It's gotten to the point now that I have to click my ice storm and hold the cursor over the spot that I want it to hit for a few seconds to see if it's not showing up because of graphics delay, or if the power just failed to activate when I clicked it. If I've just run near an unalert spawn in the hopes of blizzarding them before they notice me, that makes me dead pretty fast.
I'm not sure why this exists. I don't know if it's just a programming limitation that they never noticed, or if it's something they introduced in order to discourage bots. From my end, all I can see is that it's really annoying and only getting worse.
Cheers,
-MB