Casting times

[Sooda]

Why do most spells when put into RvR combat take approximately up to an extra second to cast? This is extremely noticeable when using chaotic rift. 1second cast that commonly takes 2seconds or more to pull off. Anyone else experiencing this or is it just me?

[Gunba]

As far as I know every class has borked cast times at the moment.

Someone on the SH forum did testing with Run 'n Shoot (http://www.wardb.com/spell.aspx?id=1826), ended up like this.




1.0s: 1 shot
1.1s: 2 shots
1.2s: 15 shots
1.3s: 43 shots
1.4s: 38 shots
1.5s: 17 shots
1.6s: 26 shots
1.7s: 26 shots
1.8s: 25 shots
1.9s: 11 shots
2.0s: 5 shots
2.1s: 1 shot
Average Time: 1.52s



Intended cast time, of course, being 1s.

[Sooda]

Thanks for that. What could be causing that though? Client-server connection?

[Efertin]

Thanks for that. What could be causing that though? Client-server connection?

Some bug, Mythic managed to bork it up in some hotfix. It happens to every single class, and it really screws the game in general than you might think.

[Qualum]

Yer, it's horrible for anyone who has a majority of their abilities non-instant. See healers. ;) It was the straw that broke the AM's back for one of my guildies.

If you download the addon Amethyst it helps a bit in actually letting you know when your cast is done.

(The issue, as explained by someone much wiser than me, is that your client is waiting to hear back from the server that the skill actually connected. But, you can manually 'interrupt' and start your next spell. In that sense, this issue always existed but it was less noticeable because I often 'interrupted' spells before getting confirmation they'd gone through (yet they had gone through).)

[Stormblazer]

Why do most spells when put into RvR combat take approximately up to an extra second to cast? This is extremely noticeable when using chaotic rift. 1second cast that commonly takes 2seconds or more to pull off. Anyone else experiencing this or is it just me?
Yeah, it's been bugged for over a month, I'm apalled they haven't even aknowledged it yet, let alone fixing it.