As the title says, I've noticed this in recent weeks: Mental Storm's Mental Artillery is refreshing inconsistently. Normally, it wants to refresh once every second, but some times, it'll skip one or more seconds, resulting in the Stress debuff timer dropping. In most situations, this is negligible; it might lose a few seconds but since it wants to refresh to full every second, that doesn't mean anything, but,
but! What I
have noticed is that the more activity there is going on, more fighting and healing and all, the more frequent these skipped seconds are and the longer they chain together. At Cosmics and Eidolon in particular, and other similarly numbers-heavy server-chugging things, I've had Mental Storm not refresh Stress at all, counting all the way down from 15 seconds to 0 and expiring completely, only for any fresh Mental Storm taps to have to reapply fresh stacks.
For a small example: I recorded myself tapping Mental Storm with Mental Artillery for about four and a half minutes on a regenerating powerhouse test dummy, and got the following footage. You can see it skip a few individual seconds a few times, but skip quite a few back to back once or twice as well, the most egregious being at 3:55 in which at 12 seconds of Mental Storm left it just stops refreshing Stress for over ten seconds, only refreshing once more when expiring. This is at rest, with only a little going on at the Powerhouse,
not at a world-boss somewhere where the servers chug painfully and start dropping inputs on everything. I am not sure what's causing this, though I've only noticed it happening in recent weeks, though I couldn't pinpoint the
exact week it seemed to start happening for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6pBjX0axQE