Split Shot Causing Character to Freeze and Become Unresponsive

caldochaud

While participating in a Dragon run in The Well of Dragons, my character became frozen on the spot and unresponsive immediately after using Split Shot. The AoE marker was visible and at its maximum focus... and it could not be cancelled or interrupted. I could not turn to face another direction, jump, or mount up. I even unplugged my USB mouse on the hunch that either the button might have become stuck or the USB port was malfunctioning, and I switched to using the track pad on my laptop instead. Still frozen and unresponsive. Finally, I was only able to become unfrozen by logging out and logging back in again.

I've not had this happen before but I'll add to this post should it happen again.

zerappus

caldochaud#4880 said:

While participating in a Dragon run in The Well of Dragons, my character became frozen on the spot and unresponsive immediately after using Split Shot. The AoE marker was visible and at its maximum focus... and it could not be cancelled or interrupted. I could not turn to face another direction, jump, or mount up. I even unplugged my USB mouse on the hunch that either the button might have become stuck or the USB port was malfunctioning, and I switched to using the track pad on my laptop instead. Still frozen and unresponsive. Finally, I was only able to become unfrozen by logging out and logging back in again.

I've not had this happen before but I'll add to this post should it happen again.

It's a very old bug that happens very often only in the Well of Dragon (and once in Tia to me) due to the sheer amount of players and lagging during Dragon Runs. The casting animation is locked but it's not completing and everything is locked and you're stuck on the ground and can only skip shift.

I call it the 'infinite cast' bug because you're infinitely casting. I think the server and your computer becomes out of sync and one thinks you already casted and the other thinks you're still casting. It used to happen to me a lot with Aimed Shot when a player uses a "Lag Skill" (ones that causes lag in DR).

My suggestion is to use Aimed Shot and make sure the casting bar is done or finished and you fired BEFORE you click again. Clicking on and on causes the sync problem during laggy, congested DR run with other players Lag Skill spamming. In short, make sure the animation/action finishes before clicking again so to prevent it from happening. I know you reduce your dps by a bit but it's better than being stuck and left behind during DR.

And lastly, you don't need to log out to dispel the problem. Simply change instance. If you wanna get back to the instance during run, make sure you're in a party during a run. Open your ViP teleport. Go to PE, then teleport back to WOD into your party's instance and you can catch up.