Actions canceling on midway

seekey

I’m not sure if it’s just limited to my account or even a bug, but lately there’s a high chance after every dodge that all action except movement will be canceled in the next 2-3 seconds. This means I can see the animation begin and hear the sound of the action, but when it should take effect, even the animation stops and no damage or healing occurs. I noticed this behavior in my cleric and ranger characters.

seekey

I've filled an in-game ticket too about this matter.
Ticket number: #551,330

malakut

Can confirm that you are actually I-framing yourself out of abilities. I notice this ALL the time when I use a Mount Power in the middle of my Dodge. The Mount Power will LOOK like it goes off, but not do any damage and just go on cooldown. I've reported this to support and have not gotten any feedback at all.

greywynd

Don't do anything while attempting to dodge.

seekey

The dodge as action is seems to already finished when i try to attack/heal but no effect of the next power i try to use. This is very disturbing when my party dies because of this.

dragonfly

New player here, can confirm a similar experience. I am playing from Australia so lag is somewhat expected, but it took me a while to figure this out. I notice it especially on my wizard where I'm trying to weave spells and teleports together, particularly the Slow Time spell, because its cooldown can be different depending on whether it was cast successfully or interrupted.

I just assumed the net code was so janky that I couldn't chain my abilities together with any movement of my character between them at the level of latency I have, since it seemed like movement was the thing interrupting them, so I've just been pausing slightly between abilities whenever I need to move out of the way of damage and only chaining them together when I'm stationary. Reading this thread it now all makes perfect sense.

I guess the workaround is you just have to be very aware of when you're using the dodge ability and force yourself through muscle memory to pause for maybe half a second (roughly double your latency, to be safe) before using your next ability.

seekey

Well, it's very hard to choose the perfect timing of dodge when multiple enemy attacking you in the same time with a short delay between their attacks (like the kobolds and archons in Caverns of Karrundax or the falling ceiling pieces in the Boreworm's room in Lair of the Mad Mage). And sometimes just getting killed (outside of queues) because i can't do anything except running and dodge and i can't even drink a healing potion. And when i wrote high chance above i meant 70-80%. Also this started to me when Sharrandar ep. 3 started on live server.

malakut

dragonfly#6058 said:

New player here, can confirm a similar experience. I am playing from Australia so lag is somewhat expected, but it took me a while to figure this out. I notice it especially on my wizard where I'm trying to weave spells and teleports together, particularly the Slow Time spell, because its cooldown can be different depending on whether it was cast successfully or interrupted.

I just assumed the net code was so janky that I couldn't chain my abilities together with any movement of my character between them at the level of latency I have, since it seemed like movement was the thing interrupting them, so I've just been pausing slightly between abilities whenever I need to move out of the way of damage and only chaining them together when I'm stationary. Reading this thread it now all makes perfect sense.

I guess the workaround is you just have to be very aware of when you're using the dodge ability and force yourself through muscle memory to pause for maybe half a second (roughly double your latency, to be safe) before using your next ability.

Doing that would result in a loss of DPS for me since I happen to use abilities right after I dodge mechanics to maintain Uptime. I've already reported this as well to support but still haven't heard anything useful from them.

seekey

The link of a post below includes my problem too. However while her reason is different the result is the same:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1261636/the-cleric-dps-is-too-slow-to-attack

This means i'm not the only one to experince it but the 2nd to report as a bug or a problem ...

seekey

The other day the Account support sent me here with this issue since it's a "possible bug" as they said ...