Invalid Skill

Pistdoff - Archosaur

What sort of action causes a skill to become an 'Invalid skill' when attempting to use it?

Since the start of this NW i have been unable to use my shadow teleport stun as it spams my chatbox saying invalid skill. I am full chi and mana also so no 'oh you need chi'. The only other time this happens is when i try to shadow jump a boss in FC as i just get the spam of 'Invalid skill' when trying to use it.

seitori

Happened to me on my Sin 4-times tonight aswell, when I was trying to port on peeps, but everytime it happened there had been a lagg spike which would tend to dsc a couple of people on the squad I was on, so I'd say it was a server glitch...b:surrender

CapnK - Sanctuary

From what I've seen from the BM's tele-freeze skill, it comes up with that if you are too close to the enemy (it has a bit of a minimum range it can be used at). Or it happens if you or your opponent are moving quickly and the server can't calculate your relative positions to each other(rubber-banding).

Verenor - Morai

CapnK - Sanctuary wrote: »

From what I've seen from the BM's tele-freeze skill, it comes up with that if you are too close to the enemy (it has a bit of a minimum range it can be used at). Or it happens if you or your opponent are moving quickly and the server can't calculate your relative positions to each other(rubber-banding).

I've found Shadow Jump to have the same annoying glitch: trying to tp onto an NPC (so a non-moving target) while you are moving also caused the same 'invalid skill' issue.
F.e.: I run towards the npc from a distance, hit the skill a few times fullknowing that if not the 1st time, the 2nd time I would be in range, yet I have to stop walk entirely to Shadow Jump correctly.

Evryn - Morai

I get this on my BM sometimes - usually when I've got a combo going and the target dies halfway through the combo. Client tries to fire off an attack skill on a nonexistant enemy: "Invalid skill".

Suggests the server is having a problem finding your intended target in range.

[Edit] Trying to use skills while stunned, paralysed or likewise also causes this error to appear I believe.

TZoner - Raging Tide

This is not a glitch...it is usually for a reason..like for instance in SoT when the mobs are outside of the invisible wall, or in FC on the bubble boss elementals that are on the back end of the area...to prevent you from teleing to an area that would get u stuck. Although i HAVE managed to use reckless rush on a harpy in FC once that was flying above the roof of fc..ended up walking above FC was super interesting.

Pistdoff - Archosaur

TZoner - Raging Tide wrote: »

This is not a glitch...it is usually for a reason..like for instance in SoT when the mobs are outside of the invisible wall, or in FC on the bubble boss elementals that are on the back end of the area...to prevent you from teleing to an area that would get u stuck. Although i HAVE managed to use reckless rush on a harpy in FC once that was flying above the roof of fc..ended up walking above FC was super interesting.

yeah i had fun running around outside and atop the FC when i shadow jumped a harpy and ended up outside.

seitori

TZoner - Raging Tide wrote: »

This is not a glitch...it is usually for a reason..like for instance in SoT when the mobs are outside of the invisible wall, or in FC on the bubble boss elementals that are on the back end of the area...to prevent you from teleing to an area that would get u stuck. Although i HAVE managed to use reckless rush on a harpy in FC once that was flying above the roof of fc..ended up walking above FC was super interesting.

My 4-times were in NW (twice on a flag map, once on a bridge area and once on a crystal map) and even in the crystal map my target was no where near the crystals or borders or even the buttes for that matter, he was simply running on foot right down the pathway (and was running right towards me (within skill range) while I was stealth hunting anyone who were trying to enter & reinforce a fight for the right side crystal which had erupted between a few of my sides peeps and a few of theirs that had arisen (I had placed myself halfway in between their home crystal and the right-1) and the approaching BM had no one else attacking him and had no Invulnerability buffs or powders active either and when he had ran on top of me he was easily attacked and stunned & killed in (hand to hand) combat >>b:surrender>> "There was no invisible walls, or NPC items like the crystals near him, or with any of the other 3-times that it happened with sunday nights NW, the server simply Spiked and then Derped my 'tele skills' for all of about an average of 15 seconds after it derped it for all of its 2 second spikes (so my times were only do to the 2 second spikes that the server connections had, but in a way I should be happy because unlike my squad mates, I never dsc'd from them)" b:surrender


((And yes I reset my connections & hub to the internet just before NW, I always do (so its not really that possibility very easily either) it only happened during those few lagg spikes which was always dsc'ing some of my fellow squadmates that it happened to derp my skills at all & yes the BM in crystal was on top of my sins Hand to hand attack within half of the time that the spike had derped my tele skill, so I was able to attack with all other skills within that 15 second time frame, only my tele skills were effected))