Sadix Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) I cant even count the number of times I've ran around for 10+ seconds spamming my key-bind for force cloak only for absolutely nothing to happen. Or for me to pop my Resilience to remove all the dots on me, spam my vanish, have nothing happen which gives the person time to dot me up again after my resilience is gone. Edited January 10, 2012 by Sadix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accession Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) I cant even count the number of times I've ran around for 10+ seconds spamming my key-bind for force cloak only for absolutely nothing to happen. Or for me to pop my Resilience to remove all the dots on me, spam my vanish, have nothing happen which gives the person time to dot me up again after my resilience is gone. This has also happened to me on my other instant, off the GCD skills as well. Usually you can fix it by performing any other skill that is on the GCD (such as Whirling Blow). Edited January 10, 2012 by Accession Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarka Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I'd imagine they are way off for a fix... It doesn't even work in PvE half the time, I remain in combat and the mobs whack away at my companion while we are both still in stealth. It's pretty buggy but I don't think I've played an mmo where this mechanic wasn't bugged for a while before getting fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavmobile Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) I was just going to start a thread about this, thank you. It is extremely frustrating when you can't get away from people in PvP because nothing happens after pressing the Force Cloak bind over ten times. Not even spamming the button in lightspeed either, sigh. I know they are working on a fix for the ability delay but this probably is a totally different issue and needs more attention. Edit: Also a more clear thread title might get more attention. Edited January 10, 2012 by Xavmobile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOnyxHero Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Happens all the time to me, not to mention my interrupt never wants to interrupt anything and my Shadow Strike is really finicky on where "behind" the target actually is when I'm right behind them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theMeldo Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 happens to me a lot with stealth, sprint, my mount, blackout (in and out of stealth) and sometimes force cloak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dronepilot Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) I have the same problems as well. I thought maybe it was me I have this problems with several spells, that do not work in time and are delayed, by that time I can't defend my self any further because I already used resilience that went off way too late, or a Force wave that triggered too late. Also Force of Will that doesn't activate properly and seems to just cancel itself. Mind snap that when pressing on it just flashes a refresh and does not activate at all. The list goes on. I have had to stop PVP play for now because the skill activations are - or seem bugged. WZ - forget it now, if I can't do interrupts now, and do my rotations properly. Edited January 16, 2012 by dronepilot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BambamKauri Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 yea it happens to me too,also does it to me with mass mind control and deflection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalamMerkor Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Yep I have the same issue, glad it is being talked about in the forums, maybe if enough people do it will get fixed. Shadow needs to be fluid, nothing more frustrating than spamming force cloack ten times, it not working and then dying. Kalam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForceCowboy Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I have this problem too. In fact, I have a lot of problems with my Shadow. - Shadow Strike will only go off about 1/2 the time that I'm actually behind someone. The animation will start to happen and then the ability will cancel saying that I'm not behind them when I couldn't possibly be anymore behind them! - Shadow Strike will only actually do damage about 1/2 of the time that it actually goes off. So SS will only actually work about 1/2 the time I use it and then it will only cause damage about 1/2 the time it goes off. The force will be spent, the animation will happen and the GCD will cycle, but no number will pop up over their head. Considering I have all of the flytext disabled except my own personal damage, I know exactly when I'm doing damage. - Force Cloak will only go off some of the time and even when it does go off the NPC's sometimes don't realize it and they keep attacking me or my pet until we pop back out and die. - Qyzen Fess.. oh man. This is worth it's own thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meathammerz Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Thank the maker it's not just me. Hopefully they can fix this in 1.1a or whatever they decide to call it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardya Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) In crowds (Voidstar) it certainly is least effective which leads me to believe it's AoE's, delayed hits, and such. The shadow strike thing is much more of an issue for me. I am moving away from that attack and that attacks woe's. Edited January 16, 2012 by richardya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meathammerz Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 In crowds (Voidstar) it certainly is least effective which leads me to believe it's AoE's, delayed hits, and such. The shadow strike thing is much more of an issue for me. I am moving away from that attack and that attacks woe's. I respecced to balance a while ago, much for that reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krontiz Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 /signed Just hoping to keep this thread going as it seems many shadows are having this issue. For me personally it's all of my self buff abilities including mounting up. Only 75% of the time will these abilities activate. Even after spamming it a few times nothing happens. The only work around that I have found is to either select your self as a target (if not currently selected) or deselect yourself (if currently selected) and retrying the ability. This is a serious issue for both PvE and PvP alike. Here is to hoping this issue is addressed sooner rather than later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killername Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) Set ability queue to 0 and it will fill fix all of your off-GDC abilities from not activating. The only catch is that if your latency is high, your DPS may suffer. Edited January 16, 2012 by killername Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneDRTYrusn Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 My problem is that Force Cloak is almost useless to all open-world experiences. Whenever I force cloak "in the wild", my companion seems to re-aggro on something as soon as my force cloak successfully initiates. So, in short, I cloak, and quickly uncloak as a result of my companion attacking while cloaked. I'm not sure how bad this effects open-world PVP, but considering I get jumped by Imps when I'm mid-pull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varcan Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I haven't had this issue with FOrce Cloak. I do however have to hit Force Potency multiple times all the time to fire. Love getting halfway through a fight, wondering why my dmg seems, looking up to see Force Potency hasn't fired even though I'm now in a habit of pressing it 2-3 times. It's now on my mouse wheel, so I just wiggle it back and forth all the time hoping it'll fire eventually:p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardya Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Whenever I force cloak "in the wild", my companion seems to re-aggro on something as soon as my force cloak successfully initiates. Is this everywhere or just Illum? I seem to have it in Ilum with one type of IA npc if I am not mistaken. It the quest "Lord Loyout" or something it was unbearable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrasment Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 /Sign Happens to mee too. Sometimes after a burst rotation in a Wz and under enemy fire i always sprint + Resilence and Force Cloack for get me safe heal and back to the fight; but it seems that the first 2 work but rarely i can instacloack =\ And noticed too that the majority of times the Shadow Strike dont hit the target even if im behind him (sometimes the target is stunned also) and an error red message appear in the middle of my screen says "effect condition fail" or something similar =( Honestly i dont know if is a real skill bug or is only related to the latency.Hope to find an answer soon =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambunctious Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I have this problem too. In fact, I have a lot of problems with my Shadow. - Shadow Strike will only go off about 1/2 the time that I'm actually behind someone. The animation will start to happen and then the ability will cancel saying that I'm not behind them when I couldn't possibly be anymore behind them! - Shadow Strike will only actually do damage about 1/2 of the time that it actually goes off. So SS will only actually work about 1/2 the time I use it and then it will only cause damage about 1/2 the time it goes off. The force will be spent, the animation will happen and the GCD will cycle, but no number will pop up over their head. Considering I have all of the flytext disabled except my own personal damage, I know exactly when I'm doing damage. - Force Cloak will only go off some of the time and even when it does go off the NPC's sometimes don't realize it and they keep attacking me or my pet until we pop back out and die. - Qyzen Fess.. oh man. This is worth it's own thread. Same problems. I thought it was just me. Several other skills that have a cooldown will go grey like they fired, but did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krontiz Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) Set ability queue to 0 and it will fill fix all of your off-GDC abilities from not activating. The only catch is that if your latency is high, your DPS may suffer. Been playing since day 1 with a 0 ability queue... so I'll turn it back on then off again to see if this may be a good fix. Just not holding my breath on this one. Edited January 17, 2012 by Krontiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reii Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) +1 for 0.00 ability que. It screws up off-gcd abilities very badly if you have it more than 0. Edited January 17, 2012 by Reii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dronepilot Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) I'd imagine they are way off for a fix... It doesn't even work in PvE half the time, I remain in combat and the mobs whack away at my companion while we are both still in stealth. It's pretty buggy but I don't think I've played an mmo where this mechanic wasn't bugged for a while before getting fixed. I have had the same thing happen to me. I don't think Force Cloak works much of the time. They can still see you and attack you. Just as bad in PvP to be honest, some low level guys can see you too. Been playing since day 1 with a 0 ability queue... so I'll turn it back on then off again to see if this may be a good fix. Just not holding my breath on this one. Well I do already have mine on zero I have had on that for a good month. I can tell you this does not work. I still have the same problem with ability cues. Edited January 17, 2012 by dronepilot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krontiz Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 /sigh It would be nice to see an admin reply. If nothing else to say no change coming. This is really getting frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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