Leafy_Bug Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Dear All, I play a watchman sentinel and i have had some issues with it for a year now but lately they have become more and more prevalent. First and foremost, merciless slash does not trigger, does half the animation, stops and then i have to hit it again. This leads to a lost stack and major loss in damage throughout the whole fight. Zealous strike and slash often fail to hit and stop mid animation as well. How can I enjoy this class and help my raid when it behaves this way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_Blade Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Unfortunately, i think this is a network connection issue. What does your average ping run at? Is this also while testing at a dummy or in an actual raid? If a dummy, the fleet one is never a good one to test against. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leafy_Bug Posted June 20, 2013 Author Share Posted June 20, 2013 Many times in ops and my lag is 25-50ms when it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeyboardNinja Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) This is a problem across all classes. It seems particularly problematic with classes that have a very high APM (Combat sentinels are terrible in this respect). My current working theory is that it's an interaction between animations. I can *reliably* produce a false cast on my Combat sentinel with the following short sequence: Leap > (Inspiration + Valorous + Zen) Zealous Strike. If I hit the Zealous Strike exactly on the GCD following Leap, it will false cast and I will need to wait a full GCD before I can use anything. Edited June 20, 2013 by KeyboardNinja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausgelebt Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I am averaging a 49apm and this only happens if you spam your keys to fast. I set the ability queue to 1 second and press my buttons once. Problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leafy_Bug Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 I am averaging a 49apm and this only happens if you spam your keys to fast. I set the ability queue to 1 second and press my buttons once. Problem solved. I will try this again. Tried it a few months ago and i gave up on a fix. I will do this hopefully there is a miracle and it reduces the amount my sentinel breaks animations. SWTOR is a living thing, you leave it alone and it fails to work on its own but if you sing soft kitty it comes back to life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeyboardNinja Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I am averaging a 49apm and this only happens if you spam your keys to fast. I set the ability queue to 1 second and press my buttons once. Problem solved. Actually, I find that going in the other direction (to a 250 ms queue) works better than going to a full second, especially since that is the full duration of a GCD under Ataru Zen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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