Anyone else recently, noticed that sometimes you are pressing the skill button may it be on keyboard or with controller it simply does not activate resulting in you pressing it again to make sure it activates. From the previous beta’s and the first few days of launch it seemed to be more consistent with skill activations vs now…
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My internet has been acting up lately. Otherwise the game plays fine for me.
Definitely having this issue on Xbox Series X. It’s only been a big problem recently and there is 190+ comments on it under console discussion.
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Yeah one of my console friends said its like not that great right now. Considering i can hear them mashing the button over voice comm LOL. Just weird i’ve been seeing it more frequently on PC as of the last patch.
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Yes, as a Storm Druid, my skills are completely wonky. Most of the time I have to pound the cast buttons to get them to work and if I dodge mid cast on several skills I get completely stuck for about 1 - 2 seconds. Blizzard/not blizzard. AAA/Indie, whatever you want to label something or how much money you dump into it, this game beyond its story arc is an early access at best. Grindy, empty gameplay loop with stellar art and story (subjective) sitting on a coding nightmare. If they held back everything interesting for seasons, they should have launched with seasons. Blizzards carrot on a stick with EVERYTHING is getting old.
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Does Blizzard plan on addressing this at all? Has there been any feedback from the devs about the general delay on skill inputs? It’s horrendous lately. I can barely even play and I’m a thousand plus hour player and this has only recently become a terrible issue.
D4 has suffered with this problem since its launch. As a barb trying to activate shouts I have seen and experienced numerous times where I have been pressing the shouts buttons for (at its worst 3 or 4 seconds) before they activate. D3 experienced it as well although not as bad as D4.
I have to admit I dont really think very highly of Blizzard coders lately. Pretty amateurish to be honest.
Thats the spell or skill queuing. Pretend you’re playing a turn based rpg. 
Hey there,
Now a year later Im facing the Problems more than ever since the last update. Internet stable, FPS Stable but constantly occuring problems with skills activation.
when there are many monbs feels like i have to leave the mouse buttons to become able to trigger a keyboard skill. And sometimes that needs more than one push… that really makes the game play feel not fluent and annoying sometimes!
But also after vampire dodging sometimes the char stands around like stunned for more than 1sec in a bulk of mobs.
Is that all a game problem or can i do something about it by changing some parameter settings in the game options? pls help!
So there’s multiple issues here, one of the things you’re describing is a relatively new bug (well, it started happening late last season, at least that was the first time I noticed it) where after using certain skills (evade certainly, maybe a few others) you are stuck in a state where the character isn’t animating or doing anything, but you also can’t perform any other actions. Loss of player control for a significant time (literally like 1-2 seconds at least), that’s a bad one.
Then there’s a more general issue which I think others have described here, which is simply that certain animation states lock the player until they’re done and you can’t cancel out of it. it’s really noticeable on stuff like the Barbarian’s Upheaval. If you’re trying to spam other skills while that is happening, it’s going to feel pretty unresponsive, whether you have to wait (if they’re queued) or hit the button again later, either way is less than ideal.
Then there’s some other thing where, for some inexplicable reason, certain actions just plain don’t trigger in certain scenarios and you have to hit the button multiple times… I notice it even on stuff you wouldn’t expect (e.g. for some reason even opening the inventory doesn’t want to work under certain conditions…) not sure what it is here, but something is just blocking input for a while occasionally based on ???
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Whatever it is still needs fixing.
My two most common situations:
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Running around a Helltide on my mount, I must repeatedly spam my “1” button for the dismount attack to happen. It NEVER just happens with one press.
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Casting a conjuration like Ice Blades or Lightning Spear, typically require MULTIPLE key presses before they actually happen. Sometimes I press these while spamming Frozen Orb, but sometimes even when I’m not casting anything else this happens.
Frustrating.
Yeah, I’ve noticed on my Series X that my Cold imbuement for my Rouge doesn’t always fire and same with Corpse Tendrils for my Necro. Could be cause I usually have those skills set to the RT button and maybe I’m not pressing it fully vs the face buttons.
I think a lot of people do not understand that attack speed is what causes this. If your rate of attack is X attacks per second you can only use (some) skills when that global cool down has finished. It’s not lag. Some skills ignore the GCD like defensive skills.
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I’ve played all 5 seasons with different builds and some that have decent attack speed built into it. Doesn’t matter, you can literally see the skill ready on the bar and you’ll need to press it 1 to 2 or 3 times to get it to trigger.
Frankly I’ve seen it the most on Necro, Sorc and Rogue with some select abilities.
Go into the game with Sorc
Equip Frozen Orb
Equip Lighting Spear
Cast Frozen Orb
Imediatly Cast Lighting Spear
Observe that Lighting spear does not cast
(Do the same thing again and spam the button for LS and notice it takes about 3 clicks to cast it.)
This is not lag and is what most people observe when they think it is lagging in the middle of battle.
I have no doubt there is SOME lag in the game game but it is not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It is mostly this totally built in mechanic of the game.
There are some skills, mostly attack skills, that all share a GCD for your Attack Speed. Based on your Weapon speed and the Attack speed. This is normal.
My incinerate is so clunky, takes 1 sec to start doing anything. Noticeably worse in WT4.
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You say, but then…
So what is it?
game actually runs pretty smooth on my ps5. i actually prefer playing on it when my wife isnt in the living room. but the only time i notice lag, not input lag but lag in general, is at the world boss.
my latency is 80-130ms and on a new solo sorc, less than 5 conjuration stacking and lightning spear just don’t want to trigger with keypress.
It’s the qualifiers that come after it you nincompoop.