Anyone else seeing this? You try to feign death and your character just… stands there but it still goes on cooldown. It’s happening a lot and I’ve died several times because of it.
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It’s been a tale as old as time with Feign Death. Ever since Classic.
If you react too quickly, Feign Death will go on cooldown and like you said, you’ll be standing there like a doofus. It’s happened to me many times. If you actually stop for a half-second, then feign, it’ll have a higher chance of working. My guess is that it has to do with latency.
I remember it happening back in Legion but then it stopped and it was fine all of BFA, and now it’s happening again. I’m pretty sure something is causing it to break other than latency.
Blizzard has been getting DDoS’d for the past couple days, and several other times since Shadowlands release. It’s a latency issue.
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Maybe I’m wrong, and I only very casually play my Hunter, but it seems to me that if I’m attacking and then use FD, my auto attack will sometimes cancel it. I was looking to maybe set up a macro that would make me stop attacking before FD goes off.
I have experienced it. Mostly when I FD while still mounted on the bear in the Maw. Now I just remember to dismount, wait a second then FD.
Who knows? A macro canceling your last un-finished cast won’t hurt things, and it might help.
Yeah, I’ve noticed it there the most as well.
Is it a pet related issue? In Classic we had to make a macro that did a few different things to have a prayer of FD actually working.
And since I started playing Hunter in Retail a few days ago I was almost getting the same feeling that I needed to stop for a second before I hit FD to get it to actually work, but I am not using a macro right now.
The only thing I know that screws Feign Death is if you don’t stop moving. Feign Death doesn’t apply instantly, so if you Feign while running it won’t do anything.
There’s also a few things that can break Feign Death regardless. Assassins in the Maw totally ignore Feign Death, I think there’s a similar type of assassin mob in some Torghast levels that also ignores it. Some raid mechanics will still hit you and force you into combat.
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100% this. If you’re running or jumping, and then stop and feign very fast, it won’t work because the game will still think you’re moving due of latency. When you want to feign, just count to “1-mississippi” after stopping all actions to be 100% sure it triggers. If you need to, you can turtle and stop all actions for 2-3 seconds, then feign. Since turtle resets with most encounters it mostly won’t matter about the CD.
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Yup its happening all the time for me.