Curse

Gnuz Tokomi · Sep 17, 2006, 12:26 PM // 12:26

I've been working on some ritualist cycles at Balth Temple (since the recent changes) and I noticed something I think is a bug with the way the engine is handling energy - near continuous casting over a period of minutes exibits something that I'll describe as 'like a memory leak' but in the characters mana. Initially, everything works as you would expect, a 15e skill can be cast with only 15e in the bar - but as time went on, this changed.. First to having to have 16e showing to successfully cast a 15e skill (and I thought I was miskeying), but then 17e, and 18... The skills cost is accurate - casting takes the stated cost in e from the bar, but attempting to trigger the skill with only the cast amount showing produced a 'not enough energy' cast failure. After some minutes I was at a point where I had to have 30 mana showing to successfuly cast a 25 mana skill.

'Resting' for a short while seems to reset whatever it is, but near continuous casting leads to it getting worse over time.

Tested further with a guildie, he suffers the same effect. In use was a ritualist/ranger with 13 spawning, 14 communing and 6 restoration cycling: shelter, union, life, displacement, serpent's quickness, Spirit Channeling and doom as skills came up and energy permitted.

update:

- further testing confirms the effect, I have yet to find if it has a 'ceiling', but a looong cycle pushed it to the point I needed to have 40e showing for a 25 cast, (and 11e for a 5e cast)

- a guild monk reports suffering it in AB, now that she knows what to look for.

- support job lodged, will advise any response(s)

My Sweet Revenga · Sep 17, 2006, 09:13 PM // 21:13

Yeah I've noticed this before. I have 5 energy to cast a 5e skill, yet it won't let me use it til I have 7e. I just attributed it to lag or a bug. Annoying yes. Crippling.... I dunno I play mostly PVE. I'm sure for PVP it would be critical to get something like this fixed if it is a calculating bug.

Scavenger Rage · Sep 17, 2006, 09:55 PM // 21:55

I play PVP and this is killing me. Expecialy whith my assasin when i try to cast Heart of Shadow after a failed attempt to combo a warrior or and ele or whatever and even if i have 6e on the energy bar it simply wont allow me saying i don´t have enough energy.

All I can do for now is carry a +5nrg weapon so I can switch when i need to run away, and still, it is an annoying and incapacitating bug for PVP players.

Latter.

Ghozer · Sep 18, 2006, 12:17 PM // 12:17

this was happening a while ago (right before the release of factions tbh) And it seemed to be server lag, Due to the fact of the updates they were doing...

But if it works, then gets progressivly worse, i dont know what it could be this time....