Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Kheten]

So uhh as of the last week, and a lot this week, there has been a severe bug going on for me. I don't know if any other DRGs have encountered this, but from time to time when I use an off-GCD ability buff, the game will just eat it. The cooldown will go off, the animation will go off, and absolutely nothing happens.

It bothers the shit out of me and worse of all whenever BFB or Power Surge gets eaten my DPS dies and myself a little inside. Looking for people who have encountered this.

[Ayvar]

So uhh as of the last week, and a lot this week, there has been a severe bug going on for me. I don't know if any other DRGs have encountered this, but from time to time when I use an off-GCD ability buff, the game will just eat it. The cooldown will go off, the animation will go off, and absolutely nothing happens.

It bothers the shit out of me and worse of all whenever BFB or Power Surge gets eaten my DPS dies and myself a little inside. Looking for people who have encountered this.

This is an old bug and can happen to any class, but is more noticeable to Dragoons since we have so many oGCD abilities. There are two problems however: 1) There are too many people who either don't spam their oGCD abilities like us, or don't pay attention to whether their buffs actually get applied (you see the animation, but the actual buff icon never applies), and so always say that this never happens. 2) It is very difficult to reproduce as the circumstances of its occurrence are unpredictable, and are due to slight differences in the cast of your oGCD and GCD abilities that occur due to server lag and ability spam. The only way I've found to deal with it is to try avoiding spamming your abilities too much. Let the GCD go about halfway through, then hit the oGCD ability and make sure it has applied before even touching your next regular ability.

My belief is that moving too quickly into a regular ability right after casting an oGCD ability can "interrupt" its application. The reason it is not easily reproducible is because the timing between the trigger of the oGCD and regular ability have to almost overlap each other, which can only occur due to very slight differences in game timing.