First time this happened (yesterday), I was in the end battle (Marut) after talking to Clipse and trying to rescue Veil (Laughing Knives arc). It started like a normal lag storm, lost the ability to interact except maybe once every 6-8 seconds, wouldn't take key commands, and would stutter move (a couple of laggy steps forward, then jerks back to a previous placement). Died to the Marut. Also oddly, my Cleric hireling went brain-dead. On "aggressive" setting, didn't fight, didn't heal, etc. Just died a little before I died. I ALT-TAB'd out, checked my connection, background processes, etc. and nothing was amiss. Back in game, could run freely again, and wrote it off as a freak occurrence. I used a spirit cake, healed, and re-engaged. Exact same thing happened again. This time after dying did a full diagnostic and quickly restarted the game. Logged back in still in the mission, bought another spirit cake, got to a safe location, healed up. Waited. I could move around the rest of the area fine, so I re-engaged (Marut was very low on health). Exact same thing, froze to almost no interaction, died. Quit, left game for the day.
Today I played ALTs and figured it was a fluke/bugged mission. Except that this evening, I tried a mission in the Wheloon prison (first mission in the arc), and in battling the first larger group of barrier-smashers the exact same circumstance kicked in. Hireling went into dip-$%!t mode - wouldn't attack/heal, got killed. I attempted to disengage lag-running/yo-yo-ing back, casting buff spells (stoneskin, etc.) (which eventually after 8-10 seconds appeared to take effect). Still couldn't target/effect mobs. Had to teleport out (which worked after about the 8th cast) to avoid dying. *** folks?
Newer players would leave this game in a heartbeat if this frustrating nonsense was the norm. Is this a bug? Is anyone else experiencing this?
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Today I played ALTs and figured it was a fluke/bugged mission. Except that this evening, I tried a mission in the Wheloon prison (first mission in the arc), and in battling the first larger group of barrier-smashers the exact same circumstance kicked in. Hireling went into dip-$%!t mode - wouldn't attack/heal, got killed. I attempted to disengage lag-running/yo-yo-ing back, casting buff spells (stoneskin, etc.) (which eventually after 8-10 seconds appeared to take effect). Still couldn't target/effect mobs. Had to teleport out (which worked after about the 8th cast) to avoid dying. *** folks?
Newer players would leave this game in a heartbeat if this frustrating nonsense was the norm. Is this a bug? Is anyone else experiencing this?
Thanks in advance for any feedback.