Bug type:
Gameplay, Character, Functionality
Brief bug summary:
Certain familiar types, when summoned, can eat skill inputs
More details:
Certain familiars have effects that apply to your character every 10 seconds. When the effect is applied, there is a brief period where skill inputs will not properly activate. This can create pretty negative experiences, such as players dying due to iframes not activating, or players missing damage due to buffs not activating before burst. I believe this has been a bug since the familiar system has been introduced, but I have not seen many people talking about the bug, or other threads on the matter. As far as I know, the bug applies to every familiar that gives you the "Unique Familiar Skill" buff (see image), but also applies to other familiars such as healing familiars, whenever the healing effect is applied. I have not tested whether my inputs are affected by other player's healing familiars, but I believe that may be the case as well based on my own anecdotal experience; certain skills feel "laggy" in party bosses and require multiple inputs to activate.
Examples of familiar effects that are affected by the bug are:
Familiars that Increase Drop Rate
Familiars that change your appearance, such as "Shrouds your character in darkness"
Familiars that heal HP and MP to party members.
Examples of skill effects that get eaten when familiar effects are applied:
Terms and Conditions (Angelic Buster Link Skill)
Aoenian Rise (Genesis Iframe)
Krrr Ring
Steps to reproduce:
Summon an affected familiar that is affected by the bug. As soon as the "Unique Familiar Skill" buff is re-applied to your character, or as soon as your character gets healed by a healing familiar, try to activate one of the affected skills within one second. Your skill will not activate. I've personally tested this with the three skills above, but I believe other skills and familiars are affected. This is consistently reproduceable, and was able to reproduce the bug 10 times in a row over a period of 100 seconds using the skill "Aeonian Rise" and a "Shrouds your character in darkness" familiar.
Character name:
Wilki
Character level:
275
Character job:
Arch Mage (F/P)
World name:
NA Reboot
Date and time of the incident:
June 4th, 2023, 2:20 Eastern Daylight Time
