Hey folks,
I am trying to understand exactly what it is thats going on. I feel like there is some mechanic I may be missing or inadvertently running into over and over and over. So im posting it here, to try and figure out if its the game or me.
Combat, I know there is a delay from when you get out of combat to being in a non combat "stance" as it were. but it seems like instead of getting better it is getting worse..or annoying me more. So here goes:
-jumping: non combat jump no mobs around, i take damage from a fall over over like 20 hp, i go into combat mode for several seconds.
-pets: I have no idea what is going on but unless im using my BC pet as a mana tank I never use pets anymore, as they seem to love staying in combat (other issues too but see other posts on pets)
-DoTs: if i have dots, one of my part members have dots, I put a dot on a now dead mob, combat. this can be from a few seconds or until a 30 second dot ends. I can literally have portaled to a new zone with the dot ticking and still be in combat.
After combat: no dots rolling, solo hunting and just hanging out in combat mode. its like it just freezes for a bit, then 10-20 or so seconds later everything will catch up and my bars are full and im out of combat. not sure whats going on there.
Now I love the game so its not a gripe fest but i dont understand what it is that I am doing, or some mechanic im missing, or if its just kind of a known slow down mechanism. And each one would be fine on its own but all together i feel like there is a lot of un-needed combat "slowing" in the game right now.
I get that power is your ability in game is used to measure your ability to do activities, but it seems to me right now that instead of being a capping stat to make sure you dont spam epic attacks its biggest usage right now is used to make sure you dont run very far or do anything very fast because it takes a delayed time to get out of combat mode. Im going out on a limb and guess this is not the intent. because the game is fun, exploring, crafting leveling mats, doing events, even yes growing cotton to achieve and end is all fun. However; being consistently slowed down by combat mode is not so much on the fun.
So that is what I am experiencing and I am sure I am not alone, I am wondering how have other people gotten around this? just accept it? is there something I am missing?
-Ponderously yours
Yak