Illusion/graphic error

[Vaion]

Will take a look at this in the next week when I get back home.

[John Stark]

I've been remiss in reporting some info that may be pertinent to this topic.

I found myself taking buffs on and off a few days ago trying to decide on which ones to block, and in doing so realized that my screen was sometimes flickering.

I went into a 3rd person camera mode, and proceeded to click off every buff I had on as fast as I could, and saw my character flicker through the various Halloween worn illusions (my character is wearing the earring, the cloak for back slot, the shroud for shoulders, the ring, and the belt). I also use the clicky illusion from the VT breastplate for the extra offensive power (invisible man illusion).

Also, this flickering takes place every time I zone, and the flickering sometimes cycles through each worn illusion multiple times when zoning.

Anyways, I believe this glitch has something to do with buffs and the worn illusions, and that in my previous post about AoE spells debuffing and causing the flicker, I was in error. I don't believe it is the AoE per se that is causing the flicker, but the removal of the buffs while wearing the worn illusion effects.

With regards to zoning and the flickering, perhaps its something to do with the server checking which buffs the character has, and somehow the various illusions worn causes the check to happen repeatedly?

While in fights with bosses that AoE debuff, and when zoning, this flickering is causing extreme lag, and I've had the client crash a few times, as has my wife on her computer.

Also, I've noticed that zoning is taking a lot longer than previously, and that other characters without the worn Halloween illusions are not experiencing that.

Hope that is helpful.

Regards.

[Alulien]

I've also noticed extreme lag only on the toon with Halloween illusions, but only when I'm in a "busy" situation: the other night helping with the Cleric epic 3.0 fight in DN my SK was about 30 seconds behind my other toons (there were like 34 in zone?), and when I took off the items the SK "caught up" over the next few minutes. Adding/removing buffs certainly causes the issue, which is why I think the AE dispell is a perfect scenario to test with since you're removing multiple buffs at once which causes the glitching. I can't speak to the toon wearing Halloween items taking longer to zone since he uses a completely different eqclient.ini than all my others. I can say, however, that the problem has not been impacted by any of the updates since this was first noticed.

[huffdady]

Me too (UF Client), I have noticed this same thing, now that I am in ToV and the mobs have more AOE's.
This glitching between the 3 forms is getting worse and causing crazy lag. I"m almost to the point of forgoing the awesominess of these items and replace them with gear I can find, just to get rid of the illusions.

[Vaion]

It's on the list to look at in the next day or two. I already changed the system to only require updates of specific bonuses (worn vs spell) depending on the situation and more than likely there is an AoE check that slipped through the cracks.

[John Stark]

Thanks you Vaion.

[Vaion]

Ok here are upcoming changes:

o Fixed recalculation errors of when the game needs to calculate item vs spell vs AA bonuses. These rules now apply:
Item Bonuses - On zone in and when an item is moved in the inventory.
Spell Bonuses - On zone in and when any spell is added or deleted to the buff/song bars
AA Bonuses - On zone in and when any AA value changes (a new rank is purchased)

This should fix the issue with the worn2 illusions cycling while fighting unless you are moving items during those fights (i.e. Clickies, weapons, etc). Sadly this will not fix the zone in occurances due to the fact that the game HAS to recalculate all bonuses whenever you zone. I will go about setting up a item swapper though so players can swap out worn2 illusion items for the same copy of the item without the illusion. This will help players solidify which illusion they want to wear anyway

[Vaion]

Npc/exchange quest made. New NPC will swap out any current worn2 illusion for a copy of same item without the worn2. You will also be able to swap back if you want to change appearances And all Augs are saved on exchange.

[Alulien]

Awesome!!! Thanks for providing us the ability to choose which worn illusion we display!

[John Stark]

Great fix, and its great you took the time to fix something that probably doesn't effect many players.

Thanks very much!