This is a serious problem for this class and has got my Paladin killed more times than I can count. In my experience it has happened at least 50% of the times I have tried to use the ability. My thinking is that it may occur when you are stunned or in some other ability-disabling state and try to use the ability. This is an extremely likely scenario if you're in a fight and getting beat on. The ability doesn't go off, but the server puts the ability on cooldown anyway.
I haven't seen any response to this issue this save for a recognition that there is a problem with the button/skill refreshing before changing zones (not a huge deal).
When this happens, it's not a case of LoH still being on cooldown, as others have suggested - I've seen it happen in cases where I had not used the ability in hours, had zoned recently and the hotkey was up and ready:
You click the button or hit your hot key and nothing happens...no heal, not even a resist/failed message.
Yet the button goes on cooldown (greys out). You can try to keep clicking the button, but you will get a message "You haven't recovered yet..."
Theeeeen, after 10-15 seconds (if you're still alive, because if you're in a situation where you tried to pop LoH you were probably in deep shit) the button will become usable again but will now throw a cooldown at you ("You can use the ability Lay on Hands again in 1 hour 15 minutes 30 seconds", etc.) even though you never actually got to use the ability. Bollocks. This bug is extremely common and robs the Paladin class of its greatest skill.
|