Question Re: Ticks and Recovery

[Voland]

I noticed my hp jumping up and down too, someone told me it had to do with client/server sync.

[Daldaen]

Originally Posted by Voland [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I noticed my hp jumping up and down too, someone told me it had to do with client/server sync.

This is correct.

You will have one tick, a fake tick. Bringing you up. Then another tick, the real tick, dropping you down 1-2 HP or Mana.

If you stand after the Fake tick but before the real tick, you won't gain sitting HP/Mana, just the standing regen.

Sometimes these ticks are 5 seconds apart, sometimes they are 1 second apart. I'm not exactly clear on what causes this. But you need to be sitting during both of them to get sitting regen.

It's very easy to see this in effect if you just watch your HPs and then count the time between fake and real ticks. If you're canni dancing or med kiting it's very important to know when you need to sit and when you can stand and move a little.

[Zuut]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is correct.

You will have one tick, a fake tick. Bringing you up. Then another tick, the real tick, dropping you down 1-2 HP or Mana.

If you stand after the Fake tick but before the real tick, you won't gain sitting HP/Mana, just the standing regen.

Sometimes these ticks are 5 seconds apart, sometimes they are 1 second apart. I'm not exactly clear on what causes this. But you need to be sitting during both of them to get sitting regen.

It's very easy to see this in effect if you just watch your HPs and then count the time between fake and real ticks. If you're canni dancing or med kiting it's very important to know when you need to sit and when you can stand and move a little.

When I was a younger shaman trying to canni between sitting med ticks, I noticed two things that may have an effect on this... or they may have just been my mind trying to correlate things by any means. The first was that certain UIs seemed have been effected by it more than others. The second was my ping.

I can buy the ping issue as a cause, but I think the UI issue would require someone to replicate the problem before I could be confident in the claim.

Just my initial observations.