Characters Getting Lagged/Bugged:

[cavedude]

Originally Posted by So_1337

This has happened in multiple zones and to multiple characters. What will happen is that you'll be buffing/nuking/attacking/whatever, and you'll suddenly notice that your spell icons are all greyed out, or that your character has stopped attacking. Your lag meter will show no packet loss, you'll be able to send and receive chat as normal and run around, but you won't ever be able to cast or attack again until you /q and log back in.

What you describe is what is generally known as simply being "bugged." There is no one thing that can cause this, just about anything can cause this to happen. I am able to re-produce it pretty easily with pickpocket. Generally what is happening is the client sends a packet to the server and awaits one back. The return packet never arrives either due to a missing/incorrect opcode, system that isn't implemented in the code, a bug in the code, or anything else under the sun, so the client just sits there and waits. Since the packet never comes, the client never moves forward and so you have to log to clear it. Your best bet it to nail it down to certain functions that cause this behavior (a certain spell or ability, etc) and report it. Half of the battle is simply finding what is causing the client to bug, with the next step being of course fixing it.

[So_1337]

Alright then. I was just thinking there was something in the log that would be more indicative and conclusive if it were an OpCode error. I'll see if I can isolate it in some testing. Thanks for the reply.