Note delays on Musical Harp

#1 - March 20, 2014, 3:29 p.m.
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There’s always been some kind of short delay on the first note you play with the Musical Harp. For convenience’s sake, I’m going to call this the FND (First Note Delay).

Since last patch (March 18th 2014), I’ve been having issues with the Musical Harp. When I’m in the middle of playing a song, I suddenly get an FND.

From what I understand, any time there’s a pause in one of my songs, the next note I play will “break the stream” and put me back in combat animation (instead of the harp playing animation), and the next note will have an FND.

Usually, when I stop playing for two seconds or so, the character smoothly leaves the playing animation and enters the combat animation. When the bug occurs, the character suddenly jerks into combat animation without the transition animation.

It’s been impossible for me to play any slow-paced songs, or any song with pauses in them at all since last patch.

Thanks in advance!

#2 - March 20, 2014, 6:56 p.m.
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Hey Rangelost, I’ll look into this. Thanks for the report!

#6 - March 21, 2014, 11:30 a.m.
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There is definitely some wonkiness with the “grace period” between animations. Thanks again for the reports! We’ll get it sorted out as quickly as possible.

#8 - April 10, 2014, 1:04 p.m.
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First note delay will be removed from Drum and Harp on Apr 15.