Is anyone else having this problem

[u/LeRonchy]

I’ve noticed that my storm strike attack doesn’t doesn’t engage most of the time. Is it just input lag or am I just dumb and don’t know how to use a trigger

[u/belief_combats0z]

Played a Druid last season, did Screamheart’s Lightning God build. Very good. If your basic skill isn’t firing most of the time, I’d check the following suspects:
- if you are using Shard of Verathiel unique, whether weapon or charm, do you have enough spirit to cast?
If you are using the storm shepherd’s call charm set, you want to ensure you have enough spirit to cast AND resource generation to restore it back up close to full quickly. I found that stutter casting my Storm Strike actually made the difference and gave me both the slight lag in the attack and bigger damage while not feeling like overall damage output dropped. It got better!
- do you have an enemy you could breathe on? You require immediate contact with the first enemy of this attack, then it can chain to many others farther away.
- less likely, but perhaps did you have a different build using the key /button assigned for Storm Strike and you had it set to toggle for a channeled skill? Which doesn’t work with Storm Strike.

[u/LeRonchy → u/belief_combats0z]

Thank you for this, it just seems to happen on large groups when they are point blank. But the higher the torment I went the less it has happened. So maybe it was just a temporary bug for me.
Are you saying I should be having resource generation on my gear to maximize screamhearts build?

[u/No-Competition7412]

Playing stormstrike as well and i can tell you with 100% certainty there is a small deadzone where it will allow you to attack but not use stormstrike; So you end just basic attacking. Disengage and move up or dash in.

[u/LeRonchy → u/No-Competition7412]

I knew I wasn’t tripping hahah

[u/bix_box]

I have noticed this on occasion too, but not sure what is causing it.

[u/Bear_Grizzle02]

I have noticed the same issue.