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[OniNoMeKyo]

It is a fairly common bug that can be repeated many times, in many different ways, with any job class, and is very detrimental to the game: Skill Locking.

This can occur when you use a skill before a loading screen or right before a monster/player character stuns you.
What it does is prevent you from using any skills afterward. The only solution I can think of is to relog(go to character select, sign back in) on that character.

The "reasonable" cause for this bug to happen is that the skill registers as being used and is in cool down but, at the same time, did not register and has no cool down time.

Not sure if this will happen in iRO, but it certainly is something to look out for.

[EstyDee]

This is a problem I have also experienced many times and it's terribly annoying... Especially since it seems to occur during boss fights and essentially renders me useless to the team during the most crucial times.

[Enantoiel]

I've been experiencing it a lot today and couldn't understand what was causing the bug. After reading OP, I realised I was casting buff skills while trying to enter IC.

[OniNoMeKyo]

Bumping for awareness.

It just happened earlier (around 5am PDT), while I was playing on my Priest.
Adventure King Poporing turned me into a Poporing while I was casting. It caused the Skill Lock bug, and I could no longer heal/DoT.

[coded]

This happen to me while I was in the wolf cave fighting the first boss. I re-log and it was working again. I'm glad they didn't put me outside of the dungen or at the beginning when I re-log. I spawned at the same spot.

[kwiqsilvr]

I have experienced this a few times while leveling and even once while healing in a raid (not a fun experience). But today I was in the final round of Colosseum and got skill locked. I basically had to get my ass kicked because i couldn't fight back. It was pretty infuriating and should be addressed.

[Funen1]

I got this while entering the first room of the Dimensional Crack instance, the reason being I had tried (and failed) to cast Renovatio on myself before the dungeon let me in. Thankfully this occurred during something I could easily exit, and not during a boss fight where everyone depended on me for survival, but it's still annoying. From a coding standpoint, I'm guessing that what's happening is some "silence" effect is applied to your character during those situations for one reason or another (boss tactics vs., say, not crashing the game during loading screens), but whatever is supposed to reactivate your ability to use skills isn't working properly. This is conjecture of course since I don't have access to the game's code, and it's probably written in a language I don't understand, but you get the idea.