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Yes, lag can SOMETIMES in very specific circumstances delay or shorten your buff.

I just learned that myself recently.

Are you using a macro that has a 10 seconds pause and then does 5 flourishes at once?
Try shortening the pause to 8 seconds (but still let it run for 3:10 minutes). About 20% of the flourishes will not be done (meaning you will have a pause of 16 seconds then), but since you're doing them 20% faster than with 10 seconds, after 3:10 minutes you have done the same number of flourishes and the buff is 2 hours. It should prevent the issue where lag hits and affects your buff.

I think it was Tiaga who wrote a nice explanation to me 2 weeks ago, why 8 seconds is better than 10 seconds.

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Coreena wrote:
Yes, lag can SOMETIMES in very specific circumstances delay or shorten your buff.

I just learned that myself recently.

Are you using a macro that has a 10 seconds pause and then does 5 flourishes at once?
Try shortening the pause to 8 seconds (but still let it run for 3:10 minutes). About 20% of the flourishes will not be done (meaning you will have a pause of 16 seconds then), but since you're doing them 20% faster than with 10 seconds, after 3:10 minutes you have done the same number of flourishes and the buff is 2 hours. It should prevent the issue where lag hits and affects your buff.

I think it was Tiaga who wrote a nice explanation to me 2 weeks ago, why 8 seconds is better than 10 seconds.

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Right on the money, I am using 10s with 5flo.

I will rewrite my macro to accomodate this.

Also, I think that multitasking when appling the buff can cause this. One time the connection seemed to not have lag, and I was surfing the net when buffing. I hit a site that was down / slow to load, and I think this has the same effect.

Thanks for the confirmation and the input.