Thats what it says when it is trying to find a target and doesn't. Thats his name. Mine says my name when it misfires. That box lasts about 20 second maybe less.
Yep, got this on a provoked monster.
I'm going to agree with you and say it has something to do with provoking since that's the only time it's happened to me.
Except that it happened when there were ZERO provokers present at some of the invasions (often, I'm one of two bards on LA there, and in that case the other wasn't around, and I was on one of my chiv users to get a Titan in for rewards - an ABC, a macer/smith, or a melee T-hunter). The only person it was happening as the displaying target for EoO was NOT a bard, but a character using a trained lesser hiryu with Chivalry as its magic skill - and it only started for ALL THREE of my characters mentioned after the Hiryu started spamming HL - in at least 2 cases where I was the only one fighting the general before the Hiryu came in, and there was nothing in the area to provo on it in the first place. And, strangely, none of the other melee character players on LA are reporting this happening when my Tamer/Bard is provoing masses of 3-8 things all onto each other - though that might be a factor of rarely seeing non-tamers in the field in this event.
I will not argue with you, but I would say that I know the provo caused and causes this ----- now if something else causes it also, then I certainly wouldn't dispute that.
Not just invasions, this is a old bug that has hasn't been addressed for over 10 years. Most people don't even notice it, and when they do they just "oh well". Go to any boss on an archer with a group that has a provoker and you'll quickly understand. It may be intermittent for some people but it's lasted solidly for me for years. And it's not just "hits on first try, has nothing to do with that, it makes EoO go from over 240 seconds and instantly drop to 12 seconds duration on a 32k karma archer.
Archer bard here. I provoke any time something is near. Like I said. I went to a starting invasion in Glow. Thats a good one to test things on you can stand outside the fence and test damage or whatever. I found a non general by itself and did not use any skills except EoO. It took about 5 or more tries to make it work. Then I went to Chaos. There happened to be a paragon stone gargoyle there. I provoked it onto the Balron. Clicked EoO and attacked the Balron and it accepted on the first hit.
