Guild Wars 2

I’m hoping this thread will bring more attention to a BIG ISSUE that is affecting many players hoping to enjoy Guild Wars 2 and I hope this current Living Story could be prolonged.

There are tons of players from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, England, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Romania and many other countries that started having really bad lag in GW2 servers all around Europe and other continents. Those players can play other online games without similar problems so it is not ISP that is messing. Problems started bit after Christmas holidays around same time than the large DDOS attack that occurred then. DOTA game had similar problems and rerouted their servers and problem was gone.

Overall experience is that player logs into game, no noticeable lag at start but soon there’s 5sec skill delay and worse. Many get Error 7 in the end. Doing Living Story marionette event for example is impossible and that is the main part of this LS. This lag renders PvP, WvW, Daily Activities unplayable as well.

Two big threads in Tech Support with no response from Anet.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Network-Lag-Merged/page/35#post3534481

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Crazy-lag-past-couple-of-days/first

Smaller threads are there as well from individual players that didn’t notice these ones.

For me this’ll be first LS that I am missing and thing is that I have time to do it but can’t get it done because of massive lag that starts shooting me through chest. Before this lag I really enjoyed this game but this has been going on for two weeks or so without any update to the situation.

Regards,
Mertine of Gandara EU
Avid GW2 player since September 2012

This should be in Tech Support or Game Bugs.