Guild Wars 2

Due to the search function still not working I can’t find a thread on the issue.

For the last few days I have experienced constant lag in the box. Lag of one second is pretty much the standard I am playing at. In normal mode this is bad but in tribulation mode it makes crossing certain areas a luck based feat. In W1Z3 right at the start I keep dying on my way up of spikes that are miles away because the server can’t keep track of where I am.

Funny thing is, it only happens in the SAB. The rest of Tyria runs smoothly as always. How does that even happen? Shouldn’t I be alone in the instance? Does guesting to another server help?

A lot of people are getting this and I don’t think it helps to switch. The only comment Josh had on the matter (that I’ve read) was that it’s new content so a lot of people are doing it… aka causing lag.

I didn’t experience the lag too badly, just a bit here and there. That was until I got to the lilly pads on the frog boss. The things cost me about 5 continue coins

I know what you mean, I dodgejump onto the stone and pray it lets me get to the large pads. Jumping directly onto the lillypads always drops me. Just know I gave up on the spot pictured since I only managed to get to the jumping pad two times in 20 tries. It kills me while I’m still standing on the stump and aim for the mushrooms. Even if I stand on the outermost patch faaaar away from the spikes.

Yeeeep. I know exactly what you mean. For me, the massive lag started on Sunday and lasted for about 3 days. Like you, the lag only occurred in SAB and Activities; running around in town or the open world was completely fine.

From that I concluded that the connection between Australia and whichever server was hosting those two activities was broken. There was a thread on the Bugs forum on the weekend that noticed a jump in latency between the Paris and Washington nodes, so that might be the cause if you’re playing in Europe. Guesting to a low-pop server doesn’t help (I tried). There’s not much we can do except hope and pray that it improves.

The lag started for me today. Really frustrating.