Guild Wars 2

A few precursor bits of info here:

A) My computer is a beast. At no point do I experience exceptionally low framerates during the dragon battle. I hold a solid 20-25FPS DURING the battle, 40-50 soloing around the world (all max visuals)
B) Considering I’m a software dev by trade and a long time gamer, I’d like to think I do know the difference between server and client side lag
C) But in case you don’t buy B- I constantly monitor my connection on another computer screen. 12ms pings against google with 0 packet loss
D) I am on Tarnished Coast server

OK! Now that the above info is out of the way…

Nighttime battles against dragons can be pretty rough for me Skill lag can be rather insane during Teq and Jormag, taking as long as 6-8 seconds for one of my skills to register that I hit it and go off. My client is showing it as being pressed (the skill starts flickering like “hey, I’m about to go off!”, but the skill doesn’t actually activate for those 8 seconds.

The dragon battles are awesome. I love them. But at the same time, this skill lag kills my interest in them entirely. Rather than battling for the fun of it, I’m just there for the reward. Rather than using strategy or skill, I’m just hitting buttons and hoping SOMETHING will activate and get a few more points of damage done in my name. It’s rather unfortunate, since the dragon mechanic is amazing

So I was curious- is there any mention of whether this is being looked at, or is it something we’ll just need to get used to?

Tolmos.8395:

A few precursor bits of info here:

A) My computer is a beast. At no point do I experience exceptionally low framerates during the dragon battle. I hold a solid 20-25FPS DURING the battle, 40-50 soloing around the world (all max visuals)
B) Considering I’m a software dev by trade and a long time gamer, I’d like to think I do know the difference between server and client side lag
C) But in case you don’t buy B- I constantly monitor my connection on another computer screen. 12ms pings against google with 0 packet loss
D) I am on Tarnished Coast server

OK! Now that the above info is out of the way…

Nighttime battles against dragons can be pretty rough for me Skill lag can be rather insane during Teq and Jormag, taking as long as 6-8 seconds for one of my skills to register that I hit it and go off. My client is showing it as being pressed (the skill starts flickering like “hey, I’m about to go off!”, but the skill doesn’t actually activate for those 8 seconds.

The dragon battles are awesome. I love them. But at the same time, this skill lag kills my interest in them entirely. Rather than battling for the fun of it, I’m just there for the reward. Rather than using strategy or skill, I’m just hitting buttons and hoping SOMETHING will activate and get a few more points of damage done in my name. It’s rather unfortunate, since the dragon mechanic is amazing

So I was curious- is there any mention of whether this is being looked at, or is it something we’ll just need to get used to?

From the patch notes: “Optimizations;
We’re rolling out our first set of optimizations. This is the first in many steps involved in helping resolve issues with “skill lag.” Some players will experience a slight improvement in skill lag issues with large groups of players, while some players may also experience a slight raise in their FPS.”