Guild Wars 2

Hey, first time posting here, so I might make some cardinal sins of formatting or similar. My issue here is that during prime times (roughly 6:30 to midnight GMT) I get unplayable lag, including but not limited to disconnects, skill lag lasting 3 minutes or so, not being able to interact with npcs, pm’s not working but guild chat is working and more. To give you some kind of idea imagine using a mobility skill and seeing it’s icon pulse for a few minutes as if it was queued, autoattacking out of boredom, and then 5 minutes later have the entire game fast forward, making you run into a wall before getting put in the character select screen. This is not just in LA, World Bosses etc, this is in niche jumping puzzles like the one in Fields of Ruin and Diessa Plateau. I’m not sure if this is regular with the influx of free to play players but it certainly isn’t fun, especially when I study late into the evening and return to an unplayable gw2. People say that 1-3 second lag is ‘unplayable’, welcome to my world.

Does anyone else experience this? I’ve tried playing on clientport 80, 443 and have run a -diag test, but the diag seems normal and the ports change little in the grand scheme of things, making 20s skill lag go to about 5s. I’ve closed all my additional programs and flushed my DNS (tried everything on the gw2 website basically) but it’s not working that well. Anyway, tl;dr – I have lots of lag and despite lots of attempts I can’t seem to fix it. Any wonderful e-citizens who are willing to help me would be greatly appreciated, thanks a bunch!

It may be ISP related. I’m in the UK and on my previous provider Orange between 2013 and early 2014 I would often get prime time lag and stuck on waypoint loading screens. For some reason only Guild Wars 2 traffic was being wrongly restricted. I eventually tried using a VPN and it was a night and day difference – game would be unplayable without it and work perfectly fine and smooth with VPN. I changed to BT Fibre shortly afterwards and it’s been fine since. See if you can find a trail VPN service and test it next time the extreme lag occurs.

Alright, thanks for your suggestion, I’m currently on EE (previously Orange/T-Mobile), so we may very much share the same experience, I’ll try it out! Do you have any recomendations for VPNs? There’s generally so many conflicting reviews out there that it’s annoying to find a good one. I’m fairly lacking in money however, so a free one would be ideal.