Guild Wars 2

1. Since I don’t play PvP much, it’s only PvE maps for me (open world/dungeons/fracs).
2. Typical duration is 3 – 6 secs, with around 5 sec being the norm.
3. 4 out of 5
4. Can’t say for certain as I mostly notice it when doing dungeons, and that again is mostly when others are online. Seems to be more or less independet of time of day, though.
5. For guildies in the UK (regardless of location or provider), it started about four weeks ago, for me a few days before the last patch, so about two weeks ago.
6. Don’t play other NCsoft games, no issues otherwise, though.
7. – 9. EU

The past two days of PvP and WvW have been laggy for me, but not really in spikes. (I’m on Sorrow’s Furnace)

1. No, it happens on every map I have played on in the game which includes: all WvW maps, PvP maps, PvP lobby, PvE maps, PvE dungeons
2. About 5 seconds
3. All 5 experienced lag
4. The lag occurs during all times of the day
5. The Feature Pack definitely introduced it at its worst but the lag has been present since the first DDoS attacks from a month or two? ago
6. I do not experience lag while playing other MMOs not affiliated with NCsoft. I don’t play any other NCsoft games so idk
7. NA
8. NA
9. NA

1. Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps? In HotM as well as PvP maps. Don’t play PvE or WvW so don’t know about those.
2. How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up? Five to ten seconds, after which I usually disconnect from the game. About 20% of the time the spike clears and I rubberband like a mofo.
3. Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag? During all of them.
4. Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag? Lag is prevalent at least on weekdays EU prime time.
5. When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2? Servers have always been finicky, but this recent bout of goodness started about a week before the feature patch.
6. Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar? No recent experience on other NCSoft games, but other online games run without problems.
7. Do you live in NA or EU? EU
8. Are you playing on NA or EU servers? EU
9. Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU? EU

No trace route for you guys, since I haven’t felt like playing for the past week or so because of, well, the lag.

1. Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?
   I’ve only been playing PvE, so I can’t tell if it’s affecting PvP or WvW for me or not.
2. How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?
   4-5 seconds usually, but they sometimes come in bursts a few seconds apart, before subsiding for a while.
3. Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?
   2-3, not entirely sure.
4. Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?
   Not that I’ve noticed.
5. When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?
   In the last couple of weeks.
6. Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?
   The only other game I play is Guild Wars 1, and yes, I’m having similar lag spikes there. In fact, it’s probably worse in GW1.
7. Do you live in NA or EU?
   NA
8. Are you playing on NA or EU servers?
   NA
9. Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?
   EU

1. Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps? Have experienced lag and disconnects in pvp maps. Have experienced frequent lagspikes (game appears to freeze for seconds, as if I’m about to disconnect, but recovers) but no disconnects in wvw. Have experienced skill activation lag, and very few lagspikes in pve maps in Dry Top.
2. How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up? I’ve had disconnects where I couldn’t even log back into the match (the game would disconnect me again while loading up the pvp map after I had logged back in). Lagspikes, where the game appears to freeze, last normally between 4-10 seconds. Skill activation lag can last 2-3" after I have attempted to activate a skill
3. Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag? I experienced 3 instances of skill activation lag in pvp yesterday, while a guildmate I was playing with experienced skill activation lag and several lagspikes (his character appeared to be running into a wall for several seconds from my perspective) in both pvp and wvw. I haven’t played over the weekend, but I experienced several long lagspikes last week. The last disconnect I experienced was middle of last week.
4. Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag? Has happened both at peak and off-peak hours
5. When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2? PvP has been much laggier after the April feature patch, with more frequent instances of skill activation lag and slightly more frequent lagspikes, but the frequent disconnects have only started happening since the recent DDOS attacks on your servers
6. Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar? Not currently playing other NCsoft games, no lag in other games like Quake Live
7. Do you live in NA or EU? EU
8. Are you playing on NA or EU servers? EU
9. Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU? EU

Thanks. I’ll traceroute next time I get one.

206.127.146.53:0

Just now, 21:00 CET. No lag spikes but quite intense skill lag.

Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?
Only participate in PvP. But have tried moving through maps (PvE / WvW) while lagging to test different servers/zones. If I am lagging, happens on every zone.

How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?
It lasts a couple of hours. Seems random, but I’ve noticed less lag situations in off peak hours (EST). When it clears up I experience no lag at all. I test latency delay using skills, weapon swapping, moving item, watching other player movements and it seems to be a 1-2 second delay. I have never been disconnected by this lag.

Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?
3.

Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?
Random. I may or may not experience lag on a particular day on prime time. Lag happens to some players and not others (when ive seen others question about lag in mapchat, i might not be lagging at that time).

When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?
I have never experienced this lag so consistently before the DDoS attack happened. It seems as if a countermeasure to prevent this, or some other change started causing this issue. Have played since beta.

Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?
Not playing any other NCsoft game currently. Experience no lag on any other non NCsoft game.

Do you live in NA or EU?
NA
Are you playing on NA or EU servers?
NA
Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?
NA

Tracerts seemed normal, tried it while lagging and not lagging. In no hop did the latency increase more than 60ms. Tried clientport 80 fix, has no effect while lagging. GW2 latency in process manager is no different while lagging and not lagging (100-200ms).

This traceroute was in EotM exactly during the spike lag.
Game totally froze = skill lag.
For about 15 seconds.
(always EU servers)
Only GW2 lags.
I experience skill lags every day, and quite often it is followed by an error 7:

traceroute to 206.127.146.93 (206.127.146.93), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 openwrt.lan (192.168.8.1) 0.290 ms 0.351 ms 0.348 ms
2 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 1.433 ms 1.731 ms 1.741 ms
3 * * *
4 trs1rj-ae0.100.numericable.net (80.236.6.194) 13.664 ms 13.694 ms 13.696 ms
5 ip-99.net-80-236-1.static.numericable.fr (80.236.1.99) 15.704 ms 15.736 ms 15.744 ms
6 ip-97.net-80-236-1.static.numericable.fr (80.236.1.97) 15.840 ms 14.020 ms 10.255 ms
7 lag101.350.ncc-cbv.net.bbox.fr (212.194.172.189) 22.776 ms 22.792 ms 23.237 ms
8 * * *
9 be16.cbr01-ntr.net.bbox.fr (212.194.171.82) 28.745 ms 28.726 ms 28.691 ms
10 * * *
11 ae54.edge3.Paris1.Level3.net (212.73.205.5) 29.636 ms 29.724 ms 29.738 ms
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *
16 ae-1-60.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.10) 39.574 ms 39.606 ms ae-4-90.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.202) 40.806 ms
17 195.16.161.58 (195.16.161.58) 54.420 ms 53.673 ms 54.150 ms
18 206-127-157-86.ncsoft.com (206.127.157.86) 53.575 ms 53.527 ms 53.561 ms
19 206-127-157-102.ncsoft.com (206.127.157.102) 56.828 ms 56.826 ms 56.789 ms
20 206-127-157-102.ncsoft.com (206.127.157.102) 56.742 ms !X * *

i won’t be constructive, sorry
but past last month now (month!) my amount of games on pvp decreased by half; it’s unplaybale, even hotjoin is crap and to play with this terrible lags and since patch also crashes on tpvp is torture
it saddens me deeply, because ensuring that games runs smoothly seems to be top priority, at least for me – i wont give any data, because it’s global issue and should be solved by now, asking for this data shows only that you have no clue what to do as always
i should quit until it’s fixed – but who knows when it will be? lemme guess – when it’s ready and since pvp was main reason for me playing since launch, then i dunno rly if i’m going to wait…

well, my team got 12 DCs in 4 games, we’re out until servers are fixed. get your kitten together, you’re not teenagers anymore

64.25.33.52 – 4-5sec long lag spikes , played on earlier on the same IP server.. same issue.

Tried it run it during the match, but couldn’t get to it.

Only been doing Spvp lately, never notice it in the Mists.. Skyhammer is always bad, the other maps, just depends which map and which day.

C:\Windows\System32>pathping -4 -q 100 64.25.33.52

Tracing route to 64.25.33-52.ncsoft.com [64.25.33.52]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 AW17 [192.168.0.109]
1 192.168.0.1
2 50.134.216.1
3 68.85.220.21
4 ae-21-0-ar01.aurora.co.denver.comcast.net [68.86.179.213]
5 te-0-1-0-4-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.95.201]
6 ae14.edge3.Denver1.Level3.net [4.68.127.129]
7 * * *
Computing statistics for 150 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 AW17 [192.168.0.109]
2/ 100 = 2% |
1 1ms 3/ 100 = 3% 1/ 100 = 1% 192.168.0.1
0/ 100 = 0% |
2 11ms 2/ 100 = 2% 0/ 100 = 0% 50.134.216.1
0/ 100 = 0% |
3 15ms 4/ 100 = 4% 2/ 100 = 2% 68.85.220.21
0/ 100 = 0% |
4 12ms 5/ 100 = 5% 3/ 100 = 3% ae-21-0-ar01.aurora.co.denver.comc
ast.net [68.86.179.213]
0/ 100 = 0% |
5 15ms 7/ 100 = 7% 5/ 100 = 5% te-0-1-0-4-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.c
omcast.net [68.86.95.201]
0/ 100 = 0% |
6 16ms 2/ 100 = 2% 0/ 100 = 0% ae14.edge3.Denver1.Level3.net [4.6
8.127.129]

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\System32>

Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? No, it happens in WvW and Lion’s Arch as well.

Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Yes.

Other maps? Yes.

How long does the lag spike last? 5-20 seconds.

Does it ever clear up? Yes but the game is unplayable.

Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag? All of them.

Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag? Always.

When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2? Around August 23.

Do you also experience lag playing other games? No I do not, only GW2.

NCsoft games like Wildstar? I do not play other NCsoft games.

Do you live in NA or EU? NA.

Are you playing on NA or EU servers? Both, but mainly playing on EU. Getting the same lag on both servers.

Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU? NA.

The upcoming PvP tournaments like ToG will be amazing with this lag. I hope this information can help you but I don’t see you going anywhere with this thread, I heard you’re using the same servers as 10years ago for the first Guild Wars game just get new servers already. if not then… RIP.

-Hiba from team Cheese Mode.

Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? only in tpvp map, ip example: 64.25.33:52:0

Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? No

Other maps? No.

How long does the lag spike last? all match

Does it ever clear up? no unless i restart game but lag comes back 20 sec after restart again

Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag? All of them.

Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag? Always.

When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2? 19 Sept 2014

Do you also experience lag playing other games? No

NCsoft games like Wildstar? I do not play other NCsoft games.

Do you live in NA or EU? EU

Are you playing on NA or EU servers? NA

Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU? NA.

From the poster above seems like issue is with the same exact server 64.25.33:52:0

1.Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?
Pvp lobby, hotjoin, solopvp,teampvp

2.How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?
24/7 it doesn’t, i rubberband hard

3.Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag? 3 cos i only play 3battles and decided to dc

5.Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?
tried 6hrs a day still skill lag and rubberband, tried 12hrs a day still skill lag and rubberband, tried 18hrs a day still skill lag and rubberband ( i would like to thank my broadband internet sponsors)

6.Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?
none, only played gw2 were individuality matters

7.Do you live in NA or EU? Asia,South Pacific, Heart of Asia (lets see how competent anet is)

8.Are you playing on NA or EU servers? NA cos eu suck

9.Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU? NA, did i play in the wrong region now?

iheard they use quantum computers, i might be mistaken but it seems im a big threat for them. please fix or game will die, they must pay for what they’ve done qq. thanks in advance.

ip. 64.25.38.230:0

FYI: Information gathering on the issue has moved to this thread started by Gaile in the tech forum for greater visibility beyond the PvP sub-forum:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Latency-Lag-for-EU-Players-merged/first

whole team randomly getting 3-4 secs freezes, enemy team lagging too…just unplayable

You wanna be esports and still can’t fix your kittening servers in more than one month.

Really…..

ip-address:206.127.14654:0
2-3 sec skill-delay on all pvp-maps and hotm

i have 2sec delay on all skills, some ppl in Mists say they have this problem now too
ip-address:206.127.146.66:0
iam whole time on eu SFR, it started hour ago..
i have it in arenas, Mist, and also in pve
no disconect yet.. just sometime lag, and perma skill delay

0 x [10.143.10.163]
1 10.143.8.1
2 y [195.178.72.177]
3 r142.cesnet.cz [195.178.87.177]
4 r97-r50-li2.cesnet.cz [195.113.157.162]
5 * 195.113.235.54
6 195.113.235.65
7 prag-b3-pos4-0.telia.net [213.248.77.117]
8 prag-bb1-link.telia.net [213.155.132.164]
9 ffm-bb1-link.telia.net [213.155.136.136]
10 ffm-b11-link.telia.net [62.115.137.251]
11 ncsoft-ic-306349-ffm-b11.c.telia.net [62.115.43.74]
12 206-127-157-86.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.86]
13 206-127-157-102.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.102]

Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 x [10.143.10.163]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10.143.8.1
4/ 100 = 4% |
2 2ms 4/ 100 = 4% 0/ 100 = 0% x [195.178.72
.177]
1/ 100 = 1% |
3 1ms 8/ 100 = 8% 3/ 100 = 3% r142.cesnet.cz [195.178.87.177]
0/ 100 = 0% |
4 —- 100/ 100 =100% 95/ 100 = 95% r97-r50-li2.cesnet.cz [195.113.157.162]
0/ 100 = 0% |
5 —- 100/ 100 =100% 95/ 100 = 95% 195.113.235.54
0/ 100 = 0% |
6 7ms 5/ 100 = 5% 0/ 100 = 0% 195.113.235.65
3/ 100 = 3% |
7 9ms 10/ 100 = 10% 2/ 100 = 2% prag-b3-pos4-0.telia.net [213.248.77.117]
0/ 100 = 0% |
8 8ms 13/ 100 = 13% 5/ 100 = 5% prag-bb1-link.telia.net [213.155.132.164]
0/ 100 = 0% |
9 32ms 8/ 100 = 8% 0/ 100 = 0% ffm-bb1-link.telia.net [213.155.136.136]
0/ 100 = 0% |
10 23ms 8/ 100 = 8% 0/ 100 = 0% ffm-b11-link.telia.net [62.115.137.251]
71/ 100 = 71% |
11 27ms 79/ 100 = 79% 0/ 100 = 0% ncsoft-ic-306349-ffm-b11.c.telia.net [62.115.43.74]
21/ 100 = 21% |
12 —- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% 206-127-157-86.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.86]
0/ 100 = 0% |
13 —- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% 206-127-157-102.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.102]

I got lucky my lag spike just vanished for week now.

hey guys I am a returning playing. I first started playing when guild wars 2 first came out two years ago since then ive been on an off I am just wondering as i never had this bad of lag before as why it’s came about thanks.

ip address is 64.25.38.224:0

Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Happens everywhere
Other maps? No
How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up? Has not cleared up since. Everyday/night
Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag? All 5
Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag? No, the lag is unbearable that I do not want to play anymore.
When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2? Since the most recent patch. 9/9/14
Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar? I do not play any other game
Do you live in NA or EU? NA
Are you playing on NA or EU servers? NA
Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU? NA

I get the feeling that the problem is not directly server, but client related.
- Not everyone gets the lags and dc’s, 3 out of 5 per team, but mostly not the whole
team.
- Only GW2 has the lags and dc’s, all other programs on the computer in the meantime
have no problems like this and run smoothly.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I think it would be a good idea to check this, because I can’t explain this to me otherwise. Maybe the game client just bugs out and disconnects.

Usually goes on during prime times, in the morning and afternoon (And night ofc) things looks fine…but after 21-21.30 (UTC +1 here) everything is fubar until after 23.30 midnight then things start looking decent again…

And no…when 4 out of 5 in your team lag, freeze and dc and other team too i wouldn’t call it a client issue..

Also tried wtfast conencted to DE1 and DE2 servers…aside from little ping improvement it gives nothing…when freeze strikes it just goes up to 350+ms ping and everything is kittened for 2-3 seconds…tonight i’ll take a screen of the graph..it’s just plain normal with recurring ping spikes…and they appear to be pretty timed too..average ping like 30-40ms (Pretty normal for me) with suddenly istant pings of 350ms..

yup. got a week off from lags now, started again yesterday, although in wvw. don’t know the ip, don’t care anymore because logging an IP and asking about our providers is clearly the answer to NCSOFT kitten SERVERS!

WvW was terrible, tried some Hot Join and it was worse. The 64.25.33.54 server I got disconnected right after I started the pathping..

Logged back in and jumped into another server and it was just as bad. I don’t even want to call them “spikes”. Their lasting 5-8 seconds. And they happen every 20-30 seconds….. its unplayable!!!!!!

C:\Windows\System32>pathping -4 -q 100 64.25.33.54

Tracing route to 64.25.33-54.ncsoft.com [64.25.33.54]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 AW17 [192.168.0.109]
1 192.168.0.1
2 50.134.216.1
3 68.85.220.21
4 ae-21-0-ar01.aurora.co.denver.comcast.net [68.86.179.213]
5 he-3-4-0-0-cr01.denver.co.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.149]
6 ae14.edge3.Denver1.Level3.net [4.68.127.129]
7 * * *
Computing statistics for 150 seconds…
^C
C:\Windows\System32>pathping -4 -q 100 64.25.33.52

Tracing route to 64.25.33-52.ncsoft.com [64.25.33.52]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 AW17 [192.168.0.109]
1 192.168.0.1
2 50.134.216.1
3 68.85.220.21
4 ae-21-0-ar01.aurora.co.denver.comcast.net [68.86.179.213]
5 te-0-1-0-4-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.95.201]
6 ae14.edge3.Denver1.Level3.net [4.68.127.129]
7 * * *
Computing statistics for 150 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 AW17 [192.168.0.109]
2/ 100 = 2% |
1 141ms 7/ 100 = 7% 5/ 100 = 5% 192.168.0.1
0/ 100 = 0% |
2 157ms 7/ 100 = 7% 5/ 100 = 5% 50.134.216.1
0/ 100 = 0% |
3 195ms 7/ 100 = 7% 5/ 100 = 5% 68.85.220.21
0/ 100 = 0% |
4 158ms 2/ 100 = 2% 0/ 100 = 0% ae-21-0-ar01.aurora.co.denver.comc
ast.net [68.86.179.213]
2/ 100 = 2% |
5 170ms 4/ 100 = 4% 0/ 100 = 0% te-0-1-0-4-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.c
omcast.net [68.86.95.201]
1/ 100 = 1% |
6 154ms 5/ 100 = 5% 0/ 100 = 0% ae14.edge3.Denver1.Level3.net [4.6
8.127.129]

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\System32>

Serious skill lag today.

/ip lol my game lags horribly

64.25.33.87:0 I get crazy lag lately and missed frames. Like stuff freezes then all happens at once. And I got a pretty nice computer so idk why I have lag

I haven’t been getting as much lag lately, but a few weeks ago I was when this thread was made. I was getting hit through invincible frame dodge rolls.

Still laggy. Fix??

Just when I thought it was gone, I spend a few days away for uni stuff, come back, get a team together, and get slapped in the face with a chain of massive lag spikes. Of course, the other team is all tanky and therefore have the advantage with the introduction of lag into the game, so I’m a bit too busy trying to hold on to our suddenly rapidly disappearing lead to run a trace route.

Games are meant to be enjoyable, not aggravating and blood-boiling. In a close game, blowing CDs to reach a point quickly to prevent a decap only to have 5 seconds of frozen gameplay before being rubberbanded back to where you were before your first shadow step, and seeing that in that time the enemy got the decap is exactly the latter.

1) Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map?
Now, yes. 2 weeks ago 99% of the time yes, 1% in Heart of the Mists.

2) Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?
See above. Other maps, I cannot really say. I don’t go to other maps often, but when I have it’s been fine.

3) How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?
5 seconds. Then just when you get your bearings, recover from whatever situation the lag put you in, and start to play as before, everything freezes again.

4) Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?
Last 5... I don’t know. I know that the last couple of days I’ve had slight skill lag in both solo queue matches and heart of the mists, but no long freezes like I was experiencing a few weeks ago. Until now I thought it was cleared up.

5) Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?
I can’t say. I’ve not been on much the last few days, and before then it was a lot better whenever I was on.

6) When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?
26th August. I remember the day because I’d just come back from a 1 week holiday, so for all I know it could have started anytime after the 19th August.

7) Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?
No

8) Do you live in NA or EU?
EU, England.

9) Are you playing on NA or EU servers?
EU servers since about 4 months ago.

Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?
Originally created on NA servers, at launch.

1. Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?

Never noticed it in lobby, however I rarely move there unless testing stuff on golems.

2. How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?

It started a couple of months ago with huge 20-30s+ timeouts. Now it happens 5-10s tops. Sometimes it does clear up but there were times I couldn’t do anything until the rest of the match and everyone around me would appear as just standing.

3. Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?

Last night, I’d say 2/5 sessions had 5+s timeouts.

4. Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?

It appears to be random though it seems like I experience more timeouts at night (9PM-2AM GMT+1). However it could be due to the fact that I mostly play during those hours.

5. When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?

Couple of months ago. After the last big sPvP patch.

6. Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?

Wild whot? I only play GW2 and the original GW1. I have to admit I’ve noticed timeouts and lag in GW1 too. Don’t know if the “automated” status of GW1 has to do something with that.

7. Do you live in NA or EU?

EU.

8. Are you playing on NA or EU servers?

Both NA and EU (multiple accounts).

9. Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?

EU.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Here are some more questions to answer if you are experiencing lag spikes:

1. Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?
2. How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?
3. Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?
4. Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?
5. When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?
6. Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?
7. Do you live in NA or EU?
8. Are you playing on NA or EU servers?
9. Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?

1. Yes. No. Yes (dungeons).
2. The freeze lasts about 5 seconds. Yes, it always clears up, unless I got completely disconnected.
3. 4 out of 5.
4. Nope. It just happens randomically.
5. A looooot of time ago in WvW, way before the Culling System was disabled, and then some weeks ago, for the ddos attack I suppose.
6. No.
7. EU
8. EU
9. EU

Yesterday again. Lags and delays. On 1 map I had a 2 sec delay on every skill. Send my pathping via PM to Evan.

1. Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?
   While I’m in a PvP map but while in PvE maps the most, I haven’t been doing WvW all that much.
2. How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?
   It lasts from 10 to 15 seconds
3. Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?
   In all of them, multiple times each.
4. Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?
   No, it’s very random.
5. When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?
   Just after the feature patch. I’ve been also getting lower FPS as a whole.
6. Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?
   No, I play other online games just fine. I don’t play Wildstar of other NCSoft games for that matter.
7. Do you live in NA or EU?
   EU.
8. Are you playing on NA or EU servers?
   EU.
9. Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?
   EU.

206.127.146.57:00

Massive lag just now, 18.15 CET.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Here are some more questions to answer if you are experiencing lag spikes:

1. Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?
2. How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?
3. Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?
4. Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?
5. When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?
6. Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?
7. Do you live in NA or EU?
8. Are you playing on NA or EU servers?
9. Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?

1. Just on PvP maps
2. About 4-5 secs, often resulting in multiple dcs(~5/10 players dc)
3. 3/5, lags happen at 4 of 5 players on my team at the same time for the same duration
4. Any day, any time
5. Each time after patches
6. Not playing anything else
7. EU
8. EU
9. EU

And its not only massive lag spikes, its bad latency at all. Just swap some weapon kits on engi and you will feel/see the delay. This is freaking unplayable since patch, when will this finally get fixed? Do we have to wait till next feature patch?

Regards,
a angry customer

Here is another traceroute. EotM (EU servers), skill lags (5+ secs delay).
The traceroute doesn’t seem specially bad.
To be noticied : other random ppl on the map had unresponsive skills at the exact same time than me.

traceroute 206.127.146.78
traceroute to 206.127.146.78 (206.127.146.78), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 openwrt.lan (192.168.8.1) 0.340 ms 0.359 ms 0.356 ms
2 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 1.698 ms 1.704 ms 1.764 ms
3 * * *
4 trs1rj-ae0.100.numericable.net (80.236.6.194) 16.621 ms 16.763 ms 16.763 ms
5 ip-99.net-80-236-1.static.numericable.fr (80.236.1.99) 19.202 ms 19.209 ms 19.207 ms
6 ip-97.net-80-236-1.static.numericable.fr (80.236.1.97) 19.323 ms 18.906 ms 18.874 ms
7 lag101.350.ncc-cbv.net.bbox.fr (212.194.172.189) 26.517 ms 19.712 ms 20.091 ms
8 * * *
9 be16.cbr01-ntr.net.bbox.fr (212.194.171.82) 31.075 ms 31.059 ms 31.038 ms
10 * * *
11 ae54.edge3.Paris1.Level3.net (212.73.205.5) 30.043 ms 30.008 ms 30.019 ms
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *
16 ae-4-90.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.202) 35.738 ms ae-3-80.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.138) 34.732 ms ae-1-60.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.10) 40.649 ms
17 195.16.161.58 (195.16.161.58) 40.632 ms 40.485 ms 41.045 ms
18 206-127-157-86.ncsoft.com (206.127.157.86) 41.059 ms 40.494 ms 41.040 ms
19 206-127-157-102.ncsoft.com (206.127.157.102) 43.049 ms 43.014 ms 43.031 ms
20 206-127-157-102.ncsoft.com (206.127.157.102) 43.018 ms !X * *

Time (france) : 20h40

Evan Lesh.3295:

Thanks for the reports guys. We’re still looking into this.

Would be nice if you could post to this thread, too: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Latency-Lag-for-EU-Players-merged

Its kinda disappointing to report lag over there and don’t get any feedback for 10 days.

Ip: 64.25.33.56:0
Time: 7:41pm
Server: Tarnish Coast
NA

For the past week I been lagging non stop and it gets even worst inside a match. I even get 5 sec lags. I also been checking my internet when I get the lags but it shows up fine.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Here are some more questions to answer if you are experiencing lag spikes:

1. Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?
2. How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?
3. Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?
4. Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?
5. When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?
6. Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?
7. Do you live in NA or EU?
8. Are you playing on NA or EU servers?
9. Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?

Lag happens on every map, from pvp match to pve and wvw

Lag spike lasts throughout the game. Almost never clears up

5/5 sessions of gw2 for lags

Always have lag spikes no matter the time of the day/night

I don’t play any other games.

I live in NA

I play on Blackgate, NA server

My account was originally created on NA

Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?

• So far it has happened in any map i have been to, WvW, PvE maps, Dungeons, Eotm.

How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?

• Can last 2 to 20 seconds, and clear up or sometimes i just get DC after the spike.

Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?
Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?

• 5/5 but it has been worse lately. I have been experiencing it everytime i play. There isn’t a session recently where i didn’t experience lag spikes or DCs.

When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?

• In wvw at start, but it is still worse now, because i only used to have it in wvw in big zerg fights and that has been improved.

Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?

• I don’t experience lag playing other games, i don’t have wildstar. I can also watch streams and videos just fine.

Do you live in NA or EU?

• EU.

Are you playing on NA or EU servers?

• EU, desolation.

Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?

• EU.

Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?
All game modes/maps (PvE, sPvP, WvW)

How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?
It fluctuates between heavy rubber banding and skill delay to moderate, doesn’t clear up

Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?
5/5

Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?
No

When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?
Recently (2 weeks ago)

Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?
Don’t play any other NCSoft game but no other game I play has this lag

Do you live in NA or EU?
Aus

Are you playing on NA or EU servers?
NA

Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?
NA

206.127.159.245:0

Massive skill lag, Spirit Watch map, 10 octobre 2014, 23:30 CEST.

So whats with the long lags and dc’s all the time?
It has been 2 months already.. Can anythinig be done already?

It’s costing me pleasure and ranking lately.

Thank you

EU

206.127.146.68:00

Massive lag again, 20:20 CEST.

I’m getting these also. Several seconds, sometimes it recovers and sometimes it disconnects. Getting lag spikes in PvE pretty much everywhere. I’m running the game on a solid state drive on a 64-bit Windows 8.1 system.