Guild Wars 2

Yeah sure im used to getting heaps of lag in wvw your forgotten game mode but seriously skill lag in spvp now? How far are you going to let this go?

2 seconds to swap attunements such esports, ugh this is a first for me creating a rage thread on the forums but this is simply getting out of hand.

Can confirm, has been happening to me as well from 9:00 P.M. to 11 P.M. EST. Seems to be a prime time congestion issue for east costers. Random latency spikes depending on which instance server I get. Sometimes I can lag in HOTM but not in a match, or i can lag in a match but not in HOTM, other times in both. Seems random but the only constant is between that time frame.

If i ping that specific server i get average 110-130ms pings in congestion and some packet loss, after prime time it normalizes in 40-60ms and no packet loss at all. This NEVER happened to me before last week’s patch.

There is no difference in the traceroutes between low or high latency time frames, only difference is the latency on the last hop (anet servers).

If ANYONE is having this issue PLEASE post as well.

Thanks.

YUP

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Been PVP’ing throughout the evenings. 0 lag. Although, I have pretty fast/reliable internet service.

Regular PvP
When enemy stacked conditions, I’ve started getting “lag”. Even instantly activated skills get delayed by 0.5 – 3 seconds.
This looks like a “global cooldown” as nothing works during this time frame. Extrem cases also happened when my shout heal skill simply stopped working – clicking or shortkey wasn’t of any use – until the enemy finished me.. In fact in one case I’ve had to go around for 1 minute! with such disabled healing skill.
With confusion, poison, bleeding and burning ticking away.. this makes reactive gameplay.. RNG.
There’ve been no issues prior the condition stack changes.

Also had this last night started off Okay, got laggier as the game went on and for the last 30s I was invulnerable had a trident in my hand couldn’t use any skills or virtues and my 1-5 skills were replaced with nothing Lol.

And it wasn’t me as i went straight into WvW after to check and I had no skill lag or Ping spikes sooooooo yeah…

When the servers can’t handle 10 man PvP games something has to be wrong…

edit: Only been happening since the patch and only during EU prime time

Just realized some people who purely play spvp may not be familiar with skill lag. Skill lag is different from fps lag, skill lag is most commonly identified as when you press a skill (yes even insta cast skills) and the icon begins flashing but nothing happens till a few moments or seconds later.

You can normally continue to move your character around freely when this happens, in wvw it can get so bad that two zergs run through each other and nothing happens because noones skills are working apart from auto attack or everyone scatters because they can’t activate their heal skill.

Yeah screw this I’m gonna stick to pve until they’ve done something about this. Playing thief today in a match put down black powder and attempt to leap through it, instead my character simply runs through it and 2 seconds later of course my character is heart seekering to the other side of the map.

Zetsumei.4975:

Just realized some people who purely play spvp may not be familiar with skill lag. Skill lag is different from fps lag, skill lag is most commonly identified as when you press a skill (yes even insta cast skills) and the icon begins flashing but nothing happens till a few moments or seconds later.

You can normally continue to move your character around freely when this happens, in wvw it can get so bad that two zergs run through each other and nothing happens because noones skills are working apart from auto attack or everyone scatters because they can’t activate their heal skill.

Yeah that’s specifically what I’m getting, but it almost has never happened to me in PvP before