Guild Wars 2

Server: Piken Square [EU]
Conditions: SM zerg vs zerg

Many people from the zerg i was in said they were having about 10 seconds skill delay when in the general vicinity of the inner SM walls (and anything within its radius), to a lesser extent between inner and outer wall, but the general theme was incredible skill delay.

Some blame the culling update for this, and to be honest i sort of agree, since i’ve had more troubles in WvW with the new culling than the old one (my fps dropped by 10 in zergs, from 29~31 to 19~23).

What is going on?, is ANet aware of this and responded somewhere?

Its server lag. too many people in SM. 5 min skill lag is common in large 3 way fights.

Persephone.7436:

Its server lag. too many people in SM. 5 min skill lag is common in large 3 way fights.

didn’t used to be like that pre-culling patch.

since august 25th, i dont see anything new i just had to live with it…although used to be worse.

Skill delay of this scale is new phenomenom in my WvW experience. I was on Eternal Battleground. The skill delays lasted for good 30 minutes until I decided to log out. At times I wasn’t even near a zerg.

I also noticed the outmanned boon active on me, which I believe was incorrect as the numbers on map seemed pretty even. We even took SM while having the outmanned boon.

The delays were more severe in crowded areas. But whole map was affected.

I got this as well. Especially inside lord room in Stonemist when there are massive zergs vs zergs (huge numbers of ppl) As a guild, most of my members got affected, and couldnt use any skill at all. We decided to fed it up, and move out of SM because of this kitten massive skill delay. (Cant even use any skill at all inside lord room)

Before this new WvW patch, we never get this issue. Im sure they mess up something with this patch. Anet need to acknowledge this!

My skills were not delaying! They wouldn’t activate full stop.

Noticed alot off skill lag yestadray when it was 40+ players clsoe to you, didnt see any culling so that is better but the lag make it worse.

WvW from launch was intended and designed to have large numbers of players cluttered up in small keeps.

There is NO excuse that they didn’t see this coming, or had no opportunity to test an ‘unforseen’ occurance.

Skill lag, like culling, is a technical issue that is severely ruining players enjoyment of WvW.

I’m still having fun most times in WvW, but when I die for yet another time due to not being able to click a single button, while getting stuck in invisable aoe fields… I tend to get bored and logg out.

One day I won’t bother to logg back in, if it keeps on happening every single night as it does now.
No one will miss me I’m sure, but I’m just as sure that I’m not the only one slowly getting fed up with the unplayable nature of big fights these days.

I’ve reached that point… GW2 had so much potential, but I can’t play the unplayable.

Sick of respawning only to die without any chance of actually fighting.

I’ve been playing regularly since September… the game has slowly got worse with each patch.

I wonder why Anet put so little efforts in wvw… Patches delayed, “temporary” culling system, lag problems. This is absurd. We’re not talking about a free to play game, we’re talking about a payed game that supposedly should have a serious company behind.

There are so many problems in wvw, some minor and some really bad.. Instead of expanding features wouldn’t be better to fix what we have first? I’d prefer 50 patches, week after week, that fix one problem at a time instead of a super-big patch once in 3 months that create only more problems.

A lot of guildies rage-quit because of the queues, the bad culling system or the insane lag… And the mood of the ones that remain is starting to sink.

We’re customers, we have the right to be assisted in the best way!!!

Lots of skill delay on Vizuna Borderlands yesterday, even when there wasn´t a battle around. Was unplayable during Garison battles. This is not acceptable. Please fix it Anet

Hope the server maintenance will fix it.

I must admit that since this last patch ive had more skill delays than my entire time playing the game since release. Maybe ive been lucky in the past and this is it catching up with me but it is getting beyond the bearable stage.

Before this patch Karka in Lions Arch was one and occasionally in WvW in SM at the Lords Room would it do this but only when there was a gathering of all 3 servers battling it out.

Since the last patch it has been terrible and is ruining most of the fun im getting from WvW. It is also now spilling out into PVE events and if your doing the dragons, at least one of them will have this skill delay present.

A lot of skill delay on Desolation borderland as well

Today I had skill lag while we had the outmanned-buff. Sure, the Desos we were fighting had a huge zerg but no vizus far and wide…

RapidSausage.4620:

Server: Piken Square [EU]
Conditions: SM zerg vs zerg

What is going on?, is ANet aware of this and responded somewhere?

Skill lag has been in since Live, nothing new here. The server is under heavy load and can’t handle large 3 way fights.

I can only toss a suspicion that WvW map caps are being adjusted without public knowledge. Last week it was odd having que’s on all 4 maps, generally not something BG has been known for during the weekdays. Which also made 3 way fights have less noticeable skill lag.

It was the whole Piken Square home map who had problem, even if you weren’t close to the zerg. I tried to go an other map and there was no lag at all.
If there is a big battle, all the map will lag.

Krakah.3582:

RapidSausage.4620:

Server: Piken Square [EU]
Conditions: SM zerg vs zerg

What is going on?, is ANet aware of this and responded somewhere?

Skill lag has been in since Live, nothing new here. The server is under heavy load and can’t handle large 3 way fights.

I can only toss a suspicion that WvW map caps are being adjusted without public knowledge. Last week it was odd having que’s on all 4 maps, generally not something BG has been known for during the weekdays. Which also made 3 way fights have less noticeable skill lag.

And notice how the complaints of queues and map populations have died down a lot this week? They’re definitely tinkering with things in my opinion.