Guild Wars 2

Skill lag in WvWvW make this game unplayable in crowded area.

I love my thief and my backstab spec but seriously I just cant stand having to push 10 times my stealth skill or my healing to get something done.

I don’t want to be rude Anet but I will not play wvwvw very long if this isn’t fixed rather quickly. Either way im going to play Darkfall: Unholy Wars but still wish this game to succeed for the casuals.

Agreed. Never had problems before last patch. And for some reason its only certain skills. Frenzy takes 10 tries before it activates. But bola activates instantly. Seriously anet? Fix this trash.

Yep, same issue with me. At first I thought this was lag, but too many others having the same issue on my server in WvW. It has to be more than just lag.

I found the Short-Bow on my Thief to be notoriously laggy, in almost every situation. Daggers however, aside from Backstab constantly missing, don’t seem to suffer that much.

Got same issues.

Laggiest PvP game ever..

I am getting this too, though it tends to be throughout the game world. It is significantly more noticable in WvW though. Never had an issue before last patch.

It makes the game very, very close to unplayable. It would make it entirely unplayable if I didnt just enjoy it as much as I do. Though, this is starting to kill the game for me without a doubt.

My skills just sit there and flash at me. Every single death I have had, PvE or PvP has been due to this lately.

Yeah the Skill lag especially tonight, seems to be much worse.

I notice this issue aswell pretty often in WvW, mainly at primetime. You dont even have to be close to a big battle to notice it, just on an area with alot of players and fighting.

I think the issue is related to the server “slowing” down. The CD on your skills are calculated clientwise, so you always see how much time is left without a network delay, but the server itself has its own countdown for your CDs.
If there is now alot of action in WvW, then the server can hardly handle it and the CDs on the server take longer as the ones on your client.

That is also the reason why some abilities, which you dont use right of the bat in a fight, always seem to work. Other abilities which you use pretty often in combat tend to fail though.
You can try it yourself when you notice that skill lag again. Just wait 10-20 seconds and try to use your skill again, now it should work “without” a big problem… except the execution lag from the server.