Guild Wars 2

Just as the title says. Skill lag is making EB unplayable. I don’t understand why this hasn’t been addressed yet. Before adding all these new ranks/new masteries etc, why not make WvW functional first.

Then hit up one of your borderlands! No matter your tier, I bet they need some love.

Is this skill lag a recent thing, I was fine in both EB and borderlands for the longest time in since the last update I have been getting 1 to 2 second skill everywhere in WvW.

It’s an EB thing. I make a habit to never play EB by choice.

Yesterday was horrible lag across all zones. Running with 30 other people on a border, around 3 DCed every 5 minute. Many had severe lag – it took me 10 seconds to change skills out of combat. In combat there where 5s+ skill lag. Porting back to spawn? Three freakin minutes before it reacted!!!!.

It was completely unplayable.

CrazyDuck.4610:

Just as the title says. Skill lag is making EB unplayable. I don’t understand why this hasn’t been addressed yet. Before adding all these new ranks/new masteries etc, why not make WvW functional first.

This is very true, EB is unplayable. Now i don’t remember which thread this was but the Devs are very aware about this but they simply don’t care about this at all.
As they said before upgrades of the current engine or WvW servers will never be done because they cant… I guess this is because they are to lazy or just is to kitten bad at their current job.

Same here. Today I’m having some serious skill lag issue on all region of WvW. I got from 1 to 10 sec skill delay.

This make the game unplayable. It kitten ed me off I just came back few weeks back …

I have the feeling that Anet are getting cheaper on their server.

this is nothing new and I wouldn’t say the Devs don’t care, just not sure they can do anything when we insist on stacking the top tiers and having huge three-way battles in SM. There is something funky about SM that makes lag 10X worse than other areas. They could lower the map population caps but then we would all be kittening about queues again so we are kind of stuck with it for now while they keep working on those behind the scenes fixes which sometimes seems to make it better in some places and worse in others. No good solutions I fear. I’ve been starting to see lag ghosts other than just yaks in WvW lately and that has me more worried than regular skill lag if it becomes the norm.

it is not only in EB it is everywhere if one of the servers zone blob,seems last patch was bad alot of dc’s and lag and generaly fps is down a lot more than before. And now the zone blobs are even worse with up to 5-10 secs skill lag.

I think that is a server issue. Servers are too weak for the load when zergs clash. That it got even worse with the last update might have to do with the fact that they removed culling for PvE which means that their servers get even more load from PvE. I have no idea if they have absolutely separate servers for WvW but probably the solution to this would be to invest quite a bit more into servers which is something they will try to avoid. Might also have to do with bandwith issues on AreaNets side but I rather think the servers are too slow.

I started on RoF moved to Deso, went back to RoF.

I can 100% tell you that if you are getting really bad lag in EB then you must be playing on a highly populated server (wvw population ie. MEGABLOBS). Yes it is true that their server/game engine (technical limitations) can’t handle it, but this problem does not exist on “lower tier” servers.

EB is worse because its 120 players per server in EB. Its only 80 in the borderlands so less stress on the servers. But a 3 way 240 man garrison fight is guaranteed skill lag lockup. The servers start to get out of their depth once you get around 150-180 players in a map. And it seems as though they are attempting to test some changes from time to time. The only way they will fix this is to reduce the cap or get better servers as the current ones cannot handle it.