Guild Wars 2

So reset night, excitement is in the air, and then we log into green BL to a ping of 2500. 22 people in squad and everyone was worried about DC for the first 5 minutes of reset.

So we sit there in spawn til it looks like it might be better, but then skills are delayed, going through portals take 2 seconds, and everyone rubberbands.

I played through the glory days of T1, where mapzerg threeways were the norm, and have never experienced anything like this. Even dropping down to best performance didn’t help. Something has to be done by ANet to rectify this situation. Our entire guild left the BL less than an hour into reset over this, and that never happens.

This has been happening to me also, but in all game types, i had to just log out tonight since it was unplayable, however all my other online games the ping is perfect. The last 1-2 weeks ill be on all day with normal ping of 50-70. then around 7pm cst i get a spike of 2k or more with a good 30second delay, sometimes i even crash. Then at around 10cst it goes back to normal. I drive my guild so this is very frustrating not being able to anymore. The first few times I assumed it was just the normal WvW lag but even then my ping is usually fine just with low FPS, left WvW and did pvp, still high ping, then to pve, still high.

teppi.6079:

This has been happening to me also, but in all game types, i had to just log out tonight since it was unplayable, however all my other online games the ping is perfect. The last 1-2 weeks ill be on all day with normal ping of 50-70. then around 7pm cst i get a spike of 2k or more with a good 30second delay, sometimes i even crash. Then at around 10cst it goes back to normal. I drive my guild so this is very frustrating not being able to anymore. The first few times I assumed it was just the normal WvW lag but even then my ping is usually fine just with low FPS, left WvW and did pvp, still high ping, then to pve, still high.

Most of us had a ping drop after 5 minutes to around 80-150, but the lag continued. It was unplayable, so I hope they fix whatever issue is happening atm. It seems they haven’t yet fixed the forum lag though so…..

You can tell BG is coming by how much you start lagging.

This is seriously ridiculous.

It was the worst I’ve seen in a while tonight. First loading into the map I thought the whole thing was going to crash and then all night long the lag was just horrible. Worse than usual by any means.

LordEnki.9283:

It was the worst I’ve seen in a while tonight. First loading into the map I thought the whole thing was going to crash and then all night long the lag was just horrible. Worse than usual by any means.

The last week has been about as laggy as I’ve seen in years of playing WvW. EB is usually crap, but last night there were multiple times where most of our squad and most of the map seemed about to DC the lag was so bad. And eventually did DC. I actually DC from WvW a lot lately and sometimes my PC will crash with the game, which I never really had a prob with till the last week or so. I think JQ’s main EB tag DCed a couple times also.

I wondered if whatever was going on in the new zone might have migrated over to WvW. There were times I would be right next to our tag, then all of a sudden(no pulls or anything) I was at least 1200 units away. It was far worse than the old threeways at Hills between JQ, BG, and SoR.

Surely this is some kind of wonky issue that arose with the patch, and not some new feature we are going to have to deal with for months or years right?

Happening again right now.

WvW, anywhere near SMC is a skill lag of +5secs.

They obviously need to allocate more resources to WvW. It’s like that reset where they admitted not allocating enough servers to WvW, and it delayed reset for several hours.

I care not a whit that they released a new PvE map. Did I play the new map? Absolutely, but come on. They don’t mind stopping reset for a PvE patch, but can’t fix these lag issues?

I bet the new rewards/pip system for WvW didn’t help anything…probably added another layer of calcs that have to be done for each player, just like boons, condis, AoEs, etc.

eta: Heck, even the forums have been lagging lately…took almost a minute for my original post to post…