Guild Wars 2

I wanted to try and find out why the game gets skill lag in large fights and on the Vizunah border.. Cause its very annoying.

So I started a ticket to support, they asked me to install some programs to test my connections and see what services I have on, so I did all what they wanted to do and asked some more questions..

But they keep reply me with answers such as copy paste. Now I needed to go on a proxy, but I am telling him this happens to all players on that border, but that person doesn’t respond on that..

My name is Mark, and they named me Mark all the time, after mail nr3 they started to call me Michael lol…

Can someone please tell me if this skill lag will ever go away or not? Its so weird that even the support cant help me.

Especially Vizunah border the lag is bad, no idea why..

And don’t call me Michael -_-

another t1 player complaining about skill lag … keep stacking more people into your server, I am sure it will get better /sarcasm.

Catisa.6507:

another t1 player complaining about skill lag … keep stacking more people into your server, I am sure it will get better /sarcasm.

So A-Net developed a game where 200 ppl can fight at the same time but now we can’t do that and have to move to the lower tiers? Makes sense.

Catisa.6507:

another t1 player complaining about skill lag … keep stacking more people into your server, I am sure it will get better /sarcasm.

It’s not the players problem, its the game. They dont have hardware that supports a 100vs100vs100 fight yet they allow que to fit 300 players

Its not all about T1, not about how many ppl participating in pvp…

After the patch a lot of ppl started experiencing huge lags.

I don’t mean “skill lags” (they were before the patch and present atm, nothing new).

I mean “new lags”. It’s like u have 10-50% internet packets loss. U see everybody around moving with spikes, ppl tell u that something happened, but u see this happens on your screen only after 3-10 sec after (in bad times and huge fights – u see it with 1 min delays, lol).

I don’t experience “this” alone, a lot of ppl from my guild say the same in Teamspeak. And we have normal internet connection (all other GW2 parts, such as PVE, goes on perfectly).
This happens only on WWW after patch.
And yes, most of time on Vizhunah Border.

I see very little to none of it down in the lower tiers (exception being SM lords room fights which have always had issues since release).

Yes the NCsoft helper said I was losing packages, and I needed to use pingplotter, but he acknowledged that my connection was good.. But he didn’t answer my question on why there is skill lag.

I am sorry but can we have finally have an official response on this major problem? I am tired of reading similar threads to find an answer but there is none…

I am done with hit, just respond this question.

Are you guys aware of the skill lag and other lag issues in WvW, and are you guys working on it? Or cant this be fixed and we have to get used to it.

That’s all I want to know, and I never come back to the forums again.

Thanks!

It lags even in the mists, where you queue for the BL.. It’s unbearable.

Can a Arenanet member please login to Desolation borderlands now? Then you will see the major unplayable WvW we have right now.

And it seems Seafarer have no problems with hit, they just take all our towers and keeps now running in a major blob.

VZ borderland – unplayable just can’t land any skills at all and we’ve all got our settings down to the bare minimum.

A response would be nice ANet….

Alright the support advised me on using a proxy server.

I was very sceptic of using a proxy server, cause it normally lags my game right? But then I tried it and I tried it in the borderlands I had lag in, and guess what..

It fixed my lag problem, on big groups I have lower FPS, but that’s FPS right? But I could press all my skills without any delay.. only when its 100v100v100 in bay my heal didn’t respond, but after 2 second it did… and that’s fast

Maybe you guys could try it out too..

http://www.wtfast.com/

Use the free trial..

When installed choose a custom game, find your gw2.exe..

Then choose a proxy in Germany ( because there are the EU servers ) Let the program pick the best proxy, and start guildwars 2 from them>

( You need your account activated for that proxy, so check your mail)

This is all legit from the guildwars 2 support.

Hello Michael,

Thank you for updating us on your issue. I would like you to try connecting to the game on another connection to see if the issue persists. There are several proxy servers that offer 30 min trials which will be more than sufficient for our purposes. Some of these include www.wtfast.com and www.battleping.com.

Please let us know if the problem persists when connected to these services.

If you have any further questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Then I asked why to use a proxy..

Hello Mark.

First, please understand that using a proxy is not a violation of the EULA or Terms of Service Agreements. This really only applies to programs that do one of two things. Either they modify game data or they give you an unfair advantage compared to other players. Proxy services do neither of these and are allowed to be used, though yes, they cost money.

The issue here is that since the proxy service worked, that means it’s what we previously suspected. While in transit to the game server, your data is being lost due to packet loss. Technically speaking, you shouldn’t need the proxy since you are already paying for a connection to the Internet through your ISP. However, as you have now experienced, it’s that connection or the route they are using to get your data to our server that is causing this issue. So you will need to contact your ISP and have them address this issue or you may be forced to use a proxy service, though again, it shouldn’t be needed.

As for performance in WvWvW and PVP, please use a program like FRAPS or other in-game FPS monitoring program so you can visually see (At all times) your performance. If during battles your FPS drops below the average you are looking for (Most prefer 60, some can handle just 30 but it varies) then yes, you will need to decrease your in-game video settings. However, you need to first determine of the slowdown you’re experiencing is FPS “lag” or “latency” based due to the packet loss. Having an application like FRAPS allows you to do that very quickly.

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any additional issues, questions or concerns.

the only good thing about skill lag is, that we know that we are getting flanked by a big zerg way ahead XD

Habib Loew specifically stated that players are experiencing skill lag “because the server [is] too busy to process everything that’s happening (e.g. it’s at 100% CPU).” I don’t see how using a proxy can solve this problem unless you had an entirely different issue causing skill lag on top of the server side computing skill lag.

It solved it for me. I was very skeptic about it too, I said to the support.. Never mind helping me, you are just giving me a standard solution.

But they told me, they didn’t do that, and I gave them a chance.. the website that delivers this says to give MMORPG’s less lag.. and sure they do! Try it out yourself.

Use a german (DE) server.

wtfast.com

I’m in SEA and ran pingplotter, which consistently showed packet loss. The packet loss was beyond my ISP though and usually between ‘Los Angeles’ and ‘Dallas’. This loss was between 10% and 50% most of the time.

akanibbles, can you try out wtfast.com, install the free trial.. select custom game.. pick gw2.exe.. take a DE(german) server let them pick the best, goto your email and accept the new ip.

After that, start the game using the proxy program, and tell us after 1 day what it did for you. Thanks!