Guild Wars 2

I’ve started seeing a strange issue today: my skills take several seconds to fire after being pressed. My movement works in real-time, and I can see other players and whatnot all moving around and shooting, so it’s not my keyboard or mouse, and it’s not lag.. or not the usual lag at least. But if I press 1, the icon just flashes for 5 or more seconds before the skill takes effect, and sometimes it doesn’t even fire. Is anyone else experiencing this?

In game, use /ip to get the server ip.

e.g. 64.25.33.81

then in windows, open a cmd prompt and run "pathping" to that number. e.g.
pathping 64.25.33.81.

You’ll almost certainly find packet loss between you and anet.

E.g.

Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 CF0 [192.168.0.248]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 5ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% lo0.bng1.mel4.on.ii.net [150.101.32.44]
0/ 100 = 0% |
2 17ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ae4.cr1.mel4.on.ii.net [150.101.33.106]
0/ 100 = 0% |
3 21ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ae2.br1.syd7.on.ii.net [150.101.33.28]
0/ 100 = 0% |
4 173ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% te0-2-0-3.br2.sjc2.on.ii.net [203.16.213.158]
0/ 100 = 0% |
5 177ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% sjo-b21-link.telia.net [62.115.33.97]
0/ 100 = 0% |
6 190ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% las-b3-link.telia.net [62.115.138.101]
13/ 100 = 13% |
7 260ms 17/ 100 = 17% 4/ 100 = 4% dls-b22-link.telia.net [62.115.140.4]
0/ 100 = 0% |
8 259ms 23/ 100 = 23% 10/ 100 = 10% dls-b21-link.telia.net [62.115.140.9]
0/ 100 = 0% |
9 --- 100/ 100 =100% 87/ 100 = 87% ncsoft-ic-307708-dls-b21.c.telia.net.10.115.62.in-addr.arpa [62.115.10.106]
0/ 100 = 0% |
10 261ms 13/ 100 = 13% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.25.32-9.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.9]
9/ 100 = 9% |
11 --- 100/ 100 =100% 78/ 100 = 78% 64.25.32-26.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.26]
0/ 100 = 0% |
12 --- 100/ 100 =100% 78/ 100 = 78% 64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.82]
0/ 100 = 0% |
13 260ms 22/ 100 = 22% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.25.33-81.ncsoft.com [64.25.33.81]

Trace complete.

GJ telia.net. I guess they forgot to feed their pigeons over the weekend.

Ouch. Yes, pretty much the same results here. Thanks for the help. Nothing to do but wait I guess.