Guild Wars 2

I cannot say when this began since I have been only logging in for daily rewards for awhile but this past weekend I decided I was going to replay the story on a different character to see the other choices. That’s when I noticed these random lag spikes. Normally my ping chills between 60 and 80 but now every 10 to 30 seconds my ping will spike to 1300 and then go back down. This is causing skill delays and me not being able to dodge creatures attacks. If I am dying to creatures out in the open world I can’t imagine trying to do the raid. I tried resetting my router but it did not change anything. I play multiple other online only games and this lag spike only seems to happen with guild wars 2. It has made this game unplayable for me since I cannot complete even the most basic of content which is a huge bummer. Anyone else experiencing this or know how to fix it?

I will note that I have changed my hardware recently. If this is an issue with hardware though I will be shocked.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Random-Spikes-in-Ping/first#post5976777

Actually I’m having this problem today aswell, decided to log in and do some pvp, but I had some extreme lag in the game. I thought it was my internet so I restarted my modem and router. Then i tried to get on the game again and it kept dcing me, “the game client has lost connection to the server.”.

Ran speed tests and checked websites, youtube vids etc. and my internet is running perfectly fine. Its just GW2 giving me problems, I just got into the game but contact list wont load and it showed my ping is 2250! which I’ve never had before. :/

Unknown.2189:

Actually I’m having this problem today aswell, decided to log in and do some pvp, but I had some extreme lag in the game. I thought it was my internet so I restarted my modem and router. Then i tried to get on the game again and it kept dcing me, “the game client has lost connection to the server.”.

Ran speed tests and checked websites, youtube vids etc. and my internet is running perfectly fine. Its just GW2 giving me problems, I just got into the game but contact list wont load and it showed my ping is 1300 which I’ve never had before. :/

Those tests you tried won’t show you anything unless your speed test was to a Seattle server. You should run ping plotter or tracert. You can google how to do it. You can post the results in a picture here.

I am guessing I am using pingplotter wrong. It starts off looking like other pingplotter pictures I’ve seen posted and then after a few seconds I get this.

riku hatake.4523:

I am guessing I am using pingplotter wrong. It starts off looking like other pingplotter pictures I’ve seen posted and then after a few seconds I get this.

Your ISP is unable to reach Anet at all. That’s what it is showing (I believe, admittly I’m not that experienced in reading these, but I’m sure we can get a second opinion).

If it was unreachable at all then I wouldn’t be able to connect to the game I would assume. I can log in just fine. My game does not crash. I just get really bad lag spikes roughly every 30 seconds.

Yeah I agree. Hopefully someone else might have some ideas.

riku hatake.4523:

I am guessing I am using pingplotter wrong. It starts off looking like other pingplotter pictures I’ve seen posted and then after a few seconds I get this.

Change the 42 (last number in the IP) to 1 and try again.