Guild Wars 2

For the past few weeks my husband and I have experienced severe lag with this game. This lag affects game play, combat, and even moving objects around in our bags. It can be as much as 30 seconds between attempting an action and it actually happening in game, often in one short burst of all actions and sounds attempted during the spike. The lag is most noticeable because we are playing together, so we can see not only how it affects our own characters, but also what is happening to the other.

Our computers are in decent enough shape with sub-scores above 7.3 (out of a 1.0 to 7.9 scale) on all things except our hard drives (according to Windows Experience Index). We have recently upgraded our internet—our ISP doubled our speed. We have tried various traditional methods for speeding up an MMO: restarting the game, the computers, the router, and the modem—all in vain. After looking at the posts on here, and trying everything we can think of, we are now concerned that the issue is on Guild Wars’ end.

We hope that this issue can be resolved soon—and if there are any reasonable suggestions for ways we can help alleviate this on our end, please let us know.

The game is well-designed and beautiful, and we both want to continue to play it, but we are finding that due to lag, we cannot. The game is barely playable for us in PvE, and it is unbearable in PvP—which is the game’s bread and butter. Until this is resolved we are looking for other places to invest our time and money.

Are the ports in your router forwarded for GW2?

That’s got it! Thank you so very much! The game is running so much better. Thank you, again.

Wow, I’ve been having the same problems as you, Elurya. Severe, highly annoying lag lasting 30 seconds roughly, regardless of area or activity. I assumed initially that it was because I’d started playing on a different network, but the problem has continued since returning to my home network. Then I thought it might be due to the big patch at the beginning of April. But seeing that your problem was fixed just from port forwarding, maybe I should make sure mine have been forwarded correctly. Any idea why this became an issue for you only a few weeks ago and not earlier?

Absolutely none. In fact, my husband was about as skeptical as you, figuring this was just some blowhard’s advice, but he gave it a shot and things worked out. Ours also seemed to coincide with a huge patch, but so did our ISP’s doubling of our speed (sorta, the lag was pre-speed up by about a week, if memory serves), which required a modem/router restart… so, could have been that, something on Comcast’s end, or something with the patch, or an act of God, lol. It is fixed now, and I hope this works for you, too!

Glad it worked for you

Hey there! VERY similar problem, port forwarded and it worked like a charm. but today I got laggy again

Weird, I noticed that, too. I dunno, not sure what to do now except retry the port thing.

The servers are very laggy on anets end, thus the maintenance. I am having lag as well. I am sure that it will be ok after Anet sorts things out.

That makes sense. I am not having any particular problems with my ISP, and the game runs smoothly most of the time.

Okay, then I look forward to them fixing it soon.