High ping this Wintersday

High ping this Wintersday

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Posted by: SirDrygan.1823

SirDrygan.1823

Ok, since the patch hit, I have been having avg 2k pings every time I am in-game.

And before anyone said this is my connection problem, nope, it is not already checked, already confirmed and already tested it.

Before the patch hit, I was in Fractals T4. my ping was my normal ping of 275 avg. After completing the Fractals, I log out of let it patch. It was late, so I just left it and went to sleep.

Morning I woke up, patch done. I close the client and restarted the client to make sure I didn’t miss anything post patch. Connected and log on.
I have expected some high pings since I have these problem during Halloween patch and the Ember Bay patch. This Wintersday patch is the worst. 2k on avg ping. I can’t do anything and everytime I was on, it kicked me out into the character select screen a few times saying I can’t connect to the server. Everytime after a few tries, I just gave up. Today is just the same, I log in and after like a couple of minutes or so, I got kicked out.

I am on Blackgate server. I get these type of high pings when I go to WvW during peak period to follow on the “bandwagon” to get the Gift of Battle reward track done.

I don’t get that much high ping during PvE. I only get them during events. Halloween, Ember Bay, Aurene events all got high pings but not insane like 2k+ pings.

Additional things to note, before this Wintersday patch, I was doing regular T4 fractals daily. And during those Fractals sessions, I usually have a youtube video (144p, of course) running on my second monitor. Usually it’s music or some youtubers ranting about this video game or WP talking about GW lore and how the writers are forgetting about the lore and just dropping new lore from out of thin air.
And I still get my normal ping of 275 avg. Sometimes 285, because of the youtube videos.

I live in ASEAN, so my ping normally is 275 on avg……. it’s normal i heard from other ASEAN players.

Today I try to get into Divinity’s Reach and the moment it loads in, the ping shot up to 4k. Went down back to 2k after loading everything on screen. Move around a bit, the ping went from 1200 to 2000+ back to 1200+, back up to 2000+ and so on. I just couldn’t do anything, even interacting with the npc took a few seconds to even see the dialogue box to appear. Pressing a skill doesn’t do kitten until after 30 secs or more later. And if I press too much times, it kicks me out to the log in screen.

If this was normal time, pressing skills 1-5 execute almost immediately. Granted my 275 avg ping got like a half a second lag or so…… however, for this patch, pressing any skill, the skill button keeps on flashing, but nothing happened. Pressing 1 to 5, makes the skill bar all flashing. Then later, only the skills executes.

It makes me wonder if ANET is cutting down on bandwidth just to save a buck or two because we aren’t giving them enough Black Lion money?

High ping this Wintersday

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Posted by: Inculpatus cedo.9234

Inculpatus cedo.9234

Why don’t you contact the Tech CS Team and find out what they say?

Good luck.