Guild Wars 2

I don’t know if this affects anywhere else in the game because I’ve been only playing spvp. However, for a few days now I’ve been experiencing awful in-game skill lag. And even warping when I swap weapons. It takes 5 seconds at least for all of my skills to activate. This makes playing spvp pretty difficult. I’ve checked my end and my router and modem are fine. Everything else I have about 20ms. So I was wondering, is anyone else having this issue? Or is it just me?

I had this same issue about 6 months ago and I had to stop playing because of it. I sure hope that I don’t have to do that again.

Some additional information/ system specs:
I run this game on the lowest possible settings.

AMD Phenom II X6 1045T 6 CPUS CPU Speed 2.7GHz
8GB of RAM
AMD Radeon HD 6450 512 mb pixel and vertex shader version 5.0
Direct X11.

Though I don’t think this issue is hardware based, I thought it would be important to include that.

you should send a support ticket to anet. They will probably tell you to use ping plotter and later you will figure that your ISP is probably a piece of kitten or your router is having problems.

Unfortunately. I’ve already been through those hoops before. Last time it wasn’t my ISP, even though they told me it was, and I highly doubt it’s my ISP this time as well. That’s why I came to the forums to see if anyone else is having these issues. Anet has issues with admitting that the problems lie on their end.

Connecting from Singapore.
The lag is everywhere in the game and my internet connection is fine.
It’s impossible to have a decent playing experience at all with all the lag and random d/cs.

NiffyinaJiffy.1532:

Unfortunately. I’ve already been through those hoops before. Last time it wasn’t my ISP, even though they told me it was, and I highly doubt it’s my ISP this time as well. That’s why I came to the forums to see if anyone else is having these issues. Anet has issues with admitting that the problems lie on their end.

The only people who are allow to complain are people who are not in the US. I do not believe anet has provided servers across the world. In the US, many connection problems are ISP issues.

NiffyinaJiffy.1532:

I had this same issue about 6 months ago and I had to stop playing because of it. I sure hope that I don’t have to do that again.

Great. I was afraid of this. The frequent lag spikes I have, which started Sunday and became more noticeable on Monday, by yesterday and still present today feel exactly the same as the lags I had for 2-3 months starting from the end of August last year. There was a huge thread on the topic, and ANet just said run pathpings and post your results. They never gave any news on whether they had found the problem, whether they were trying to fix it, or how long they thought it would be. Then, suddenly it all went away, and gameplay was smooth and lag free for 2 months… Until now.

loseridoit.2756”

The only people who are allow to complain are people who are not in the US. I do not believe anet has provided servers across the world. In the US, many connection problems are ISP issues.

Well that’s just dandy, ‘cause I don’t live in the US. I live in Canada and my ISP is Rogers.

Impact.2780”

Great. I was afraid of this. The frequent lag spikes I have, which started Sunday and became more noticeable on Monday, by yesterday and still present today feel exactly the same as the lags I had for 2-3 months starting from the end of August last year. There was a huge thread on the topic, and ANet just said run pathpings and post your results. They never gave any news on whether they had found the problem, whether they were trying to fix it, or how long they thought it would be. Then, suddenly it all went away, and gameplay was smooth and lag free for 2 months… Until now.

That’s similar to what happened to me last time. But that problem started around April of last year when the big wardrobe patch was implemented. It was so bad that I had to quit the game for several months. It seemed to vanish for a set period of time, but now it appears it has returned.

With that said though, I’m experimenting with forcing gw2 to launch through port 80 instead of port 6112. Port 6112 is often throttled by ISP companies. I’m going to keep trying with that port and see if it solves my problem. Even though the CRTC is forcing my ISP to not throttle that port, I don’t doubt that my ISP likely conducts shady business practices and continues to throttle it. Only time will tell I guess.

Here try this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/19fnoj/if_youre_suffering_with_laglatency_issues_during/

It’s how to connect through port 80, hopefully it helps you out.

I had some skill lag a few weeks ago, and set the clientport to 443 and it fixed the issue. Since it’s come back, I’ve tried port 80 and setting it back to 6112. Neither made a difference.

NiffyinaJiffy.1532:

loseridoit.2756”

The only people who are allow to complain are people who are not in the US. I do not believe anet has provided servers across the world. In the US, many connection problems are ISP issues.

Well that’s just dandy, ‘cause I don’t live in the US. I live in Canada and my ISP is Rogers.

Impact.2780”

Great. I was afraid of this. The frequent lag spikes I have, which started Sunday and became more noticeable on Monday, by yesterday and still present today feel exactly the same as the lags I had for 2-3 months starting from the end of August last year. There was a huge thread on the topic, and ANet just said run pathpings and post your results. They never gave any news on whether they had found the problem, whether they were trying to fix it, or how long they thought it would be. Then, suddenly it all went away, and gameplay was smooth and lag free for 2 months… Until now.

That’s similar to what happened to me last time. But that problem started around April of last year when the big wardrobe patch was implemented. It was so bad that I had to quit the game for several months. It seemed to vanish for a set period of time, but now it appears it has returned.

With that said though, I’m experimenting with forcing gw2 to launch through port 80 instead of port 6112. Port 6112 is often throttled by ISP companies. I’m going to keep trying with that port and see if it solves my problem. Even though the CRTC is forcing my ISP to not throttle that port, I don’t doubt that my ISP likely conducts shady business practices and continues to throttle it. Only time will tell I guess.

Here try this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/19fnoj/if_youre_suffering_with_laglatency_issues_during/

It’s how to connect through port 80, hopefully it helps you out.

errr.. canada. You are close enough to the us so you should not experience lag as horrible as you describe.

I heard canada ISP are pretty garbage. Throttle netflix, bad connections. data caps, etc