Guild Wars 2

So I got GW2 a week or 2 ago and I’ve noticed there’s a ton of lag. I was wondering if this is on my end?

It’s really noticeable during pvp. I’ll hit a skill and it will take about a full second before it activates.

Other problems I’ve had are when I use a dash skill…like bull’s charge or something similar that I will rubberband and I can’t tell where my character really is.

Little bit of A and a little bit of B?

I’m usually lag free except after 6pm and on weekends, because there’s apparently a bottleneck in Osaka at those times, but ever since the end of Season 1 of the living world whatever server crab toss and keg brawl has been absolutely terrible for me; I won’t have lag in any other game mode – be it PvP, WvW, PvE – but if I try those two activities I’ll be looking at skill lag as long as 20 seconds.

I’m positive there’s a bad hop near a datacenter that’s the cause of this, but I don’t want to run a traceroute on ANet’s servers for fear of triggering some sort of false positive on monitors for suspicious activity.

Your not going to trigger a false positive by doing a traceroute on there servers! in fact it will help them better diagnose there network infrastructure, and if it does trigger a false positive then it’d be the first I’ve ever heard of a common publicly accessible network test command that has come with windows as standard for decades.

Pandaman.4758:

Little bit of A and a little bit of B?

I’m usually lag free except after 6pm and on weekends, because there’s apparently a bottleneck in Osaka at those times, but ever since the end of Season 1 of the living world whatever server crab toss and keg brawl has been absolutely terrible for me; I won’t have lag in any other game mode – be it PvP, WvW, PvE – but if I try those two activities I’ll be looking at skill lag as long as 20 seconds.

I’m positive there’s a bad hop near a datacenter that’s the cause of this, but I don’t want to run a traceroute on ANet’s servers for fear of triggering some sort of false positive on monitors for suspicious activity.

It comes and goes it will be fine for a while then all of a sudden I have a 2 second delay on everything I do. It’s next to impossible to PvP because I can’t evade or attack anything because I’m a few seconds behind all the time. I don’t have this in ANY other game.

Any help at all? I’d like to be able to actually play a match without freezing.

Have you contacted your ISP? They may be throttling you and all you have to do is ask them NOT to. ISPs often do this by default during peak hours unless the users complain about it. Note that most streaming video sites (Netflix, etc.) will buffer and not notice minor throttling while web browsing will not be overly effected by it.

The fact that you are seeing intermittent pauses indicates this may be what’s happening (just a guess on my part).

One other possibility is that you are using a high traffic network (wireless or wired) to access your internet connection. If other people on your wireless network are streaming YouTube videos or other high data use activities, that can cause intermittent data lags like you are seeing.