Guild Wars 2

Dear Devs/Admins,

Today evening when I tried to log in to my GW2 account, the first thing I get is that my loading screen on Queensdale gets stuck for about 5-6 minutes.

When it finally loads, the amount of lag is just intolerable.
I checked with the repairs and reinstalls and the problem still remains. Also, other than GW2, my net is working fine.
Can someone please help?

Regards,
WinterSpring

You are not alone. Many members of my guild in Gunnar’s Hold (Europe) are having the same problem.

I heard some hacker group attacked the Europe Servers. Can we get a confirm on this? or at least some explanation?

And this happened during my spring break… kitten it!

ArenaNet is quiet as well..I wonder if the game is gonna get shelved or something…

Insurmountable lag as well on Viznuah Square tonight (FR) tonight – been loading Cursed Shore screen for about 15 minutes. Have attempted numerous times to reboot the client with no success. What’s the deal with these servers Anet?

US player on Gandara, same issues.

Same for me on Desolation,getting to LA took me like 5 minutes,getting into Fractal much longer.I had to drop out because the game was unplayable and this was 5 hours ago. I have just log in a few minutes and I still have skill lag.

Same on NA server.. got D/C 4 times in 2 hours from WvW and 1/2 sec lag between hitting key and skill performing. freezing crashing

Same issue with here and I am in Farshiver’s peak server. It’s getting worse since the last March 26 patch.

It seems to be the same each weekend in europe. Massive lag, no reponse, blaming the same firewalls that work during the week.

Started getting this issue a few hours ago, Not sure if it’s my ISP’s fault (I have a horrible ISP) but net seems to be working fine, just a lot of lag in GW2.

I started getting this issue yesterday or so, and I logged off thinking it was my connection.
Today though, it is totally unplayable.

Constant hiccups, the game freezes for half a second or a second every 2~3 seconds all the time, with a huge freeze of 5 seconds+ every minute or so.

I have two different connections and I tried them both, same issues. PC is as clean as possible, there’s nothing running in the background except maybe this page.

I’m from Brazil and I never had any issues with lag before (besides the higher ping), playing on Ehmry Bay, US.

After 26.03 patch also have strange lags/freezes.
May be WvW optimization broke something?
Even PVE very hard now. Evades are impossible.

Well it was fine for about half an hour but lag is back all of a sudden.

it seems to be on and off but its getting so bad now that even talking to someone ingame is a struggle

seems to be able to play for 4-5 mins then freeze out – but this only really occurs at weekends, too many people playing on too few servers. We have paid to play, so why can’t we? Ps I’m in Scotland.

I bought the game a few days ago so I wasn’t really aware of this but I guess on the weekends is better than never :P they’ll fix it eventually.

I have been having massive skill lag on Seafarer’s Rest in pvp. It was making the game absolutely unplayable for me. Please fix as soon as possible!

Incredible lags after path 26/03.

Like i have 50% internet packets loss. But i haven’t, all other connections and games work fine.
And It’s not only me, a lot of ppl in my guild have the same problems after patch.
Huge freezes after patch.

I dont mean computer FPS lags or “skill lags” on WWW, when skills don’t work. I mean freezes, spikes like packets loss.
It’s annoying.

Hey, I’ve been having this problems just for the past 2 hours. Its actually pointless to play, my friend is on a different ISP and is also having the problems. So I would think its something to do with GW2 servers, which is unacceptable if we paid a monthly subscription but we don’t so a little down time shouldn’t be a big deal. I’ve had the game from day 1 (3 day headstart), and this is the only problem I’ve ever had to report.

We did not have any problem with GW1. Looks like GW2 is too sucessful, too many players wanting to play at the same time. Too many players = a lot of income, come on Anet play fair.

Oh.my.goodness. It’s extremely frustrating trying to play with in-game lag spikes/freezing episodes that last sometimes upwards of 15 seconds, and other times, the server simply times out and then I have to log back in from the character screen. I know that others are experiencing similar issues on various servers. I’m on Fort Aspenwood and it’s just as bad on our server. It’s basically unplayable, which is a major bummer. Is there anything that can be done to fix this problem? Until then, playing is simply not an option. :’(

Just adding my two cents, for what their worth. Been having severe lag since the late March/ early April. NA player playing on EU server Piken Square. Previously game ran very well, with typical slowdowns in mass zergs and large boss fights. Yet now I’ve been getting at worst 30 sec lags every few minutes, making the spvp and wvw unplayable and pve barely so. I’m wondering if the update didn’t have something to do with it, but I’m open to suggestions. Also seem to be lagging on other online games. Latency checker is giving me yellow and red bars during these events. I’m in the process of checking/updating drivers, pings, and traces. Any ideas?

+1 All the above.

Playing on Seafear’s Rest and since the ‘culling’ update (assuming 26/3) i experience 45-60 second skill lag in relativity small wvw zergs (30vs30).

I can literally stand in the middle of an enemy zerg and and hit my dagger storm skill and it lasts for 45-60 seconds before i instantly die…but not before causing massive damage.

Even PvE i noticed jittery movement of fellow non-NPC characters.

This should be a top priority.

We where running TA dungeon this morning (Yaks Bend) and the skill lag was horrible, I tried rebooting the game and router to see if it helped but it didn’t, others in the group where getting the same issues, its getting worse by the day, I played GW1 for 7 years and very rarely had lag/skill lag issues, but 8 months of GW2 and its non stop.