Guild Wars 2

So.. I’ve been trying to level a new character through some starter zones and when I couldn’t get the same response from my skills as I usually got, I opened up the Resource Meter and found that the ping was… well, pretty much par for the course if you’re living in this area of the world. For those that aren’t Oceanic, please read this as the lag is horrendous. It takes at least an extra second to see what’s going on after you’ve responded to the game (and if your skills actually are being effective), so by the time you’ve caught up with the rest of the fight, it’s pretty much over.
The figures you see in the attachment are standard pings. In this part of the world it’s rare to get anything below 400ms, and if there’s an event going on, forget it. So I’ve noticed that this lag is steadily getting worse while the ping is more or less the same… I shot this screen in the northern parts of Wayfarer Foothills, so not exactly a busy area now.
I’d like to find out what’s going on, as I’m sure if you had this kind of lag you’d find it intolerable too. I also know there’s other topics out there like this, but this is my take on it from a home connection (8Mb/sec) and before anyone interjects with “it’s your connection”, I’ve tried this out at a friend’s house (has a 24Mb/sec connection) and it’s just as bad, with the pings virtually the same.

Just a follow-up with this, I was just at the Claw of Jormag event (or ClawLag as we like to call it), and as can be expected with a vast amount of dragon-hoppers onboard there’s also a vast amount of lag to be expected. The one thing I can’t understand is the ridiculous amount of rubberbanding going on.

For example, I go for a Pact Bazooka to help with the effort of breaking the ice wall… there’s no point in even reaching for the bazookas because I’m stuck in one spot from the Claw’s fear shout, and here’s me up with the cannons unable to move, regardless of what I try.

Now somehow movement (normally) is unaffected whilst skills and reactions from those skills being executed are the problem. This time I couldn’t get any skills off within about 3-4 minutes after casting them, actions were completely frozen, walking off the spot was a drama in itself – I get 4 steps MAX and I’m back where I started. Subsequently I didn’t get to help out in the Claw’s destruction and thus, you guessed it, no chest.

Can someone please tell me what’s going on, and why this insane amount of rubberbanding during this event.