Guild Wars 2

This is getting so bad that the game is becoming completely unplayable.Whether people are in PvP ,WvW or PVE the latency /skill lag has become a serious problem.
I myself have ,in the last 2 months, have reinstalled my operating system 3 times. Uninstalled and reinstalled and updated drivers more times than I care to mention.Run equipment tests .Uninstalled and reinstalled the game 4 times .Done repairs on dat file to many times .Run the game on different ports . Using the lowest possible settings .Had my internet provider look at my connection and system numerous times.I’ve run speed tests .tracerts ,pathpings ,pings, jitter tests, throttering tests. Uninstalled every app using or potentially using network bandwidth. Blocked and shutdown automatic updates. Ran without firewall and antivirus. I’ve tried everything.
Still when I get near some people ,whether in Lions Arch ,PvE or WvW l, in the game my ping will spike up to 2- 4 Kbs and sit there for up to 20 seconds or more or just disconnect .Ive run in blobs (zergs) before and never had this much trouble and it’s getting worse.
This issue isn’t isolated because after talking to others that play they are having similar problems.
A Lot of people have become so discourage that they don’t even feel that putting in tickets is worth while.
If the foundation of the game is so unstable that people cant play ,then all the new content and fancy crap in the Black Lion Trader becomes meaningless.

Yesterday my ping was averaging 70-80ms, today it’s averaging 450ms. Near the point of unplayability. Not sure what’s going on here now.

Edit: Seems to have normalized itself now. Had some 300+ms spikes now and then, but nothing in the past few hours.

I can confirm this! In all game mode especially in WvW my ping spike up to 5k++ and I can’t even hit anything, everything just lag like 1min behind the real time… It only started happening to me this week and have been persistent. Already called my ISP they said everything is fine on their side, now waiting for ANET side to respond to my ticket.

I urge anyone that is facing this similar problem to post a reply to this thread too.

Ciel.8705:

my ping spike up to 5k++ and I can’t even hit anything, everything just lag like 1min behind the real time…

This has been happening to me since about a week before Bitterfrost. Teq and Shatterer unplayable and I have had a 2 minute lag a few times So yes, game is no fun at the moment.

op, it would be helpful if you post a ping plotter.

not everybody experience the same latency as you. If you post your ping plotter, it gives anet a sample point to spot trouble areas.

Happening to me getting disconnected every 10-5 mins at peak hours and really long lag episodes where I can go take a pee and comeback to my char still shooting at the same target!

Warning: Do to the easy availability to programs that can interrupt internet access I urge people to NOT display their IP addresses or the IP addresses displayed in Ping Plotter on any open forum.

All though Ping Plotter(which uses Traceroute to do it work) can be a some what help full tool it can also give false information since it uses ICMP echo requests .Many severs block and/or filter ICMP echo requests do to security reasons (example: DDOS attacks).Because of this you may see some servers not responding (ICMP echo reqests are blocked)or servers that show high latency (ICMP echo requests not prioritized ). I used Ping Plotter to get a general idea of the path but had to ping individual hops (using command line)to get more accurate information.