Just a note while I’m here (dc’d along with several of my guildies in a wvw lag spike).
I appreciate it’s difficult to fix these problems or find the cause. I don’t expect a quick fix. That said, it’s been about a month since I started raiding again in wvw. Took a year break and decided to come back with the new changes. I’m having a pretty good time for the most part, just keeping it casual and having fun.
The lag during late NA and OCX on SoS is bad. The skill lag from huge SM fights back in the day has nothing on it. It doesn’t affect anything else (youtube, TS, etc.), and this is a shared experience, so I assume it to be GW2 wvw servers. At any given point in raid, multiple guildies are getting kicked or receiving lag that makes the game unplayable. I don’t mean like high latency type lag, but 3-15 seconds in between ‘lucid’ periods of playability, usually lasting about a half second – a chaotic hodge-podge of skills attempted, damage taken, and rubber banding. Generally followed by disconnection from the server and an inability to log back in for a minute or so, which is a rather frustrating setback, especially in a competitive environment.
Again, I don’t expect a quick fix, but it’s really bumming a few hundred of us out in my guild alone, and I know it’s not isolated to us.
Is it a money thing? Would new/more CPUs help? More servers? Would it help if we organized a wvw server fund drive? If there is something, anything we can do to speed this up, please let us know.
EDIT: It was roughly 20-30 minutes in-between getting disconnected (not including period of unplayable lag) and successfully re-logging in to wvw in this particular instance. I regret to say this is not the first instance. Thank you for your time.
SoS – member of Tactical Fury [TF]
