I have a 4 month old gaming rig with an i-7 3770k and a 7970, everything top of the line, new, no expense spared professionally built beast machine and the lag is awful. This is not about poor PCs I assure you, this is server side lag. If you ever stick around after a huge, packed dragon event like tequatl, you’ll notice the springback point when everything speeds up insanely fast for just 30 or so seconds while everything catches up after the major crowd teleports out of the area.
Again i say, nothing to do with PCs, my PC runs everything. I have no issues in any zones except dragon events where there are so many people my character never moves. I can turn it down to the lowest settings graphically in gw2 and the difference is minimal.
Some days are better than others, less people always helps. Perhaps by the time you get on most have already gotten their daily chest from it. No clue, but don’t blame PCs
Then how come I never get ‘game crippling’ lag? I run an i7 with only a nVidia GTX 460 with 8 gigs of ram. Nothing super awesome… but better than most friends.
I play on Tarnished Coast (the most populated server) and do dragon runs Friday and Saturday nights (the most populated nights) and I am never unable to move due to end user lag. I have experienced server lag 2 times since beta.
I would say I play around 20-40 hours a week so you know I am not a newbie just blabbing about things.
Is it possible that you are being dramatic? Every event can’t lag THAT much for you if I have yet to experience it at all on my mid-high machine.