Guild Wars 2

ANet, with over 250 posts on this thread, and I’m assuming many more in other various threads, I think we deserve an acknowledgement from you that this “Network Lag” is an issue. I think that is fair. For various reasons, we feel the issue isn’t on our end and obviously we are frustrated. Can somebody from ANet please comment on this so we at least know it is being looked into or not?

Thanks!

I have been having some lag issues as well for about the last 2 weeks and it has been getting more and more noticeable. The original server I was on was US Dragonbrand. I would have little lag for a few minutes then sporadic heavy lag that would render the game unplayable. I decided to transfer servers to see if it would fix the issue. I went to a Medium population server called Ferguson’s Crossing. Everything seemed to be OK until i entered the Ascalonian dungeon. The lag was awful. My spells would become unresponsive entirely and the game would sort of pause for about 20-30 seconds. After the pause everything that occurred on the server, mob movement, mob spells, party members spells and movement, and all my spell activations and movement, would happen at once (almost instantaneously) on my screen I would find myself dead. These pauses happened about once every 2-3 minutes consistently and one of the times I disconnected entirely. I have a great internet connection and rarely (if ever) have lag problems in other games. Out of curiosity and exploration of the issue, I logged into a EU server (I forget the name right now) and the game played smooth as butter for the 30 minutes that I played.

Anyways….just adding my 2 cents with some specific server examples. Maybe it will help track down the issue if it already hasn’t been.

Update : Although I have seen this issue above outside of a dungeon, it is rare. In the dungeon however, it is a certainty. The only dungeon I have played is the Ascalonian Catacombs, so I cant comment on the other dungeons.