Crippling lag...

[sirgog]

Is it just me that's been experiencing this lately?

Party wiped to four trash mobs in epic Fathom the Depths. Quickened spells didn't go off. And those mobs don't hit hard, they take a while to kill a group.

Next, party wipes on Fire base in eVON6. Quickened spells don't go off. Raises don't stick. Players swing at the Djinni, not realising that as far as the server is concerned, they are five metres away swinging wildly near a fascinated elemental.

Both were with groups that should have had absolutely no trouble with those quests, hell both are among the easiest epics in the game.

/frustrated.

I know my connection is pretty mediocre at times and I DC a fair bit, but that would only explain me dying, not 4 or 11 other people of whom I knew at least half to be good.

[seobanio]

Yeah same symptoms here. Hard TOD part 3 everything fine, tank full health then boom dead. Elite shroud everything fine, full hp bar boom dead. In other places we have had even worse, where you can see death coming but quickened heal spells won't go off.

[wolflordnexus]

Yeah same symptoms here. Hard TOD part 3 everything fine, tank full health then boom dead. Elite shroud everything fine, full hp bar boom dead. In other places we have had even worse, where you can see death coming but quickened heal spells won't go off.

I personally disconnected during the Hard TOD and the Elite shroud was completely unplayable at several points. That's about 50k xp me an bitz would be closer to capping. Hopefully they get this worked out soon so want those completions.

[~jradnut]

Call me crazy, but after nosing thru several threads like this, Im starting to sense a pattern. Seems that the harder the difficulty the more lag interferance...just guessing though as I've not done epics lately and not experiencing much lag.

Occasionally get that syrupy feel where I attack 6 times and strike 3 times, but even that doesn't happen too often for me.

[Dark_Helmet]

Call me crazy, but after nosing thru several threads like this, Im starting to sense a pattern. Seems that the harder the difficulty the more lag interferance...just guessing though as I've not done epics lately and not experiencing much lag.

Occasionally get that syrupy feel where I attack 6 times and strike 3 times, but even that doesn't happen too often for me.

Nope,
Random quests - even in the harbor - or just running through house K can get you to stutter. But, my other client on the same computer is running fine.
It isn't like the memory leak where the client just crashes either as I can continue to play.

[altrocks]

Nope,
Random quests - even in the harbor - or just running through house K can get you to stutter. But, my other client on the same computer is running fine.
It isn't like the memory leak where the client just crashes either as I can continue to play.

I had crippling lag solo'ing Korthos quests on my TR Wiz. Actually failed in Redemption because Heyton took all the aggro (somehow?) and died. Probably going to the same as pSINNa and just cancel my VIP for a while, check back in a few months and see if things are getting better or continuing to get worse.

[stille_nacht]

Call me crazy, but after nosing thru several threads like this, Im starting to sense a pattern. Seems that the harder the difficulty the more lag interferance...just guessing though as I've not done epics lately and not experiencing much lag.

Occasionally get that syrupy feel where I attack 6 times and strike 3 times, but even that doesn't happen too often for me.

the thing that causes this is more likely to happen at higher difs :[

[steelblueskies]

that is a thought. maybe some bad routine in the damage calcs tied to dungeon scaling? but then it shouldn't be happening on epic.

hmm. maybe an issue with variable type mismatches and the sizes of the values at play frequently.. no..

we all know full well about lag hour and vendors not responding even with a good ping and no client issues.

its like that, only it seems to escalate at times into the server just stops responding to a client at all( in those connection to chat server heavy packet loss ingame monitor moments.).

shrugs. if people had a clearer sense of the types of lag when reporting an issue to places like codeshapers post u9 lag thread they might have a ghost of a chance of redressing it. but since people seem to think a client fps drop, a connection issue, and things like the other weirdness noted here are exactly the same, they just say i lagged and post away.

the only kind they are really working on at present based on their statements seems to be the "lag hour" type occuring seemingly at random, which is pure server issue.

[stille_nacht]

that is a thought. maybe some bad routine in the damage calcs tied to dungeon scaling? but then it shouldn't be happening on epic.

nah, it has to do with monks

[steelblueskies]

nah, it has to do with monks

Well assuming I'm not failing a super saiyan sarcasm roll..
Soloing it shouldn't be happening for many then.
Unless it's bogging the entire server hosting instances with monks, which would be pretty danged easy to test, they'd just have to disable the monk class for a day and see if the problem persists, gets worse, or gets better.

Another consideration oft overlooked is the whole per account grade server prioritization. We all seem to forget about that or assume it's only affecting login during heavy login dense periods like just after downtime or patches.

Wouldn't it be interesting if the server when under extreme load dropped or stopped responding to f2p first, then premium, and if it ran out of them without load improvement moved on to vip.

Traffic prioritization by account class. Hmm.

[altrocks]

It's been getting steadily worse since U9 went live. And it seems to be cumulative. I've only been able to play on weekends for about a month now, so it's fairly obvious to me, though people who play every day might not notice it at first. Maybe they finally ignored the memory leak issue in the clients so much that it propagated to the server side and is causing massive lag there. It would explain some of the random server crashes that have happened in the last month as well.

Without any real word from the devs on what's causing it, though, we can only speculate. Last patch was supposed to address some of the prime suspects, but it appears those were not the main cause.

[Shaka808]

Had the crippling lag issue in pt 4 of shroud a few days ago. On my fvs tossing quickened mass cures (so instant casting time) and I see the animation, see everyone fighting and dealing damage to harry but no healing going through, caused me and two others to die. (thankfully it happend when harry was almost dead)


Also had noticed yesterday in eyes of stone tossing quickened blade barriers and even regular blade barriers that I could go through the entire spell animation but no blades would appear. Was like I was failing a concentration check but I wasnt actually being hit by anything at the time.

[Stormblaest]

Gimp TWF again

[morticianjohn]

You probably knew that it's all servers. A couple of things I've noticed is. 1 heals I send tend to heal me a split second before it hits others. Radiant burst has been more reliable in terms of hitting on time. While a cure moderate mass may lag by a few seconds the radiant burst doesn't seem to lag more than a split second. Anyone else notice this. (yes quicken is on before you ask)

[Narmolanya]

I have had problems as of late myself. I have good connection but live in California so not close to the servers. I am contantly dcing lately when I never had that problem before. It has been very frustrating lately.

In fact I am writing this while waiting for a guild memebr that lives 10 miles from me to reconnect.

[NaturalHazard]

had trouble in epic chrono, hard tod, epic dq2.

[sirgog]

had trouble in epic chrono, hard tod, epic dq2.

I've had so much trouble in eDQ2 lately that I'm not running it atm. That has been the absolute worst lagfest I can think of, and it's also probably the single most unforgiving quest or raid to get a lagspike in.

[altrocks]

I've had so much trouble in eDQ2 lately that I'm not running it atm. That has been the absolute worst lagfest I can think of, and it's also probably the single most unforgiving quest or raid to get a lagspike in.

The regular lag in eDQ2 was bad enough, but you could manage to heal through it if you just kept spamming heals and bursts (most of the time) for healers and just kept your attack going while facing forward for everyone else. Casters had it rough trying to dance around blades, arrows, mobs and figuring out where she teleported to this time to get some damage on her.

Now it's just... yeah. I don't think anyone will be running it much until the issue is resolved.

[mystafyi]

crafting is the cause.

[krackythehoodedone]

First time ive ever commented on lag.

Made a Tod nearly impossible last week. A party that would normally have had the Quest quaking in its booties cost us a ton of resource to complete.

And failed my first EDQ2 in ages. The ''ball'' method's one weakness is being susceptible to a lag spike.

A few rocky Shrouds too