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.

[~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.

[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.

[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

[MeliCat]

What I find weird is that one person can get lag and others don't sometimes in the exact same instance and time. And yet both have good pcs and (seemingly) good connections... Part 4 Shroud same deal - heals just *not* going off despite quicken etc and yet another person having no issues.

The absolutely insane lag I get in DQ is a lot of fun Totally mad. Movement once a second if that...

[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.

[Drona]

Well

For ages you have been shouting that a)quests have become easier b)too many shrines in the quest and etc etc...now you are dying couple of times you are all making a fuss..

This is the devs way for answering your wishes

Hope you all have fun, interesting and dying times in "easy"quests (as u said)...

[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.

[sweez]

Ever since U9, and especially the last "hotfix", the lag has gotten progressively worse. In every single quest now someone has to shrine twice cause the first shrining gets completely ignored by the server even though the animation and the progress bar were completed.

And the lag I get while in crafting halls... I don't even want to talk about that.

[markusthelion]

I agree with every post here. The game is flat out unplayable at times, even in regular questing situations. Just yesterday I grabbed a xp buff on ship (or thought I did) was running 'summerfield' with some guildies and about mid quest the shrine buff was added to my buff bar. Same thing happend to one of the guildies I was running with, super super weird.

I really hope U10 don't come out untill this is addressed.

[dingal]

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.

The lag lately is absolutely ridiculous. The "fix" did absolutely nothing and may have made it worse.

[pSINNa]

I'm gettin stuff that's so weird it's hard to even chalk it up to 'lag'. I'd be saying 'error' plain and simple.

Really off the wall stuff, that people in party with me kind of explain away as extreme lag of events, being tripped by things on the other side of the room, damage appearing from no-where (had a really funny adq at level yesterday where about 5 minutes after the first queen was killed (waiting for a friend to enter before final kill) me and the other guy in there starting taking damage from a unknown source for about 30 seconds, then it ceased xD. Just really strange stuff all over, the worst i've ever seen it.

I'm even considering cancelling guild raids due to start in a hand full of hours because we could be heading into a disaster zone of lag-fest which will upset everyone, and what's worse, waste their time in game (a lot of long time players are working adults with families, and have to schedule their game time in busy lives making room to be social with long time guild mates).

Please fix it, and i don't want to even think about update 10 at the moment, because if it is released with things this awry, there is just no way i can imagine enjoying running the new content fresh for the first time. How can i tell if i died from error or design in a quest i'm not familiar with?

Ah well, anyone else having this trouble please speak up, the devs really need to know it's not the usual bad-ping qq, it's new, it's serious, and it needs solving.

[andbr22]

Well never got soo much Lag until last update.
My favorite is eDQ2 -> We beat DQ, she port back to flanks and spawn efretii, we beat last efretti and everyone die...

For sure there is definitly something wrong. But usually I was connecting this with savants / new spells (ice storm, ice DoT, elect DoT, radiant DoT) and FPS go dow dirastically.