Ability lag (input?) Feels unresponsive

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Hello,

I’ve been having trouble with what I think is input lag. It’s hard to describe but it feels like abilities are not responsive when I press them. The GCD cooldown timer also feels inaccurate as sometimes abilities will go off before or after I see the reset. This was so bad with fury warrior that I stopped playing it and started gearing my rogue a few weeks back.

I’m a bit of a button masher so not sure if this is the problem but during things like heroism/lust it almost feels as if I’m pressing 1 spell ahead of my actual cast.

What I’ve tried

  • /console cvar_default
  • Spell queue window between 100 and 400. Currently at 250.
  • Turn off Vsync, Tripple buffering, turn off max foreground FPS, turn off optimize network for speed (all things I read can help with reducing input lag)
  • Updating, removing and playing with no addons
  • Switching between dx11 and dx12 (dx12 feels a lot worse)
  • Fresh windows install, WoW install, driver updates etc.

FPS wise I tend to get between 70-100fps depending on the zone/amount of people. I play 2560x1440 with my monitor at 144hz.

Please help it makes me not want to play

edit: It seems links are not allowed… but I took a video just now, not the best example but around 6-7 seconds you can kind of see what I’m talking about. Is it just animations making it feel bad?

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not your fault m8, blizzard servers has been incredible laggy since 9.1 especially in the maw,korthia,daily emissary zones: the moment u step outside shadowlands zones everything is fine again… been really thinking if its even worth playing wow anymore

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I mean these days it’s almost a given in the more populated end game world zones… it’s like the sad expected norm. However, I get this inside raids too where it leaves me feeling incredibly disappointed and unmotivated to play.

My rogue is parsing between 70-80 for ilvl so maybe it’s an issue everyone has? Still, feels dreadful to play.

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