Hello everyone, Argent Dawn has been having some serious server issues since I returned to WoW 6 weeks ago, I thought it would be helpful for blizzard to have some reports from players with specific details about the server issues, I’m not a network engineer but I can imagine that getting to the bottom of these sorts of problems is extremely challenging and time consuming when most of the reports are “Blizz pls fix servers”.
With Shadowlands hot around the corner these issues need to be fixed before it gets here as I am sure many players know that expac launches are not the smoothest ride for the first couple days when it comes to the servers (To be expected) and with whats going on already at the end of BFA it can only get worse, it really would suck if someone’s first dungeon in Shadowlands was so laggy they could not finish it, first impressions mean a lot.
So If people reporting issues could follow a rough format and try to be accurate as possible Blizzard will hopefully have more of a chance of getting to the root of the problem before Shadowlands.
And while this post is for Argent Dawn because thats the only server I play and can comment on, if other servers are having issues feel free to post.
Rough format:
- What time did the lag spike occur and for how long did it last
- What content were you doing
- If in a party was everyone affected by the lag spike
- How intense was the lag spike (How long we’re ability delays, Did the lag subside etc)
- Nature of the lag, were you able to move/cast abilities/use chat etc
- Some basic info about your network: Country, ISP, normal latency etc
- What realm you are playing on
- Anything else that might be useful
Again this is a rough format for the people that want it, don’t feel you have to follow this format but let’s get some good info that Blizzard can use.
I’ll list some of the issues I have had but will reply to this thread with more specific reports when they happen.
My past server issues
Me and my guild have had several mythic keystones depleted, On Sunday 06/09/2020 at around 3pm server time (I think) We cleared the first pack of Waycrest manor but as soon as going inside of the first obelisk everyone in our group completely lagged out for over 10 minutes, no one could use any abilities, I could not move because I was stuck in an eyebeam animation for over 2 minutes, I can’t say how long the lag lasted for as we all left the instance after 11 minutes of not even getting to the first boss.
We also sometimes get some big lag spikes in Ny’alotha during our raid nights Wednesday and Friday between 20:00 and 23:00 realm time but it usually only lasts a minute or two then goes back to normal and it does not happen every night.
I have also had Horrific visions completely lag out, twice I was unable to use abilities for over a minute and was not able to interrupt touch of the abyss when the server did eventually catch up I got instantly stunned and killed before the stun wore off, this happened twice, on the third time I had about a 3 second delay, was able to kill the pack I was on, waited for 5 minutes to see if it was fixed, I had only gotten worse, mounting up took 10 seconds so I decided to hearth out which took over a minute. (also in my experience Orgrimar lags far more often than Stormwind)
Instanced content lags out for me far more than anything else although sometimes entire zones will be unplayable with 5+ second delays, so far I have seen this lag in Vale of Eternal Blossom, Uldum, Stormwind, Nazmir, Nazjatar and Stormsong Valley.
I live in the UK, my ISP is Virgin media and I am on a 200mbps download line that very rarely has any issues and I do not get throttled ever.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to read this and post your own experiences with the server lag, lets hope we can get it fixed as soon as possible.
See you in the Shadowlands.