The server is lagging. Once again Blizzard didn't anticipate the number of online players. How could they know? It is always unpredictable. If only they could count the number of active licenses and the number of early purchases (not pre-orders because money was paid right there and then). But that's too difficult. They are already busy making the next expansion TM.
There is a solution to all the lags though.
OFFLINE PLAY :)
The ability to run a server on your own PC and sync data later with Blizzard's servers. Zero lag! Much lower hardware costs.
But really an ETA would be nice. Because right now all I can see is criminal negligence on the part of the service provider. And ill-judged management decisions. The expansion was launched two weeks ago. The quality of service leaves much to be desired. AH lag, combat lag, looting lag. Even in the middle of the day when everyone is supposed to be at work or something. I can only play fine in early morning. 6:00-12:00 or so and I HATE rising early.
#BattleForAutoinvite #stock #stockprices #laggate
Bumping, same problem here for Terenas.
28ms home & world, getting a massive delay performing every action/spell.
28ms home & world, getting a massive delay performing every action/spell.
Remember GCD has been changed from 1 second to 1.5? Looks like Blizzard anticipated all this lag.
This is happening on Chamber of aspects as well. 3 pcs with the sam issue when playing with friends (all three have the same issue so not a computer problem). Only started today. Landing at flight paths leaves me standing there for 1-2 mins waiting to move. Loading maps takes an age, so getting the flight paths to start with is terrible, without the issues when landing. Bags itemd, spells and vendor items take ages to load when first loading.
Thankfully not too many issues when out questing, except mini map not loading so missing out on herbs and mines
Does this sound like the server lagging?
Thankfully not too many issues when out questing, except mini map not loading so missing out on herbs and mines
Does this sound like the server lagging?
Horrible lootlag, handing in quests is slow, picking up herbs lags, autoloot is laggy.
And the blue post is kinda usueless, it's not my PC / software / network connection. it's clearly Blizzards end that's causing this.
It's eighter the servers that are not up to the job or whatever software they run these days that's not doing it's job very well. Legion had none of this poor quality that we have now.
(Chamber of Aspects. world / home latency 4/6 ms) feels like 1k+ latency.
And the blue post is kinda usueless, it's not my PC / software / network connection. it's clearly Blizzards end that's causing this.
It's eighter the servers that are not up to the job or whatever software they run these days that's not doing it's job very well. Legion had none of this poor quality that we have now.
(Chamber of Aspects. world / home latency 4/6 ms) feels like 1k+ latency.
EU-Dragonblight ..
And judging by how the US forums look, it's happening there, too.
Yet no aknowledgement from Blizz that something's been messed up since BfA.
Random lag-spikes, disconnects, micro-stutters, ability and loot-delays of several seconds, the while auction-house mess.
It all started with BfA, it's happening all around the world.
The only common factor of all problems and players is: Blizz's servers and BfA
And judging by how the US forums look, it's happening there, too.
Yet no aknowledgement from Blizz that something's been messed up since BfA.
Random lag-spikes, disconnects, micro-stutters, ability and loot-delays of several seconds, the while auction-house mess.
It all started with BfA, it's happening all around the world.
The only common factor of all problems and players is: Blizz's servers and BfA
Same thing on Argent Dawn for me, seems ok for a while but gradually gets worse. Lag between pressing an action and it actually happening, looting etc. Have found completely quitting out of the game and then going back in seems to improve it sometimes.
27/08/2018 09:41Posted by Neurotoxin27/08/2018 07:27Posted by SaryzanI checked on Kilrogg
Check silvermoon now. Still lags with 55ms. Only bfa zones.
In Turkey, we die for 55 ms lag :D
Zuldazar on Khadgar is again borderline unplayable with 45ms/45ms latency attacks take anywhere from 1-3 seconds to actually happen and everything else takes even longer. -_-
I made a ticket for that reason yesterday and here is the answer also.
This is my message i send. "I get lag while i play sometime while my ping is stable. I dont know if it is server problem or mine. The problem started with Battle of Azeroth never had problem before." And here is the answer of them "Sorry to hear that the issue persists. We are not aware of any issue with our servers, however we will be more than happy to troubleshoot this further with you!" I am glad that someone else made a report about it. It is not everywhere and it is not always but it makes me wanna break the computer.
This is my message i send. "I get lag while i play sometime while my ping is stable. I dont know if it is server problem or mine. The problem started with Battle of Azeroth never had problem before." And here is the answer of them "Sorry to hear that the issue persists. We are not aware of any issue with our servers, however we will be more than happy to troubleshoot this further with you!" I am glad that someone else made a report about it. It is not everywhere and it is not always but it makes me wanna break the computer.
29/08/2018 14:16Posted by BobirakosI made a ticket for that reason yesterday and here is the answer also.
This is my message i send. "I get lag while i play sometime while my ping is stable. I dont know if it is server problem or mine. The problem started with Battle of Azeroth never had problem before." And here is the answer of them "Sorry to hear that the issue persists. We are not aware of any issue with our servers, however we will be more than happy to troubleshoot this further with you!" I am glad that someone else made a report about it. It is not everywhere and it is not always but it makes me wanna break the computer.
It's the same bull!@#$ on every ticket and every topic created both here AND on the US forums.
According to Blizzard there is nothing wrong with their servers, or the client.
The fact that worldwide, god knows how many users, since BfA launch, in different countries, on different ISPs, on different computers, are experiencing the same issues (ability lag, loot lag, the game freezing while being able to continue chatting, random disconnects), is the fault of YOUR router/computer/ISP, according to every blizzard response.
I'm starting to get really pissed by every generic "Have you tried turning it off and on again" response the blue-names are giving on every single topic regarding the issue.
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Well, it's really simple and it happens every time.
It was really bad on Warlords of Draenor launch.
In between expansions a stable number of players play World of Warcraft. When an expansion launches, the number of players can multiply by several times and stay the same for months.
Blizzard certainly knows what will happen in advance -- they know at least how many expansions have been bought -- but they never spend more money than necessary. Blizzard could buy more servers to handle the increased load but it means less money paid to shareholders this year.
This is why Blizzard does nothing or next to nothing. Although the company could probably rent servers from Amazon or something as an affordable solution instead of buying dedicated hardware for their own.
These days Blizzard worries about money more than it worries about the happiness of players. They expect you to go away eventually. If you look at the blue post tracker, you will see that blue answers are often given to posts with little thought in them, posts filled with emotions and pure QQ. From my point of view, it indicates that Blizzard cares more for newbies than their old-time customers.
And as you can see, complaining on forums is not effective. Unless complaining reaches truly collosal proportions like the thread of complaints about Blizzard's plans to force real life names on these forums. That thread was over 50k posts long and even a top ranking Blizzard executive had to make an apology and promise the plans to enforce Real ID will never be implemented.
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/120220/InDepth_Why_Was_Blizzards_Real_ID_Such_An_Issue.php
So complaining on forums is kind of useless. If you are really unhappy, try to convince youtubers, social media influencers, twitch streamers, mass media people to drag the problem into the limelight.
It was really bad on Warlords of Draenor launch.
In between expansions a stable number of players play World of Warcraft. When an expansion launches, the number of players can multiply by several times and stay the same for months.
Blizzard certainly knows what will happen in advance -- they know at least how many expansions have been bought -- but they never spend more money than necessary. Blizzard could buy more servers to handle the increased load but it means less money paid to shareholders this year.
This is why Blizzard does nothing or next to nothing. Although the company could probably rent servers from Amazon or something as an affordable solution instead of buying dedicated hardware for their own.
These days Blizzard worries about money more than it worries about the happiness of players. They expect you to go away eventually. If you look at the blue post tracker, you will see that blue answers are often given to posts with little thought in them, posts filled with emotions and pure QQ. From my point of view, it indicates that Blizzard cares more for newbies than their old-time customers.
And as you can see, complaining on forums is not effective. Unless complaining reaches truly collosal proportions like the thread of complaints about Blizzard's plans to force real life names on these forums. That thread was over 50k posts long and even a top ranking Blizzard executive had to make an apology and promise the plans to enforce Real ID will never be implemented.
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/120220/InDepth_Why_Was_Blizzards_Real_ID_Such_An_Issue.php
So complaining on forums is kind of useless. If you are really unhappy, try to convince youtubers, social media influencers, twitch streamers, mass media people to drag the problem into the limelight.
Can confirm, game says I have around 35-40 ms latency but spell casting feels delayed by 200-400 ms, sometimes even worse than that.
30/08/2018 14:51Posted by InvelthCan confirm, game says I have around 35-40 ms latency but spell casting feels delayed by 200-400 ms, sometimes even worse than that.
Same here.
Latency hovers between 15-25 ms.
When the "Freeze" or "lag spike" or whatever you wanna call it happens, the latency doesn't change. I can chat without lag, often I can walk around, too.
Just all my spells do not react to any input, looting doesn't work, interacting with NPCs doesn't work.
This also happened while in dungeons, and then everybody had the same problem.
Low Latency, not being able to move, chat without delay, not being able to cast anything.
The problem is either client or server related.
Not network-related I think (because then the latency would spike, and things like chat etc would be delayed, too).
@Bernardett. Do you also have issues with flight paths, other characters loading slowly and maps taking ages to load? Mine is really bad and Blizz has asked me to run a few things when I get home. The odd thing is my other computer doesn't seem to be as bad. It's only been since I had an update on Tuesday. Was fine before. Does this sound like a Server thing, problem with the patch download or (hopefully not) a computer hardware issue?
Its a war mode issue.
Bump this please. Lag has been an issue on and off since BFA launch.
This evening on Doomhammer/Turalyon its very bad indeed and seems to be persistent.
Friends, Guildies and zone chat are full of other people complaining about it.
For info I'm showing 34ms latency but spell casting, quest turn ins and selling to vendors is taking much much longer.
Please acknowledge the issue and let us at least know it's being looked at.
This evening on Doomhammer/Turalyon its very bad indeed and seems to be persistent.
Friends, Guildies and zone chat are full of other people complaining about it.
For info I'm showing 34ms latency but spell casting, quest turn ins and selling to vendors is taking much much longer.
Please acknowledge the issue and let us at least know it's being looked at.
Maghteridon same issues since few days. Horrible lag during combat and looting. Even with 22ms
Blizzard located my lag issue. It was my antivirus, so I uninstalled and installed again and it seems to be ok now. If you have windows defender you probably dont need to reistall like I did. I hope this helps. Stutter was fixed by turning on Vertical Sync :)
30/08/2018 15:56Posted by Reevar@Bernardett. Do you also have issues with flight paths, other characters loading slowly and maps taking ages to load? Mine is really bad and Blizz has asked me to run a few things when I get home. The odd thing is my other computer doesn't seem to be as bad. It's only been since I had an update on Tuesday. Was fine before. Does this sound like a Server thing, problem with the patch download or (hopefully not) a computer hardware issue?
Yup, NPC Interaction (selecting a flight-path, turning in quests, buying something) is unresponsive at times, takes really long to respond to interaction.
Looting sometimes just doesn't work and I have to "loot" several times to actually get the loot.
Mid-fight my character doesn't respond to spell-related inputs (i can move around, but can't cast, I just see the GCD trigger, but no spells go off) all the while the enemy mob continues hitting me.
In dungeons the whole fight stopped (not frozen though, "Idle" animations still play), me and the whole party are not able to move, or cast spells.
The thing is, while ALL of the above happen, at random times, one thing is always the same:
My latency is unchanged and low (15-25 ms).
I am able to chat in guild, party, instance without delay, others can see and reply.
The game usually "catches up" and resumes, or disconnects me (or in case of a dungeon the whole party).
I ran WinMTR (just in case) on all three EU IPs, and no packet loss or whatsoever occured while the lag/freeze/whateveritscalled happened. According to analysis the network-part is totally fine (which already was obvious to me as 4 other people, from 4 other countries experience the same issue at the same time).
It's most definatly server or client related.
And definatly BfA related.
30/08/2018 19:49Posted by TerapeutenIts a war mode issue.
Doubt it.
I got the problem both with, and without war mode turned on.
And it also happens within dungeons, where war mode is irrelevant.
30/08/2018 21:30Posted by ReevarBlizzard located my lag issue. It was my antivirus, so I uninstalled and installed again and it seems to be ok now. If you have windows defender you probably dont need to reistall like I did. I hope this helps. Stutter was fixed by turning on Vertical Sync :)
Not running AV myself (aside from Defender at home).
Also have the same issues on a different computer, on a different network and ISP.