In Game (not network) lag/delay (help needed)

[Peskythief-frostmane]

Hey,
I posted a similar topic on technical forum, but maybe I’ll get a better chance here.

In short… the game feels like it’s suspended in thick syrup, molasses or honey. It’s either an internal delay or (more likely) delay in between display of a cast bar of an enemy on my screen and that person’s actual cast. This applies to position as well. I would estimate the delay in between 0.3-0.55s.

The result is, I cannot kick a thing. Literally. As a matter of fact when I press a kick on a 1.1s cast when it’s halfway throuhg, it will miss. It’s not a fake cast, or uninterruptible cast, etc. I press a kick, ability goes on cd, cast keeps coming through and connects.

It’s so bad, that number of times, I pressed kick when nothing was being cast 0.3+ second passes, enemy starts to cast, and… voil la… my kick lands… on a cast that wasn’t even started when I pressed it.

I’ts very different experience compared to network lag. During network lag, when I press a button I have to wait for an action to be displayed/performed on my screen. Here it’s an instant action on my end, spell gets casted, ability goes on cd, etc, but nothing happens on the ui/ enemy plate (cast still goes through).

I have very good mms delay and even, if we assume a really bad case scenario of: input lag+connection lag at 0.2 second, a cast that is over 1s is really easy to kick. However right now, it became virtually impossible to kick for me. I remember maining rogue back in WoTLK and you would often wait till 0.1s till the end of the cast to get a kick and it would land. Now, If I press it 0.5s till cast finish it fails. My frustration reaches its peaks.

[Bewarê-frostmane]

@Peskythief-frostmane

Hey,
I posted a similar topic on technical forum, but maybe I’ll get a better chance here.

In short… the game feels like it’s suspended in thick syrup, molasses or honey. It’s either an internal delay or (more likely) delay in between display of a cast bar of an enemy on my screen and that person’s actual cast. This applies to position as well. I would estimate the delay in between 0.3-0.55s.

The result is, I cannot kick a thing. Literally. As a matter of fact when I press a kick on a 1.1s cast when it’s halfway throuhg, it will miss. It’s not a fake cast, or uninterruptible cast, etc. I press a kick, ability goes on cd, cast keeps coming through and connects.

It’s so bad, that number of times, I pressed kick when nothing was being cast 0.3+ second passes, enemy starts to cast, and… voil la… my kick lands… on a cast that wasn’t even started when I pressed it.

I’ts very different experience compared to network lag. During network lag, when I press a button I have to wait for an action to be displayed/performed on my screen. Here it’s an instant action on my end, spell gets casted, ability goes on cd, etc, but nothing happens on the ui/ enemy plate (cast still goes through).

I have very good mms delay and even, if we assume a really bad case scenario of: input lag+connection lag at 0.2 second, a cast that is over 1s is really easy to kick. However right now, it became virtually impossible to kick for me. I remember maining rogue back in WoTLK and you would often wait till 0.1s till the end of the cast to get a kick and it would land. Now, If I press it 0.5s till cast finish it fails. My frustration reaches its peaks.

Is there any correlation to when you face players from other regions?

Seems eerily similar to the lag in the past when facing a player from a different region sometimes, most often vs. a Russian player, which didn’t get addressed until the latter part of WoD. (Never fixed entirely, but it got much better after that “fix” in the latter part of WoD.)