Lag in open world

Kareboom-defias-brotherhood · December 29, 2018, 9:34pm

I have noticed this issue also in the last few days, happened on my Demon Hunter.

was getting hit by mobs in Vol’dun(the skeletal trolls zone), everything fine, then suddenly 5% hp and got killed, ran to corpse, pressed ressurect, ressurection dialog closses, I am still in ghost form, started getting hit by a NPC, can’t do anything since I am dead, after some short time I spawn dead, released, ran to my corpse, pressed ressurect same thing happens only this time I ran far from all hostile NPCs, after aprox. 2 minutes I ressurect;

in another part of Vol’dun, doing this quest(and the other quests which came along in that zone, from Vulpera and Vorrik), when Eye beam proced demon form I would change into demon form after the proc ended and after using Eye beam again, it turned me into normal form while proc was active and turn me back into demon form after the end; this happened again in Nazmir while doing another quest;

While this bug was active:

I could normally see other people doing their business without any lag and I could comunicate normally with people in chat;

Mounting showed me running at mount speed, if it was after demon form proc it showed me running at mount speed in demon form;

This seemed to happen after I accepted quests which had to interact with items or objects.
Sometimes a normal restart was required, sometimes a close + cache deleting.
From my point of view this could be either a phasing or a sharding issue.
It happened with all addons disabled, by the way.

Update: This seems to happen on my Demon Hunter but not on my Warlock.

Tzunamî-outland · December 31, 2018, 12:23am

Has anyone seen an update on this issue? I experienced problems again today (haven’t played since my first reply).

Chunki-silvermoon · December 31, 2018, 10:51pm

it was the same this morning for me 2s lag with 22ms

Бэдррашн-gordunni · January 17, 2019, 10:53am

fix lags Blizzard!

Mimitan-ravencrest · January 17, 2019, 12:52pm

I’m experiencing the same in BFA areas. The only workaround for me is logging out or exiting game. Whenever I mount up and try to use abilities they show that they’re being clicked but nothing happens at all. This has been happening since a week or so.

Dajpanpiwo-burning-legion · January 17, 2019, 3:22pm

Same here:

stable high end connection, the game thinks it’s 30-40 ms
many bugs and lag issues other have, i.e.:

mounting w/o a mount, no auto dismount
ressurecting does nothing although the mobs attack
dying lags out
/reload does nothing, sometimes exiting the game and going back online helps, but just for a bit
occasional abilities lag (from minor up to even game not registering building up combo points/whatever although hit does do damage)
these with WM ON and in the area where assault is happening it’s far worse

Everything started to happen today after the update.

Nenyasqi-2416 · January 17, 2019, 3:35pm

Hey all,

Thank you for the reports and information. A few have mentioned that clearing the Cache folder can help out. Could you please one more go through the steps to clear your UI (addons) completely and see if the same issue happens again? (Note, if using an addon manager, disable that before testing to prevent it from restoring addons/settings).

Have a few seconds to spare? Let me know how I’m doing!

Хилскурил-gordunni · January 17, 2019, 4:23pm

Why you ignor this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJYmc4119GU ?
See how we have to play, a lot of people because of this have stopped playing, and you don’t hear or you don’t want to hear.
Look at freezz and lags on video. Сleared the cache, cleared and dumped the interface, tried without addons, minimal graphics all this does not help.
And no matter what PC configuration, will be lags… its so sad(((

Dajpanpiwo-burning-legion · January 18, 2019, 11:24am

Does nothing. With, without addons, after repairing the client and so on. Seems not addon related at all. Seems like your database has an indexing problem or packets are lost somewhere. From the range of the problem I’d say it’s on Your not the clients side.

Nenyasqi-2416 · January 19, 2019, 2:20pm

Thank you for testing that out. Could you run a new WinMTR test for me please. Run the test while you experience this lag and post the results here, so we can have a closer look into this.

In addition to the WinMTR, please post on which realm, character and location in game you experience this lag.

Have a few seconds to spare? Let me know how I’m doing!

Vantas-terokkar · January 19, 2019, 6:14pm

Just want to add that I’m having these issues too, specifically when I play on my Demon Hunter (only seems to be that character so far) on Terokkar server in BFA zones on horde side. Last time I had it, all the issues were triggered by me using eye beam and transforming at the end of it.

I’ve been levelling an alt the last few days in Eastern Kingdoms zones and haven’t had issues at all, and dungeons seem fine. For me at least it’s just that character in those zones so I don’t think that’s a problem with my computer/connection.

I hope it gets fixed soon, that DH is my main so having it be too bugged out to play sucks.

Also want to add (as in the locked thread) that the Americans are having the same issue: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/huge-mount-bug-invisible-mounts-able-to-interact/46284/133

EDIT: Everything on the alt I was levelling was completely fine in both Stormwind and Loch Modan, however once I went into Wetlands to continue levelling the issues started appearing almost immediately. This included walking out of the water and still having the breath bar, which continued to run down but didn’t kill me when it was empty. It just remained on my screen and although chat and my latency seemed normal the game lagged out and would not even let me relog or close.
This is on a mage on Stormrage, possibly triggered by clicking on a quest item. When I eventually managed to log back in I was dead. Whatever corners have been cut at Blizzard need un-cutting, your game is broken.

Syldor-the-shatar · January 19, 2019, 8:43pm

Getting everything that Tzunamî mentioned in his post above. Mount rarely appears, quests don’t progress, etc. It’s a mess. I use NO addons.

Endbringer-draenor · January 20, 2019, 3:52pm

This bug is getting increasingly frustrating.

When i take a closer look at the forums the bug is older then the wheel

Sediez-hellscream · January 20, 2019, 6:38pm

Hey, first I just wanna say that I never used this kind of program much at all, but wanted to try and do what you asked for. I did 3 different WinMTR tests, during different times this afternoon. One for each IP host for EU-servers.

Realm: Hellscream EU
Character: Sediez , bloodelf Demonhunter

First test I did in Nazmir but during the time I did that test and had discovered this “World-lag phenomen” I took a flightpath out of the zone to Zuldazar, and then I could play as normal again

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

| WinMTR statistics |

|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|

| api.premiumzone. com - 0 | 550 | 550 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 |

| gw23-no25.tbcn.telia. com - 0 | 550 | 550 | 4 | 5 | 28 | 6 |

| m-b-peer4-link.se.telia. net - 0 | 550 | 550 | 9 | 11 | 51 | 13 |

| kbn-b3-link.telia. net - 0 | 551 | 551 | 11 | 12 | 47 | 12 |

| kbn-bb3-link.telia. net - 0 | 551 | 551 | 10 | 12 | 49 | 11 |

| hbg-bb1-link.telia. net - 0 | 550 | 550 | 17 | 30 | 132 | 19 |

| ffm-bb3-link.telia. net - 0 | 551 | 551 | 25 | 26 | 42 | 26 |

| ffm-b1-link.telia. net - 0 | 551 | 551 | 24 | 27 | 60 | 25 |

| blizzard-ic-316506-ffm-b1.c.telia. net - 0 | 550 | 550 | 25 | 26 | 49 | 27 |

| No response from host - 100 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

| et-0-0-2-br01-eqam1.as57976. net - 0 | 551 | 551 | 25 | 30 | 157 | 26 |

| et-0-0-31-pe02-eqam1.as57976. net - 0 | 551 | 551 | 27 | 28 | 47 | 28 |

| 185.60.112.157 - 0 | 551 | 551 | 25 | 26 | 48 | 26 |

|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|

WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

Second test I did in Zuldazar

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

| WinMTR statistics |

|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|

| api.premiumzone. com - 0 | 305 | 305 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 |

| gw23-no25.tbcn.telia. com - 0 | 305 | 305 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 2 |

| m-b-peer4-link.se.telia. net - 0 | 305 | 305 | 5 | 6 | 30 | 6 |

| kbn-b3-link.telia. net - 0 | 305 | 305 | 7 | 9 | 33 | 8 |

| kbn-bb4-link.telia. net - 0 | 305 | 305 | 6 | 9 | 42 | 7 |

| hbg-bb4-link.telia. net - 0 | 305 | 305 | 10 | 12 | 39 | 11 |

| ffm-bb4-link.telia. net - 0 | 305 | 305 | 20 | 21 | 39 | 21 |

| ffm-b1-link.telia. net - 0 | 305 | 305 | 19 | 22 | 55 | 21 |

| blizzard-ic-316506-ffm-b1.c.telia. net - 0 | 305 | 305 | 20 | 22 | 44 | 21 |

| No response from host - 100 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

| et-0-0-2-br01-eqam1.as57976. net - 0 | 303 | 303 | 21 | 61 | 1613 | 22 |

| et-0-0-31-pe02-eqam1.as57976. net - 0 | 305 | 305 | 23 | 24 | 44 | 34 |

| 185.60.112.158 - 0 | 305 | 305 | 23 | 24 | 46 | 24 |

|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|

WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

And third test I did only a few mins Before I started to write this reply! Also that when I was in Zuldazar, mainly in the Town and near the port!

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

| WinMTR statistics |

|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|

| api.premiumzone. com - 0 | 385 | 385 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |

| gw23-no25.tbcn.telia. com - 0 | 385 | 385 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 3 |

| m-b-peer4-link.se.telia. net - 2 | 357 | 350 | 7 | 7 | 31 | 7 |

| kbn-b3-link.telia. net - 0 | 385 | 385 | 7 | 9 | 31 | 8 |

| kbn-bb3-link.telia. net - 0 | 385 | 385 | 6 | 7 | 31 | 7 |

| hbg-bb1-link.telia. net - 0 | 385 | 385 | 13 | 18 | 101 | 13 |

| ffm-bb3-link.telia. net - 0 | 385 | 385 | 21 | 22 | 39 | 21 |

| ffm-b1-link.telia. net - 0 | 385 | 385 | 20 | 23 | 55 | 22 |

| blizzard-ic-316506-ffm-b1.c.telia. net - 0 | 385 | 385 | 21 | 22 | 39 | 21 |

| ae1-br01-eqfr5.as57976. net - 0 | 385 | 385 | 30 | 72 | 636 | 32 |

| et-0-0-2-br01-eqpa4.as57976. net - 3 | 343 | 335 | 29 | 88 | 4347 | 30 |

| be1-pe02-eqpa4.as57976. net - 0 | 385 | 385 | 29 | 29 | 44 | 29 |

| No response from host - 100 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|

WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

Hope this will help in any way, and if I have to redo anything feel free to ask! I got the issue today while I was levling, but have lucky to mostly been able to play through it today most of the time atleast but still very annoying!

And lastly, I wasnt allowed to post any links, which were included in the testreults, at the end of those adresses I made a “space” after the “dot” …. wasnt sure to get around it in a smoother way

Iwony-draenor · January 21, 2019, 10:14am

Was playing my DH yesterday and I had these bugs as well no mount visible , staying in Deamon form even as the buff fell off, stuck in Combat, WQ credit not progressing… you name it I had it at 8-9 in the evening… got so bad I stopped playing… Logged over to another char on the same server , it was the same. Totally normal ms times but still horrible lagg…

I blame the alliance farming group at the blood gate with several hunters with barraging all the time… but if it is true and a group of BM hunters plus a monk can make a shard laggy by constantly respawning adds and barraging, then something is not right…

Vantas-terokkar · January 21, 2019, 3:57pm

Well, it’s been ruled out as being addon-related, since it happens with them off or on. A few people over on the US forum thought it might be a version of the ElvUI addon that was causing it but I’ve never used that and I get this bug all the time.

I don’t know much about sharding but people in the reddit thread about this bug seem to be blaming that. Whatever the issue is, I think I’m going to let my sub run down and then maybe renew in a few months if it looks like it’s fixed. I can’t justify paying so much for a game that’s barely playable right now.

Mikakiru-argent-dawn · January 21, 2019, 4:59pm

Some of my friends are also experiencing the issue, using no or other UI’s.
This feels more like threads in the server software stalling or crashing.

Drashanna-bronze-dragonflight · January 22, 2019, 12:10pm

I have the aforementioned issues as well, it started to appear when leveling my Rogue alt, only have seen it on that char so far, in stormsong valley specifically.
From conversations in the zone i found out there is a whole lot of ppl that had it at that point.

Terraragnax-draenor · January 22, 2019, 6:57pm

Having lagg too, around 25ms ping. Got some input lagg, and the dungeon queu finder buggs out because of this aswell. (PvP queu works fine) With input lagg i mean that i takes 2 to 8 seconds before skills go off, and combo points not apearing sometimes. I am having war mode on. Restarting game seems to fix the problem, but only for around 20 minutes max.

Sediz-hellscream · January 28, 2019, 6:30pm

Hello! Just wanted to check if there is any new info on this topic, or any updates, hope you noticed my WinMTR test, not sure if it was any help, I can Always try to do a new one, when I experience this World lag Another time, if that would be needed?

Thanks in advance