I made a similar thread earlier this month, to no avail here.
(I assume using the words “palpable” and “latency” was a bad move on my part).
Either way…
- There are people who still can’t distinguish between low framerate, addon-based lag, low ping or wifi-related packet loss AND the issue at hand. This makes it so that threads about the issue are often overflowing with useless reports that they have to filter.
- The problem didn’t show up in 8.1. It has been around since the beginning. It was also present to a certain extent in previous expansions but much less noticeable. Currently, it’s very apparent if you’re questing about certain BfA zones, mainly on the alliance side. Tiragarde Sound is, for a lack of a better word, atrocious.
- People have used 1-3 seconds to define their lag. That’s likely an overestimation. The delay is around 100~300ms, ten times less, which is awful for someone with a low ping (<30) but still much lower than the reported 3000ms. Count to three. That’s a hell of a long time.
- Yes, you are sometimes mounted but the game does not show it. That’s common and likely related to the server-client communication problems we’re seeing here. Or… they’re not. Either way, that’s a “thing” now.
Overall, the problem seems to be more prominent on the alliance side (there have been numerous reports of Tiragarde Sound having that issue, moreso than any other zone). Why that is, again, is beyond me and correlation between this issue and Boralus being “inside” Tiragarde Sound, doesn’t seem to make much sense since I have no problem with any of my Horde characters questing in Zandalar.
An extra detail is that we are unable to measure packet loss to the actual IP we are connected to in-game. The looking glass tool we have for running tracerts isn’t perfect. To be so we’d need to have an active diagnostic tool while using our skills out in the game world. The only people who are able to do that are, assumedly, the developers.
This is also the worst time to expect change. It’s the holidays, and the company is going through a… Uh… “Metamorphosis”… Things have been rough at Blizzard, and with more than 100 people being let go in Ireland, I assume the European support isn’t exactly brimming with activity either.
Overall, we can expect that if they fix things for the US, they will also be fixed on our side. Let’s hope for the best.
Cheers