Weird Lag re fire mage

Morning Guys

I have had this unusual ‘lag issue’ for quite some time. I main a fire mage and the issue is this ‘lag’ stops my rotation, especially the burst. The best way I can describe it is on the main World Boss there’s nearly always huge lag and a rotation is difficult to say the least. However, the ‘lag’ isn’t as severe as that but I feel I am always waiting for spells to cast so the rotation can continue and sometimes there’s a backlog of spells as I’ve completed the rotation but it’s missed steps because of the lag. Another example is I have on numerous times cast both 2 phoenix flames and 2 fireblasts in a row and I don’t proc a Hot Streak (which of course it should always do).

My PC is pretty old - like over 7 years - i7 4790k @ 4.4Ghz, 16Gb ram, gtx 970 and 500GB SSD but no component seems broken or malfunctioning on device mgr. I always get enough fps (70+ on 1920 x 1080 resolution) and world and local MS is rarely above 30ms. My BT broadband is 70Mb so plenty of bandwidth there. All my drivers are up to date and I use Bitdefender Total Security as well.

I have used both tracert and pathping to show err…what it shows. Way out of my knowledge unfortunately but I will copy and paste them all here; I did these tests for all 3 IP’s given on the website. I did disable the firewall on the router and disabled Bitdefenders firewall as well.

1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms 31.55.187.180
5 17 ms 10 ms 10 ms 194.72.31.170
6 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms [109.159.252.126]
7 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms 195.66.226.234
8 206 ms 138 ms 19 ms [137.221.79.33]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 34 ms 16 ms 16 ms 137.221.65.77
11 18 ms 17 ms 16 ms [137.221.78.57]
12 24 ms 17 ms 16 ms 137.221.66.43
13 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms 185.60.112.157

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.112.158 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 31.55.187.180
5 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms [213.121.192.106]
6 10 ms 71 ms 18 ms [109.159.252.126]
7 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 195.66.226.234
8 16 ms 18 ms 16 ms [137.221.79.33]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 234 ms 218 ms 219 ms 137.221.65.77
11 22 ms 68 ms 67 ms [137.221.78.69]
12 16 ms 23 ms 17 ms 185.60.112.158

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.114.159 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 9 ms 9 ms 12 ms 31.55.187.176
5 12 ms 8 ms 10 ms [213.121.192.114]
6 10 ms 13 ms 9 ms [109.159.252.126]
7 29 ms 19 ms 11 ms 195.66.226.234
8 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms [137.221.79.35]
9 22 ms 20 ms 38 ms [137.221.65.18]
10 19 ms 16 ms 23 ms [137.221.77.53]
11 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 137.221.66.39
12 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms 185.60.114.159

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.112.157 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
1 192.168.1.254
2 * * *
Computing statistics for 25 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 2ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.254

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.112.158 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
1 192.168.1.254
2 * * *
Computing statistics for 25 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
3/ 100 = 3% |
1 136ms 3/ 100 = 3% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.254

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.114.159 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
1 192.168.1.254
2 * * *
Computing statistics for 25 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 6ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.254

Trace complete.


For all the above tests, I used wifi. I then attached an ethernet cable and these are the results:

racing route to 185.60.112.157 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 31.55.187.180
5 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms 194.72.31.170
6 16 ms 26 ms 31 ms [109.159.252.126]
7 9 ms 9 ms 10 ms 195.66.226.234
8 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms [137.221.79.33]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms [137.221.78.57]
12 15 ms 15 ms 17 ms 137.221.66.43
13 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms 185.60.112.157

Trace complete.


racing route to 185.60.112.158 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms 31.55.187.180
5 9 ms 8 ms 7 ms [213.121.192.106]
6 9 ms 39 ms 29 ms [109.159.252.126]
7 13 ms 34 ms 39 ms 195.66.226.234
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 15 ms 14 ms 15 ms [137.221.78.69]
12 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 185.60.112.158

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.114.159 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 31.55.187.176
5 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms [213.121.192.114]
6 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms [109.159.252.126]
7 9 ms 11 ms 9 ms 195.66.226.234
8 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms [137.221.79.35]
9 16 ms 115 ms 83 ms [137.221.65.18]
10 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms [137.221.77.53]
11 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms 137.221.66.39
12 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 185.60.114.159

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.112.157 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.64]
1 192.168.1.254
2 * * *
Computing statistics for 25 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.64]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.254

Trace complete.


racing route to 185.60.112.158 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.64]
1 192.168.1.254
2 * * *
Computing statistics for 25 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.64]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.254

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.114.159 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.64]
1 192.168.1.254
2 * * *
Computing statistics for 25 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.64]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.254

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.112.157 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms 31.55.187.180
5 17 ms 10 ms 10 ms 194.72.31.170
6 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms [109.159.252.126]
7 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms 195.66.226.234
8 206 ms 138 ms 19 ms [137.221.79.33]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 34 ms 16 ms 16 ms 137.221.65.77
11 18 ms 17 ms 16 ms [137.221.78.57]
12 24 ms 17 ms 16 ms 137.221.66.43
13 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms 185.60.112.157

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.112.158 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 31.55.187.180
5 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms [213.121.192.106]
6 10 ms 71 ms 18 ms [109.159.252.126]
7 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 195.66.226.234
8 16 ms 18 ms 16 ms [137.221.79.33]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 234 ms 218 ms 219 ms 137.221.65.77
11 22 ms 68 ms 67 ms [137.221.78.69]
12 16 ms 23 ms 17 ms 185.60.112.158

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.114.159 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 9 ms 9 ms 12 ms 31.55.187.176
5 12 ms 8 ms 10 ms [213.121.192.114]
6 10 ms 13 ms 9 ms [109.159.252.126]
7 29 ms 19 ms 11 ms 195.66.226.234
8 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms [137.221.79.35]
9 22 ms 20 ms 38 ms [137.221.65.18]
10 19 ms 16 ms 23 ms [137.221.77.53]
11 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 137.221.66.39
12 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms 185.60.114.159

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.112.157 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
1 192.168.1.254
2 * * *
Computing statistics for 25 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 2ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.254

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.112.158 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
1 192.168.1.254
2 * * *
Computing statistics for 25 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
3/ 100 = 3% |
1 136ms 3/ 100 = 3% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.254

Trace complete.


Tracing route to 185.60.114.159 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 Admin-PC.home [192.168.1.212]
1 192.168.1.254
2 * * *
Computing statistics for 25 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Admin-PC home [192.168.1.212]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 6ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.168.1.254

Trace complete.


I used to have this issue until I realized it wasn’t lag you actually need to wait for your spells to hit your target “travel time” in consideration while doing your rotation as fire mage, the closer you are to the target the faster you preform your rotation… Hope this helps!