Given the reports here, we suspect this is similar to another issue we’ve seen on the Australian realm. I’ve modified the title to reflect this. To confirm this is the case, can you please report the following for us when it happens? Feel free to report multiple times - we basically need to catch some of you live while it is happening to run some commands and gather data on this.
I don’t know if this is related, but in addition to the lag on abilities even though my latency is 75 ms I am also experiencing my character going in and out of combat every 2-3 seconds. I’m standing still in Proudmoore Keep.
I haven’t gotten the 7 second lag times like some people are getting, but I’m getting a noticeable lag on loot/abilities.
Character: Synwraith
Realm: Lightbringer
Zone: Proudmoore Keep
Server Time: aprox 4:20PM - 4:24PM realm time
Character: Stemavana
Realm: Sen’jin
Zone: Vol’dun
Server time: 6:34 PM
The latency so far has not been as high as when I took another character through a set of quests here, but there has been a slight delay when looting and sometimes casting. I’ll take her into a more heavily populated area.
Been off and on last couple months (problems seems worse in the last week) having 30-40 ms home/world but having noticeable delays in loot/spellcasting/mounting occurring almost exclusively in outdoor BFA zones. Dungeons/raids/islands/old expansion areas either have no or very little issues.
I’ve been experiencing it since 8.1 dropped… However this weekend it got bad, and tonight it is worse it has been. It is any character, Whisperwind or Dentarg, any zone, all times of the day… It is like my abilities take seconds after hitting the button to actually go off, if they even go off… sometimes due to the lag they don’t. Also having Loot lag…
Tonight I ran a diagnostic tool, in fact I let it run for 30 minutes and the results pretty much don’t change… It seems like for me it is at your level 3… There is pretty much a consistent 40% packet loss there…
All world zones. But it has gotten significantly worse since I reached BFA questing areas. It goes in and out but it is happening almost all the time. I stress this is happening in world zones only. Instanced areas like raids and dungeons produce zero problems.
My latency hovers around 38 ms home and world even while this is happening. I have been experiencing this on my main since BFA started but it is noticeably worse lately, probably because I’m playing a caster now.
Characters: All
Realm: Korgath
Zones: All but worst in Tirigarde Sound and Nazmir
Server Time: All last evening
Does not occur in Dungeons/Islands/Raids, only the open world.
Exceptionally bad when looting/herbing.
If I had to take a wild guess without knowing much about the technical details, this happens mostly related to herbing/looting in zones that are most frequently farmed for herbs. I’m imagining whatever system handles putting loot from the world into players inventories is causing this issue and slowing the server.
I am glad this thread has been created as this issue has now grown to the point where the game is becoming unplayable. The following is what I have observed along with fellow guild members on multiple servers and while playing various characters.
Currently while playing the game my abilities can stop responding, resource generation stops, damage to enemies stops and the delays can last upwards of 20 second to 1 minute, causing character death. If selling to a merchant at the time the items will grey but remain in bags until the system corrects.
When the BfA expansion first launched occasional ability and loot delays were noticed but were minimal in the new expansion zones, more irritating than anything else. Slowly over time the delays and how often they occur have increased, especially with the 8.1 patch.
It is not limited by server or faction, I play on Greymane, Gilneas and Velen.
Since 8.1 dropped the issues are now very apparent and seems to occur even with characters outside the expansion zones that I am leveling.
I am not experiencing similar delays in any other game, MMO or otherwise. I have tried shutting off my antivirus program and background programs/processes, no change or impact.
My latency ranges from 41 to 46 ms normally and during the issues it does not go up.
Character Experiencing Issue: All Characters - It worsens the longer you play. If you log out to character select it seemed to reset for a short time before 8.1 dropped.
Realm Character is on: All realms with my characters - Greymane, Gilneas and Velen.
Zone (Zulzadar/Boralus/Arathi/etc): All zones, the longer your play session the more it occurs.
Server Time When Issue Occurs: As of 8.1 all times of play, morning or night. Previous to 8.1 it was worse at night.
There’s a couple big threads on the topic over at WoWs subreddit.
Long story short:
-This input lag is impacting a lot of people.
-Raids and dungeons are not impacted.
-This was a problem prior to 8.1, but now it is much more widespread. It used to isolated to certain zones. Once you left that zone input lag went away. Now it is affecting multiple world zones simultaneously.
This has been happening for weeks. Got a lot worse when the last patch dropped. It’s causing disconnects now. I felt like it may be on my end since my video card needed updating. Nvidia 660 GTX. I have a 1060 Ti on the way
But. It seems like it’s on your side. It has happened in five mans. Haven’t noticed it as bad In raids but there’s a bad problem somewhere
Server Time When Issue Occurs: ANytime, doesnt matter when I have been on. Its always bad
Havent been able to play for a few days, not that the game isn’t like able to load or anything, it’s just that I play a rogue…ANd when combopoints dont appear, blade flurry wont activate, and I can’t stealth or grapple in a consistent fashion…What’s the point?
Game right now is almost not playable. Quest items wont work, skills wont go off. It is really bad.
Logged out back in so bad. I can’t even play quest are getting screwed up.
Character Experiencing Issue: Kayael.
Realm Character is on: ravencrest
Zone : nazmir
Server Time When Issue Occurs: 9:11pm
Gear takes 30 seconds to equip
Tonight so far:
Restart the game almost 5+ times
Reload ui 10+ times
Game froze/locked me in place 5 times
Skills not working multiple times.
Quest lag multiple times.
I had not seen any of this till tonight. It is so bad it’s almost better for me to not even play right now.