Ability/Loot Lag on North American Servers Despite Normal Latency

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Character: Hasylla
Realm: Sen’jin
Zone: Tiragarde Sound
Server time: 4:52 PM

I noticed the lag as soon as I logged into Boralus in the form of a slight delay in when buffs were cast or the mount cast would start. Character was taken into Tiragarde Sound for a few world quests where there was a frequent, but not permanent, 0.2-0.5 second delay on casting and looting. It was enough to make me shift from frost’s shatter combo play style to the one button spam of arcane.

For what it is worth, it was very noticeable yesterday in any zone with a world boss where people would congregate.

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  • Character Experiencing Issue: Maeme
  • Realm Character is on: Norgannon
  • Zone (Zulzadar/Boralus/Arathi/etc): Dun Morogh
  • Server Time When Issue Occurs: 6:20pm

Latency (home): 59ms
Latency (world): 47ms

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Character: Daspien
Realm: Mal’ganis
Zone: Nazmir
Server time: 6:09 pm

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Character: Jet
Realm: Grizzly Hills
Zone: Loch Modan
Server time: 7:39pm EST

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Character Experiencing Issue: Gaviin
Realm Character is on: Thunderhorn
Zone (Zulzadar/Boralus/Arathi/etc): Have experienced in Kul Tiras, Zandalar, Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms… pretty much everywhere
Server Time When Issue Occurs: All times

Latency is always 19-21ms, both home and world.

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Tahlee ( all my characters on the server )
Gorefiend
All the zones
All day

This has been going on since the new 8.1 patch went down. Second or two ability lag out in the world. Dungeons/raids seem fine.

Most of the people in our guild plus friends that play on the server have all been experiencing the same issue since the patch.

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Aerael (all toons on this realm especially)
Area52 (also other realms like Drenden-Arathor, but Area52 is by far the worst)
All zones
All the time, but has gotten bad the past day or so

My home and world latency are fine as is my fps. I updated my graphics drivers from NVIDIA and it did not help especially on Area52.

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Still experiencing ability/loot lag… I charted it again and while it looks like the actual routing has changed and overall ping improved, there is still something out there losing 70%+ of the packets passing through it.

Still all of my characters on Whisperwind or Dentarg.

https://imgur.com/a/mbeiAnh

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  • Character Experiencing Issue: Bashuumbu
  • Realm Character is on: Ravencrest
  • Zone (Zulzadar/Boralus/Arathi/etc): Kul Tiras - Boralus / Warmode On
  • Server Time When Issue Occurs: 10:02pm

ability and loot delay (.5-2sec). Latency less than 30ms

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Character Experiencing Issue: Worbz
Realm Character is on: Arthas
Zone (Zulzadar/Boralus/Arathi/etc): Zuludar/Orgrimmar/All zones
Server Time When Issue Occurs: past 48 hours on 4 different characters
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So, now that it’s impacting the American realms, does that mean it’s going to be fixed and that same fix will be applied to the Australian realms, considering we’ve had this exact same issue since the launch of BFA…

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This lag suxs :frowning:

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I’ve only been playing on Moon Guard really, since BFA. My ping usually sits around 80, but it’s never been an issue since I’ve been here since early Wrath. For the longest time Kul’tiras as a whole was the only place I was getting delay/lag, but today I logged into this Demon Hunter and my ping is sitting over 400 in any BFA zone with the lag I’ve been experiencing pretty much everywhere now.

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wow I thought it was my internet but looks like it isn’t. just started encountering this in Stormsong. Mounts wouldn’t dismount, etc.

  • Character Experiencing Issue: Karlena
  • Realm Character is on: Vek’nilash
  • Zone (Zulzadar/Boralus/Arathi/etc): Kul Tiras - Stormsong
  • Server Time When Issue Occurs: 10:10AM
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  • All characters
  • Blood Furnace
  • Any Zone
  • Any Time
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Hey all,

We’re still gathering examples - please keep these coming so we can get enough server information to investigate the issue in more detail. It’s possible this is a server level problem like the oceanic realms problem, and we need the evidence to help our engineers drill down.

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this has been going on since 8.1 hit. ive changed video cards, ram, router. my latency is like 56 and it just freezes and then i get DC’d this started day one of the patch. pretty much lost my spot in Key party and raid since this started.

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That is a different, unrelated issue. We need information on players who are staying connected to the server but having Ability/Loot Lag despite normal latency. Please create your own thread to receive help with this problem.

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All characters
Arygos, Zul’jin - Arygos being by far the worst
Every zone in Battle for Azeroth and Legion that I’ve come across has .2-.5 second delays, worsening in Tiragarde and Drustvar
Any time

Have had this issue since the start of the expansion and was told by the Blizzard CS team on Twitter that nothing was wrong because my latency was fine. Ping hovers around 30, no packet loss shown on traces or WinMTR, just spell delay. I had to pay for a server transfer to get off Arygos from how bad it was, but it’s now creeping in on Zul’jin as well.

edit: Delay used to go away by turning on war mode. Now it’s present either way.

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I’ve been doing this too captain obvious. It started as ability / loot lag since the pre- patch. But the day 8.1 hit it abilities started to not go off. Then I would be running around and no one else moving. Then DC.

I’ve tried to follow every thread regarding 8.1 latency issues hoping to find an answer. But. If you want me to make a different thread whatever. I will. And it will get lost in the pile I guess. But I’m not going to keep throwing money at my pc hoping something I do fixes it. But I know it’s not on my end and if this isn’t fixed by the end of the month I’m gonna just have to freeze sub for a little while