Ability/Loot Lag on North American Servers Despite Normal Latency

I have this issue on Aerie Peak and Bleeding Hollow. Now, in Classic I have it on Pagle. Layering, sharding and high population seems to be the issue. Do low pop servers have this same problem?

  • Character Experiencing Issue: Brighthorns
  • Realm Character is on: Area 52
  • Zone (Zulzadar/Boralus/Arathi/etc): Nazjatar
  • Server Time When Issue Occurs: 9:55 PM

Last week I opened a Tech Support ticket inquiring as to the status of this issue and was informed that the team continues to work on it. Two days ago there was a message at the bottom of the Battlenet launcher saying that they have made progress.

Yes - they have made progress. My ability/loot lag has gone. Thank you Blizzard Tech wizzards for doing whatever you did. It appears to have been resolved - at least for me!

I wish it were fixed. So far Boralus and Tiragarde Sound are still frequently lagged despite approximately 50 ms latency. Iā€™d actually say it has gotten a bit more consistently worse of recent. If it werenā€™t the major hub for this expansion Iā€™d just write off the whole area and never go back.

The continued failure to fix the issue is one reason I want this expansion to be wrapped up asap. Maybe they can at least not make the same mistakes in patch 9.0 and the new hub(s).

Iā€™m having the very same issue, it doesnā€™t seem to matter where i am, open world or in an instance or what. every now and then the game will freeze for several seconds while the game appears to continue and any commands input before the freeze resolve. Here is winMTR. i am located in raleigh NC playing on ulduar.

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| cpe-024-025-041-106.ec.res.rr. com - 0 | 1185 | 1185 | 6 | 14 | 47 | 13 |

| be31.drhmncev01r.southeast.rr. com - 0 | 1185 | 1185 | 9 | 18 | 55 | 13 |

| 66.109.10.176 - 0 | 1185 | 1185 | 23 | 32 | 65 | 28 |

| 66.109.5.117 - 33 | 515 | 347 | 24 | 40 | 89 | 27 |

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| be1-pe02-eqch2.as57976. net - 0 | 1185 | 1185 | 44 | 52 | 97 | 53 |

| chi-eqch2-ia-bons-04.as57976. net - 0 | 1185 | 1185 | 46 | 53 | 102 | 53 |

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

Still happening, Jellybeanie on Dalaran server, in Boralus, Naz and Mechagon.

This wasā€¦better on Turalyon, for awhile; Iā€™d say maybe 6-8 weeks of okay play. Now that people are reactivating due to the hype surrounding Shadowlands (and probably also the anniversary event), the lag is back once again. Boralus and Tiragarde are frustrating to do anything in unless itā€™s 3 AM in the morning.

Please for the love of Pete, do something about this. The issue is almost exclusive to BFA world servers; this should be a key clue. I pray that Shadowlands does not suffer from this grotesque monster of an issue.

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Update to this on Turalyon: There is similar world lag now apparent in Suramar, Legion content.

Based on how this doesnā€™t happen for people on every server Iā€™m willing to suggest itā€™s datacenter-related. Something needs to be done though.

I am having this exact issue on WOW Classic. Is there any fix in sight for this? Itā€™s really noticeable during peak hours. Anyone else have this issue on classic?

I am also having this issue. Seems like ive tried just about everything and nothing helpsā€¦fight starts no real noticeable input lag and randomly starts getting rough. Really messing with rotations especially when hero going off.

Shazzee, Lightbringer US. Caster lag. When I move slightly the cast goes through. As a healer myself this is really interfering with gameplay. It happens when I am solo and when I join a group. And, if I am feared, I stay feared way longer than I should by around 6-8 secs. I unsubbed from the game for this reason - I only play casters - it seemed to be okay for a while but is now back big time.

Update: I posted a bug report about this issue as I believe Iā€™ve connected the dots on what may possibly be causing it in BFA zones. Turns out that Tiragarde Sound has unlimited event info range which could be causing world servers to backlog updates to player clients, especially in peak times.

See below post for more info. Hopefully this gets looked at and resolved.

This might come as a shock, but Turalyon still has ungodly unacceptable levels of server-side ability and loot lag in Boralus and Tiragarde Sound as a whole.

Bodyochrist-Rattlegore US on classic. Lag on loading realm list, clicking realm, entering combat/clicking spells. UI resets, cache clearing and the like alleviate the issue for maybe 30 seconds. Seems like the lag will last until another action is performed (new spell cast, movement). 13 ms and ā€œHighā€ video settings.

Iā€™m having the same problems on my end. I just started playing and anytime I do anything there is a 2-6 second delay on everything, I attack it plays the animation then sits there for a few seconds and speeds up and itā€™s currently unplayable. Iā€™ve tried disabling everything from Discord, Nvidia and so on and it hasnā€™t made any difference.

Iā€™ve tried troubleshooting just about everything suggested and nothing seems to be working. I play other games online like Final Fantasy XIV and never have had a single issue and play it daily, tried resetting my router and it honestly has nothing to do with my connection.

Here is my information:
Character : EightC
Realm: Hakkar
Zone: Wandering Isle and everywhere else (happens all the time)
Server time when issue occurs: All the time

With the release of 8.3, this issue now extends to Vale of Eternal Blossoms and Uldum due to their renewed relevancy as part of the new content. Lag in Vale is wholly at unacceptable levels on Turalyon and my ping is still showing a strong 18/21 home/world.

Are we ever going to get an update on this issue? My hunch is still on the issue being related to specific datacenters and their routes in & out.

Yes, Iā€™m having this difficulty tooā€¦ only tried going to the reworked Uldum. My LATENCY is showing as quite good but input lag is unbearable. The moment I cross back to Silithus, itā€™s good again (and good in older bfa zones too).

Iā€™ve never actually had this problem previously throughout the expansion.

Anyway, to do what the other people did:

Character: Strakh
Server: Wyrmrest Accord
Location: So far, Uldum. Havenā€™t tried going to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms yet.

(edit - update, went back around two hours later, things seem to be working properly nowā€¦ so thatā€™s good!)

Having a TON of lag in the MoP areas, both Vale and Kun-Lai Summit. I have 40ms latency, no packet loss, and FPS well over 100, world interactions take anywhere from .5 to up to 3-4 seconds before they happen. This has caused a major issue playing Frost spec, to the point that Iā€™m having to change and reforge my azerite gear since I canā€™t shatter spells.

Character: Frowstmourne
Server: Area52
Location: Vale of Eternal Blossoms, Kun-Lai Summit
Server Time: 9:00 PM

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Posting here to also state that it was unplayable latency 600+ in EP tonight as well as of 9:30PM Eastern on WRA in the Zaā€™Qul room/fight

Character: Berzinheim
Server: Wyrmrest Accord
Location: Zaā€™Qul Boss Room
Time: 6:30pm Server time(my time 9:30pm)

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The server side lag has definitely come back strong in Boralus. I may also be seeing bits of it here and there in Vale of Eternal Blossoms and Uldum.

This is making me really wonder if Shadowlands will also be plagued with this problem.

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