Ability/Loot Lag on Oceanic Servers Despite Normal Latency

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Getting really tired of the lag. Tonight it was so frustrating I just logged out. Thinking maybe I should just unsub and try again in a few months.

Also very disappointed with Blizzard's handling of this issue. I can't believe they've allowed it to drag on this long without any kind of official response outside of the support team in this thread. Thanks to the support team for trying, but the game just isn't fun right now.
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I mostly just wanted to bump the thread and let you know we haven't forgotten about you.


To put it bluntly. After this long and after two years of silence towards the Oceanic community on other issues:

This is literally driving people to quit.

Actions speak louder than words.
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09/16/2018 04:21 AMPosted by Sunblaster
Holy crap, I thought I was free and clear of this, and then suddenly it just happened again to me today... It's the bloody world quests!!

I had gone a good week or two without doing much in the way of world quests as I was spamming warfronts, and had absolutely no lag issues that whole time. I just used the ingame group-finder for the Blighted Monstrousity WQ and hey look I immediately ran into lag issues once again.

This is just a sharding problem. Group-finder is sharding us into US realms and then leaving us stuck there after we leave the group.


That's a separate issue, getting xrealmed to the US realms and it leaving us there is different than the world lag in BFA zones while still being on an OCE shard.
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How long have you guys been lagging? I just started to lag today and only happen if i go crossrealm. No problem in world questing.
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The lag is still here in the World Zones BFA only
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Over 1200 posts now in this thread alone.
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Drustvar lagging like complete utter garbage tonight. Not even gonna try levelling a character, for the.. what's it now um.. somewhere in the vicinity of 30th night in a row.

It's fine blizzard. We don't like playing the game we pay to play. We're just fans right? Silly us expecting we be able to play the game properly.

On the whole the customer servicer here has been all talk and no action, attempting to save face. Its pathetic. FIX THIS !@#$ NOW. NO MORE BULL%^-* EXCUSES.
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Well I have unsubbed. I doubt I will play much while the remaining game time runs out. Couldn't really get into this expansion due to the lag. Best of luck to you folks sticking it out. With each player leaving hopefully it will get better for you.
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The Zone you are in: Arathi Highlands (but essentially anywhere)
The character you are on: This one
How long ago you had the issue: Peak times and currently in AH (Horde just got it so server is not coping)
The Realm the affected character is on: Barthilas
If you are in a group or not: No
Is war mode on or off: Off

Waiting up to 10 seconds for infernal strike and other abilities.... Game and World ms show < 30

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Tracing route to 103.4.115.248 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192-168-1-1.tpgi.com.au [192.168.1.1]
2 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 10-20-25-52.tpgi.com.au [10.20.25.52]
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms adl-adc-lon-wgw1-be-200.tpgi.com.au [203.219.199.67]
4 7 ms 9 ms 14 ms 203-219-199-154.tpgi.com.au [203.219.199.154]
5 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms Bundle-Ether12.way-edge902.adelaide.telstra.net [139.130.121.165]
6 19 ms 26 ms 13 ms bundle-ether8.way-core4.adelaide.telstra.net [203.50.11.152]
7 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms bundle-ether19.way-core10.adelaide.telstra.net [203.50.6.248]
8 18 ms 18 ms 19 ms bundle-ether16.exi-core10.melbourne.telstra.net [203.50.6.231]
9 31 ms 28 ms 28 ms bundle-ether12.chw-core10.sydney.telstra.net [203.50.11.124]
10 28 ms 28 ms 27 ms 10gigabitethernet7-1.chw45.sydney.telstra.net [203.50.20.183]
11 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms equini3.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.117.214]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 50 ms 28 ms 28 ms 27.111.251.106
16 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms 103.4.115.248
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09/16/2018 06:21 AMPosted by Whey
Well I have unsubbed. I doubt I will play much while the remaining game time runs out. Couldn't really get into this expansion due to the lag. Best of luck to you folks sticking it out. With each player leaving hopefully it will get better for you.

Blizz dont care. They want you to unsub so the servers are NOT congested any more thus solving their problem.

For the first two weeks they tried to tell us it was OUR issue, and now they really say nothing.
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Coming up to 5 weeks and this is still an issue....mostly in peak playing times.

It really seems obvious as to what the issue here is.

Servers are full and just cannot cope with the amount of people in them.
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It's sad when playing on US realms feels better than playing on Oceanic realms.

What a time to be alive.
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the servers can't handle the massive number of consistent sharding.....
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Is there someone else we can go to about this issue given we aren't getting a satisfactory response? Like an ombudsman for other services I guess? I'm assuming not given it's 'just a game' and it might be in the terms and services that they can give us crap service and we can like it or lump it... but surely there has to be something we can do other than give up and cancel subscriptions?

Over a month of this is absolutely ridiculous. I don't like to complain unless I feel it's really warranted, but come the !@#$ on, enough is enough.
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Arathi Highlands pretty much unplayable at the moment. This toon, Caelstrasz, no Warmode, by myself, looting and many actions in battle taking a few seconds. General chat going nuts over it.
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So uh, I do not mean to derail this thread, but this is also happening on US servers now. The exact same issue. I've found 1 of the 2 servers I play on to experience it. Everyone in Tiragarde Sound tonight noted there was spell/casting and loot lag.
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09/16/2018 06:22 PMPosted by Shekhina
Is there someone else we can go to about this issue given we aren't getting a satisfactory response? Like an ombudsman for other services I guess? I'm assuming not given it's 'just a game' and it might be in the terms and services that they can give us crap service and we can like it or lump it... but surely there has to be something we can do other than give up and cancel subscriptions?

Over a month of this is absolutely ridiculous. I don't like to complain unless I feel it's really warranted, but come the !@#$ on, enough is enough.


https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/consumer-rights-guarantees/consumer-guarantees
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If u happen to look at the replies, there r few seperate one.
Home and world lately both fine under 100ms but spell lag also loot lag. Happen in 3 new zones.

Home fine but world up to 300 ms. Random drop out. Happen anywhere. ISP issue?

And the original post - shared to us server when server hop. already resolved? When there no east coast connect to oceanic player.

Also worth to note, last week complain appear 90% alliance player. And last few hrs u see some horde player start show up. I wonder what changed today?(Warfront? Maybe?)
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I just came to Arathi Highlands. Lagging quite a bit.
Home and World latency reporting 4ms.
Feels like 1000ms

Horde, Caelestrasz. Mimixy.
No war mode. Not grouped.

I was just doing WQ's in main zones with no lag.

The issue seems to be in the zones where most players are present at the time.