Someone oin the forum here told me “Only Onyxxia is a lagfest” but I fight the Lich King here and he is an even bigger lagfestival.
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Only during certain times of day, like around lunchtime, and the first fight of each hour tends to be the busiest, and thus the worst for lag. Though, I haven’t seen Ragnaros ever get as bad as the other two. Maybe because there’re fewer adds.
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The nortrend map is unplayable…
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It’s funny because the event is causing horrible lag in areas nowhere near the event.
I was leveling a new goblin yesterday, and everything in Kezan had like a minute-long delay.
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Yes.
Every game event that drags people to one location to fight something generates a whole lot of lag, as seen with the pre-patch, Hearthstone, and Diablo events. Similarly, it gets even worse when people start inviting other players into their own overcrowded shard from other shards or servers which defeats the purpose of sharding in the first place.
This is apparently acceptable. World boss and specifically these events have been doing this since at least 8.2 and the keep designing into it.
Think they’ve been working on some sort of dynamic load balancing so things have sometimes been getting better.
Currently all boss events are a lagfest
Yup! I find the Northrend map to be the worst in regards with this event. Was killing the Lich King last night and the lag was so bad that everyone was running in circles.
Once he was killed it took a good minute to get the game to register for me that he was defeated. I know it’s not on my end as my latency was 47ms home 30ms world at the time.
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Remembered Lagnixia, Remembered Lag King, Remembered Firelord Lagnaros.
It’s horrible. Literally a 3-5 second lag on button press before anything happens. There are just too many people in the zone all at once. They need to lower each shard to like 40 people, and reduce the amount needed to kill things. That’s the only solution.
Edit: And lock people into a single shard from the start of the farm to the killing of the boss.
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Eh. Onyxia can be just as bad.
Many whelps. Left and right, possibly 4th dimension side. Handle it.
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I can handle it. The server can’t. This only adds to the fact that this events design is a failure. You need to design stuff around the limitations of the hardware it is supposed to run on, at least the server hardware on their end.
Onyxia is the only one that isn’t frustrating during this purely because I can make ‘dps very slowly’ jokes.
It’s a meme.
https:// www.youtube. com/watch?v=RlLl6bBq584
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This has been happening since shadowlands
Before that we use have ridiculous lag in Dalaran for legion where all the Simps were saying its because you don’t have SSD despite having SSD 
, which then magically disappeared when BFA popped. 
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oh yeah, always. i remember the last northrend event, where you could get the new “papa’s brand new bag” or whatever it was. you’d hit an attack button and you’d actually see it go off 10-15 seconds later.
people here INSISTED just upgrading your video card would somehow fix this
Sorry, yeah, it’s a running joke from a very long time ago with that fight during the raid specifically.
The lag spikes and boss taking ages to die with loads of folks around? Yeah, that could do with some fixing. Definitely not enjoyable.
Personally, I have only experienced bad lag in Dragonblight. The lich king is the worst but each scenario lags as well. I’ve decided just to skip that zone. I don’t need the memories or gear that badly.