From what I’ve experienced it looks like world of warcraft has seen a huge increase in the amount of subscribers that they have in addition to record high levels of engagement. This is absolutely fantastic and I’m very glad that it looks like the game is on an upwards trend. With that said it seems that this increase in population is also causing continuing lag spikes on high pop realms.
I’m on stormrage and I haven’t had a single session where I haven’t had at least a few lag spikes while playing. My internet isn’t the issue here as I average 300 mbps up and down and have yet to even experience a single outage where I’m living. Asking around in general chat generally leads to a lot of other players admitting they are lagging as well so its not just me.
Are there any plans to address this server instability? Will blizzard be acquiring new server space to deal with the influx of players? Is this even an issue on anybody’s radar?
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Pretty sure mentioning this anywhere within Blizzard’s domain will get you shadowbanned 
Jokes aside, the only people talking about it are players affected by it. Nobody else seems to care. But hey, at least Blizzard’s executives don’t have to shell out any funds for better infrastructure. I’m guessing their families are gonna get extra juicy presents this year.
Im on stormrage aswell and i started noticing it on tuesday after the patch. What made it so difficult for me to find out what the problem was is that I just happened to move to a different building on Tuesday with Wi-Fi. My Ms in game is fine and when I try to play other games like Counter-Strike which is way more demanding on your ISP it runs fine. It’s comforting to see that it’s not just me having this problem. Especially on stormrage. Side note, I tried a low population server and everything was smooth. I also took off a lot of my addons and this seemed to help a little bit. Maybe just in my head though?
I’ve found that a definite cause of the lag spikes are the world bosses. When a ton of players cluster around them they will lag out the entire zone until the boss is cleared. I don’t know what the solution to this would be but I imagine that its going to be an enduring problem.
All I have and everyone else over here in oceania have experienced since launch is massive amounts of lag. Ardenweald seems to be the absolute worst for it as I have yet to go there and not have 1 - 2 seconds of delay at any given time.