I’ve been noticing more and more that looting is either really slow (like, at times up to 2 seconds per item to pick up) and auto-loot seems to fail about 1/3 of the time.
If other people are experiencing this, any guesses as to what could be the cause?
I’m experiencing the same things but can’t tell you what causes them either.
Auto-loot is unreliable, sometimes I have to click to loot twice cause the pop-up will show up empty the first time, and the looting speed is very slow most of the time (though will sometimes be normal)
If you think it’s really any of those issues you should post this in tech support, not GD.
Fair, I mostly wanted to see what others are experiencing and discuss a bit.
My auto loot doesn’t work about 1/3 of the time like you say, this never used to be a thing
I’m on an OCE server and I only experience loot lag when I’m playing on a US server (and it’s quite significant). Do you experience it solo? If you are in a group, check if the leader’s server is based in a different region… US-E, US-P, US-C, MEX and OCE are all grouped together. I use a weak aura to show me where groups I’m applying to are based but lfr and lfg are random luck.
Ooh that’s a really good point. What led me to make this was a Deadmines TW that was just really, painfully slow (but I just ran it again and there was no problem).
This makes a lot of sense, thanks for that information! I bet that’s at least a large part of loot lag.
The auto-loot hiccup seems to be anywhere and everywhere, so that’s possibly something entirely different.
I am having this problem as well.
Yes, I get a lot of weird lag when looting. Sometimes the loot window just freezes, and I either have to click each item or close it and loot again. Other times it’s just really slow.
Yup, but nothing we can do about it. Its probably gonna take them weeks or months to fix it.
I imagine it has to do with the five different windows that pop up with a list of the loot that dropped. Probably not but that is also annoying. Looting shouldn’t be annoying
Everything is bugged RN. I run into bugs all day every day while playing. I dont even report them anymore, cause they never get fixed even if I do.
Same here, though you know Blizz will just say “Working as Intended”.
Auto-loot has been buggy since launch. It just doesn’t work half the time. Doesn’t seem to be a priority for Blizz, since they haven’t even bothered to acknowledge the problem exists.
Backend changes made with the 11.0.5 patch have introduced a lot of lag/latency to various areas of the game that previously didn’t have them. Blizz claimed it was ‘updating infrastructure’ but the degradation in performance suggests to me that this likely means they went with some cheaper solution than they were using before. The disconnects and latency that were happening in places like raids are related to these changes as well.
Yeah it’s pretty horrible for gathering, sometimes it takes 5 seconds or more to loot stuff, this is with 25ms and 120 fps (vsync), not during the top of hour, so can’t blame theater, overall the backend database that logs loot is just incredibly slow. Seemed fine pre 11.0.5.
I haven’t experienced loot lag at all other then when I get a perception bonus when harvesting. And even then, it doesn’t happen often
It’s slow sometimes, but yes OCE/NA mixed groups it is especially horrible. Judging by how long that’s had special problems, it’s not getting fixed anytime during this trilogy.
I’ve been experiencing this a lot the last few days.
My auto loot is on but sometimes it just doesn’t work. I either have to click manually, or close the loot window and loot the enemy again.
def laggy and yeah auto loot not working for me also