I can’t be the only one to notice the lag in epic teamfights has massively increased since 12.0. seconds go by before spells you press activate, crowd control spells end and just keep spinning around at 0 seconds remaining for several seconds.
the inconsistency of it leads to a lot of finger pointing on all sides, which means its most likely blizzard’s fault.
most teamfights have some lag, but this new lag is extensive, we never used to get rubber banding in teamfights. im not sure of the exact mechanism of what causes it. the last time i saw major lag in epics was BFA when Magic Scaling was causing the server to lag, but even then you didn’t rubber band or have to press your defensives multiple times hoping they go through sometime this decade.
anyone have any ideas about what is causing it?
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I was just gonna post something about this. ITs much different now isnt it? I get it, there are some frame drops…stutter etc normally… but this lag is different. Literally cant use abilities, mouse virtually shuts off etc. BUT ONLY with certain teams you play against. Is it a new exploit? its really bad. I just played Ashran it was basically normal lag, but earlier today had several instances in WG and another Ashran that was unplayable. Again, only with certain players/teams.
It’s weird too because sometimes I have zero lag and sometimes It’s a 3 second delay on my abilities lol it’s not consistent and that bothers me.
I joined a Wintergrasp today on my Shaman im gearing and my MS was 2000+
6 months into the expansion and you are just now speaking about this?
It started from day 1
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most of the time im hoping blizz noticed and will fix it on their own before i have to say something
So you’ll wait a year or two or the next expansion to say something about a bug?
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its only been 4 months, more than enough time for several sprints to have solved it quietly. its not like they are not making changes to epics, i noticed they seem to have enabled the original ashran npcs and quirks to the epic version, never mind all the undocumented changes to IOC.
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I do think they notice and are aware. Maybe theres just something inherent to the game and that happened with midnight specifically that causes the epic bg lag in midnight.
Maybe the dmg meter and combat logging for 80 people lagging out things a bit? I especially remembered there was slightly more input lag when they changed the combat logging function in TWW or DF.
I know they notice because they just recently hotfixed the Slayer’s Rise bug that caused horde to lose resources when a node was actually capped instead of gaining resources.
i play epics often, i have never known it to be this bad tbh
Did you see the recent hotfix for slayers rise
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At least half your raid doesn’t dc in ebgs. In open world a 35v35 you’ll get half of each raid forcibly disconnected. 
I have been yelling about this for quite some time now. We also only get lag vs certain teams.
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Its the changes they made to addons and adding more “secret” commands. It borks pvp.
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You been yelling about this since SL cupcake
There are no secrets in the ebg comms. If there was a legit way to cause lag against an enemy team everyone would know how and everyone would do it. Realistically it happens almost every high AOE intense battle and seems mostly to be server side. The problem is getting worse and worse as stats are buffed and more math is needed in those fights. Blizz knows about it and tried masking it better. Your toon can still move around now giving the appearance that it’s not as bad even though it’s taking 6+ seconds before your spells actually fire off. Our subs for blizz now are just a return of investment for their board. They continue to cut cost and have massive layoffs. I wouldnt look to them to fix anything in the future. It’s pretty much run it’s course and is why no one plays much anymore.
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They created the problem with the addon debacle….. they know how to fix it.
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just got killed at an SR team fight, 100-0 without anything displayed on my screen indicating i was even in combat. the lag change is horrible for pvp while Ion is busy blaming the community for being too toxic.
makes strange gestures at you 
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not entirely sure how you got that out of the interview but sure
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