I have seen posts about Blizzard addressing the server lag issues on other servers, but no mention on OCE servers.
The lag at times is nearly unplayable, all the while home and world latency stays around 20.
Is anything being done about this?
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Doubt it, We had this problem all through BFA and they didn’t bother fixing it. I doybt Blizzard cares about it now. We aren’t North America. They will never care.
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Yeah, it’s terrible on Saurfang. Looting quest items and just in general takes seconds. Abilities are not firing off when pressed. Timing seems to be up and down with it. Overall feels really bad. Wasn’t like this on day 1 of launch funnily enough. Only started experiencing it the last day or so.
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Yeah it’s pretty bad, thankfully there’s no lag in instances though.
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Agree it’s bad, latency to server is decent but the game lags so hard.
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I recall this same kind of lag (the server lag itself reports low, but there’s a noticeable lag when looting items for example) during BFA.
I recall seeing posts that it was being investigated, but I think it was swept under the carpet as the xpack went on.
And now it’s back again. Yay. >.<;
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yep getting the same thing
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I have 43ms ping to server but it takes 2-3 seconds for the game to register clicks - unplayable.
673mb download and 423 up upload through speed test. Everything else working fine it’s just WoW.
100% server lag.
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Really unplayable. If I was WM it would be a nightmare to get around. Fix pls blizz
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It’s especially fun when they have so many quest mobs that apply stacking dots or put poison pools down when they die, and just trying to loot the corpse applies enough stacks to half-kill you.
I just logged out after enduring this in Ardenweald - even mining a node took ages as you get stuck on the loot window. In Maldraxxus yesterday is was just as bad.
Blizzard’s clearly cheaping out on server capacity/CPU/bandwidth/something.
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Getting HUGE lag spikes all around in the world here on Area 52. Killing mobs I will lag in place for 2-4 seconds almost every pull. Quests constantly need to be clicked on for several seconds. Looting takes forever. I have been playing this game for 14 years now and this just makes the game unplayable. Honestly don’t even wanna log on cause why deal with that?
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World quest zones have been pretty awful. About 1 second delay on many of my casts. Instances are fine though.
For comparisons sake, i would rather play on servers hosted in Russia compared to what we are currently dealing with. Please fix, expansion has been fun so far.
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I concur with all comments here. WM off makes questing and combat a tad slow to respond. WM on is “better” (emphasis on the word), but the risk of getting ganked by some troll (not the species) is unacceptable.
Just now I’ve tried to enter Plaguefall, but it freezes while loading. Leaving and re-entering the game causes the “character already exists” error.
Yesterday, while attempting to land in Ardenweald, I got thrown into the void between spaces, kept falling for about 5 minutes, and finally died.
Day 1-2 was bad. Maldraxxus would cause me constant and random freezes/crashes. All within 5 minutes of logging in.
TLDR: The actual launch was smooth, but gameplay since then has been grossly unacceptable. FIX it!
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Totally unplayable at the moment. One cannot expect servers to run held together with duct tape, zip ties and hopes and dreams.
Launch day I expected it to be laggy, but this is ridiculous at the moment. I got DC’d zoning in to a dungeon, took 5 minutes to get back in and found myself back in Org. Now when I start running around Bastion (dont ask, mistakes were made) I get DC’d every couple of minutes.
Please fix, this is ruining the only fun thing I have to do. It is totally unacceptable that after 16 years of this game, there are still the same problems over and over
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If nothing else try say something as to whether work is being done on it or not.
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a familiar issue that’s carried across from the BFA overworld that they also didn’t solve for the two years that stink was around.
I look forward to this also being ignored 
/s
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Unsubscribing from wow because of this, 50ms my ars*, when i can play dayz on the east coast from perth with 250ms and it feels more responsive. they ether fix this sh*t or i will be asking for my f’ing money back, as this is broken. and damaged good are by australia law, have to be refunded.
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Best of luck getting a refund. Activision-Blizzard don’t seem to care, if they ever did. I too have unsubscribed, and I’m not sure I’ll resub. Between the WoD-like nature of this expansion’s early days, combined with the sub price for us Aussies being increased, I may have finally reached my tolerance threshold.
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For the past few days playing has been like wading through quicksand. Everything delayed, global cooldowns ticking like they’re on prozac. It’s becoming painful.
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Low world ms, globals taking 3 - 5 seconds, actually unplayable.
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