Hi all,
I haven’t made a post on the WoW forums in over five years, but the server lag we are continuously getting on Assaults makes them completely unplayable, and more importantly, un-fun.
I have not seen any information from Blizzard addressing this major issue, and was wondering if folks are seeing the same? General chat is not the best indication of, well mostly anything, but multitudes of people are having this problem, so I decided to make a post.
The concept of being able to battle the opposite faction in open world is something most of us have really looked forward to, and asked for. Now that it’s here, and has the player numbers to be epic, we can’t even enjoy it because of the lag. Not to mention if you just want to do the quests, and complete the Assault, it takes at least 2x as long.
With all the criticism lately, I’m trying to stay positive here… but it’s been over two weeks since Assaults started, and the server lag hasn’t gotten any better. This just seems like yet another feature that would have been great if executed properly.
I can’t help but feel disappointed, and frustrated. Here’s to hoping there is a solution to this problem, soon, not just an answer.
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Actually in the same boat, I haven’t even browsed these forums in years. The issues with the world lagging during invasions with war mode on is ridiculous for a blizzard game, any game really. I don’t know what the issues are but I would guess some servers need upgraded or something of the sort. Sharding isn’t doing it and may actually be making it worse. When I am sitting here with a ping of 34ms and it take 2-3 seconds to do anything its annoying and frankly depressing to see this game reduced to this.
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I’ve had no problems in this area. And I’m on a very high-population shard.
I’d say the solution is to update your potato.
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Have an i7 8700k and a 2080 and the server lag is unbearable. 5-10 seconds between spells, players phasing in and out every 2-3 seconds. It’s a disgrace honestly to say world pvp is a feature of the game.
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War mode on or off? Drustvar is probably by far the worse one. Don’t think its a non potato- potato though. Definitely a server issue of some sort and not on my end.
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I haven’t ever posted on this forum either and have been playing wow since vanilla.
I’ve loved the game for 14 years with some ups and downs but this is just bad…
It’s beyond ridiculous really… These assaults are meant to facilitate world pvp and the server lag issues make it literally unplayable. I don’t get it… This is a very fundamental miss…
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Why the hell is this flagged? You guys are morons. Unfortunately if there is a 40 man for either faction…seems it poops on the server.
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i hope whoever false reported it gets actioned. this is a perfectly reasonable thing to talk about because it affects so many people. i only had warmode on to level. and then i got one of the 370 gimmes from it and turned it off. so it’s not like i’m someone even hurt by this. but the people that are deserve to be heard.
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Server lag right now, i cant even complete some WQ. They wont prompt and if u kill the guy it doesnt count. its bonkers, just wtf is going on there?
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Why was someone talking about upgrading his computer? It’s server lag. You could sit at 20ms latency but it would feel like 500ms+. I’ve experienced this a lot with war mode on or just questing in some zones. It was really bad at launch.
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This has affected every single OCE server since day one. Every single one. It is an ongoing and real issue that has impacted hundreds of thousands of players.
You are more than welcome to go to tech and tell them to “upgrade their potato”…but I wouldnt if I were you.
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Why is your post flagged honest to god. People arent delusional enough to think this isnt an issue are they…?
Nvm.
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Kwash i dont know why. It is and was wrongly flagged.
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I have been experiencing some server lag myself actually, but I thought it was just my internet lol
It isn’t strictly tied to warmode, it’s just people forming raids in your shard puts more players in one instance than it would otherwise, and also results in other players being randomly kicked out, even in combat.
Whatever server tech blizz uses nowadays clearly can’t handle nearly as many players as the old ones. They really need to fix something here.
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It’s like I mentioned in another thread that people can use alts to mass flag posts. A lot of these Blizzard defenders are using their alts to mass flag. It’s an abuse of the system because for the most part the thing is automated.
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Seems like ever since BFA release its been an ability lag fest. Along with server lag depending on how you end up sharding, where you end up going to. Really needs looking into IMO.
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Warmode invasions could be so sweet, but as it is they are practically unplayable. Would be nice to get an acknowledgement from Blizz and a plan of action.
If they don’t have the tech to make it work, they shouldn’t offer it as a feature.
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I have had lag in Drustvar but I think I was fine in all of the other zones unless a few raids are battling. Don’t get me wrong I agree with you, the Blizzard servers need to be improved but in most situations, even in Drustvar the worst lag I get never lasts long and it’s not unplayable.