Every reset day, on Kil Jaeden server, every Tuesday, without fail, unplayable lag happens.
Castle Nathria, the raid, gets unplayable lag for 80% of us if not 100%.
Orgrimmar often outright stops working. I just sat at the Dalaran portal to Orgrimmar trying to get in. With a LOT of other people. Tried it again over an hour later, still didnt work.
System->Advanced->unchecking “Optimize Network for Speed”-> /reload worked for us… Briefly. Then it came back.
Our guild is thinking that it’s specific data centers-- west/east/whatever.
Seriously though either I want this fixed or I don’t want to pay the full amount that I am every month.
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Everyone in our whole raid lagged all night. I am actually surprised there isn’t more posts about it because it makes it almost impossible to play. So much teleporting it makes me nauseous. I hope this is addressed soon. Tonight was the worst lag so far for me since start of SL.
Welcome to WoW since… forever.
Tuesday reset is lag day. It has always been, and likely it will always be.
Yeah, the servers have been unstable and prone to such lag.
They used to do a better job of keeping it out of instances, only making the world unplayably slow.
I guess either the server hamsters have gotten chubby with the lockdown, or Shadowlands must be doing better than expected.
I’m curious if it has anything to do with all the realm hopping for world boss groups or raid groups on reset day.
No technical specifics to validate that shot in the dark…
Yea that’s not true. It wasnt that bad in BFA or Legion
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had the same happen for my group earlier today, thankfully no wipes but it was pretty rough to play through
Oh yea cool let me just tell my entire guild that we cant raid today because of blizz good idea thanks
That’s because the restarts that happen every Tuesday take several hours upon rebooting to sort the servers back to their cross realms and layering. Not that it’s a passable excuse, just stating the cause. 
this one time at band camp…
yeah, the world boss earlier today was a slide show and felt like a 10 second GCD…
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Not at all surprised, just from seeing the subject line, that you’re on the Oceanic/Sydney servers.
Blizzard did a 15-hour maintenance shutdown ONLY on Oceanic just before BfA, and that’s when this server lag problem started to happen.
Any time you’re in a busy area/zone, it takes long seconds to simply loot something or get stuff from your mailbox (I’ve made it habitual now to teleport to my garrison to deal with mail or banking duties) and if there’s a world boss active, RIP the entire zone - you can’t even use your abilities because each one takes 5+ seconds to register, so instead you try to kill enemies by spamming whatever’s on your bars and hoping to hell it’s enough.
For world bosses, you tag and wait - there is no way at all to “do the rotation” or other such nonsense, and if you stay in range you’ll get insta-gibbed by boss abilities you haven’t even seen.
Blizzard continues to tell people this is all THEIR fault. It’s their internet, it’s the NBN, it’s their ISP, it’s the temperature of the lizard out the back of the house, blah blah blah. They are lying.
This NEVER happened before that 15-hour Oceanic-only maintenance. It’s a regular occurrence now (and was identified as a problem within days of that maintenance).
What’s almost certainly happened is that they’ve cut capacity - permanently - on the Sydney servers to save money.
It’s been a problem for over two years now, and that means it’ll probably never get fixed. The only “fix” is for enough players to stop playing so that the servers aren’t overloaded. And let’s face it, the way Shadowlands is working out for the non-key-pushing players, that’s likely to happen fairly soon.
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Your entire guild is ridiculous for planning a raid on reset. Let’s pick a notoriously unstable day to hop into raid then be outraged about it! /rabblerabblerabble
If we’re paying money to play the game, don’t you think part of that money should go into having actual functional servers to play on?