I am on Gul’dan server. I have installed all the latest drivers. I have renamed folders and reloaded game. I have run trcerts with 15 hops coming back 23-32ms pings (to blizzard and random sites). I use Starlink and at the worst I am at 240UL and 15DL, usually 350/35. I have graphic setting set to 1 (so its like playing WC 1, back in 1997). ISSUE: I load game, i am in a local, everything is fine. I move a few hundred meters and the game lags out to 10kMS… after a minute, the game returns to normal, no lag… I enter a dungeon, game lags, I run to first boss and he’s dead with all the encounters and spell effects catching up at 3000% speed. If i stand there, no lag. I move to follow group, lag. I cast a spell, lag.
I remain unsure what if anything is causing this issue as i only experienced lag since the new expansion/patch. No other apps are affected and for the last 3 days, the game has been almost unplayable. If I were a new player, i would return the game immediately. Please let me know what information you need to identify the problem.
C:\Windows\System32>tracert blizzard.com
Tracing route to blizzard.com [137.221.106.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 24 ms 25 ms 23 ms 100.64.0.1
3 30 ms 22 ms 33 ms 172.16.250.44
4 30 ms 22 ms 23 ms undefined.hostname.localhost [206.224.68.126]
5 28 ms 23 ms 22 ms undefined.hostname.localhost [206.224.68.104]
6 22 ms 31 ms 29 ms phx [213.248.66.168]
7 29 ms 24 ms 23 ms phx [62.115.127.26]
8 39 ms 31 ms 38 ms lax [62.115.125.72]
9 36 ms 39 ms 39 ms blizzard [62.115.178.247]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 36 ms 35 ms 40 ms et [137.221.83.93]
13 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms las [137.221.66.21]
14 46 ms 43 ms 47 ms 137.221.105.25
15 32 ms 35 ms 39 ms 137.221.106.104
Gul’Dan Server
Location: Cochise County AZ
VCard: GeForce RTX 3060ti with latest driver 560.70
I don’t know what it is but its been happening since Wednesday, day after prepatch, i have no Add-ons, released IP, renewed IP, flushed DNS, Cleaned UI, all of it, every last recommendation.
EDIT: It was 100% the Gul’dan server. all other characters on other servers are running fine.
Edit II: Nevermind, false alarm, took about two hours now the other servers are lagged out at 2500ms. WHAT AM I PAYING MONEY FOR???
I don’t know, but ever since the day TWW pre-patch went live, the lag on my machine has caused me to miss boss kills in Time Rifts, Researchers Under Fire, DF World Bosses, Radiant Echoes, and more because it won’t even show I’m there at the event/boss. It seems like even legacy raids I run with friends for tmogs is affected by this immense lag.
This is the same on the Terenas, Proudmoore and Wyrmrest Accord realms.
My computer and WOW was doing great with no noticeable lag up until pre-patch…but since I have become familiar with every kind of disconnect, lag delay, and connection problem imaginable.
What is more frustrating is that not even all the players are affected by it!!
I have done the following to try to rectify this issue:
Disabled and kept off all addons
Enabled one addon at a time to see if it is causing the lag
Run the Battle.net Scan and Repair
Replaced my WTF folders
Checked my dedicated gaming hard drive for space (over 500GB)
Made sure all software, drivers, apps, etc. were up to date
Turned graphics down from 10 to 3
And I’m sure I’m forgetting something else I’ve tried…
Was hoping the patch today (August 6th) would fix it, but apparently not.
At this point I’m just ready to try and get a refund for my TWW purchase, cancel my sub, and finally be done with this frustrating game.
Just to be clear, in case you don’t understand. MVP’s are not employees. It’s hard to acknowledge a connection issue without certain information, and the support sites no longer give support to gather it.
Not being employees we can’t see what the situation is.
