I decided to open this thread to let the steam out because of the amazing lag that exists on Blizzard's servers especially the last few days or weeks.
It is so irritating to have the equipment, the group and the crave to play and push some 70+ grifts and when you finally get the good map and density..... lag ruins your game!! I do not know what is going on but I heard the company is using the same servers for hearthstone also. I am not sure if its true but they really need to do something about it. Now, lag has been added to the "fishing" parameters you need to consider to actually push high on the leaderboards. How lame is that....?!
I made a reddit thread about this, and all I got was a response from a blizzard employee that its our ISPs thats something wrong with. I feel like thats shitting on us.
They are investigating that issue at the moment. At all i think it is not easy to fix cause they focus on the wd lags noit on everything else. HotA's are causing lags in highrifts also for example.
There is a workaround to deal with the lag issues. Your group comp should use as less area damage as possible. No Pain Enhancer and no Area Damage on Gear an in Parapoints. With the right group composition you are still able to push beyond 74.
The only thing that is causing constantly lags are zombies. zombies are not playable in the moment.
Thx for the info Nachten. The thing is if I remove the PE from my HotA barb, I am also losing the AS from it and hence I lose from DPS. I understand that this is just a workaround but I am really upset in general. If it would have been game mechanics maybe I could understand and wait for a new patch. If it is an ISP or whatever related to data transfer tech, I would expect a huge company which OBLIGES its players to be ALWAYS ON (connected) to have invested a lot on this matter and keep backup solutions. I dunno. I just feel pissed off right now.
EDIT: Do you know if they use the same servers for Hearthstone and Diablo?
Well, lately I experience some weird type of lag, too. Today I almost finished a highest grift I can open, but experienced lots of latency jumps and in the end my game was terminated. I've never seen this announcement before.
Oh wow, i thought i was the only one having crazy lag spikes yesterday. I'm playing on the Asian server and yesterdays latency was just unplayable at all. 1k+ ms even in town, usually i just get crazy lag starting on 4 man GR 70 runs in a stacked rift, but yesterday was on a different level.
Sure you loose the AS from the Pain Enhancer. A Simple Solution could be Gogok. And for a 4 man group, try to group up with a wd. As long as the dartdagger has no Area damage in Paragon and isn't using pain enhancer also you will be fine.
could you please explain to me how using gogok is going to be helpful?
I quit playing, fuck this shit, destroyed the season for me, and I can only play during peak hours. It's lag regardless of having a WD or not, whenever I try to pull some mobs together, the shitfest begins. Great play is rewarded with lag lag lag
This lag issue caused our Season group to quit early last season (dagger WD lag). Now again our season is ruined because of lag. It is unacceptable. We have a group that wants to push 70+ and we are unable to play due to lag. UNACCEPTABLE.
The fact they are not updating any info as to what they are fixing is completely disappointing.
Sure you loose the AS from the Pain Enhancer. A Simple Solution could be Gogok. And for a 4 man group, try to group up with a wd. As long as the dartdagger has no Area damage in Paragon and isn't using pain enhancer also you will be fine.
Gogok does not even close to the AS you gain by stacking loads of mobs and criting them with PE...
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Yes it doesn't but its avoiding lags. I didn't say that its perfect or the best solution, but its working. As above we switched to two darts instead of the barbs sadly.
I really appreciate the tip Nachten. Is there something Diablofans could do? Bring the matter again to their attention or officially require what is going on?
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In the german forums is a bluepost where a gm says, that they have identified the problem and are working on i but it could take a few hours ... that was about 16 hours ago...
I played my fresh 70 season 4 templer and it is really annoying to die with him on t1 (just want the progress bonus) in adventure mode or rift cause of the lags also i managed to survive most of the lags but frost effects are extra annoying there....
In the german forums is a bluepost where a gm says, that they have identified the problem and are working on i but it could take a few hours ... that was about 16 hours ago...
Could you post a link to that bluepost? I just checked the German D3 forums and the last bluepost is 4 days old...
Aufgrund einer Störung kann es gegenwärtig zu extrem hohen Latenzen oder Verbindungsabbrüchen kommen. Wir haben die Ursache dieser Störung identifiziert und arbeiten gegenwärtig daran, diese beseitigen zu lassen, allerdings könnten die damit verbundenen Arbeiten noch mehrere Stunden in Anspruch nehmen.
Wir bitten um Geduld und Entschuldigung für die entstandenen Unannehmlichkeiten.
Gruß
~ Tyryndar
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Thanks for sharing the link. But not really what Waghlord mentioned... it's the standard reply (there will be an update "soon" that will improve the situation and we'll continue to look further after that). Actually that kind of implies already: whatever fix they implement "soon" is not really a fix that ends the issues but requires more work. Understandable, lag has been an issue ever since GRs have been introduced, it's unlikely that a quick fix turns out to be the remedy to all of this.
Edit: Ah, thanks Waghlord. Yeah that looks more like it. Translation:
"Due to a malfunction you might experience extremely high latency or disconnects at the moment. We identified the cause of this malfunction and are working on a fix, but this might take a few hours. We ask for your patience and apologize for the inconvenience."
For me in europe, this recent lag issues is as usual a routing problem within the hosting ISP (Telia).
You can easily check your connection to battle.net with a traceroute, and see where the packets starts to fail (timeout)
tracert eu.battle.net
Tracing route to eu.battle.net [80.239.186.40]
...
7 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms ae-113-3503.bar1.Stockholm1.Level3.net
8 43 ms 44 ms 42 ms s-b2-link.telia.net [213.248.99.133]
9 41 ms 41 ms 42 ms s-bb4-link.telia.net [62.115.139.106]
10 43 ms 112 ms 93 ms ffm-bb2-link.telia.net [62.115.143.105]
11 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms prs-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.183]
12 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms prs-b8-link.telia.net [62.115.138.139]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
I decided to open this thread to let the steam out because of the amazing lag that exists on Blizzard's servers especially the last few days or weeks.
It is so irritating to have the equipment, the group and the crave to play and push some 70+ grifts and when you finally get the good map and density..... lag ruins your game!! I do not know what is going on but I heard the company is using the same servers for hearthstone also. I am not sure if its true but they really need to do something about it. Now, lag has been added to the "fishing" parameters you need to consider to actually push high on the leaderboards. How lame is that....?!
Is there something we can do to ring some bells?
"Truth is like a lion. Don't try to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself" Augustine of Hippo
i guarantee you that there will be no patch to resolve this before the next season, because its not easy to fix.
But are they really working on it? Or is it going something like: "yeah yeah its Blizzard's servers u know..."??
"Truth is like a lion. Don't try to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself" Augustine of Hippo
I made a reddit thread about this, and all I got was a response from a blizzard employee that its our ISPs thats something wrong with. I feel like thats shitting on us.
Yea its getting really annoying playing higher rifts and lag kills u i give up soon...
"Do you guys not have phones?"
Thx for the info Nachten. The thing is if I remove the PE from my HotA barb, I am also losing the AS from it and hence I lose from DPS. I understand that this is just a workaround but I am really upset in general. If it would have been game mechanics maybe I could understand and wait for a new patch. If it is an ISP or whatever related to data transfer tech, I would expect a huge company which OBLIGES its players to be ALWAYS ON (connected) to have invested a lot on this matter and keep backup solutions. I dunno. I just feel pissed off right now.
EDIT: Do you know if they use the same servers for Hearthstone and Diablo?
"Truth is like a lion. Don't try to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself" Augustine of Hippo
Well, lately I experience some weird type of lag, too. Today I almost finished a highest grift I can open, but experienced lots of latency jumps and in the end my game was terminated. I've never seen this announcement before.
Remember this patch is focused on group play and you can't group with most of the specs in the game. Make sense thx blizzard Kappa
Oh wow, i thought i was the only one having crazy lag spikes yesterday. I'm playing on the Asian server and yesterdays latency was just unplayable at all. 1k+ ms even in town, usually i just get crazy lag starting on 4 man GR 70 runs in a stacked rift, but yesterday was on a different level.
I quit playing, fuck this shit, destroyed the season for me, and I can only play during peak hours. It's lag regardless of having a WD or not, whenever I try to pull some mobs together, the shitfest begins. Great play is rewarded with lag lag lag
This lag issue caused our Season group to quit early last season (dagger WD lag). Now again our season is ruined because of lag. It is unacceptable. We have a group that wants to push 70+ and we are unable to play due to lag. UNACCEPTABLE.
The fact they are not updating any info as to what they are fixing is completely disappointing.
"Truth is like a lion. Don't try to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself" Augustine of Hippo
"Truth is like a lion. Don't try to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself" Augustine of Hippo
"Truth is like a lion. Don't try to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself" Augustine of Hippo
In the german forums is a bluepost where a gm says, that they have identified the problem and are working on i but it could take a few hours ... that was about 16 hours ago...
I played my fresh 70 season 4 templer and it is really annoying to die with him on t1 (just want the progress bonus) in adventure mode or rift cause of the lags also i managed to survive most of the lags but frost effects are extra annoying there....
http://eu.battle.net/d3/de/forum/topic/15939954152
here it is
Customer Service
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Hi zusammen!
Aufgrund einer Störung kann es gegenwärtig zu extrem hohen Latenzen oder Verbindungsabbrüchen kommen. Wir haben die Ursache dieser Störung identifiziert und arbeiten gegenwärtig daran, diese beseitigen zu lassen, allerdings könnten die damit verbundenen Arbeiten noch mehrere Stunden in Anspruch nehmen.
Wir bitten um Geduld und Entschuldigung für die entstandenen Unannehmlichkeiten.
Gruß
~ Tyryndar
–––––––––
Feedback zu meinem Beitrag? Dann nehmt bitte an dieser kurzen Umfrage teil!
Thanks for sharing the link. But not really what Waghlord mentioned... it's the standard reply (there will be an update "soon" that will improve the situation and we'll continue to look further after that). Actually that kind of implies already: whatever fix they implement "soon" is not really a fix that ends the issues but requires more work. Understandable, lag has been an issue ever since GRs have been introduced, it's unlikely that a quick fix turns out to be the remedy to all of this.
Edit: Ah, thanks Waghlord. Yeah that looks more like it. Translation:
"Due to a malfunction you might experience extremely high latency or disconnects at the moment. We identified the cause of this malfunction and are working on a fix, but this might take a few hours. We ask for your patience and apologize for the inconvenience."
For me in europe, this recent lag issues is as usual a routing problem within the hosting ISP (Telia).
You can easily check your connection to battle.net with a traceroute, and see where the packets starts to fail (timeout)
tracert eu.battle.net
Tracing route to eu.battle.net [80.239.186.40]
...
7 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms ae-113-3503.bar1.Stockholm1.Level3.net
8 43 ms 44 ms 42 ms s-b2-link.telia.net [213.248.99.133]
9 41 ms 41 ms 42 ms s-bb4-link.telia.net [62.115.139.106]
10 43 ms 112 ms 93 ms ffm-bb2-link.telia.net [62.115.143.105]
11 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms prs-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.183]
12 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms prs-b8-link.telia.net [62.115.138.139]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.