Someone please reassure me it’s not me.
My partner and I keep having lag of varying degrees from so horrible the game is unplayable to no lag at all. Both of us on same channels, same server, sitting next to each other- they will have lag and I won’t or vice-versa. We both have different levels of lag always, they are usually worse. One of us will start disconnecting every minuet while the other won’t, disconnecting constantly to the point it’s unplayable. My partner almost always has horrible lag and slingshoting while I just have a choppy screen but my FPS is great (same for them) Then when disconnected sometimes I will have queue while they log in instantly or vice-versa.
The lag though…
It takes me sometimes between 30 seconds and 4 Mins (I timed it) for NPC to react to me interacting with them or I’ll keep clicking and like all my quest rewards and dialog explodes over my screen all at once (it would help if one didn’t have to talk to every NPC 3-4 times for quest progression). If I have more than 4 people around me I usually cannot interact at all, it just doesn’t work, I’ve tried spamming it and clicking slowly and just waiting but neither seems to change the outcome. Sometimes the delay between interacting with items, quest things, npc is so bad that it just never happens so I switch channels constantly trying to get things to work/interact and I’m not even going to get into what the lag does for trying to quest grouped with someone else (constantly going into separate instances).
I have to assume all of these interact problems are related to lag. We have great computers, the most expensive modem and router you can buy, solid internet connections, and no hardware issues but I’m not seeing a whole lot of people talking about just plain old lag and some seem to be having an easier time now on 3/31 but we’re still having a… let’s say a heck of a time.
We’ve noticed the game is less horrible to play between 7am and around 3pm EDT around 5pm to basically 7am EDT it is 100% unplayable launch-day, yesterday, and 5:00pm EDT today it’s already starting to be that way thus I gave up and wrote this.