Massive Lag?

You periodically send an outgoing packet to the server(every 250/400ms), and the server responds with whatever data's occured since the last time that happened. Since every character is going to be sending their packets at different times, it is not likely they will balance such that 2400 chars = 6 packets/ms. Some of the intervals will have more density of packet responses to handle than others.

How they handle anything like that is very difficult to guess from outside, but there are plenty of models that would result in some characters feeling it worse than others despite being on the same computer.

today sortie was normal lag. fwiw I live in california and only play one character

I had tyhe problem 2 days ago, same as OP. it was horrible on SCH, trying to get a Immanence skillchain off. Never have had it that bad.

Any of you experiencing the lag have AT&T Fiber by chance?

Are you implying it's the Chinese that's doing it?

The lag will go away after tonight. The servers are due for their monthly reboot.

IDK if it matters but ppl have had high latency in other games too. Hmmm.

Very oversimplified explanation, but:

A very common design pattern is take the total set of all character data and break them up into groups, called shards. Imagine characters beginning with A-L on one server and characters M-Z on a second server. More activity from characters A-L can cause a performance degradation for that shard (database).

This extends further when characters are also broken up by zones and instances within those zones. Maybe the shards get smaller and grow in number, requiring more resources and so on...

Maybe, but SE said they gonna touch those servers like a year ago, and personally I have noticed tons of weird stuff happening since fall for sure, it’s especially noticeable when you AoE farm, like I usually pull 1/3 of the omen (or dyna) zone at a time, and I have seen me dying (it does happen) then while dead my WS go off 2-3-5 sec later (lag ?!? Again) then mobs dying (yes that’s right), mob following me while dead (SE is Pos hacking?!?) mob getting hit but somehow no enmity (cleave the group and one just walk away casually with 2/3 of hp missing). A lot of talk also of cure/WS not going off obviously. There’s definitely something going on from their hands, and maybe it’s related to instances with lots of stuff going on (my case omen farm, but true in dyna farming as well, dyna-D and sortie). The chatter about “lag” is definitely there, discord or here

I have att fiber

I had issues about a year ago with ATT fiber. If i connected to a VPN it cleared up.

we were experiencing that in oddy on sylph as well, It was friday the 8th. There was at least a 3-4 second lag in everything and it would spike up to around 10 seconds. Several people died having walked right into camps before mobs visually spawned. weapon skills and abilities took a good 3-4 seconds to show the visuals as well. It seems to have been repaired at this point, but it doesn't appear to have been an isolated incident.

I wouldn't assume it's gone until the weekend tbh, player numbers won't be back up to where they were until then.