A plea for information on Input Lag in Siege of Orgrimmar
by Olivia Grace 
Oct 7th 2013 at 9:00AM
For 25-man raiders, input lag is the hottest news right now, and Lead Encounter Designer Ion "Watcher" Hazzikostas has put out a plea for information.
A while back, in late August, a thread was started in the official forums talking about some experimentation players had done, trying to work out what was causing this occasional massive and problematic lag in 25-man raids. Since then, there have been some serious changes made to various AoE heals, resulting in massive nerfs to spells like Healing Rain. And yet, according to the forums, and to our recent interview with top guild Method, nothing has changed. The lag is still there, it's still a problem, it's still having a massive impact on players.
One forum thread has posted a fix for some weird nameplate/UI issues, which the poster also said might have an impact on FPS issues, but as Lead Encounter Designer Ion Hazzikostas clarifies in his post, lag is a term that can mean many different things for many different people. So if you're experiencing this lag, characterized by an absence of low framerates or high pings, start gathering information.
A while back, in late August, a thread was started in the official forums talking about some experimentation players had done, trying to work out what was causing this occasional massive and problematic lag in 25-man raids. Since then, there have been some serious changes made to various AoE heals, resulting in massive nerfs to spells like Healing Rain. And yet, according to the forums, and to our recent interview with top guild Method, nothing has changed. The lag is still there, it's still a problem, it's still having a massive impact on players.
One forum thread has posted a fix for some weird nameplate/UI issues, which the poster also said might have an impact on FPS issues, but as Lead Encounter Designer Ion Hazzikostas clarifies in his post, lag is a term that can mean many different things for many different people. So if you're experiencing this lag, characterized by an absence of low framerates or high pings, start gathering information.
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