Look, I get Elite is supposed to be tough. I also know I am not the best player, but I am pretty competent. I have been leveling my TR2 Artie for the past month and have soloed just about everything on elite to level 18. My streak is well over 200.

I just tried to do a RwtD on HE with 5 other pretty decent players from good guilds and couldn't get past the first ramp. The really annoying thing is how I die.

Start fight

LAAAAAAG

Ding

Nothing in combat log to say how I died.

Get the damn lag fixed, and adjust the damn quests to appropriate difficulties. I haven't died in that quest for ages. Not saying it needed to stay the same, but as usual, you guys go fricking overboard. It is like you guys think "In for a penny, in for a pound", instead of reasonable increases. Despite your erroneous thinking, we do give honest feedback, and it is pretty easy to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Some other things while I am ranting. Fix Damn Quicken. I am fricking tired of casting a quickened blade barrier/flame turret only to have the timer start, consume SP and no fricking spell happens. We won't even talk about the damn UMD lag. That has become to fricking obnoxious I won't even try to use a scroll during combat anymore.

And then my personal favorite, zone crashing. I can't even play the new quests from U14 and U15. Everytime I enter the rift or the Kings forest or recall back to Eveningstar the client crashes. Don't even try to say it is my rig. My rig is designed to run both Blender and Python and can render up to 3 different projects at one time. This is the ONLY game that crashes.


Look, I don't bitch much about the game or Devs or a lot of horrible game designs that completely fly in the face of DnD, but the playability of this game has taken a horrendous down turn to where I am considering not renewing my yearly sub. Not threatening or anything, just trying to give you idea of how bad things have become when a pretty loyal, but not fanboyish, customer has become more than a little irritated with the lack of professionalism and just plain awful design/loot decisions and let us not forget the piss poor attitudes from the Turbine.

Wonder where the players get it from, eh?

It got so bad last night, I was getting raises before the client even told me I was attacked. With a green lag icon. Not amused.

Smrti wrote on Aug 25^th, 2012 at 1:08am:



While I wouldn't really do that, I only need one way.

Heroic elite is a cakewalk if you have half an idea how to play. He's bitching about Running which is one of the hardest elite quests, but at best that just means you need a halfway competent party. I 4 manned it in a PUG last life with a hireling for heals and that was even before they nerfed the spell damage in there.

For the first time ever, I was in a group that couldn't finish Jeets on elite.  From what I could gather, if the group sucks too much and lets the Bacon Ego die, then the Super Egos keep healing the Damsel so you'll never be able to take her down.

You need at least middling DPS to finish Jeets on elite. Some craptacular groups that manage to skate through the other IQ quests finally get punished in Jeets. I wouldn't want to do it solo on a melee either.


JC wrote on Aug 26^th, 2012 at 11:27am:


I haven't seen any server lag in 6 months plus. Get a better internet connection. (And I'm saying this as someone who lives on a mountain with 200K DSL.)

U14 introduced some serious item swap lag.

They weren't even recon scrolls, they were quickened recons because I didn't want them to fail.

[greater than oak]

Maxwell Edison wrote on Aug 26^th, 2012 at 4:43pm:


*)%$$#_(&banana

When you can't even throw a spell, DDO is seriously screwed.

cdr wrote on Aug 26^th, 2012 at 6:15pm:


I said "UMD and item swapping."

Ask Stainer about reading and Grace being right.

Quote:

I have been getting a ton of this recently as well.

I had a friend leveling a druid, who ran elite mindsunder with a group. At the end fight, he ran in to lay down some crowd control, with Regenerate running. He would get hit with Ego Whip, freeze up momentarily from the Cha damage, then heal ability damage from Regen, again freezing up from the UMD recalcs. He was basically frozen in place for the first half of the fight as his Charisma jumped up and down.

After that he LR'd and removed UMD from his skill list and he's much less laggy now. So that's a workaround, I guess.

The memory leak has gotten super bad.  I used to be fine with a character swap or two - but now it's reload the client unless I"m just checking mail - if I want to actually use another toon I need to reload.

Anything that modifies stats (including spells that debuff you) causes massive client lag.

Just going to get ship buffs - I run 80 FPS and I'll run along fine then hit a shrine that for whatever reason stops the client cold (sometimes going 'grey' as I play fullscreen window mode) like it's going to crash - then it will come back at 80 fps like nothing happened even though it's 10-15 seconds later.

Swapping items for - haste/heroisim/umd clickies are about worthless as the lag takes too due to the stat modifications - the hast clicky lasts 30 seconds... more like 15 once the swap lag is taken into account.

/sigh

On the bright side - GW2 (with 10000x nicer graphics) runs in a (boarder-less) full screen window with everything at high and supersampled at 35+ fps - and I'll give this to the GW2 client - on the odd occation when it drops down to 10 fps or lower - it stays responsive and never locks up or pauses.

The only other MMO I've played that stays responsive even when the frames drop... is WoW (sadly to say).

What I don't understand is that I don't have these lag issues in LoTRO - and the client is almost the same - so someone at Turbine figured out the memory leak issue and fixed it - why they won't talk to each other I don't get.

cdr wrote on Aug 26^th, 2012 at 6:15pm:


Are you kidding me?

Normally I have little or no lag but with update 14 and now 15 lag has gotten noticeable worse with each update.

Studder lag was so bad last night I finaily just logged got real tired of trying to see the future.