YES! If you do a search you'll find it is a relatively common occurence. Strangely it seems to happen more on certain characters (my magicka Sorc) than with others and only in vMA. I've been grinding a few characters in nMA and performance has always been flawless there.

I've tried a bunch of things on my computer/system to try and improve it but the lag/latency seems to be mostly server side. It's like the scene I'm seeing on my screen is often a half second behind what is actually happening. It also seems to be worse during "prime time": evenings in the EST and on weekends. Last weekend it was so bad I couldn't get past stage 5 and last night it was the same thing. I eventually got to stage 7 last night but it was so bad I just quit for the night and finished it with no problems this morning.

For the reference of things that I've tried:

• Disable unneeded add-ons (helps a little depending on which ones you use)
• Close all other Window applications (helps a little depending on what you run)
• Restart the client (helps for a bit but you risk losing your place in vMA)
• Set ESO's CPU affinity and thread priority
• Reloading the UI
• Change from a 2.4GHz to a 5GHz wireless (helps download speed a lot but no visible effect in the game)
• Turn all visual settings to minimum (helps frame rate but not lag/latency very much)
• Full screen vs windowed (no effect)

Also for reference here's some of the bugs I see when lag/latency get bad:

• Can't weave/animation cancel easily or even at all.
• Abilities actually begin to fire more slowly (for example Overload attacks every 1.3 seconds instead of every 1.0 second or less).
• Bar swaps take several seconds to occur.
• Abilities don't fire when you press the button, or take several button presses to fire.
• Mobs aren't interrupted by bash or spells that normally interrupt casting (takes more than one attempt to actually interrupt them).
• Mobs disappear entirely (you think Crematorial Guards are bad wait until you can't see them).
• Get hit with AoEs despite being outside their displayed area.
• AoEs show up and fire immediately with no time to actually get out of them.
• Mob attack animations not showing.
• Getting hit by multiple attacks all at once after a lag/latency spike (you can't do anything to avoid it, it just kills you).
• Can't fire overload light attacks (the character just sits there waving their arms and nothing happens).
• While overload light attacking my character suddenly stops and is surrounded by lightning. I think this is something to do with heavy overload attacks but I can't figure out why or how it happens.

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