BloodMagicLord wrote: »

This is starting to get so frustrating.
I lead a trials guild, we are trying to progress a few things at the moment, mostly focused on vAS, moving into +2.
Ever since the performance "improvements" with the Harrowstorm patch, we have noticed a few issues, at first it was just fairly minor stuff, a few people sometimes experiencing skill delays and whatnot, and honestly at that time I just put it down to client side issues, connection, etc.

But the last week or so - boy, oh boy, where do I begin?
So I suppose someone got the bright idea of doing the Anniversary event, a Skyrim themed prologue quest AND a free to play event all at the same time, during a time when most countries are in some level of lockdown and player counts are naturally inflated as a result. And the effect on our raids has been diabolical.

The other Sunday, we tried to do vHoF. We're not a super OP guild, but usually when we do vHoF we do hardmode, and it's not a big deal, maybe two or three wipes thoughout the trial. So we went there on that day, and pretty much everyone, myself included, had performance issues the likes of which I have never before seen in raiding. I also play PvP and the lag we were getting was pretty much on par with what you get in Cyrodiil during an AP event when you're surrounded by huge ball groups. At least in PvP zerg still meets zerg, and someone wins. If this happens in a trial, you lose every time.
It kicked in really badly after second boss, to the point where two thirds of the people in the team couldn't cast most of their skills. AOEs just wouldn't work, adds couldn't be killed because instead of running to the tanks who taunted them, they ran around in circles for ages on the spot, as there was apparently too much lag for their pathfinding to work. So we were unable to pass the trial's easiest boss, and we called off the raid because it was basically impossible to play.

Next raid was the day after, last Monday. Servers didn't work, only 2 people could log in.

Next raid was Thursday. We did vAS. It worked better than the vHoF raid, but again progress was seriously limited by lag throughout the team. I personally was experiencing a delay of 0.5-1 second on everything I tried to do, others were reporting similar.

And lastly, we did a raid yesterday. Went to vMoL first. Once again, skill delay, or skills not working at all. Adds running around in circles. I maintank and the lunar bastion buff on Rakkhat was actually lagging out too, failing to apply to me quickly enough so I die in one shot to Rakkhat's swipe.

This is becoming a pretty big issue for us now. I'm trying to manage a small but vibrant community and have it so there's fun stuff for us to do on raid days, but the dire performance of the game is now leading many members who were previously ever-present in the group to say things like "I don't know if I'm going to continue doing this", "It's so frustrating when you just can't get anything done in the trials and it's not your fault".
Ultimately there is nothing I can do about this other than hope ZOS decides to take quick and decisive action, and I'm sure there are others in my position as well. I've been playing ESO since 2015, raiding since 2017, and I've never seen anything quite like this. The lack of action or even communication from ZOS reflects very poorly on them.
This game and community has been a big part of my life over the last few years and I've met many great people, even resulting in some meetups and irl friendships. I know there are plenty of others who feel the same way, but in spite of however loyal players might be, you are going to lose some serious support with this apparent disregard for your players, both new and loyal.

Honestly I don't expect this post to be taken any notice of, but I felt that I should at least put it here, even though I'm probably shouting into an empty abyss.