It's already too late. Campaigns were empty last night on NA except GH, PvP guilds are just playing other games till the test us over.

The only thing left in cyrodiil at the moment is stacked up ball groups of pugs healing each other and 5 second ability delay.

Oh sure they can end the tests, but please keep procs out of Cyro anyway, its a so much better experience to actually win because of skill again. Which many people share with me btw, the campaigns are even fuller (which should lead to more lag) than they regulary are, no other test could claim that, still the performance hasn't become worse. As long as you keep out of primetime the improvement is massive. Another factor is that they reenabled the Crosshealing beyond groups, which had a small but noteable influence in the past tests, which is why it got disabled till now.

I seriously don't get where people are coming from who claim PvP guilds would have stopped, while they actually came back just for this 3 weeks of testing. The only way I can explain that is, that you are calling Proccarry groups PvP guilds instead of calling the actual skilled PvP guilds such. There are many longtime players that returned after the PvP became enjoyable again, if the Procguilds can't handle that, the issue is that they never learned how to play real PvP, and don't deserve to be called PvP Guilds at all, since all they did was stacking Proc on Proc.

Its unplayable right now, at least in gray host. For the second night in a row, I had to leave the campaign since abilities were taking 10-15 secs to cast if at all. To add to my pain, I had 4 stuck in combat bugs in 30 min requiring me to shutdown and re-start the game.

On the flip side, I had 20 AD zerglings chasing me around for 5 min unable to kill me while in my squishy bow build, so I know the lag is affecting them as well.

I rarely had performance issues prior to the test.

...and why did they turn group healing back on? Seems to invalidate the quality of testing.

relentless_turnip wrote: »

They shouldn't have switched non group healing back on until they had at least tested them together. How can we possibly notice a difference if potentially switching back on non group healing result in a net gain of server calculations.

I fail to see how folks can take the information that "removing cross healing had no impact on server performance on way or the other" and suddenly think that turning it back on while removing OTHER server-side calculations is somehow going to magically make cross healing have a negative impact on performance.

They tried removing it, they found nothing of value. Now we're seeing what Cyrodiil, pre-cross-healing-removal, would be like without proc sets.

Also no offense, but I don't trust most of the folks on here crying that performance is so much worse. The only explanation I can think of is that they're running some additional metrics gatherings and that's having an impact, rather than their ACTUAL change of removing proc sets. It has to be fewer server-side calculations. Given the wide range of sets that count as "proc" sets, I would venture a guess that anyone with a clue about how to PVP was running at LEAST one such set, which should mean there are DRASTICALLY fewer calculations going on.

I've generally seen an improvement in performance, though it still tanks around faction stacks. Not as bad as before the no-proc-sets test, but noticeable. Maybe spread out on the map instead of running with 100 other folks from your faction.