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Warden Ice Tank. Game gets very choppy and eventually lag

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kimhwee
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Hi players and ESO team,


I think I met a technical problem that I cannot find a solution. Hopefully someone can teach me how to fix it.

So I tried playing the following Warden Ice tank and love it! Tanky and dps in 1.
https://xynodegaming.com/natures-bounty/
I am using either
1) Leeching + Azureblight + Blackrose prison ice (front bar) + Vateshran ice staff (backbar)
2) Leeching + Azureblight + Grothdarr + + Leeching ice staff (front bar) + Vateshran ice staff (backbar)

Whenever I tried to cast Ice Elemental Blockade or impulse, my game gets very choppy and lag will come eventually. I will not get dced out but gets very annoying.
FPS drop to 30+ when on average my FPS is 60+. Ping is typically 200+ and will become 300+...
I had tried many other builds and this is the only build that will cause such a problem.
Any ideas to fix it or point me to a direction?

Thanks in advance!

Please dont tell me to buy new computer... at least....
  • Wolfpaw
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    I stopped using Ice staff due to a noticeable drop in performance on PS since the ice staff update.

    It's across all platforms, just another item on a long list.
    Edited by Wolfpaw on May 5, 2021 4:55AM
  • ESO_Nightingale
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    Wolfpaw wrote: »
    I stopped using Ice staff due to a noticeable drop in performance on PS since the ice staff update.

    It's across all platforms, just another item on a long list.

    i wish unstable wall had another effect and normal cost instead. wouldn't fix the performance issues for tanks using blockade though.
    PvE Frost Warden Main and teacher. Come Join the ESO Frost Discord to discuss everything frost!: https://discord.gg/5PT3rQX
  • josiahva
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    I use unstable wall myself...haven't noticed any performance issues with it. Is this a morph-specific issue?
  • zvavi
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    josiahva wrote: »
    I use unstable wall myself...haven't noticed any performance issues with it. Is this a morph-specific issue?

    nope.
  • Moonsorrow
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    kimhwee wrote: »
    Hi players and ESO team,


    I think I met a technical problem that I cannot find a solution. Hopefully someone can teach me how to fix it.

    So I tried playing the following Warden Ice tank and love it! Tanky and dps in 1.
    https://xynodegaming.com/natures-bounty/
    I am using either
    1) Leeching + Azureblight + Blackrose prison ice (front bar) + Vateshran ice staff (backbar)
    2) Leeching + Azureblight + Grothdarr + + Leeching ice staff (front bar) + Vateshran ice staff (backbar)

    Whenever I tried to cast Ice Elemental Blockade or impulse, my game gets very choppy and lag will come eventually. I will not get dced out but gets very annoying.
    FPS drop to 30+ when on average my FPS is 60+. Ping is typically 200+ and will become 300+...
    I had tried many other builds and this is the only build that will cause such a problem.
    Any ideas to fix it or point me to a direction?

    Thanks in advance!

    Please dont tell me to buy new computer... at least....

    It is Azureblight causing the performance issue, or making it a lot worse on some setups.

    Why? No idea, but did test.

    Most likely something that when it starts to count the Azureblight stacks from a big DoT areas, it starts to lag. Did not find any graphic setting or any other that would have helped on it.

    Try removing only the 5th part of your Azureblight set and replace it with a random 1p and test yourself, it was noticeable how the lag was gone.

    It does not cause lag to other group members tho, only to the user, was tested by a group member using Azureblight also and she did get lag, and when switched another set instead performance went back to normal.

    I know it does not do that to everyone, but did lag for both of us so try if it is the one causing issues for you also?
  • FriedEggSandwich
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    I noticed something similar a couple of times while levelling up an ice tank warden recently, I couldn't work out what triggered it though. I was only wearing Torugs and Fortified Brass, but I was using unstable wall and impulse. The thing is, the exact same thing happened to me yesterday while questing in Vvardenfell on my pvp sorc. He's all single target apart from streak and boundless storm, and wears magnus, spinners and malacath. It was identical to what I experienced with my warden; fps drops to 25-30, down from 120fps, with very noticeable stuttering. No idea what could have caused it. Leaving the area fixed it.

    Edited by FriedEggSandwich on May 5, 2021 12:14PM
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  • Coatmagic
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    The warden spells have always lagged things out. The new ice staff abilities/graphics have only added to this lag.

    Until we have the option to turn off these abominable things, the game is going be a laggy mess for many.

    Fun to watch them do everything BUT giving us this option.

    The process to implement this option must be really deep as I see them continually doing every other thing
    (and killing parts of the game in the process) but whatever.

    *continues eating popcorn
  • Knockmaker
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    Try playing (stam)necro. Clunky, slow, and blastbones is particularly a nightmare. Shame, cos everything rotates around BB.
    Edited by Knockmaker on May 5, 2021 4:28PM
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