Yeah general jank / lag is fairly common in ESO PvP and has been for years.

• Sometimes when you weapon swap there is a weirdly long delay, which if you're mid fight can really screw you over as you're pressing buttons assuming certain skills will be going off, when instead you're using completely different skills because the of the bar swap delay.
• Recently I've noticed issues with CC break. With CC break not triggering for a long delay after being CC'd, despite immediately pressing it. Or CC breaking, and then getting CC'd again very soon after, even when you should be immune.
• Roll dodge so much of the time. The enemy player either hasn't started their roll dodge on my client, but it still tells me they dodged my skill, or the enemy player has already finished their roll dodge on my client, but the game still tells me they dodged.

Mashille wrote: »

Yeah general jank / lag is fairly common in ESO PvP and has been for years.

• Sometimes when you weapon swap there is a weirdly long delay, which if you're mid fight can really screw you over as you're pressing buttons assuming certain skills will be going off, when instead you're using completely different skills because the of the bar swap delay.
• Recently I've noticed issues with CC break. With CC break not triggering for a long delay after being CC'd, despite immediately pressing it
• Roll dodge so much of the time. The enemy player either hasn't started their roll dodge on my client, but it still tells me they dodged my skill, or the enemy player has already finished their roll dodge on my client, but the game still tells me they dodged.

love the roll dodge thing, especially when the player roll dodges and game still consumes my molten whip stacks

I do not PvP but this behavior is not limited to PvP. This happens in Overland and dungeons, too. I was unable to play at all yesterday (June 28, 2026 Sunday) as all keyboard inputs by me failed to register in the game a few seconds after initial login.

I do hope that the maintenance and update that is happening while I write this fixes these problems. But I won't hold my breath.

Horace-Wimp wrote: »

I do not PvP but this behavior is not limited to PvP. This happens in Overland and dungeons, too. I was unable to play at all yesterday (June 28, 2026 Sunday) as all keyboard inputs by me failed to register in the game a few seconds after initial login.

I do hope that the maintenance and update that is happening while I write this fixes these problems. But I won't hold my breath.

Yep. If I received a dime from ZOS for every time I press a skill button and never fires in pve with my character just standing there doing nothing, I'd make a dent on the balance sheet. Happens in both circumstances but in PvP, happens more often for sure. Could be my ping that sits around 190-230ms most of the times but it's also been like this when I was in the US. New anim reworks kind of make the issue worse at times.

Like, I cannot weave and perform skills as werewolf fluidly at times as one of the attacks will never go off and break my char.

It is true that GW2 has better performance than ESO. The main difference here is that ESO has much better pace than other games. For example in GW2 you can register a skill every 1 sec. In ESO GCD is also 1 sec but you can register stuff like block, sprint or some proc sets etc in shorter intervals, like 0.1 - 0.3 sec. There are also skills that work similar to that fashion (like Bound Armaments with 0.3 sec). And also movement speed is really crazy in ESO. That is probably having an extra load on the servers, as well, since the positions of the players should be communicated in shorter intervals, as they are changing so rapidly.

Breaking free and barswap are the most annoying things and the delay when your health ist still at 50% and you're suddenly dead.

Atm it's really bad.

The problem is until it is tolerated by players, it does not worth to change anything, just loss of money, and many players will not even feel the difference, so why to be bothered? Many games updated server side to the best (or sometimes worse like CS2), but ESO neve announced these changes. They updated client side multiple times in last updates, probably because they finally hired senior FX developer as vacancy disappeared. They prefer to make new things like Vengeance or small scale Cyro from what they have now than update server side and calculation logic because it would only require rearranging existing stuff and not developing new.

I love this game, but as many others have said this is not limited to pvp. ESO struggles intensely and the engine it runs on feels a generation behind other MMOs. It's still a ton of fun to play and I've sunk a lot of time and money into it over the years, but I also play other MMOs of similar age and....man...the difference is stark

This issue affects everywhere in the game, not just PvP. Essentially, what happens is whenever you do an input, it sends it to the server to get queued. When the server starts receiving too many inputs from you, it will basically throttle you and start dropping those inputs. In other words, the game is punishing you for having high APM. This is just a rough explanation of it. It was briefly talked about on stream when ZOS was showing the data from the first vengeance test. This game has a lot of heavy calculations, and all of it done server side to prevent cheating which was pretty rampant in the early years of the game (It was pretty bad, you had people flying and spamming meteor every GCD). I personally don't think the performance issues have anything to do with the engine. Maybe it could to a degree, but I think the real problem is the servers simply can't handle all the complex calculations at once, so they have to rate limit your inputs, and performance gets terrible when a lot is happening at once. I don't know if the hardware used for the servers is the best that is available, but if it's not, I'd hope that a huge upgrade is in order when cross play comes because I don't think the current servers will be able to handle it.

Yep, ran Vet Lucent Citadel yesterday and actually stopped using any skills. Here we are in one very tough fight because it was mostly a PUG run and the skills started messing up, at one time the skills were firing off like 4-5 seconds later then just stopped working. Like I said, I had to stop using them all together and just move around to avoid dying then tried the skills again to see if they would work.