Titan Lag and Peak Hours

So, I've got mixed feelings about titan lag, but I had an experience today that gave me pause and I thought it would be worth putting out in the forums.

I was helping an FC member get her first titan kill w/ a pug she created at about 5:15 pm EST. Things were going as well as could be expected for new players -- we were making it past heart, and they were learning the rotation, which was good. Dodging was pretty okish.

Fast forward 45 minutes to 6:00 pm EST. Party had lost a guy and replaced, then upon re-entering instance dodging was nearly impossible. I was getting WotL pop at 50% cast timer, random landslide hits that shouldn't have even been close, etc. I thought maybe my ping was bad, but I checked and the local/ISP connection were all fine (running average 40ms to Google's 8.8.8.8 in Mountain View, and 50ms going to Level 3's 4.2.2.2 in Broomfield). Turns out everyone one else was getting the same kind of lag/delay and we eventually had to quit the instance and decide to run another time when latency isn't so bad.

TL;DR: It seems odd that this lag spike coincides with the start of east coast US peak hours... I wonder if server congestion may indeed be the cause of many player's problems with this particular, dodge-heavy instance, despite claims of camera zooming mishaps.

As a note, I don't customarily play much during peak, I'm usually on any time from early morning to mid/late afternoon depending on my schedule, so this is one of my first 'prime time' titan experiences.

Regardless of lag, I still think anticipation of abilities is going to serve you better than trying to judge off of a cast bar.

I will agree this needs to get sorted out one way or another though, whether it's adding another second of grace time between when WotL casts or actually fixing their internal network/working with outside ISPs to improve their routing.

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Originally Posted by Orophin

Regardless of lag, I still think anticipation of abilities is going to serve you better than trying to judge off of a cast bar.

I will agree this needs to get sorted out one way or another though, whether it's adding another second of grace time between when WotL casts or actually fixing their internal network/working with outside ISPs to improve their routing.

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Well, I've beat titan more times than I can count now, so I could do the fight in my sleep at this point... and anticipation was barely helping. Needless to say, the new players were getting clobbered before even making it past phase 2 at that point.

That said, the game shouldn't be based on the premise that players should have to memorize a rotation and guess where the ability might land next, simply because the servers can't handle congestion. That's just sad.

Welcome in my FF World...

I really hope they can fix this issue.