Lag?

[Garet]

I've seen an increase in server lag and instability either that I experienced personally or would see mentioned often in shouts, party chat, etc. It's been a pretty consistent pattern. Could be some ISP stuff mixed in, too. These things almost never have just one cause. I just never found it out of the ordinary because I thought "Oh, they're mucking with something behind the scenes like we do". And things clear up not long after the updates.

Don't tend to see it on hotfixes, but you don't usually need to prep places in production like with a bigger update for a hotfix. You're fixing one or two small bugs instead of pushing out a major release.

This is my thoughts as well. Although I think most of the blame is on my ISP, I think the lag spikes these last 4 days can be some coding SE is doing within the game to slowly prep it for this major update