Time Warner
Arcadia, California, US
All times.

It is extremely important for me to point out that I have two characters; one on Excalibur(NA) and one on Gungnir(JP) and this problem ONLY occurs on Excalibur whereas my gameplay is 100% (ONE HUNDRED PERCENT) smooth on Gungnir. There is definitely a link between SE's NA servers as well as our ISP. I do the same end game content on both characters and it is extremely noticeable when I switch over from beautiful smooth gameplay on Gungnir to the lag/freeze fest that is Excalibur. Recently something new has been happening as of yesterday (12/6/13) where everything will freeze until the dungeon or boss fight is over, but my chat will continue to work smoothly and I will be able to communicate with people in my FC in real time, but not in my party until the lag is gone.

As an example, I helped an FC member through The Praetorium and on the final boss I stayed completely frozen from about 90% of his HP until the cutscene started, letting me know he had been killed during the time I was lagged out. I didn't 90k and I was able to communicate to him through FC chat but not party.