Thread of Ultimate Stupidity - Page 1854

Pottz007 · 09/17/11, 1:20 AM

Originally Posted by Bullshot

I'm having a "constant lag and then disconnect" issue since the 10th of September and I'm hoping someone here may have an idea what might be wrong. I've already made a thread on the Blizzard Tech Support forum and there are a lot of other players who are experiencing the same issue, but none of the ideas posted in those threads has helped ("Lagging" forever - Forums - World of Warcraft and Constant Disconnections. - Forums - World of Warcraft).

What happens is that once I log in, I can stay without lag for around 5-10 seconds on most occasions and 60 seconds very rarely. After that, every other player starts "moonwalking" and patrolling NPCs stop dead in their tracks. My pet doesn't move with me and none of my actions register. After a while, I'll get disconnected. Sometimes this happens immediately upon logging in and everyone's name appears as "Unknown". I've gone through all the stickies on the Tech Support forum and the common solutions to the "Unknown Entities and Lag" problem, but nothing has helped.

Here's a list of the options I've explored to try and fix this:
- Remove WTF, Cache, Interface and Data\Cache folders and log in.
- Update all drivers, including network card, video card, audio card.
- Toggle the Optimize Network for Speed option in WoW.
- Run the Repair tool but that only checks 53MB of data and reports that there were no problems found. When I made a post about it on the Blizzard Tech Support forum, a Blizzard representative said that that's working as intended and the Repair tool only checks some critical data now and the Launcher has a repair-on-demand feature that fixes any data corruption. The Launcher didn't report any problems with the installation.
- Change the Network Card settings as per this article (Blizzard Support) and disable all Checksum Offloading, Priority & VLAN, Large Send Offload, Receive Side Scaling. Also disabled the Power Management options for the network card.
- Make sure all ports are forwarded in the router/modem and make sure that a static internal IP has been created.
- Check for malware using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, spyware with Windows Defender, virii with ESET NOD32.
- Reduce the MTU to 1400.
- Open Command Prompt in Administrator Mode and do the following changes:
1. Disable Receive Side Scaling State by typing netsh int tcp set global rss=disabled
2. Disable Compound TCP by typing netsh int tcp set global congestionprovider=none
3. Disable ECN by typing netsh int tcp set global ecncapability=disabled
- Re-download the entire client from scratch on a different drive.
- Format C:\ and re-install Windows.

None of these options have helped and I'm at a loss to figure out what the problem might be. I normally use the Lowerping service as well and initially thought it might be related to that, but this problem occurs regardless of whether I connect to the game using Lowerping or not. I even uninstalled Lowerping from the system but that didn't help either. Any ideas about a possible solution, no matter how "out there" it might seem? This lag and disconnect only happens with WoW and since I've re-formatted and re-installed everything, I'm at a loss on what could be wrong.

EDIT: After all the options that I tried, today's server maintenance fixed this problem. So guess it was something on the server-side related to the communication between server and client.

Usually lag has nothing to do with bad connection but all to do with pockets. I'm not an expert on this but the way it works is that everything you download receives data pockets at a time, but the problem with gaming is that all the information that your computer requires to process what's happening right now must arrive at the same time. So more lag like the one you describe is cause because of the pockets are arriving at different time due to certain pockets are taken up for other download or task.

To fix this you can change the priority of your pockets to deal with WoW first but I forgot how to do that you can google and find out... also keep in mind that sometime it may not be your fault.

Medieve · 09/17/11, 2:25 AM

So I was a bit drunk and not tired, so looking for something to do, I did a few runs with this, and here's what I came up with.

Sustained with no AoW/DP, I balance out at 3281 DPS. That's as far as I get before massive RNG impacts my testing.

I've only averaged 10 tests of each at 10 mil damage, but here's my results;

With AoW Exo/no DP- 5733 DPS (low 4656/high 7329)

With DP/no Exo - 5698 DPS (low 4721/high 6902)

With combined - 7957 DPS (low 5286/high 8844)

Went with the standard priority order from the OP, with the iLevel 4 vendor 2h Bastard Sword and rest nekkid (I believe 3-8 damage, 3.00 speed). Hit the normal training dummy, as I didn't want dodges/parries to interfere with my results. Only buff was SoT w/glyph. Didn't use any CD's, just trying to get your baseline.

When I ran my sim on the same info, I came up with very, very different numbers. I'm inclined to think that this method of testing is either not going to give us the results we're looking for, or going to prove that our sims are worthless. Either way, I leave to smarter people than me to figure out exactly which.

@Exemplar; I figured out what I did wrong with my spreadsheet. I wasn't calculating the 4p correctly, which skewed haste higher than it should be. Once I corrected it, I came up with roughly the same values as you did, Mastery>haste>crit, while using Str as baseline at 1, .53, .48, .37 respectively. Hopefully that resolves any confusion from my prior post about any haste build. Those values are in a vacuum, however, which completely agrees with your original statements, that as one increases, the others increase in relative value quicker than the "stacked" stat.

Draniia · 09/17/11, 4:09 AM

@Ashunera, is that last dps report with reg or heroic VPLC? I run with a group that doesn't need any more of them and i'm wondering if I should grab the reg one or if only the heroic one is worth it.

Mjölner · 09/17/11, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by Athkore

Running with insane hit levels is fine, though crit always goes over crit after you've achieved 8% hit.

Doesn't really matter whichever you play unless you get your hands on Sufuras, you can sim your current available setups and see what works best, though the difference should be minimal.

It's not an upgrade.

Thanks for the reply, it was mostly what I was thinking, just needed someone to say it out loud.

Fyrn0815 · 09/17/11, 3:01 PM

That's not what I've asked for ^^

Brakchall · 09/17/11, 3:10 PM

Then what do you ask for ? The first two statements are raw DPE and DPR comparisons. The other statements are mere logical consequences: no maths involved, only logic. If you want me to expand on a given point, please tell me which one.

Medastase · 09/17/11, 4:43 PM

Originally Posted by haagiboy

So... Havent played for 3 years, just dinged 85. Got all the glyphs and shitty gear. What is best in slot before I go raiding for serious?

Should I just farm instances til I get good enough gear for heroics, and then farm them till I can start raid? What is the first raid I should aim for?

Make a maximum of normal/heroix instances, make you 7 hero per week (you can make them the same day) to gain your max 980 VP and also up your justice points.

Once you have enouh you should start by buying 359 gear with your justice points and 378 with your valor. In addiotion you will pick lot of 346 in heroic. Once you have a mix of 346 + some 359 and few 378 you can start to go to any normal raid (for firelands it will depend on your team ^^)

At a first start...maxmimize your int (mean your stuff ilevel) ^^

Angryyankee · 09/17/11, 7:37 PM

Originally Posted by Naforce

Haste is better until 2589, and in most cases also 2681, at this point immolate gains an extra tick during heroism. After that, it's value drops rapidly until 4505 where immolate gets another tick during hero or 4951, where it gets it permanently. Try to get around 2600-2700 haste and use the plot function in simcraft, it'll be very clear where haste is a bigger dps gain and when it isn't,

My question is, is it worth reforging and regemming into haste where I can reforge crit and gem intellect? I am currently sitting at 992 haste (7.75%). Dark intent will push me over the first haste soft cap giving me one extra tick on both immolate and corruption. I am sitting at 18.21% crit and 8265 spell damage with fel armor on and no buffs/food/flasks. I feel like I would be more of a DPS loss to stack haste until I hit your suggested 2600.

Hald · 09/17/11, 8:41 PM

Has anyone looked into the value of 372 2T11 vs 378 4T12?

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Malvenue · 09/18/11, 11:26 AM

Still trying to find if 4pT11 still rates over 4pT12. There doesn't seem to be any consensus on this that I can find.

BoJlJloC · 09/18/11, 5:13 PM

Tested yesterday and today build with 1/2 manafeed and 1/2 in banes in raid at 2635 haste:
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
In 386 gear there is no need in second manafeed talent.

krx · 09/19/11, 1:05 AM

Originally Posted by sp00n

That's my custom updated version of the old Demon addon.
It's not publically available yet, but your post reminded me that I actually wanted to release it.
Probably gonna do so soon, just check my WoWInterface page from time to time.

amazing, thank you so mutch! can't wait to get it :-)

Ryethe · 09/19/11, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by Gromthak

So I've recently acquired EoP and I've been trying to find a way to make casting lavaburst less painful and I've found that wedging Lava Burst between mw4 and mw2 gives a slight boost in dps (about 68 with the BiS config, slightly more with my own gear). Now I'm wondering if that combination was just overlooked or if there is something I've missed? It definitely makes it less of a strain for me but I'm not sure if it actually provides more dps.

Sounds like something that was overlooked.

Provide a config file and sim output so we can confirm.