i was just coming here to post about this:
@Juji
ever since the slayer enchant event ended, the server has been extremely laggy and random dc's have been increasing as well as melee lag. this is also when the neutral zone adena nerf was implemented that you had no idea existed.
some things ive personally seen:
rubberbanding / black screen porting / pets resetting locations - all while simply moving my character. this happens right after maintenance in isle of souls when no one is there and server is light...
toi and dim toi have random "disconnected from server". oddly, i never had this issue before the maintenance i reference above. in fact, the dc's have been so good, the last 2 weeks I have been disconnected right at 4am thursday morning wiping my party to lay dead for an hour before dc'ing with 10-20 mins left. this is literally twice in a row this exact same thing happened
melee lag is back. skill - swing daggers - skill skill - swing daggers. this used to be fixed
load game client, see splash screen, nothing loads, you are back to launcher and start game (this happens 3-4 times in a row sometimes now)
i dont know wtf is going on, but something isnt right. the sheer silence about all of this since that maintenance is unfortunate.
edit: i am in the usa, i have ping in the 40ms range. nothing else is disconnecting in my house. i have 2 laptops, its happening on both. no other game or service i use lags or behaves like this.
in fact, L2 didnt behave like this until a few weeks ago...