Been playing gw2 since 2016, same lag issue. Every time, I tried to play group contents like wvw, meta events, world boss etc, the ping will spike thru the roof, 4000 pings is too much. Although throughout the year that I played, occasionally, there would be a few days or weeks with no lag issues at all. Then it continued on lagging again. I try every fixes everyone suggest, even lowering my video setting to only show the least amount of players module around me and turning off names, shadow, reflection and less effects. Fixes like adding some line at the end of shortcut in properties., checking with my ISP, ping both sides etc The video setting fixes only work in increasing fps and when there is the least amount of player like one or two around, once there's more than 10 then it started to spike 400, 600, 1000 even 4000. I just can't enjoy any group contents anymore. I may sound like whining but I'm not. I've spent tons on the gems store. Crafted ascended gears for all my 13 toons, crafted 5 legendary weapons. I know that doesn't sound much like others had done in game. But my point is I really enjoy gw2 very much, otherwise I wouldn't have stuck around till this day. I played the game almost every day for all these years. Lately, I just had enough with the crazy lag spike, at this point, I'm getting less and less motivated to play anymore. Also I've been tracking this forum since day 1 that I experienced the huge lag, never seen any respond from anet anymore. As if Anet even care or look at this thread anymore.