@"Ayrilana.1396"cba going back through posts and vods from twitch where developers talked about itEDIT: for future reference, heres one post from archive of the ORIGINAL forum: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Official-state-of-skill-lag-and-server-optimizations/page/2#post3141560 its really simple: im on spawn top of the map, 50v50 is happening in the bottom of the map - im nowhere in range to see them so they have 0 impact on my game client, no data about the battle should be getting to me. i try casting skills, theyre not going off or have big delays...BECAUSE THE SERVER CANT HANDLE ALL THE STUFF THATS HAPPENING IN THE MAP INSTANCE, as soon as battle is done, skills work perfectly... they reduced the map cap to make the battles easier to handle, didnt fix the problemhttps://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/109755/wvw-performance-and-map-cap-testing/p1 the only reasons you dont personally experience lags: youre not on full map with people that press more than autoattack, or youre the one not pressing anything else but autoattack so you dont notice skills not working...