EU server spikes are back - Nov 7

Hi folks,

0.3.0 start was working fine, and given large player count even good.

But here we go again, MASSIVE lag spikes from EU servers (tried 4 different in last 2 hours)

league for Poe2 is over, yes, still trying to have fun levelling alt-characters
Performance on Act-4 ship is notably worse, and lag spikes in Kingsmarch.

US server = 380 ping
EU server = 33.000 ping lag spikes, only a moving picture after 40seconds
massive jumps

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High-End PC, CPU 4ms reaction time and GPU 5ms
Elden ring or Witcher 3 works on high-end setting smootly though.
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Loading screen Hideout = ~4seconds **
Loading screen Act-4 Kingsmarch = not loading or 3minutes or not moveable character


** endgame char, in between complete lag spike and connection issues, starting with today**


Please GGG, for 0.4 consider server capacity.
Greetings.
Last bumped on Nov 8, 2025, 12:57:29 PM
Its not just in PoE 2 either in PoE 1 the game has lag spikes aswell im currently stuck in a hive event with over 50000 ping for no reason what so ever.

EU Servers desperatly need an upgrade.
I can tell , Sofia to Frankfurt and Milan servers are complete bust. Can't enough data to control others but these 2 is really high-end bad quality connections. Also Frankfurt1709 suck.
I never had problems with Frankfurt, except when playing from a different area with shitty internet.

However, a friend of mine recently had issues like this but this was due to a busted instance. When he opened a new instance, all the lag spikes were gone. Maybe you should try that after you made sure that it's not your own network/ISP that causes this...
+1 EU Servers have had consistent issues since the launch of early access
ok, but for me it's like most instances, I have to "fish" ctrl+click over and over to get one that doesn't lag. doesn't make sense, it's only this game.
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C4Guy#0918 wrote:
I never had problems with Frankfurt, except when playing from a different area with shitty internet.

However, a friend of mine recently had issues like this but this was due to a busted instance. When he opened a new instance, all the lag spikes were gone. Maybe you should try that after you made sure that it's not your own network/ISP that causes this...


Thanks for the input.
The lag spikes were rare on first 2 month on the league for me, now they are back. Rare meaning every second play session. With 3characters >lvl94 I can tell the difference.

40% of the time, an instance refresh helps
But in cities, this is not possible.
2hours later the lags are gone. server + channel related

It depends on 'when' you log in and which server + channel you getting assigned.

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