Random latency spikes and disconnects - Problem persists for over a year

i have no idea why you got so many nonsense answers, its a known issue, especially on the european servers

whenever there is a high load on the servers, that is peak playtime, evening hours on weekdays, basically all day on weekends/holydays, especially early in the league, they are running out of server capacity and activate the backup potato servers, so you got a random chance of like 1:10 or so for your new instance to be created on a potato server where its likely to be unplayable...

sometimes you can fix it by leaving and re-entering the zone, so its not actually the server but a switch inside the server cluster that was struggling and you got your connection rerouted, but very often it is the server itself and all you can do is leave and create a new instance...
also sometimes your zone starts okay but the server starts dying halfway through...

during campaign creating a new instance is just annoying, in maps it hurts, in lab or if you opened an expensive boss fight or something its really painful...

i have screenshots from 4.5 years ago with 120k ms latency (connection loss for 2 minutes that is) and the damn server eventually recovered from that, but of course those lag spikes kill all the fun...

nothing has been done since, not even a statement acknowledging that they are aware of the issue, its just ignored forever...
but when poe2 first launched over a year ago they said they got some extra server capacity for that, and lo and behold, first couple of weeks there were no issues, but eventually that fell off, now both games are equally suffering from it...

all you can do is deal with it, try the lesser used gateways, try not to play during peak traffic if you can, or if you cant avoid it at least dont do anything like lab running during that time...
it reliably gets better the longer a league runs as player numbers drop off...

Thanks for reply.

That is pretty much what i was thinking is happening. But i did not have problems like these years back so i was thinking it could be something else.

It is not really an option to just wait for people to log off. During campaign it is fine but as you said, during maps and when you start juicing you just straight up loose your investment.

Well, i dont know how can this still be a problem when it has really easy solution. Just upgrade servers. So, another league i will suffer from something that i cant influence.

I am with you. Since around 3.26, I have got 30ms (usual ping) and then every 5-10 seconds I am hit with huge spikes to 100-400 ping. Then it goes back down to the normal 30ms area and repeats. I have tried everything on my end. It is frustrating there is a never an answer and feelsbadman because this is my favorite game and I just want to blow up some mobs. Only game that has a problem is this one. My ping/connection on normal browsing and any other game I play is perfectly fine. I have given up hope at this point. I've tried Exitlag/VPN's and nothing has helped. I submit.