Mobs Ghosting

[Tasslehoff]

Is anyone noticing mobs ghosting a considerable amount more than they did recently? It used to be that I'd run up to a mob in an outdoor zone and only very rarely it wouldn't actually be where I thought it was. But in the last couple days, it seems like this occurs many times more now (nearly half the time it feels like).

Is anyone else experiencing this? It goes like this:

See mob
Run close to it
Cast spell to tag it
Casting interrupted because mob is out of range

Eventually the mob will disappear (teleport to its actual location, I assume)

[jaybone]

GG bards.

[Tasslehoff]

Also, I only notice it on mobs standing still. Mobs that are pathing tend to be where they're shown. But mobs standing still aren't actually there half the time lately in SK.

[Kazi]

Bats in Qeynos Hills are especially awful ghosters

[Clark]

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Bats in Qeynos Hills are especially awful ghosters

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[Rail]

It has to do with limiting information from server to client. Our clients get the initial Mobs spawned, but it takes some time for the client to receive updated info as to where the mob actually is... It seems to load in sections of zone at a time. So if you run around to the section the mob is in, the client will update.

Worst in big zones because they mobs wander so far away from spawn points. Our client sees them at spawn, but hasn't updated the other side of the zone with its location.
This seems to be a problem when trying to fix the desync issue which was fixed by limiting client info.

[Marglar]

I was seeing a ton of this in NK (wisps/beetles) and occasionally in everfrost (mammoths).

[Yinikren]

About half the mobs in Skyfire were doing this to me earlier. Without fail, if it was pathing, I could pull it. If it was static, it was really somewhere across the zone.

[mattkwi]

Also happening in Sro, Oasis, EC, among others. This is very noticeable since the patch along with the zone crashes.

[NextGenesis88]

Happening to me as well in WW, OT and just about everywhere I believe where previously I had none of this ever happen. I frequently see higher ping (up to double), but I think it's still considered very good (80-88 instead of 34-44).