1 second delay with assist macro

[everettham]

I'll try my best to explain my problem. there seems to be a delay when i use my normal assist macro. "/assist focus" this macro. Is it normal for it too take about 1 second for them to target my target. Is there anyway I can fix this. I have no lag on my computer or problems with my ms. thank you your help would be greatly appreciated.

[Tim]

It is a bit under a second, but yes, that is the standard for server-based lag, has nothing to do with your client at all.

Sometimes a way around this is to do this:

/assist focus
/assist focus
/assist focus

A few times in your macro.

[Ualaa]

Essentially, when you switch a target...

It takes roughly twice your latency, before your alts/slaves know what the main has switched to.
1 second = 1000 milliseconds, so with a 500 latency (not horrendous, but not good) you'd experience 1 second delay on target change.

Unless the latency is really bad, or there's something wrong with the server or your system, once the target is set... you shouldn't have appreciable delays from pressing the key for whatever to having that ability fire off.

[Tim]

Ualaa is pretty spot on correct.

I've noticed it to be about 500ms for me.

So for example:

Client A (main guy) latency is 70ms. So that means I send a command to server (70ms) server gets it and processes it (who knows how long the server takes, maybe 200ms?), then the server sends it back to my A guy (70ms).

Then my B guy (and all my others) assist my A guy, which takes 70ms + 70ms for server to confirm/send back.

So 70+70+200+70+70 = 480ms.

Really has nothing to do with your multiboxing program, or even the WoW client itself. It more is your network speed and the amount of load your server is having. Sometimes during CRAZY AV BGs I notice it takes a little longer, but that is rare.

[everettham]

Sorry for the late replay but I never have latency worse than 60ms should i still be getting 500ms delays.
I tried multiboxing on a private server and had no delays whatsoever. Do you think reinstalling wow or deleteing my WTF folder might fix it?

[Tim]

The latency is server, not ping, so keep that in mind.

[everettham]

this is not a bug but is there a faster way for my slaves to follow me. cause I seem to be bugged right now where my slaves run at the exact same time I run well there following me. I would like to keep it this way so is there a way? never mind i found a thread about it

[Tim]

Just /follow is all you need

[SethLan]

try latfix, its a small program that fix lat in wow.

[Tim]

Is that the program that changes how the TCP windowing works in Windows? If so, I've actually heard some really good things about it. The only caveat is that you MUST have a stable internet connection. If your connection is even a tiny bit flakey, then you'll be SOL.