Bug on chaos contagion dot lich

Basically something something lots of dot + dark effigy equals server freeze and then sometimes crash. Personally for me the crash had not happened even once yet until now. Normally I just freeze for a moment. This is still very bad because often the game would "continue" to play in the background and the enemies and I could cast and interact but like I wouldn't know what is happening and then it resumes and bang bang all enemies die from totem and suddenly very quickly my inputs would go through and play at like 3 times speed or something. With breach it spawns so many guys all so close together and its especially bad when used in tandem with the despair and the support gem decaying hex. Obviously this combo is very good for dps (another chaos dot on a target with negative chaos res is like very good in this build plus lets contagion carry the curse to new enemies like literally god send) except that this seems to be the main cause for the totem lagging.

As I said mostly it freezes the game which is very annoying but sometimes it can just crash. Hard to say exactly why it crashes I imagine the totem spews so many projectiles in such a small amount of time is the cause but alas I really don't know. It is quite annoying for my ssf character as I finally got the 5th Link socket for the totem and suddenly with poison gem and arcane tempo gem is when the issue started getting really really laggy. Before it was manageable and the lag moments were often 1-2 seconds MAX but now it just freezes really bad 10-15 or more. Tempo is really needed dps as the build has no real way of killing bosses expect for the totem so yeah plz fix so I can not crash and lose all events on a space.

That's a network issue. Please use WinMTR to track packet losses and such, maybe the problem is your ISP

How can you so confidently say. It happened only whilst I played the endgame on this character. It only ever occurs when I use the spells in tandem vs huge hordes of enemies. This is my 4th character reaching significantly into the end game and on no other occasion did this issue persist no matter the amount of enemies. To claim that the interaction between the combination of spells and my isp is very very confusing when you claim it so confidently. Regardless, an “isp is the issue” when I make certain x+y=z inputs in any game feels like a bug is behind it anyways. Like I play a ton of video games, I pay big bucks for internet and deal with very little packet loss situations. It seems far fetched to call THIS an isp problem when it is heavily recreate-able and super influenced by MY actions in game and not seemlingly random like all other packet related problem I’ve seen before. Doesn’t mean I am tech savvy or truly understand how all this shit works but it feels like it could be handled better coding wise regardless if I am the one struggling and getting lag like this. Like I don’t skimp out on either internet or my hardware. If I should have to troubleshoot such a problem from my situation I can’t imagine what some worse isp or hardware folk have to deal with. Just feels like this sort of thing should never have to be on the mind of “regular” players…

Mate i have over 12k hours on poe1 and a hundred on poe2. Believe me when i say is network related. Is like when you go to the doctor and u describe the symptons, it's rly not that hard to understand. Did you run WinMTR (as recomendded on technical support fixed posts)? if not, do it and post results or run through AI to diagnose network issues. And im asumming is on your ISP end since nobody else reported similar issues, so an in game bug is also discarded.

BTW im also running DE with a lot of projectiles and other than textures going lower in order to maintain frame rate i didnt have any problem. Try other support gems and if the problem persists then it is not gem related.

Hope u drop that attitude tho im just trying to help u.

Hf.

Thanks for your expertise. I am technically away over this weekend but alas when I get the chance I will try the fix you suggested. Just wanted to clear up something you said that others are not posting about the same bug because although few and far between some are.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3779292
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3766286
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3776161

Just a few examples of other people experiencing what it felt like I am trying to describe. Albeit I did I poor job of maybe singling out that it only happened once I finally use dark effigy with all these dots on different enemies. It does feel entirely like an over input=lag situation but like I said I really have no clue. Just wanted more traction for this as it is core dps for my build and quite annoying as I haven’t read or heard of any potiential fix’s for it until what you had sent me. Thanks I will let you know if I am able to solve it when I can.

@alezipp#0633, it's not a network issue.

I'm on PS5, all my characters are fine, except my lich. As soon as I start dropping 2 Effigy's, cast contagion and essence drain, the server instance is starting to have tough times.

Screen totally freezes, and not just for me, but my buddy as well, we don't even get to see "Game Paused" when this happends and occasionally get "Kicked for too many actions".

Eventually the instance crashes and our map is gone (as in portals gone). That to me, looks 100% like instance crash.