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AION 2 high ping and lag spikes on EU servers

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October 15, 2026

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Ping to the EU server swings from a normal ~30ms up to 90ms and back, repeatedly, instead of holding steady — unlike other online games on the same connection, which stay flat.

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EU players report AION 2 ping that swings between ~30ms and 90ms. One Romania-based player's report in the AION 2 Discord got six agreeing reactions and suggests a routing problem on the path to the EU server rather than an overloaded server. Friends were split roughly 50/50 between stable and spiking, which fits only some ISP routes being affected.

NC's notices say nothing about routing or ping. The only workarounds posted were VPN or booster tools, which we don't recommend. For outages, see the AION 2 server status page.

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01
No confirmed local fix for the EU routing issue
Nothing confirmed to fix this on your end — it looks like a routing issue outside the game itself, not something a local network change resolves. The only workarounds players posted were VPN or ping-booster tools, which we don't recommend.
Unconfirmed
02
NC's outage, compensation, known-issues and patch notices don't mention ping
None of these NC posts mention routing, ping or latency. The 8 October EU outage notice lists 21 EU servers hit by "a cloud service outage" and later says "The issue has been resolved." The 8 October compensation notice lists the items sent to those servers. The 9 October known-issues list has one latency line, for players logged into the server Nezekan, filed as resolved. The 14 October patch notes have no network or latency fix; the closest line is about player positions resetting when reconnecting during the Shugo Festival.
Confirmed
03
Measure your own latency in Windows Resource Monitor (player method)
NC doesn't document a ping display that we could find; the game shows a coloured connection bar. Two players explained how to read the latency yourself: press Ctrl + Shift + Esc, open Performance, then Open Resource Monitor (or press Windows + R and run resmon), go to the Network tab, tick AION2.exe, and read the Latency (ms) column under TCP Connections. See the Steam threads Server ping (14 October) and How do you check ping? (7 October). One poster also suggested a third-party damage-meter add-on with a ping display; replies disputed whether it is allowed, so we don't recommend it.
Reported
04
Post-14 October patch ping reports: mostly NZ and SEA, at least one EU player
After the 14 October patch, players in New Zealand (thread: "I had totally fine playable green ping before todays update, now it is totally laggy and always red ping") and Southeast Asia (thread) reported worse ping, and a third poster wrote that servers for "asia, aus/nz" were "entirely red bars since update" (thread). One poster in the New Zealand thread wrote "I'm having the same issues as them and I'm EU"; another EU poster said they felt no impact. A Philippines player said theirs hadn't changed. NC hasn't commented, and this is separate from the EU spikes above.
Unconfirmed

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