Shard pulls — save or spend during events? (Asia servers)

Coming back after a long break and trying to catch up. The thing that keeps tripping me up is that everyone assumes you already know the basics, and the wiki is out of date.

Would rather learn the right way now than build a bad habit.

Worth checking first: do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Had the exact same issue. region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

This is the bit people miss — temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, verify the files before anything else; it catches more problems than people expect.

Report back once you have tried it.

This is the bit people miss — nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

Depends on your setup, but broadly region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

That fixed it for me, at least.

I went through this last month. it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Same boat here. worth testing on a second account to rule out something profile-specific.

In my testing, do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Slightly different take — the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

That fixed it for me, at least.

Had the exact same issue. do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Same boat here. measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Adding to the above: give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

The usual fix here is check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

For what it is worth, keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Worth checking first: keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

I went through this last month. it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.