Up-Votes Needed Major Lag

Started at 9:15 PM EST, hitting all areas. US PS/PC

Major lag spike game wide at 8:18pm cst. Dropped in on Hydra. Hydra never appeared. Everyone in chat is typing "lag."

Half my raid was kicked during a lag today. Someone else in the LFG chat said that they were lagging while editing their armory.

This just happened twice again within 10 minutes of the 1st lag spike. This is becoming unplayable it occurred again for the 3rd time.

Same on Xbox. I thought it might be my internet at first until I checked here. I was leveling a new character in chinatown metropolis and doing quests .....it isnt just in new content. Major lag timing out and been booted because I lost connection to server a couple of times. Going to do something else. game is currently unplayable...or at least unenjoyable to try.

It's 12:43 AEST. For the past hour and a bit I've had issues - character 1 intermittently unable to warp; went to phase 1 of HoL and nothing there (switched phases and it was fine) and now new character caught in the Magic Shop, instance incomplete. I logged out of her and back in, and she was outside. Had to repeat, which was OK.

So far, so good, no issues since reset (not being more optimistic than that as a precaution).