Most hate them but usually people at some point do accept that server merges are necessary to establish a big enough community and keep the game fun this way. In the case of AoC on the EU servers that these days seem to fail terribly though. Especially on the EU Crom server the lag the past days (and especially today) even in the tiny minigame maps have been so extreme that it was unplayable with it getting worse and worse since the polish and russian servers were merged to the european servers.

After checking with both my own group and afterwars also with some enemies it can completely ruled out to be an individual issue. Any attempts of the devs to finally fix their service so far seems to fail "we can't locate any lag issues". As much as I like the combat in general and especially the PVP in AoC due to its being more dynamic, this is just what makes lag issue even more of a problem.

Fix your servers, Funcom. If during a 20 minutes PVP match the counter goes down to -00:50 seconds (means that there were at least 50 seconds pure lag!) then it is time to finally get it fixed.