Guild Wars 2

Hey crew! I am a big pvper and i just brought the game to try it out(not knowing there was only US and EU servers). However im having big issues with ping. I live in new zealand and get 200+ping and find it very difficult to play a elementalist for reasons i’m sure you will understand. (long delay on casts, hitting AOE, using abilities at a good pace (no global cd)).

Can anybody that is like me sitting with 200 or so ping recommend a class that isnt as dependent?

thanks!

You could try Engi or Ranger. I have got both of them to Champion status in PvP so far and am still to do the other clases (working on Ele now). Ranger can be great if you go longbow/Greatsword. I did mine with a PVT build and just Bunkered/supported as best as I could lol. But I have seen some great zerker builds so you could try that. Engi is another that’s good to bunker with. Mind you I did try a new condi build a few days ago which I had limited luck with.

For those of us dealing with ping issues I would suggest trying to go as tanky as you can/bunkerish/survivalist but def look into your build and test things because even going one of those you can still find some nice condi builds that can work for you.

Best of luck!

Engi? Good luck landing cc combos with that kind of ping. Bunker guardian, shout bow warrior, staff ele, perhaps condi ranger. About it i think.

Thanks for your help, hate this ping.

I’m Brazilian and my ping is around 180ms I played a fair amount of PvP matches with every class, and the only one that I couldn’t play effectively was the thief, the steal/blinks combos was just impossible with that ping and that is the core of every thief build, any other classes you’ll only not be able to do a couple combos.

In the end guardian, necro and eng were they classes I could play the best in pvp, ranger and warriors also goes pretty well, ele, mesmer and thief were pretty hard.