Guild Wars 2

Assuming 250ms latency (one quarter of a second), which is actually quite good for an Australian player.

This challenge involves Bouncing Mushrooms which incur the latency delay before activating and bouncing you off them. So every time you jump on one, you lose a quarter of a second if you are not American basically.

I have counted on my good attempts, and will often use around twenty jumps on these mushrooms to get to the various masks.

Now basic math points to 20 * 0.25 = 5 seconds lost waiting for Bounching Mushrooms to activate.

Considering how close Anet have cut the timers on these gold challenges, I’m not even sure it can be done.

This isn’t a problem with any of the other challenges that I have encountered because there isn’t excessive use of latency-delay inducing mechanics, such as having to jump on twenty Bouncing Mushrooms.

I would like to hear from anyone who has achieved this with 200+ ms lag.

If you stuck in mushroom in spining animation for about 2 second. Yeah, you won’t make gold in time.

I got 300 ping but my local internet good enough sometimes that I don’t have really bad mushroom lag.

No the spinning is the same for everyone, it’s just the animation. I’m talking about the fraction of time when you jump on it, and nothing happens yet, it’s just treated like terrain until the server registers you’re on a mushroom.

You may have noticed when we jump on the mushrooms we have to physically stop our characters moving because if we move off before the server registers for the bounce to start, it will glitch out and we will spin on the ground but nothing will happen. I suspect that doesn’t even happen for people with proper ping, they will just land on it and start spinning immediately.

To be honest the lag won’t really hurt your chances of getting gold on that one, getting the masks to spawn in an order that allows you to get gold is what will hold you back. Took me forever to gold that one and when I finally did I had plenty of time left.