Guild Wars 2

I’m in Australia and we are punished in every MMO here because our ping is always high. I average about 400 most of the time. And it is causing major issues trying to glide.

I just tried getting the Pact Airship Wreckage HP in VB about TEN times (following Dulfy’s guide). I did it exactly as she did. I watched others in the game doing it – no problems for them. It is IMPOSSIBLE for me to do with my ping. By the time the game has registered that I have jumped AND deployed my glider, I glide in too low, every time. I have tried multiple ways of doing it. If I press the spacebar twice too quickly it won’t register the second press. IT IS DRIVING ME BANANAS!

Some of the HPs I only just scrape in. Is anyone else with high ping having trouble with gliding?

All the time. ANet is beling completely silent about it.

I’m also in Australia, have a high ping and have no problem getting the HPs in Verdant Brink.

The biggest problem you’re likely having comes from you pressing your spacebar twice. It’s a great way to fail glides. When you jump continue to hold down the spacebar and your glider will deploy. If you double tap the spacebar, you’re gonna have a bad time.

I sympathise, but I’m not sure what you expect them to do about it.
With that ping you must struggle with other stuff in the game too, especially dodging.

Tapioca, I never knew that about continuing to press the spacebar. I must have missed that in the glider instructions…(?) I will try that tomorrow when I get over the frustration. Thanks.

im from sea and i do notice the ping is slightly higher than usual and often spike up in huge fight especially wvw

DoctorDing.5890:

I sympathise, but I’m not sure what you expect them to do about it.
With that ping you must struggle with other stuff in the game too, especially dodging.

I don’t expect them to do anything. A server in Australia would be nice but is just wishful thinking. I was just wondering if I was the only one.

I do struggle with dodging – it is not successful all the time. PvP is also horrendous. I quote another Australian:

“How ever in Guild Wars 2. I play from Australia. Have issues such as rubberbanding with teleport skills, skill delays and dodging at the right time while getting hit any way.

I visited a friend in the USA and played Guild Wars 2 on their computer there. Went into an arena pvp event going on. Wrecked every one there. No rubberbanding, no skill delays and dodging was always on the mark. It was night and day.

I like to think of myself as a good player. But the quite lag is noticeable in any game with US servers and playing from Australia."

It’s just something we have to put up with. But it gets very frustrating.

Even an Aus server might not sort it, depending where the lag is. And an Aus server might be quite a lonely place to play.

I was trying to do jumping puzzles yesterday with a (UK) connection speed of around 500kbps. Mostly OK except for the occasional, and fatal, lag spike. So, yes, I feel your frustration…

I play from Australia too and sometimes the ping is frustrating. Not much we can do about it. Servers here are pretty kitten ed expensive to run. It’s not worth it for most companies to do so.

I live in the states, but the apartment I live in seems to be on its own planet. For the next few months, I am stuck with using satellite internet. On a good day my ping is about 770, and will often jump to 900, but that translates to about 0.8 seconds to a full second lag between me hitting a skill and seeing it happen on screen.

I have bitten the dust more times than I can stand when gliding, and I wont do raids with my guild until I move. I have been able to adjust in central tyria though.

I’ve tried it now with holding down the spacebar. It takes the same amount of time to deploy the glider.

It doesn’t matter what I try, I cannot get the HP I mentioned, it is impossible. I don’t know what to do except carry around port to friend things and friend random people who are at HPs and get some of them that way. Or go play Fallout 4 instead.

I feel you.. It’s a pain without lean tech and having lag. My fix is using experimental rifle jump..

Alternative is waiting for canopy boss to open and glide from higher place.

Only solution I can think of is ask a mesmer to portal you there. I know it’s dumb that you have to do it, but I’m pretty sure that would work.

…assuming the portal doesn’t disappear before your game allows you to use it. >.>

Oh and if you are on NA servers, I would be happy to portal for you. If you are on EU, I don’t think I can help you.

You want to see real frustration? Wait till you try the Haywire Adventure.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Haywire_Punch-o-Matic_Battle

Not only is it completely broken with high ping but it will physically damage your brain, with each skill use causing the client and server to argue about the position of your character, flicking between each location multiple times.

My partner lives in AU and we were able to get around this with Mesmer portals (although she was able to complete 99% of it herself with practice).

Everything in the game works fine for her except gliding, even Labyrinthine Cliffs.

Solution: Auto Use Glider checkbox. Require spacebar to deactivate instead of activate. This will ensure that high ping users get maximum uptime. Landing will still be problematic but fall damage traits can at least help with that.

i play in California and if my ping spikes above 200 ping my glider opens 3 to 5 seconds late or doesn’t open at all and i go splat and it is extremely frustrating,

DoctorDing.5890:

I sympathise, but I’m not sure what you expect them to do about it.
With that ping you must struggle with other stuff in the game too, especially dodging.

What they can do about the glider is quite straightforward, actually, similar to the way they have resolved this in jumping puzzles. That is that the client tells the server when the glider was deployed, rather than the current system which requires a response from the server to confirm that you are in the air before allowing the client to then request a glider deployment. They have dealt with this type of issue in many places, why not here?

I’ve been using WTfast for the last 10 days and it’s helped some. It’s not a perfect solution and it’s not a free solution but it’s a solution that’s available now. It’s also not without some difficulties, but it’s worth it in the long run.