Guild Wars 2

Since I moved in China I have high ping rate 500-1200 at doing nothing and 4000+ in combat if there are more than 10 people around me. Most of the time my game crash if the fight is too ( 10 +players) big or too long 2-4 minutes.

I tried different VPN/tunnel software but sadly nothing really improve the ping rate.
Is there someone who experienced the same problem and found a solution ?

Hi sorry to hear it, but I might be able to shine some light on your issue from my experiences.
I too live in China (Shanghai) and started playing while I was here, above 6 months ago now and have had similar issues.

ISP is of course the first and biggest problem, I have a 50mbs download from China Telecom which works OK for me.

VPN, I used to use Astrill for my gaming needs but about 2 months ago China stopped blocking this game so now you don’t need it.

However, and this may me my own personal issue, I can’t play GW2 from my desktop work PC I can only play it without crashes on my macbook pro. Kinda weird. I think however I made too many changes to my PC to unblock the game and when Anet made changes and China stopped blocking it I can’t turn it back to normal.

Times during the day, I work from home and find day time 10am-4:30pm to be the best, 5:30-6pm is absolutely kitten house, then after 10pm again is fine.
I’m imagining you live in an apartment building?
The China system here is to run a little outside lines to the apartment building and then share it to everyone, annoying, so this is why when people get home from work it stops.

Game types, big world bosses are hard but not impossible, dungeons however ARE impossible, fractals are OK, open world PvE fine, WvW is OK off peak, and laggy for zerg on zerg anything over 60-80 players is bad for me.

How did I manage this, in the option menu for display, second tab, I turned almost everything to low or none, world textures are middle, and 1 or 2 others are middle bit nothing is high, to save on broadband.
Next I turned player render quantity to low and particle effects to low.
The recent Anet changes here have helped alot.

If you still need more I could screenshot my settings for you tomorrow.

Good luck.
S

Thx for your reply . You are right about the time zone, I observed the same things. I will follow your advice and see how it does.

Good luck, sorry again for the long reply, surprised that I wrote that much.