I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while, but never got around to it before, so for the folks reading this:
What is your average roundtrip latency in sPvP, excluding periods of severe lag/disconnects?
At what latency level do you stop attempting to play sPvP due to latency?
And if you care to share, what is your average rank in sPvP or tPvP when you play with average/normal latency.
By roundtrip latency, I mean the value that shows up in the Resource Monitor for GW2 (assuming you’re using a Windows OS) that shows how long it takes for a packet of data to go to and come back from the servers.
To answer my own questions:
My latency is around 250 roughly 80% of the time. Although on rare occassions, such as late at night, it can drop down to around 190.
I tend to stop attempting to play sPvP once my average latency reaches 270-280 and go to WvW. I stop playing WvW when my latency reaches about 330.
When I was on the leaderboards (I haven’t done ranked PvP in a while) I hovered around rank 150 in solo queue. I solo queued in team queue and hovered in the 450-550 range.
Note: To see your latency on a Windows machine, press the Start/Windows button in the bottom left and type “Resource Monitor” into the windows search bar, then press enter. Select the network tab at the top, and under the TCP Connections section, look for Gw2.exe. Just in case, Reddit instructions explaining how to check your ping.
