How does this class perform with high ping?
No. Definitely not. There isn’t any class as forgiving as a guardian. So that is kind of a bad comparison. As long as you aren’t using grenades it isn’t really more unforgiving than any other class. You’ll have to consider your supply drops carefully though.
There isn’t any class as forgiving as a guardian.
warrior
Holy
Sharks With Lazers [PEW]
Sharks With Lazers [PEW]
Is he workable with high latency tho?.. or is he like a thief where you have to have insane reaction time?
do not take grenades if you have such a ping. It is hard to land them and with high ping you will miss way too often. I think guardian is the best class with high ping.
you have to be able to go in and out of kits immediately and get their effects off as fast as possible. I’d say engi is the worst class to playw ith lag. with thief you can at least combo teleports/leaps with skills and have the game do the work for you. with engi, you have to get into kits fast and land grenades correctly, which is impossible with lag
Holy
Sharks With Lazers [PEW]
Sharks With Lazers [PEW]
I’d say engineer is one of the least suitable classes with ping. You need good reaction times with switching kits.
Also, I don’t think the healing turret combo would work well with ping.
Hmm well if you’re a kiter-type engi or a grenadier, High ping and latency are the worst since a lot of our abilities are twitch skills or well timed series of kit swaps and skill sequences. Latency and cpus that can’t handle explosions close to the camera can get you killed in WvW if you have a reactionary build. I prefer to have my dodge on double tap since I’m usually holding 2 or 3 direction keys to strafe and juke long range auto attacks, and lag can make your dodges not register. As for grenadiers, it becomes a bit more difficult to lead targets with things like rubberbanding, and you can’t really read tells on the lowest graphic settings.
If you’re a bomb engi that lives in tool kit though, that 3 second block or spamming healing bombs can give you what you need to make better decisions while your cpu may be bottlenecking. I’m starting to be proud of how one engineer can be completely different from another deciding on the weapons, traits and kits they bring along.
There isn’t any class as forgiving as a guardian.
warrior
Close, but still in second place by a fair amount.