Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if the dev team has ever thought about this issue but if you are a oceanic player with 200-400 ping and you try and glide, you notice that you are always gliding under everyone else and can’t glide as far as someone with better latency.

This is caused by the latency issue of after jumping off and you hold space to deploy your glider. It does not deploy immediately, it instead adds your latency and then deploy.

This has caused me issues in getting some of the hero points or various nodes that requires a very quick deployment of the glider to be able to get to and thus I had to get Mesmer ports to these locations.

Please fix the glider issue by detecting spacing being held pre-emptively and have glider deploy immediately.

It is a shame that things that are heavily influenced by latency issues cannot be better handled by the client side for fear of making it easy for people to exploit/hack.
I know for myself being oceanic with a 225ping average (350-400 on weekends), severely murders my chances of getting gold in several of the adventures. Heck two of them I’ll be happy if I can manage to get silver.