Guild Wars 2

Hey All,

been trying to get back into GW2 because I really do love the game, however I now have really bad latency issues.

For instance.. Pressing skills will take 1-2 seconds for them to actually activate (this includes autoing).

FPS is absolutely fine. However, I do understand my internet is crap so it is most likely my end as I live in NZ. Any work on an oceanic server?

Do things like battleping really work?

Any tips/trick/advice would be much appreciated!

Yeah battleping works, it should reduce ur latency in most cases, battleping is a DNS service, what it does is imporving the way the data travels arround the world from ur home to arenant Datacenters. Normally specially when having long distances, ur ISP will route the data trough many servers arround the world before reaching Arenanet servers, this causes extra latency, and most likelly packet losses. With battleping the data from ur computer travels directly to battleping servers and from them to arenanet servers, this reduces the latency considerably and improves data quality, resulting in overall less lag.
Notice internet connection speed is not imporatant, many ppl think buying a faster internet connection will solve latency issues and it will not, latency won’t even improve a bit by increasing ur own connection speed.
Services like battleping are best option for ppl outside the US.

how does the 20 minute disconnects work on the trial. does this mean it will go back to routing normally or will it disconnect completely from the game. 20 minutes at a time isn’t long enough to trial it properly as most of the things i am having issues with take longer than 20 mins

U must pay for the service, u won’t find a similar service for free, beliave me. If u go trial it will disconect u from the server every 20 mins, trial only works for personal testing, u can test if u get less lag, if u feel a improvment u go and pay for the service, if u don’t feel any improvment while testing using the trial then u obviously don’t buy the full service. U play 20 mins it disconects, u have to start the game all over, after 20 more mins it disconects again, that is how it works. When u buy the service u can be logged in for whatever ammount of time u want.

yeah that’s what i figured but the stuff i get lag issues in is stuff like dungeons and fractals which take longer than 20 minutes to be able to test it.

ah well hope Anet and my ISP get their fingers out and get the servers which are causing the issue between them to fix the problems

thanks anyway