Guild Wars 2

I’m stuck at 2 files remaining. Starts off at 2mb/sec as usual and then plummets down to 0kb/s. Location: Australia.

Servers are in Texas, that’s why my signature is what it is. We’d get a much more stable ping if the servers were on the West Coast (around 180 average under good conditions) and there would be virtually no bad lag spikes.

If things regarding our lag stay the same for HoT then I’m okay with that, hope is all we have

Hi all,

I really enjoy this game and wish to keep playing. However, I’m in Australia and am already suffering from bad latency at all times and unplayable latency at night.

My concern with the release of HoT is that it will tax the servers more which in turn will lead to even higher latency issues for Australian players. It will most likely kick us from the game in periods of high traffic (not that it will be playable if we don’t get kicked anyway).

It would be sad to buy the expansion only to find we can’t actually play the game, even with 300 latency, anymore.

Is this a shared concern and is there anything at all we can do (aside from not playing it)?

The spectate work around is a nuisance and the water one doesn’t usually work.

This needs fixing ASAP please. At the moment it feels pointless to log in as ranger for PVP.

My suspicion is that they may be trialing ways to stop us giving our pets commands while downed and they have inadvertently broken them in the process.

I agree, we should not lose something in order for something new. It seems like we are getting less reward for actually playing the game and only spending real money will eventually matter. Next thing there will be a new expansion titled ‘Pay to win’.

I agree with Loxias. My SSD runs my OS and most played games. I keep the much larger WD drive for my D drive and it has all my music etc…

21.7GB on my SSD drive. I used to play off a Western Digital Black series and recently switched it to an SSD, it appears to be loading stuff in the game a lot faster.

:edit: I got the SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB 2.5in SSD, very happy with this.

In response to Part 1:

Not sharing quest progression is frustrating to no end, I can run around and complete a map in a fraction of the time when alone compared to when i am trying to help someone else. It’s like we get punished for grouping which is really sad for an MMO that is meant to promote cooperative play. It now makes me see grouping for general leveling and map exploration a nuisance and I prefer to solo.

I’d also like to add that when joining a group for a dungeon it’s all Zerker and skipping mobs which detracts from the whole immersion of the game and all dungeons now just seem like a speed running grind. You also get kicked from a lot of groups if you aren’t in full zerker. If you join a rag tag mob that are all randomly geared parts of the dungeon are ridiculously painful and you end up dying many times.

Fermi.2409:

Why would anet move servers to a location that would serve their intended region worse? It doesn’t make sense. Especially since having split location servers would likely make things more difficult to manage.

I only asked for some servers and these servers would still service their intended region as the West Coast players would get better latency along with the Oceanic players.

Hi all, just a quick post to remind ArenaNet that Aussie players are still suffering from latency sitting in the mid 200s and jumping sporadically to the 300s and sometimes worse.

I’m not here to request physical Australian servers, all I ask is that some servers like Sea of Sorrows be physically placed on the West Coast, near where a certain rival company have theirs. This would give us a stable 180ms (give or take) which is a lot more playable than 250 with random fluctuations. It also wouldn’t cost anywhere near the amount it would to place servers down under.

It would be nice to hear from a Dev. or some other official person from ArenaNet about this as I and many others feel as though dedicated Aussie players have been forgotten about.