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Avengement · 11/10/07, 5:09 AM

Australian based WoW servers would be tops but I really don't see it happening anytime soon, as it’s been said a number of times its really about economics. For myself I play/raid/arena with about the same ping approximately 400-500ms on iiNet ADSL2.

PvE

For me (healer) I don't really have a problem with ping times as it makes very very little difference for me. But latency will differ from class to class and also what encounter you're doing. There really are only a handful of end game encounters that latency really matters, the rest of it really does come down to the player. Latency is such an easy excuse for someone dropping the ball.

PvP

Now I’m not someone who takes PvP to heart at all so I'm not the best person to pass comment on the issue. But in my own and very humble opinion latency does put Au/NZ player at a disadvantage when playing other teams with sub-100ms. But there is really nothing we can do about it so you just have to roll with it and do your best. Again some classes are more disadvantaged than others; rogues and warriors have major problems.

Bottom line for PvE content is you have to be lucky and hope you have skilled people playing the toons that have key duties that no other class can do, rogues & Reliquary of Souls is one of the most major latency affected encounters that I can point out. Sheer on warriors for Illidan has already been pointed out.
Without looking it up there is something like seven Australian guilds that have completed all the BC content, they have overcome “latency” problems and so can you. That statement is only true for PvE content, as I keep saying I’m not going to comment too much on PvP as I don’t know enough about it.

11/10/07, 5:09 AM	#82 (permalink)
Avengement Glass Joe Avengement Human Paladin <Gigantor> Barthilas	Australian based WoW servers would be tops but I really don't see it happening anytime soon, as it’s been said a number of times its really about economics. For myself I play/raid/arena with about the same ping approximately 400-500ms on iiNet ADSL2. PvE For me (healer) I don't really have a problem with ping times as it makes very very little difference for me. But latency will differ from class to class and also what encounter you're doing. There really are only a handful of end game encounters that latency really matters, the rest of it really does come down to the player. Latency is such an easy excuse for someone dropping the ball. PvP Now I’m not someone who takes PvP to heart at all so I'm not the best person to pass comment on the issue. But in my own and very humble opinion latency does put Au/NZ player at a disadvantage when playing other teams with sub-100ms. But there is really nothing we can do about it so you just have to roll with it and do your best. Again some classes are more disadvantaged than others; rogues and warriors have major problems. Bottom line for PvE content is you have to be lucky and hope you have skilled people playing the toons that have key duties that no other class can do, rogues & Reliquary of Souls is one of the most major latency affected encounters that I can point out. Sheer on warriors for Illidan has already been pointed out. Without looking it up there is something like seven Australian guilds that have completed all the BC content, they have overcome “latency” problems and so can you. That statement is only true for PvE content, as I keep saying I’m not going to comment too much on PvP as I don’t know enough about it.