Didn't think I'd be making this post but I kind of have to vent somewhere, figured the gaming community would understand my frustration.
I'm currently travelling but my world of warcraft characters are all on European servers. Unfortunately they don't make transferring easy, not just that it's expensive to transfer characters from one realm to another (something like 70 Hive currently just to transfer 1) but you can't even transfer cross-continents. To make matters worse your WoW subscription doesn't even transfer to other continent servers.
Now you may be wondering why I didn't just cancel the subscription and level up a new character on another continent subscription, but from some googling I heard that people in this country will have to manage with 190-ish ping (even using tools such as exitlag) no matter which servers they play on, so compared to what I was already dealing with (280-330) it wasn't that much of an improvement. At home I usually sit at 20-40 ping. The difference in about 100 ms and having to start all over on different account, basically, didn't seem that appetizing so I figured I'd make due with my main account and see how it goes.
Dragonflight came along, the new expansion, and things were going great early on. In battlegrounds and dungeons you don't really mind the extra latency that much, especially in PvE you could gear up to mythic 12's easily by having learned the tactics and reacting quick but still getting out of stuff in time. When it comes to competitive arena, though, it was a completely different ball-game.
Doesn't help that early on in the expansion DPS classes are so buffed that they manage to pump out a ton of damage. It also doesn't help that healing being my favorite thing to do in PvP requires you to have fast reaction times as well, things like they swapped dps focus to another target, you can't really "juke" or fake cast spells in hopes they use their interrupts in vain. Things like getting in range to crowd control someone only realizing they were already moving further away from you.
If you've ever played first person shooters, you may understand how much ping matters. the average reaction time of human's is about 200 ms, meaning 0.2 seconds, so with an extra 0.3 seconds on top of that you really start to feel the difference quite a lot. You're basically 2.5 people's reaction times behind or 1.5 behind everyone else. I kind of understand that one competitive WoW player that moved to France just to be closer to Blizzards servers to play on 1 digit ping, lol.
Either way, today I decided to give arena's a proper go, and holy hell. It was just depressing really. Now I admit I'm not in shape, it's been years if not a decade since I've competitively healed with a resto druid, and a lot has changed, but I think having played with it quite a bit beforehand it's not the main thing to blame cause I didn't really feel like it was my lack of understanding or knowing the class and all his abilities properly that was the issue. It was definitely the ping. And yes, I know, lag is the most common excuse for newbies to blame things on when they don't go the way you want, but in my case I have consistent delay no matter what I do.
I wanted to record some videos of some Arena PvP'ing, seeing the beauty of the game that many never understand because they either don't play WoW or just do PvE and never get past keybinding their abilities and learning to cast things freely while running/jumping. But matter of the fact is that today's session made me wanna delete all footage real quick rather than creating a montage of it, it almost made me wanna delete my laptop altogether.
So I guess for the time being I'm going to stick to some newb-friendly gameplay's like leveling up characters, doing some casual battlegrounds and possibly dungeons and raids as that's still somewhat reasonable to play with with the hard delay playing from the other side of the planet.
Have you ever had to deal with high latency in gaming?
Screenshots from some footage I recorded I may post later doing some higher mythics on my tank.
That's dedication!! Lol.
As an Australian, I'm very very used to lag in multiplayer games. A lot of MMOs don't even have oceanic servers at all, thankfully WoW does. But we often get grouped with people in North America which shoots our ping all the way back up to 250ms, so annoying.
It's also one of the reasons I stopped playing Star Wars: the Old Republic and the Elder Scrolls Online... the ping is ghastly. Especially in pvp. And those two games actually had pvp I was interested in! I'm not normally a pvper 😅
At the moment I'm getting so much lag in Dragonflight.. but it's not because of the ping. Blizzard just has horrible servers that aren't capable of dealing with the amount of people who returned for Dragonflight and the events held in all the zones. I feel like Thaldrazsus is the -only- zone that has no lag. You'd think a billion dollar company could do better. 🙄
I once get addicted to Crossfire, and yeah ping can make the difference between life and death in the game so it is understandable that you are very frustrated with that very high ping.
I am not a pro gamer, but once tried playing an online mobile game with my partner who's living in another country now. So, since we teamed up for the game, I think it caused the latency we experienced. I could barely move my hero that time. And I get pissed off easily, so we just decided to stop playing the game already, lol.
Nothing worse than playing online and getting smashed by Lag, story of my life living in Australia 😞
I can imagine, one of the recommendations was Australian servers from here and I was like, ye nope.
I don't really understand why it's such a hassle to transfer characters, I also had no idea that one had to pay for it..
On a different note, the ping... I am from South Africa and welllppp I am so use to playing WoW on 190 to 250 ping because I always have to join a european server because we don't have any servers in SA..
I understand the feelz...
Ugh, can't imagine not being able to fix the ping ever, this has already been kind of a nightmare to me and always been a pet peeve of mine in the past.
(Yelling at my younger sibling to stop downloading stuff cause I'm in the middle of a game) xD
Haha well it's not the same in WoW as it is in let's say a first person shooter... It was playable or at least from my perspective who has never played WoW on a good ping🤷♂️
Laughs I remember all the fights we had back in the days regarding the internet situation...
I want to play games because I take the least from the connection and the sister wants to stream and the parents want to pirate bay their favorite series 😅😅
That was when life proved to be more exciting 😅😅
Yes, it happened to me almost daily in Dota, the original from Warcraft. I was playing and suddenly it would freeze when I was about to ambush some opponent that i could kill fast and i would end up dead because of the creeps jajaj what a good time. I never played WOW, always wanted to try it. Some friends say they are making money with that game, i think i'm going to do some more research on that.
Yes...being in the middle east has been a bane for me since lag is always the issue...I have never played on less than a 100 ms ping...you have to make do...I spent hours trying to make dota and starcraft work lol on garena servers back in the day...
Wow was atleast less stressful to me...since I shift+Q everything back during vanilla Wow..
shift-q? :D
All Blizzard games come with a queueing system...it is different for different games...back in vanilla, it was Shift+Q where you basically queued all your skills so that if you got hit with a bad lag the skills would still go through...
I've been complaining about my ping everywhere for weeks haha. As someone living in Turkey, this is what 99% of us experience. High ping is a gamer's worst enemy and makes it impossible to enjoy the game. Sometimes it takes me 5 minutes to open a post and I want to smash my laptop.
Had to deal with bad internet in the uk where the best i can get is 50mbps on a good day so i get where your coming from this :)
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I don't game, but definitely HATE lag..
that sucks how your sub doesn't transfer across continents. and also the big difference in Ping speed. :(
at least the game is pretty enough to sit and look at it as it lags tho.. :P