Warning to Oceanic and SEA players that thinking of buying this game.

[gabgram]

Oceanic and SEA players do not waste your money, don't buy Guild Wars 2. I'm an Oceanic player and have been playing this game for over 4 years now. On a good day, you will experience constant 300 pings and above gameplay delay and constant lag. On a bad day your ping will go as high as 4000 pings. And this happen frequently throughout my 4 years plus, especially every time a new patch update happen or during festival event. The high pings will continued on even up to for 2 weeks. be it PVE, PVP or WvW, the lags is everywhere. Worse is Path of Fire maps (the latest expansion) are currently unplayable with high pings spike almost all the time even for others players outside of Oceanic and SEA regions even from US.

No matter how many tickets or thread you make in the official forum, they would just merge the thread, do nothing and call it a day. Arena Net don't care anymore. You can check out the forum itself and see for yourself. I leave a link to the technical support forum and the main thread:
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/forum/8-account-technical-support/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/106470-connection-issues-and-technical-support-sigh/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/76483-severe-lag-spikes-disconnect-error-code-7113202101-merged/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/106687-connection-issues-started-today-sea-player-in-na-server/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/106446-server-very-unstable-and-laggy/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/24374-constant-disconnects-during-story-instances/?do=getNewComment
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/55273-oceanicaustralian-servers-or-realms/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/97903-ocxsea-crashes-and-login-errors/
also noticed the number of thread complaining on this issue and have no response at all.

Also you can try out the game for yourself. There a free trial on the official site that let you experience the core game and see for yourself how bad the ping and lag issue.

You have been warned.

[LoliNoxTan]

Give Exitlag a try.

Might work for you, might not. Results very from person to person

[jP]

@Arenanet.
Do not offer this product to regions outside of NA and EU. If a customer's ping to both Frankfurt (EU) or Ashburn (NA) is 100-150+, then GW2 is a BAD purchase, and negligent sale on ArenaNet's part.
I live in Western Australia and play on 215ms to Frankfurt. I have muddled through enough content to earn legendary raid armor. I've played enough fractals to have a personal fractal level of 100. I am on the cusp of Platinum in sPVP. Those who have spectated elite NA teams vs elite EU teams during Teapot's Global MOTA tournament will understand what I am talking about. Ping is a serious issue in high-end content. It is an insurmountable disadvantage in PVP.
@Arenanet do not offer the product to us without the necessary infrastructure for >150 ping.

[jP]

Originally posted by Savathun's Onlyfans/LoliNoxTan:

Give Exitlag a try.

Might work for you, might not. Results very from person to person

Exitlag can optimise Western Australia -> Ashburn to 270ms
We get 220ms -> Frankfurt with/without exitlag

[LoliNoxTan]

Originally posted by jP:

Originally posted by Savathun's Onlyfans/LoliNoxTan:

Give Exitlag a try.

Might work for you, might not. Results very from person to person

Exitlag can optimise Western Australia -> Ashburn to 270ms
We get 220ms -> Frankfurt regardless

Don't the Aussies get a better connection connecting the the NA server?

[jP]

Originally posted by Savathun's Onlyfans/LoliNoxTan:

Originally posted by jP:

Exitlag can optimise Western Australia -> Ashburn to 270ms
We get 220ms -> Frankfurt regardless

Don't the Aussies get a better connection connecting the the NA server?

East coast Australians, probably all of them do yes. Everybody else will have to test their connection to both Ashburn and Frankfurt to find out. For West Australians living in the capitol, EU servers offer a better (but still not playable at high level) connection.

Anyways, I'm now enjoying a sub 100ms connection to an SEA MMO :')

[治好了也流口水]

I am from Malaysia (SEA region), can confirm this is true. When I was in NA my daily ping is about 280 - 350 ms. Don't get me wrong it is still playable but require a greater effort especially for harder class. Now I have switched to EU server, the ping is better but still suffer from lag occasionally ( 200 - 300ms)

[jP]

Originally posted by 秋山 骏:

I am from Malaysia (SEA region), can confirm this is true. When I was in NA my daily ping is about 280 - 350 ms. Don't get me wrong it is still playable but require a greater effort especially for harder class. Now I have switched to EU server, the ping is better but still suffer from lag occasionally ( 200 - 300ms)

Yes, Malaysia is fairly close to Western Australia.
The game is playable for casuals because they won't recognise being hit by a boss-mechanic or AoE due to their inputs registering server-side 200-300ms late. It is not playable for enthusiasts. For those who cannot achieve sub 100ms connection; For those with a morsel of ambition for endgame and pvp; I say play a different MMO. I have raid legendary armor on a squishy thief, and fractal level 100. It was an absolute slog and I was unable to experience Guildwars 2 as the developers had intended.

[Darugdawg]

I mean i play a moba game in us server from sea and get like 130-200ms. Upgrade your isp. Or maybe your country is just aint ready for optical speed

[gabgram]

Originally posted by PEFTOK:

I mean i play a moba game in us server from sea and get like 130-200ms. Upgrade your isp. Or maybe your country is just aint ready for optical speed

I played others game like WOW, Final Fantasy 14, Overwatch, Dota, COD, League of Legend. All with steady 100ms and under ping. Only GW2 have this problem.
As I said, don't take my word for it. Go ahead and download the trial game from the official site guildwars2.com and try the game, see how is your connection.

[tracksone]

Ppl tend to give ff xiv a pass even tho EVERYONE has high pings due to that game having built in latency.... yet noone seems to make it a problem (even tho its felt by all)

By DEFAULT ff xiv has a half second of lag, BUILT INTO IT LOL

[Shadeow]

Singaporean players looking to play will get 250 ping stable

[The Freedom]

almost 8 year in gw2@EU server my ping usually between 195-201 except under sea cable issue can straight up 4k ping @ unifi , NA server really bad experience for me if you need achievement completion etc the content very dead @ NA server

EU server if you see something (DE)or (FR) they mostly speak native language just join the EU international you wont have a issue mostly can type proper English better than mine

except if you joining discord or wvw guild raid just a little tiny bit confuse from their ascent but overall still can hear loud and clear enough what the commander need

last if your ISP support IPV6 go enable it , personal experience for whatever reason IPV4 have more spike lag every 3 or 4 days later after router restart problem remain

IPV6 2 week later only start lag spike only 1 restart problem solved , join NA server if you have friend if no 100% prefer EU very active community

[Oscarizxc]

70% of the time, your latency to the game's server is due to ISP routing.

Go figure with ExitLag or UU Gamebooster. Personally, I'm playing from Singapore and out of 365 days a year, I get 14-25 days of high ping (300ms++).

My average ping with Singtel is 240ms to this game's NA servers.

Your experience and mileage may vary.

[i control market price]

Originally posted by LoliNoxTan:

Give Exitlag a try.

Might work for you, might not. Results very from person to person

VPN is bannable iirc for guild wars 2

[hjjr78]

Go ingame and look at the Server list (character select screen).... You'll see for America, every server is either full, very full or high. THAT'S the problem! ArenaNet servers can only handle so many players and they have over-fed the servers and as a result, high ping, even with solid internet speed. I've been playing for some years now and if I go back just one year ago, the game was playable for me and I had less internet speed then. Now I have even more high speed internet and can't play the game at all anymore.

You all might wanna give Final Fantasy 14 online a try. It has PvP, not on the scale of GW2 but at least you won't have to deal with cheating "ArenaNet Babies" and when it's fair, it's always more fun.

ArenaNet is a horrible company all the way around!