Hello,
I play on a NA server but am located geographically in OCE. When I am out and about questing (on the NA server) or when grouping with NA keys, my latency is OK (about 250ms, but that’s what I normally play with). When I group with an OCE team, my latency out in the world is really good (drops to 20ms or so), but when I’m in an instance with the OCE leader, the latency reads about 250ms, but it definitely feels much higher). This happens consistently regardless of instance. Does anyone know how this works and what I can do to fix it? Never used to be much of a problem, but only really an issue since SL (and is really annoying for running high keys).
I have no idea. I always assumed those sorts of issues were because the servers were communicating with people literally on opposite sides of the planet. If you live in the OCE, I think your only solution would be to move your character(s) to one of those dedicated servers. You’ll still have this problem when you group with NA players, but it should at least be better when you’re solo/questing.
It’s weird but the lag while I’m out questing is bearable, but the lag in the OCE servers is quite bad. I imagine if it were phasing me to OCE servers, and my world latency on OCE is really good, wouldn’t the instance latency also be similar to while out in the world (i.e. better latency, not worse)? I’m not sure if the instance and world servers are hosted differently, and that’s the issue, but the OCE people I pug with don’t have this issue.
The issue with moving my characters is I have about 15 characters I do keys on, and I’m not super keen on paying for all of them.
Instance servers may be hosted differently than other zones.
If there’s anything you can do on your end to help, your best bet would probably be to ask in the tech support forums.
Yes, The garrison instances from WoD is located on US servers as the latency is in the 190ms range for me where as out in the world it’s 17ms.
Really, I jumped on my garrison on oceanic servers and my latency is 12ms, maybe it’s a random thing and not all the time …
Oceanic has garrison instances too. No change in latency.
The thing with latency feeling super-high in mixed NA-Oceanic instances has been around for a few years now. It’s not reflected in the actual latency numbers, but it’s clearly much higher than what’s displayed. I’ve wondered if there’s more than one layer of communication between the two servers that’s seriously slowing things down somewhere.
Of course, reporting that to Blizzard would result in “please do a Pathping and post it on the forums,” which doesn’t solve anything.
Its ok as a damage class. Trying to heal, tank or loot is a terrible experience. Loot is like a 4 second delay.