Out of curiosity, I tested both servers. I’m in MI. I get about the same ping on East as I do West. Both under 50ms.
I live on the east coast and when connecting to a west coast server I get 75ms+. When connecting to an east coast server I get under 30ms. location is everything and America is a big place.
Latency was a bit less of a problem when batching was a thing but that was a long time ago.
Even without batching, most people will be completely unaffected by latency so long as it’s under 100ms. I play on Remulos (OCE) and have around 250 ms. There’s a slight delay that I can detect once in a while. However, I never arena, so it hasn’t hurted my gameplay.