Hello,
I wanted to ask if anyone from the US has experience playing on an Oceanic server?
I’m much older this go around and real life commitments with Kids/Wife etc in the evenings may make raiding difficult…
I was considering joining the Oceanic server so their raid times would be early morning for me.
Has anyone had success with this in the past? Is lag and connection speed every an issue? Is the community there generally acceptable to this?
Thanks in advance!
I’ve played the opposite which should be similar… 150-250ms ping (as apposed to (50-60) local.
I’d say it depends on what you want to do. Most raid mechanics back then weren’t so tightly tuned that the lag would make a huge difference… Realistically, there was higher ping in the US back in vanilla.
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It could be a option for you, in Vanilla we had alot of players who were night shift workers so in vanilla found it hard to find a guild at their hours in the u.s so they played on Oce servers.
Now with wow being alot bigger, id see if there were any guilds that Nightshift workers were making, and try to stick to a U.S server simply for your own ping.
If you have to play on a Oce sever players won’t mind as long as you’re prepared and ready for your raid like everyone else has to be.
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For years we had a heap of US based players on servers designated as oceanic. However, for those years the servers were actually located in the west coast of USA. Once the servers moved to Sydney, then the bulk of the US players left to a US based server.
I still keep a couple of toons on US based servers. In Australia I get a 15-30ms ping - on US I get 150-200ms with many more noticeable lag spikes. Its certainly very playable - but if you are doing high end content in the more technical end game raids on retail the higher ping can be game changing - I don’t think it would matter so much on Vanilla where 150-200ms pings were good on servers that were close by.
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