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How critical is latency?
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Gibby
Out of curiousity, what do you play with it at? What's your latency average at?
I live a bit away compared to most people, northernland whee. My latency hovers around 400-ish all the time, I've adapted and learned to deal with it, and it seems all normal now.
But I like to raid competitavely, like my guild working on some of the harder content in ICC. I tend to be the versitile character, I'll dps or heal on priest, or tank or dps on my pally. And I do great as a tank or healer (as far as I know)!
But when I dps I feel like I fall behind by a fair margin, and meters show it. Yea I know about hybrid tax or me just being bad with gear/skill. But I've practiced, maxed gear out, gemmed it all right, and executed right. But when it comes to spamming buttons the split-second its off cooldown, or lining dots up just right, I wonder if my latency could be what causes me to fall behind? Does it really matter that much?
Short version: Can ~400 latency cause you to fall behind on dps by alot (By this I mean like a few thousand dps in high end raiding, like 3-4k).
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Monday
~400 shouldn't do too much. Its when you hit the thousands that stuff starts happening.
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My latency is normally around 600+ and I feel your pain. Like you I mostly suffer when I dps, which I rarely do when I pug raids.
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Sektorian
I have satellite internet which gives me ~1000ms latency at all times
And yes it very much effects my DPS as both a Ret Pally and a Destro Lock.
My ret pally has a gearscore of 3400 and only does 1600 dps
My destro lock has a gearscore of 4400 and only does 3k dps.
I know i can do more with both if the lag was on my side
(will try to get quartz tonight and see how it helps my lock!)
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Bulash
Latency really messes with you when you sit on a 26.4kbps connection. (Me)
I can do everything but raids and Dalaran.
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d3xx
Latency isnt too bad for dps. Especially if you queue actions. But for tanks and healers who have to respond quickly to mobs its a total pain.
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