User:The FNP

So, I recently rediscovered GW and started playing some new characters, reading up on GWW about new areas I'm excited about, but got really frustrated today(2-3-2009) when my new lvl 8 Elementalist who wasn't even eligible for Survivor just got hit for his entire 260+ health points of damage in one instant by a level 3 Ice Elemental due to lag. I checked the Performance Monitor to find that the ping time was approximately 60,000 ms. That's right 60 seconds! Or to put it another way OVER A MINUTE! No one else was using the Internet at the time, and we just upgraded to the 5 MB/s internet connection. So I tried seeing what NCsoft says about latency. None of it is very encouraging, but the short form is available here in the new GWW page I created about latency to make everyone else that much more informed. As a programmer, I'm very disappointed in the GW programmers that they didn't even put in the minimum safeguards against latency for a game that REQUIRES an Internet connection. More on this later, once I've managed to write up the list of safeguards that wouldn't affect gameplay(i.e. invisible to the user)