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[Ironwood]

I ping 300-400 from Australia... how the hell do you ping 500-600? Dial-up?

Yes.

*Sob*

Playing from work, I get as low as 100 - But of course the downside is getting caught and fired...

It helps that I'm on the European Earthen Ring, which is a nice little quiet polite and stable server.  I love it.

Fucking dial-up.

[Paelos]

I ping 200 avg with blips of 500-600 about once an hour. I've seen it get as bad as 1000 and still be connected. Of course, the server crashed soon after. Although I did get in some kickass screenshots of the Dark Portal while the guards lagged.

[Jayce]

I think they do rolling restarts of the game cluster when the server gets unstable.  Yesterday people in my guild in different parts of the world were being disconnected at different times.  Before they'd get disconnected things were weird, like the gryphon NPC not being in Stormwind and the Tram not running, and after they were OK.

But it was all at different times based on where you were in the world.

[Train Wreck]

I used to consistantly run at around 100 ping on a cable modem.  Two weeks ago it increased to 300, and now I can't stay connected for longer than a minute.

[Sky]

Oh ya, another good hunter trick I picked up recently, that's obvious in retrospect but didn't occur to me. Use a freezing trap when taming pets. You don't have to take a beating as long if you can keep the potential pet nicely away from you.

I tamed a black bear in Loch Modan at 10 when I got the skill and have stayed with him pretty well exclusively. I tried a swamp jaguar for a bit but with the pet speed bug, his much higher pursuit speed was pretty well useless most of the time, and he didn't seem to tank as well as the bear. I've tried a turtle but the supposed better armor class wasn't there when I compared him with my bear so I went back to the bear.

Yes, freezing traps are almost a necessity when taming, especially some of the nastier stuff later on (heck, taming the King is kinda tricky in itself if solo).

I haven't found the differentiation between 'non-special' pets (no resistances, run buffs, no fast atk speed, etc) to be anything at all really. While I haven't done scientific analysis of it, using several different kinds of pets never really favored any type over another noticeably. So I'm still sticking with my Longtooth runner. The run speed bug is annoying, but there are a few workarounds that make it less annoying than it could have been.

Various pets for various situations.  This pet has good resists, this one is fast.  That one has a lot of hp or damage mitigation, but the other is a glass cannon (high damage but fragile).  In essence, create a microcosm of the (well-done in WoW) class differentiation but in the pet world.

Well, exactly. And to an extent, it's the system that's in place and being patched out, which is why I'm pissed about it. I /like/ planning ahead, if I'm going to the Searing Gorge, I'm going to bring Mortimer, my roc from Tanaris with 250 fire resist (yeah, I went and got him, he matches my badass red jeans (tm themexicanrooster). Even so, he doesn't resist much more than my 0 fire resist Longtooth.

Still thinking about a tank pet, but hate giving up run speed and/or attack speed.


Ping - goes from mid 40's to 200ms on ER.

[HRose]

I'm around 250-300 from Italy and on dial up :)