Playing on US Servers

yhwh

Just wondering would there be much lagg playing on a US server if your playing from Ireland?

Canis Lupus

I play on Bleeding Hollow US server. Can't say my game suffers although I've never played on EU servers so maybe in PVP I might be amazed at the difference but I've rarely blamed lag for dying. For PvE you shouldn't have an issue. My connection hovers around the 300ms mark.

However, getting into long raids can suck. My last guild started raiding at around 1am my time. You can and will still get into raids at times normal to you but probably by pugging. Guilds just won't be on mostly. I just don't bother with them.

I joined US as my mate was on there and I wanted the guidance. If given the choice with hindsight I'd probably have picked EU as I think I'd have liked to raid regularly.

TheDoc

If you have a decent connection there should be no problem.

I played the first year of wow on both EU and US servers, but it was a chore playing with my mates ( went from CS to WoW) as they played mostly when id have liked to be asleep.

DarthWraak

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I play on Bleeding Hollow US server

Heh, so did I - on Horde. Is Clan Redeye still around?

BilboBaggins

Was looking at playing on a US server, how do you pay or get gametime cards for the US Servers

Canis Lupus

DarthWraak wrote: »

Heh, so did I - on Horde. Is Clan Redeye still around?

Can't say I've seen that name but I don't really notice clan names. I just kill you horde f'ckers when I see you. (If I can :P)

WellyJ

Depends what you want to do. You won't be getting pings lower than 100 so Arena etc. might be a pain.

For the most part you should be fine, I had about 300-450 pings when i played on US.

imported_guy

i used to play on a friend's account, wasnt that laggy though it was ok, i played EU stormscale before i quit, which was at times the laggiest server in the world but i 'd it

Mister-M5

I played a Human Warlock

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kalecgos&n=Luikang

on the US server Kalecgos from October 08 until about three months ago.
I didnt experience any lag problems at all due to distance from the server but like some of the other posts I have never experienced an EU server.

However you do have to buy the expansions and time codes online I think. Haven't come across a shop that sells the US server accessories in Ireland

Hope this helps

Canis Lupus

There are sites where you can buy the keys from and you can use paypal to pay the subs.