Stumbled upon this post on Chinese social media and wanted to share it with the English speaking community so I translated it.
Disclaimer: I am not the owner of the post, im only sharing this because i find it interesting as I can sympathize as someone who lives in Australia and shares the same problem and experience. Here's the link to the original post
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8427051002?share=9105&fr=sharewise&see_lz=0&share_from=post&sfc=copy&client_type=2&client_version=12.40.1.1&st=1685816848&is_video=false&unique=3E5767B68E4058528D9394DEE3468319
"Title: About the impact of having 250+ ping on PVP!
I have played this game for several years, from 160 cp at the start to having 2000 cp now, I have always pvp'ed. I'm not good at pve, I've never completed a vet trial, and the only times I do dungeons is to farm gears for pvp, I mostly play in grayhost and blackreach.
I want to talk about the impact of 250+ ping has on your pvp experience in this game, to summarize: unbelievably big! you can't imagine it! and yes you can quote me on that.
How big specifically? I dont know, a three-story building big?
I dare say in China, at the same ping and lag, I can 1v1 anyone and no one is my match, i'm not ashamed to say that I run meta gears and play strong classes. But in grayhost, when I fight foreigners that have much better ping, I get humbled. I just go to a corner and watch them cap the flag. Because in a 1v1 i will get flattened within a minute.
I can't heal, and I constantly feel like my opponent is cheating, my attacks dont ever hit, my dawnbreaker misses 80% of the time, or my skill animations will play but they won't go off. Sometimes I'm stunned or rooted and I can break free for days. The most frustrating is when I play nightblade, my incap and dagger combo can never hit, but when other people hit me with that, i lose half of my health.
Animation canceling seems so easy when I watch them, same with roll dodging, but when i do these things it takes forever to go off. Often times I'll roll dodge and get hit by a leap and ill be rolling in the air like an idiot then get whipped to dust, or get killer's blade executed when im roll dodging, i don't know how the server figures that.
So I want to tell people who are thinking about getting into the game, please be careful and think it through! at least pvp, it's not something easy to get into. Please leave comments if you share the same experience as me."