Grats to all that made glad without having to cheese it in 2s.

So, trying to get a feel of how many arena-goers/serious pvpers from this part of the world, from which realm, etc. Also trying to make a decision if I should xfer for S8 or not.

Because my battlegroup is in in the northwest and failmyx handicaps me out.

LOL you have no idea. Look at the map - US is not like Singapore or Korea mmkay.

Make an alt on kelthuzad (eastern). My alt 3s team plays there, and loving the 350-400ms.

It's a common misconception that the WoW-US servers are all located in one place these days.

From WoWWiki: http://www.wowwiki.com/US_realm_list_by_datacenter

US realms are hosted for Blizzard in several datacenters across the United States. They are located in:

    * Boston, Massachusetts
    * Dallas, Texas
    * Los Angeles, California
    * Seattle, Washington

While new players often wish to choose a realm matching their own time zone, those realms may be actually be located far away from them. For example, some servers in Los Angeles have realms on US Eastern Time, and some servers in Boston have realms on US Pacific Time. Instead, players may first wish to pick a datacenter to which they have good internet connectivity.

which is most of the time har har. Malaysia boleh.

LA = 210-230ms
Seattle = 270-320ms
Eastern = 300-400ms

This is by average latency only. And logically speaking, data traversing across longer distance has higher chance of degradation.

So you can get 270 or 300ms and think its nice and playable. But you can easily go up to 500ms for 3secs, and that'd lose you the game in the long run. Anyone serious about arenas should pick LA datacenters. Its not even a point of contention.

cause u can™
though u cant™ reach 2k even when u have the latency 

Thats why you'll never hit glad or even duelist brah.

Bloodlust servers are located closest to us, I believe. That's why most "oceanic" realms are in BG9.

A very nice balance of win:lose ratio between the 2 factions too in battlegrounds.

i sense trolling material....

in b4 stormscale pvp > bloodlust pvp

eh but why here : http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...=62082532&sid=1
thaurissan no longer there?

somehow i still meet some thaurissan in random lfg but not in bg

ya but the post was updated? nub gm lol..but seriously its hard to see player from thaurissan in bg
always hope theres a chance meet any of u guys lol

You mean Cyclone BG. Cyclone became a crap bgroup since s5, downrated to as low as whirlwind/emberstorm/nightfall.

Everyone I knew that's arena material in Stormscale have all xferred out. Stormscale never really had competitive pvpers to begin with-- other than 3-4 teams that were multi-Glad. They've all left and now Stormscale gladiator representation = 1 team. Sadly this 1 team is an xfer trying for R1.

---

Added on January 22, 2010, 4:48 pm
WOTLK ratings are majorly inflated.

In 3v3:
TBC 2k rating = WOTLK 2.5k
TBC 1800 = WOTLK 2k.

If you have decent team mates, you should be able to get 2400 with 350ms (not in BG9). Its just that you can't race for Glad and your team will probably kick/bench you.

lurk moar in bg and you'll eventually see few hordes... meeting a fellow alliance from thau in bg really hard to find

OT but need to troll:

Tab Mix Lite > Tab Mix Plus

i'm not quite sure what happened in stormscale but from information i gathered cyclone is mostly being argued as 'the best' battlegroup around... if those people would play back...

No, dude. Just no.

*looking at the 700-ish ms*

I HATE YOU!!! I HATE YOU!!!!

LOL +1
rofl....

I visit this forum once in a blue moon and Quazacolt never fails to...... well, fail. Keep working on that E-peen, it seems to be going flacid ever since S2.

S8 is probably the most difficult to get glad because 2s give no title, plus 60% drop in no. of playing teams since they nerfed welfare epics.

---

Added on January 31, 2010, 4:37 am
Just realised this was directed at me.

You cant expect people to look up YOUR history from forums and threads. No one cares. All I know is that you have 500 games played on 3s so you have no real excuse not to reach 2k.

No offense and i am not here to stop your e-peen flexing since i know e-fame means a lot to you,but in curiosity,how did your past season arena rating increased over time?

sigh forum flaming is just not the same as it used to be

true so when are you going to get back into arena?

i am 7 time gladiator, 10 if you count my alts. my peenor is bigger than nadal's left arm, who wants some?

no, 5v5 deflates my e-peen too much cause my class blows there.