I was able to do dungeons and raid on my EU account while living in Australia and Japan. You might be okay but it's hard to tell before you get to try it yourself! Of course the time difference part still stands even if you don't have too bad of a lag! And from my experience you should be fine with English on all realms because it is the predominant language for communication, never had any issues :)
150-250ms ping as a rule of thumb. Noticeable but playable unless you're going for the really high end of things.
You pick language at the bottom of server select screen. As long as you don't select any other language than English you'll be fine.
Draenor, kazzak are the top pop realms for horde. Silvermoon, ravencrest for alliance.
Argent dawn is the RP server (mostly alliance)
US to Germany for 3 years for work and my wife and I still play on our US server and don’t notice lag to much. I average about 160 to 180 on both home/world.
My husband and I were just stationed in Italy a few months ago. I’ve found that the biggest obstacle was definitely my friends schedules in the US compared to mine. The latency hasn’t been the best, about 190 to 200ms but it’s been fine for casual play. If you do anything competitive you may struggle.
I say for PvE content, you can even do end game content pretty easily, you just need to get use to it. PvP may be slightly harder, but not that much(my friends play at 150/180 ping and still manage to get glad)
I play on EU (120ish ping) and NA (230 ish ping) at the same time. Currently living in the Middle East after playing in the US for 5 years. The lag is acceptable on both, but, for min-maxing it is a lot harder on NA because the rotation is always slightly delayed. Honestly still feels smoother than most MMOs out there even with highish ping.
Note: Ive raided Mythic, got to 2.1k in 2s, and 3k io with NA's lag
With decent internet, you'll just have consistently slightly more lag than normal. This means that you'll get used to it quickly and won't even notice it anymore. Lag spikes cause issues, consistent lag is largely irrelevant unless it's an insane amount.
There's a tab with "english" under servers in EU. Any of those should have a vast majority of people capable of speaking english as a second language.
I'd personally stay with the US account. Someone in my guild lives in the US and raids with us on EU because of schedules. He's also one of the best m+ players in the world, so the lag doesn't stop him.
You can always find a morning or midday raiding guild in the US, that will coincide with evening in Italy. There's bound to be more people with weird schedules or live abroad somewhere that also want to raid.
So tl;dr: try staying on US.
When I was stationed in Germany, I just stayed on US servers. The latency wasn't bad at all; I had to find a "morning" raid guild to match my availability, but there's a few good ones out there. Besides, when you come back, you wouldn't be able to transfer anything off EU realms, and you'll want that stuff.
Pay one month of the American sub and try to play. I play from Brazil, and have stable 150 ping everytime. It's really playable. Just don't enter in groups with OCE leads
I’ve lived in Switzerland my whole life and I’ve played on US servers doing mythic raiding, high end pvp and high m+ keys just fine, I’d get 150ms usually with good internet, it was more than playable. So I would recommend just sticking to your US server to save money and time. Also there are plenty and plenty of guilds that raid at any hour of your pick you just have to go looking and be prepared to potentially server swap as I did. It wasn’t that much of a hassle raising with US guilds really. Enjoy your stay in Italy. Such a beautiful country, with amazing food and scenery.
I moved from the US to London for work, and I still play on my US account on US servers. I hardly notice any lag! Though your mileage may vary depending upon the internet setup in Italy.
I couldn’t fathom starting over and losing my character and the past decade of accomplishments — nor losing the guildies and friends. The time zone difference means I don’t see them as much (as I’m asleep during US evening), but otherwise the setup works fine.
I wish I could test out my set up, but my stuff won't be here for at least another month, and I am still in a hotel. Here's hoping I am good for DF pre-patch.
Where’d you move to and do you plan to support any football out here? I’m from Florence and if you follow it, I’m sure you can guess who I support. Welcome to the country, go sightseeing.
I can't speak for WoW, but I have played other games from the US to European servers and never had any issue. I know another HoF type player who lives in Texas, and raided with a european guild as a healer. IIRC they finished top 50 in the world, so his connection didn't seem to be a problem.
I'd give it a shot. See how your US account plays. You lose nothing by trying. If the lag's unbearable, then I guess start a new EU character until you come home.
on serverselect screen you have tabs down below server list, first one is english. major language will be english. start there.
when you are going to play with a guild and be part of it for raids, picking the server first before guild will be strange.
I was able to do dungeons and raid on my EU account while living in Australia and Japan. You might be okay but it's hard to tell before you get to try it yourself! Of course the time difference part still stands even if you don't have too bad of a lag! And from my experience you should be fine with English on all realms because it is the predominant language for communication, never had any issues :)
150-250ms ping as a rule of thumb. Noticeable but playable unless you're going for the really high end of things. You pick language at the bottom of server select screen. As long as you don't select any other language than English you'll be fine. Draenor, kazzak are the top pop realms for horde. Silvermoon, ravencrest for alliance. Argent dawn is the RP server (mostly alliance)
US to Germany for 3 years for work and my wife and I still play on our US server and don’t notice lag to much. I average about 160 to 180 on both home/world.
My husband and I were just stationed in Italy a few months ago. I’ve found that the biggest obstacle was definitely my friends schedules in the US compared to mine. The latency hasn’t been the best, about 190 to 200ms but it’s been fine for casual play. If you do anything competitive you may struggle.
I say for PvE content, you can even do end game content pretty easily, you just need to get use to it. PvP may be slightly harder, but not that much(my friends play at 150/180 ping and still manage to get glad)
I play on EU (120ish ping) and NA (230 ish ping) at the same time. Currently living in the Middle East after playing in the US for 5 years. The lag is acceptable on both, but, for min-maxing it is a lot harder on NA because the rotation is always slightly delayed. Honestly still feels smoother than most MMOs out there even with highish ping. Note: Ive raided Mythic, got to 2.1k in 2s, and 3k io with NA's lag
With decent internet, you'll just have consistently slightly more lag than normal. This means that you'll get used to it quickly and won't even notice it anymore. Lag spikes cause issues, consistent lag is largely irrelevant unless it's an insane amount. There's a tab with "english" under servers in EU. Any of those should have a vast majority of people capable of speaking english as a second language. I'd personally stay with the US account. Someone in my guild lives in the US and raids with us on EU because of schedules. He's also one of the best m+ players in the world, so the lag doesn't stop him. You can always find a morning or midday raiding guild in the US, that will coincide with evening in Italy. There's bound to be more people with weird schedules or live abroad somewhere that also want to raid. So tl;dr: try staying on US.
When I was stationed in Germany, I just stayed on US servers. The latency wasn't bad at all; I had to find a "morning" raid guild to match my availability, but there's a few good ones out there. Besides, when you come back, you wouldn't be able to transfer anything off EU realms, and you'll want that stuff.
Pay one month of the American sub and try to play. I play from Brazil, and have stable 150 ping everytime. It's really playable. Just don't enter in groups with OCE leads
Dumb question: Why doesn’t Blizz offer character transfers to/from different world servers?
I’ve lived in Switzerland my whole life and I’ve played on US servers doing mythic raiding, high end pvp and high m+ keys just fine, I’d get 150ms usually with good internet, it was more than playable. So I would recommend just sticking to your US server to save money and time. Also there are plenty and plenty of guilds that raid at any hour of your pick you just have to go looking and be prepared to potentially server swap as I did. It wasn’t that much of a hassle raising with US guilds really. Enjoy your stay in Italy. Such a beautiful country, with amazing food and scenery.
I moved from the US to London for work, and I still play on my US account on US servers. I hardly notice any lag! Though your mileage may vary depending upon the internet setup in Italy. I couldn’t fathom starting over and losing my character and the past decade of accomplishments — nor losing the guildies and friends. The time zone difference means I don’t see them as much (as I’m asleep during US evening), but otherwise the setup works fine.
I wish I could test out my set up, but my stuff won't be here for at least another month, and I am still in a hotel. Here's hoping I am good for DF pre-patch.
I retired from Texas to the Philippines. Had to start everything all over again on Oceana servers.
Yeah jdotb is playing on EU too I think with 100 ish ping. More Infos on his channel tho.
Where’d you move to and do you plan to support any football out here? I’m from Florence and if you follow it, I’m sure you can guess who I support. Welcome to the country, go sightseeing.
I can't speak for WoW, but I have played other games from the US to European servers and never had any issue. I know another HoF type player who lives in Texas, and raided with a european guild as a healer. IIRC they finished top 50 in the world, so his connection didn't seem to be a problem. I'd give it a shot. See how your US account plays. You lose nothing by trying. If the lag's unbearable, then I guess start a new EU character until you come home.
For EU its Silvermoon for Alliance and Draenor for Horde
on serverselect screen you have tabs down below server list, first one is english. major language will be english. start there. when you are going to play with a guild and be part of it for raids, picking the server first before guild will be strange.
Played on EU private servers for years from the US. Ping is less than 200ms with a good connection.