<p>My girlfriend and I are recent WoW converts and we're trying to figure out the best classes to play on satellite internet. Unfortunately, we have no other choice for an ISP. <img src="/smilies/e78feac27fa924c4d0ad6cf5819f3554.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Is there anyone else out there who plays on sat and has any advice/opinions? I know personally I'd like to play a shadowknight but I worry that my 1-2 second delay will cause problems in groups/raids when it comes to tanking. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!</p>

Summoner class. Pet will protect you and even with the delay you have time to heal it. Conj or necroid ftw!!

<cite>Maineiac12 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>My girlfriend and I are recent WoW converts and we're trying to figure out the best classes to play on satellite internet. Unfortunately, we have no other choice for an ISP. <img src="/smilies/e78feac27fa924c4d0ad6cf5819f3554.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Is there anyone else out there who plays on sat and has any advice/opinions? I know personally I'd like to play a shadowknight but I worry that my 1-2 second delay will cause problems in groups/raids when it comes to tanking. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!</p></blockquote><p> I play on satellite internet...which is a whole other rant in itself...LOL...</p><p>Any class will work just fine.  You just have to get used to the bit of lagtime between when you click an ability and when it engages.  It took my husband and I about a month or so to get the rhythym of it down.  Once it's familiar, it's no big deal.</p><p>Oh, and be aware:</p><p>* Sometimes you will freeze temporarily when you right click something to bring down a menu of options, such as a totem in your inventory, so don't right click on useable objects while in combat or running.</p><p>* Likewise, don't window out on auto-follow or auto-run...it takes too long for the game to realize you're windowed out, and your character will end up running all over the place.</p><p>* Due to the lag time, you won't always be able to interrupt a spell in time if you want to.  Like I said, you'll get used to the lag after a bit.</p><p>* If you have DIRECWAY/HUGHES.net, make sure your set up is in a place where you can easily reboot it if need be...(ours is located in a barn in the center of our property, which is a PITA if you have to run out and reboot during rain/snow).  If your connection is really bad, I find that a reboot of the...what's the thing...ugh...can't remember the name...OH - THE MODEM *DUH* - a <b>reboot of the modem</b> usually clears lag nicely.</p><p>* My husband and I have noticed an issue with the satellite that occurs occasionally.  Sometimes we'll be running someplace together, and I'll be following along happily...and then his character will run into a group of mobs on my screen, but on his screen, he did nothing of the sort.  About 50% of the time, the mobs will aggro, as though he DID run into them...the other half of the time, it doesn't happen.  So, we frequently will say to each other "Did you actually just run across Sinking Sands and into that Goblin tent, or did that just happen in another dimension?"</p><p>Like I said, be prepared for playing over satellite to be irritating and frustrating for a while.  Once you're used to it, it's not bad...but say goodbye to any first person shooters or other games that require fast response time.  They just don't work over satellite.  EQ2, SWG, other RPGs work great - the lagtime doesn't really seem to affect them.</p><p>Good luck!</p>

<p>Thanks for the info, Pipes!</p><p>Yes, we're on Hugnesnet. We've got the HN7000S modem which allows you to reboot it remotely by typing the IP address into a brower window. It's pretty handy.</p><p>How do you and your husband handle patches? I know with the download limit we're under, it can really take a while for large patches...and that's just for 1 PC. Is there a way to download the patch on one PC and transfer it to another?</p>

I'd assume a external hard drive (or a few CD-Rs) would solve this issuse, just copy and paste whatever files you need.  Oh and for a class that you intend to group with I'd go with one of the bard types.  As long as your buffs are up your doing your job.

<p>When I created a second account I simply copied the entire Eq2 directory to another drive.  Maybe something similar would work for the GU updates.  For the smaller patches I would expect that you could copy only the changed file but how you would determine those is for someone else to say.</p>

<cite>Maineiac12 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Thanks for the info, Pipes!</p><p>Yes, we're on Hugnesnet. We've got the HN7000S modem which allows you to reboot it remotely by typing the IP address into a brower window. It's pretty handy.</p><p>How do you and your husband handle patches? I know with the download limit we're under, it can really take a while for large patches...and that's just for 1 PC. Is there a way to download the patch on one PC and transfer it to another?</p></blockquote><p> We have the HUGHES.net small business set up that permits up to 5 concurrent connections.  We live on a 16 acre farm, with my husband and I in one home and his parents in another home on our property.  There is a small apartment in one of our barns half-way between our houses and that's where we have the setup.  We can also remotely reboot, but we've found that a cold reboot often does the trick when doing it remotely doesn't seem to work.</p><p>What do we do for patches?  Well...LOL...I get home before my husband and fire up the computers!  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  We've actually found that *most* of the time, the patches don't take too terribly long, but we have had them consume an evening of what would normally be play time.</p><p>Incidentally, we've gotten my in-laws to play EQ2 as well...and all 4 of us are often running the game all at the same time and we haven't noticed that affecting our lagtime at all.</p><p>But when it snows, forget about it!  I know that weather shouldn't affect the satellite too much, but when snow piles up on the lens of the satellite dish, we're stuck watching movies or running out to wipe it off about once every hour. </p><p>You can probably try copying the files for a large patch using CDs...we haven't tried that method, but it would probably work. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

<p>I have no choice in my area but dial-up, there is satellite, but, it is even worse where I am located.</p><p>I find the worst luck with caster/healer classes, timing can be so off, and it is sometimes hard to react.</p><p>My best luck is with classes with good "Passives".. Avoidance and Mit, good default damage.</p><p>Bruiser, Agi Spec assassin work best for me.  I recall once hitting one of the 18^^^ Sand Giants with my 20 Bruiser and then totally freezing forever, when the game finally caught up I was standing there, still green, with a chest at my feet.</p><p>Worst luck I had was trying Defiler.. timing on keeping wards up was just too iffy.</p><p>I also tend to run in Defensive stances.. a bit more lag survival with those. Also, good equipment/spells are a must, anything you can add to your char that does not require key input helps with Lag.</p><p>The new spiked/reinforced adorns have worked well for me.</p><p>Ill reinforce what another poster said, right click nothing if you are not in a safe place.  First time I try to access food, charms, poisons in a zone can take forever, so can moving objects to bank.   Once it loads, it seems to clean up as long as I stay in that zone or area tho.</p><p>Oh, and when taking boats, be prepared to run off the side and swim for it, I've taken long enough to load in at BB that the boat is already leaving the dock by the time I zone in. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

I'd suggest dirge and troubadour would be good choices too -- their value to a group is mainly in their passive buffs, nobody is going to suffer if you lag or have a delay reacting to anything.  That's actually one thing I like about playing my dirge ... I can wander off and make a sandwich in the middle of a raid and nobody even notices, let alone suffers at all.  <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Those and the summoners would be your best choices, IMO!

i have crap satellite internet and i can play anything, just the now-and-then occasional lag.  I currently have an sk, assassin, nek and bruiser. I live in SoCal high desert and until just recently we didnt have dsl or cable

If you have a bandwidth quota the easiest way to patch a second computer would be to just copy the big files over your network. The only really big files are in the paks folder. Every once and a while we'll get some new music files, but not very often. After copying the big files the Launchpad should be able to pick up the rest of the small files pretty quickly. Othesus - Dirge - Lucan DLere Vaspar - Fury - Lucan DLere