How to Reduce Lag and Ping in Aion 2 (NA & EU Guide)

Why Ping Matters in Aion 2

Aion 2 is an action MMO: you dodge boss attacks, time your skills and fight other players in Spacetime Rifts and the Artifact Siege. Everything you do has to travel to the game server and back, and that round trip is your ping. With high ping, dodges land late, skills fire after you pressed them and enemies seem to teleport.

As a rough guide for an action game like this:

• Under 80 ms: smooth.
• 80–150 ms: playable, but you'll feel it in fast fights.
• Over 150 ms, or spiking: dodging and PvP get frustrating.

First: Is It Lag or Low FPS?

The two feel similar but have different fixes:

Pick the Closest Server Region

The global version has regions for North America (East and West), Europe, South America and Asia. The single biggest factor in your ping is physical distance to the server, so play in your own region whenever you can.

Pick your region before you invest in a character, so you don't end up starting over somewhere else. If your friends play in another region, expect higher ping there and use the fixes below to keep it steady.

Quick Fixes That Cost Nothing

1. Use a cable instead of Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi adds jitter (ping that jumps around), which hurts more than a steady, slightly higher ping.
2. Stop background downloads and uploads on your network: game launchers, cloud backups, torrents and streams on other devices.
3. Restart your router if ping has crept up over days.
4. Close bandwidth-heavy apps on your PC while playing.
5. Test at another time of day. If lag only appears in the evening, the congestion is on your provider's side, not your PC.

When the Problem Is the Route to the Server

Sometimes your connection is fine but the path your internet provider takes to the game server is long or congested. Signs: good speed tests, other games fine, but Aion 2 ping is high or spikes, often in the evening. You can't change your provider's routing yourself, but a connection optimizer can send your game traffic along a better path.

ExitLag, the sponsor of this guide, does exactly this: it routes your game connection through its own network. ExitLag says it can also send your traffic over several routes at once, so one slow route doesn't stall your game. It's aimed at games, unlike a normal VPN, which usually adds a detour instead of removing one.

It won't fix a slow PC or a weak Wi-Fi signal, so try the free fixes above first. If ping is still high or unstable after that, it's worth testing during the trial: compare your ping in the same place, at the same time of day, with and without it.

Checklist

• Lag or low FPS? Fix the right one.
• Play in the server region closest to you.
• Cable instead of Wi-Fi; nothing downloading in the background.
• Still high or spiky? Try a route optimizer like ExitLag.