The JP button

[Jinko]

I played in the US for a year before I played in Japan.

I don't see what that has got to do with it .. (wants to rage)

If I'm standing next to another miner and we are hitting the sweat spot perfectly and hes in Japan, I can gaurentee you that he will finish up on the node long before I do.

This is an example of how accumulative the latency is.

I'll make it simple
a JP player has 18 ms latency so multiply that over 8 mining attempts = 144 ms
I'm in EU and my latency to SE server is roughly 300ms multiply that by 8 = 2400 ms.
Average for a US payer is something like 170 ms multiple that by 8 = 1360 ms

It means that a JP player has finished mining 2.2 seconds before me (although in my experience its actually much more than this), add this to what the OP is saying that ever battle action is taking longer due to accumulative latency and JP players do in fact have the advantage in dungeons..

Whether that matters is besides the point really the fact is that it makes a difference, and most certainly will when PvP is added.

[Searious]

if you say so.