Horribly laggy on Atlantic as well. For the first hour or so, there was literally a 12 second delay on everything. I brought an archer with healing and was able to avoid death even through the lag, aside from once. Don't forget to loot anything that you participate in killing. There are some special items that may fall on your instance of the corpse as loot. (Due to the lag, it sure would have been nice if the items would just fall into your backpack, but no such luck). A lot of the storyline is presented via conversations that happen near the blackrock detector, so if you aren't close enough to see them, you'll miss the story. (I'd have liked to see EA use something like communication crystals so that everybody in the vicinity could see the conversations in their chat boxes or journals, but again, no such luck). Early on, if there are a lot of tamers with dragons, you might suggest that the mages invis the dragons so that everybody can see what is happening. That worked well on Atlantic, until everything got crazy.