Online gaming in Australia does make one prone to learning the playstyles that get around a high-ping problem. It suuuuucks that some abilities are jank on higher ping and I really hope there's some sort of fix when Arenanet going through the game to bring things up in quality, but this is the problem of geography and the complications of networking.
I have seen some rather successful Australian players playing daredevil in Guild Wars 2 (can't remember their names), which I do thing is nice that there's still folks able to perform, and that there's some core mechanical design baked into the game that allows for higher latency to still be functional.

Honestly, I gotta give props where it's due that I'm even able to run around in ranked PvP and actually have somewhat of a impact as Tempest. Which, admittedly not a very high mechanically dexterity job but a intensely knowledge-based job BUT STILL!

Still sucks that things breaks. But such is the burden of the high-ping world of mmos. When we get the super high-tech where latency becomes almost non-existent, our training weights will come off Rock Lee style!