The "Please Wait" usually indicates a connection problem - this shouldn't make the animations choppy though - unless you're talking about the movement animations and not the spell animations...
You could try to tracert/pathpaing/traceroute (what ever your OS likes best) and see if there are any connection issues somewhere on the way... (and look inside the client_default.cfg to get the login server - I'm sure it's in the same datacenter as the game servers, not so sure about the website here)
You could try to tracert/pathpaing/traceroute (what ever your OS likes best) and see if there are any connection issues somewhere on the way... (and look inside the client_default.cfg to get the login server - I'm sure it's in the same datacenter as the game servers, not so sure about the website here)
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