Unusually frequent lag spikes-- especially in dungeon combat this week.

The title says it all.

Starting Tuesday this week after reset, I've been having huge lag spikes to the point where it's so bad tonight I can't actually play. Every fight in the dungeons starts me lag spiking. I can't heal, I freeze. The game just becomes unplayable. The forums here also seem to be a bit slow, but they're serviceable.

I don't know if this is an issue with me alone or what, but other sites seem to be working fine (youtube, downloading seems fine, antivirus and malware detectors tell me I'm clean...) I suppose my IP could be to blame but... as I mentioned it seems to just be FFXIV.

Is something wrong with the servers (Valefor) or is there anything I can do on my end to clear this up?

you can attempt to use a different route by using an opendns or google dns service.

If things improve by doing that, your ISP is using an overloaded/congested path to the SE servers.

Same here. This is basically unplayable. For me it started happening last night (12am GMT +11).

EDIT: For me, it seems to have improved when I chose manual routing. I use WTFast, and usually just let it do auto-routing - this time, I went manual routing, and picked the AUS2 server (I know this is a server that has worked for me before). Now I don't seem to have as much lag spikes, and I can do Titan EX at least.

I've been having this issue as well and I have a very decent connection and never had issues with this game before this. The past 2-3 days when I start getting into dungeons, it starts lagging really bad and I've done literally everything to try to improve it. I notice when I ping it, I get some "request timed out." 25% packet loss and that's from multiple testing.

I hope they fix this soon cause I'm missing out on gameplay here.

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Originally Posted by KokonoeAiyoko

I've been having this issue as well and I have a very decent connection and never had issues with this game before this. The past 2-3 days when I start getting into dungeons, it starts lagging really bad and I've done literally everything to try to improve it. I notice when I ping it, I get some "request timed out." 25% packet loss and that's from multiple testing.

I hope they fix this soon cause I'm missing out on gameplay here.

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If you can, start a free trial with a VPN service. If it runs more stable through a VPN, that is a clear sign you have issues along your route that are coming into play. You may also see some signs of delayed responses and such if you run some traces as well (in case you can't run a VPN service). If issues in routing are suspect, you need to have your ISP's Tier3 team get involved to investigate and request the needed escalation to get them addressed. Here are the current lobby server DNS names so that either you or your ISP can run some tests to the primary subnets involved:

Lobby Servers in Canada (currently for NA/EU):
neolobby02.ffxiv.com
neolobby04.ffxiv.com
neolobby06.ffxiv.com

Lobby Servers in Japan:
neolobby01.ffxiv.com
neolobby03.ffxiv.com
neolobby05.ffxiv.com