Coil unplayable for me

I play from Australia. My network ping time to the servers is a steady 320-350ms, which is about as fast as it gets from this distance. I was with a team on the first boss (ADS). I see the lasers mark, I move as fast as is humanly possible. I am outside of the area, I've cast an instant spell (regen), and am starting to cast the next spell and I get hit anyway, WITHOUT FAIL.

The only way I could avoid it was to always be moving and if the lasers showed up, just keep moving. Thing is, any time I stop moving to heal anyone, the laser invariably is on me, and even if I cancel, move instantly, cast regen (instant cast to update server position), I STILL get hit some 2-3s AFTER leaving the red area.

This is just unplayable crap.

Way to go. Make a game with end-game content, that is unplayable for those in the player base not living within 5000 miles of the servers.

It isn't just Coil. Cutters cry turns you in to a liability as well.

Any dungeon or battle that requires full on kiting is fail for White Mage.

Have you tried using a VPN service (WTFast/Battleping etc)? Might help as it helped a few members in my coil static.

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Originally Posted by Castillan

I play from Australia. My network ping time to the servers is a steady 320-350ms, which is about as fast as it gets from this distance. I was with a team on the first boss (ADS). I see the lasers mark, I move as fast as is humanly possible. I am outside of the area, I've cast an instant spell (regen), and am starting to cast the next spell and I get hit anyway, WITHOUT FAIL.

The only way I could avoid it was to always be moving and if the lasers showed up, just keep moving. Thing is, any time I stop moving to heal anyone, the laser invariably is on me, and even if I cancel, move instantly, cast regen (instant cast to update server position), I STILL get hit some 2-3s AFTER leaving the red area.

This is just unplayable crap.

Way to go. Make a game with end-game content, that is unplayable for those in the player base not living within 5000 miles of the servers.

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Friend in my free company lives in new zealand, plays on the NA servers, and has no problem playing coil (has made it to turn 4 with meh gear). Also had no trouble dodging when I helped her with titan (occasionally got hit but no more than anyone else in the party)

That aside, you realize there are english communites on the JP servers, which should give you much better ping. I believe Tonberry was one of the "unofficial" Aussie servers. You might consider transferring. There might be issues with your ISP treating the game's traffic as P2P traffic and VPN tools might help you as well. I don't get where you got this idea that casting instant cast abilities makes the server update your position faster, because it doesn't.

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Dozens upon dozens on posts on these very forums have suggested the same thing.

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Dozens and dozens of people on these very forums can be wrong, and I see it all the time.

I have two suggestions. The first is to use a tunnelling service such as pingzapper, Wtfast or battleping.

If you don't mind transferring servers you could try a Japanese server such as tonberry. As long as you aren't on the Optus network you should see significant improvement playing on a jp server.

Tonberry has a large oceanic population and more english than Japanese speaking players. I suggest you ping the jp servers first, if you decide to transfer.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I don't get where you got this idea that casting instant cast abilities makes the server update your position faster, because it doesn't.

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Dozens upon dozens on posts on these very forums have suggested the same thing.

I'm trying WTFast, and will see if it makes any difference

This not a solve of a problem , but solid team can take 2 bodies t 1 - 4 , and 1 body to t5 , so join FC that doing runs and ask if they can take u to runs . Also there exist stuff like WTFast it will great help u.

Australia here, and I've constantly made it to turn 5 now. I've learnt to move ahead in advance a lot, and its helped out. Just keep trying. :)

I am also from Australia and I have no problem with coil, you need to do one of the following things OP.

Get a tunneling service, WTFast using the SG servers is highly recommended from other Australians.

Or transfer to a Japanese server, you will have no trouble finding Australians on Tonberry.

I recommend the later, Tonberry is a great server for the SEA community.

Well I don't know if this will make you feel better but eventually they're going to make Coil easier.. :x So yeah it might be possible in the future. T.T:

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Originally Posted by SarcasmMisser

I am also from Australia and I have no problem with coil, you need to do one of the following things OP.

Get a tunneling service, WTFast using the SG servers is highly recommended from other Australians.

Or transfer to a Japanese server, you will have no trouble finding Australians on Tonberry.

I recommend the later, Tonberry is a great server for the SEA community.

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I'm glad to see a post like this! Been trying to find out what server is good for oceanic players since I will be on that side of the world very soon. Was nervous about the connection and lag. Hoping I can stay on Hyper, glad to see an option though. thank you~!

Move to Tonberry JP server. We went from paying for titan run in US server to selling titan run ourselves in Tonberry.

Despite a JP server the number of english players there is much, much larger than the japanese. Just look at mor dhona shouts at our peaktime - barely any JP shouts.

Also, ADS has a set rotation of abilities. Just memorize what moves he uses in what order and start moving beforehand.

It's not so bad for me, 250-300 ping, but that still does make coil way harder than it needs to be. ADS does have a rotation of his main 3 abilities, which is all that turn 1 ADS uses. Your party should also be positioned to make the healers have to move as little as possible, but that obviously doesn't help if you're the one always being targeted. Sadly, you do still have to pretty much be moving before the mark appears, but even then I occasionally get hit. If your group is good, people (even the healers) can be hit by the occasional laser and not wipe.

If it's really that bad, moving to a JP server will help (the ones already mentioned in this thread are good). There isn't much else you can do except pay for tunneling services but you may as well just spend that money on a server transfer instead.

Well, as I said before, I installed WTFast. I played on Zalera.

The difference was incredible. Whereas before I simply could not dodge ADS's lasers, now I could practically just slow walk of the way and still be fine.

The network ping times aren't any different, but the in-game server ping times are much better (like 300-500ms vs 1500-3000ms).

At the end of the day, I suspect that my ISP (Telstra) is doing some form of traffic shaping/throttling on the game's traffic ports.

I just connected to one of the local Australian WTFast proxies.

Edit: I should add, we got past ADS just fine then. Got stuck on Caduceus though, but we're a bunch of first-timers. Almost had him down three times, just needed more practise and less tired people (most were playing at 2-3am their time).

WTFast + Tonberry JP = Enjoy FFXIV

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Originally Posted by Castillan

I play from Australia. My network ping time to the servers is a steady 320-350ms.....

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That's why Yoshi separated into two data center, i've had same problem like you before and move to JP server afterward. Problem fixed and everything is enjoyable content :)

i suggest you try Wtfast or battleping, i used both in this game and they help so much if you have route problem