Can't unlock AK because AV is too laggy - advice please

[Lava]

We tried again last night. The lag was too much that it was affecting heals.

[Mephistopheles]

Pretty much blame the fact that people moved from FATE farming to first room AV farming and since the instance servers are split up to try and even out the original large load, lots of people spamming a single dungeon will lag it out. Same happened back in the day to AK.

[NintenPyjak64]

Because of this, I currently can't make any progress in terms of these quests for my character.

You can always farm Titan HM for the weapon. Some of the Titan weapons are better then the base relics (Bard is one of these)

I'm trying to do this for my alt character, but sadly people are terrible at Titan HM

[Hali]

Are you sure it's network lag and not a an FPS issue in the area?
I know a lot of people who refer to FPS drops as "lag" and I experience an FPS drop in the zone myself.

[NintenPyjak64]

Are you sure it's network lag and not a an FPS issue in the area?
I know a lot of people who refer to FPS drops as "lag" and I experience an FPS drop in the zone myself.

As a BLM, My skills would constantly be interupted despite not moving an inch, I use Swiftcast and it doesn't apply until several seconds later which I've always wasted on a Fire 1 instead of Fire 3. Popped Convert, Raging Strikes, nothing happens. Unable to interact with the plants until AFTER you're dead. I imagine healers have it much worse, especially if you're a WHM (I think Eos still tries to heal the tank)

It's not an FPS issue. It's literally a massive server strain issue

[Erendis]

I imagine healers have it much worse, especially if you're a WHM (I think Eos still tries to heal the tank)

Correct, you keep healing and healing and healing and nothing happens at all. Click on fruit also nothing happens...

[Kule]

Yeah as a WHM it was insane to heal and we gave up after the second boss. My cures would interupt each other like how it was during alpha and esuna had some insane lag on it.

I also cast a protect and it didn't trigger for 8 seconds. That's unplayable xD

[Lithera]

The AV Room 1 farming would be the seemingly obvious reason for the lag but it does seem odd given how the Duty Finder system has been explained in the past. Each dungeon is given a maximum number of concurrent instances so that no one dungeon can usurp all the available total instances. Unless the DF Server cluster itself is jammed to the tits (which I imagine it is at times on the Primal and Chaos data centers), then the only issue that would occur from the room 1 farming is AV having wait times for reserving instances. Unless of course the room 1 spam is happening so fast that the server is having issues keeping up with loading and unloading the AV data.

[Songi]

They have nerfed AK enough to where it should've remained final Grand Company trial. I feel really sorry for new players having to deal with this ridiculous lag issue in AV.

[xxAtticusxx]

They're doing major work to the instancing system within the game come 2.2, it's why we have a 25-hour maintenance on Wednesday.