Can we please get a Move-Speed Bonus on ECHO?

[Ceodore]

We should all stop using ping as an excuse, seems like everyones connection gets worse the less they know the fight.

One solution I would like to see.
Remove the time limit on instances,
let the group decide when to call it.

I was going to go into a lengthy explanation about games that are server heavy versus games that are computer heavy and their systems and what steps could be helped by an echo buff and what couldn't, but I like what you said more. Frankly, I've gotten to where I don't care if people who want to be given their wins get better, or even if an echo speed buff gets put in for them. If SE wants to make old fights easier, I'm fine, as long as they just introduce new fights that are harder that don't have the echo so I can have something fun to still do. Old content, honestly, is suppose to be easy, and it really is, so making it even easier for players who struggled with it is like water off a duck's back to me.

[Ellatrix]

I was going to go into a lengthy explanation about games that are server heavy versus games that are computer heavy and their systems and what steps could be helped by an echo buff and what couldn't, but I like what you said more. Frankly, I've gotten to where I don't care if people who want to be given their wins get better, or even if an echo speed buff gets put in for them. If SE wants to make old fights easier, I'm fine, as long as they just introduce new fights that are harder that don't have the echo so I can have something fun to still do. Old content, honestly, is suppose to be easy, and it really is, so making it even easier for players who struggled with it is like water off a duck's back to me.

This game has extremely limited 'current' content, so playing around with the 'old' content is very much a thing. Destroying that old content because bads want to 1-2-3-win mode without even attaining competence at playing a job is... no. Just no. The SCoB mechanic nerfs are still disgusting.

Beating hard fights makes you a better player. If you don't want to better yourself, well... why are you playing?

[Velox]

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You should try living here. It's the sticks and I also pay >$60 a month for net access... except here you only get 2-3 MB/S on weekends/weeknights and up to 5 on weekdays before 6pm. That's the fastest speed you can get. In fact, it's the ONLY speed offered by the ONLY ISP who services this area. 90% of the people on here have no idea how bad some of us have it. Monopolies still exist in the U.S. and those of us who love in these areas are subject to the worst service imaginable. It sucks to finally find a game you love only to have it unplayable 60% of the time (especially when you've played MMOs for 12+ years and have never had a problem prior to FFXIV). Even modern MMOs like Tera, Rift, Archeage play flawlessly. FFXIV is the only one that super shakey in gameplay.

[SarcasmMisser]

In my case I have a pretty good 50mb connection, and a 1 year old top end (by then) rig way above the recommended requirements by the game and I also use WTfast premium with the customized tunneling.....but I still live 9000kms away from the server.....and that's not going to change.
With all that, I get a constant 170-200ms to the server.

I play with a constant 230ms and I don't have trouble clearing anything. I play with people who deal with truly 3rd world internet in Indonesia, Philippines and some have to navigate around the great firewall of China. This doesn't hold any of them back they all have t13 on farm, what's holding you back?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Square will never remove the timer for instanced content. When the Zodiac quests came out, I actually had to wait for the DF to find an open instance for my party because they were all full. Remove the timers and people will start taking up space.

[Kewitt]

at Max echo, in fights that the echo increases. Cast time should be slowed by .3 one server tick which would give people with lag issue time to move.

[Ellatrix]

at Max echo, in fights that the echo increases. Cast time should be slowed by .3 one server tick which would give people with lag issue time to move.

That's an absolutely terrible idea, because then people who aren't bad at the fight are thrown off completely. You cannot interfere with the tempo of the fight.

Why don't you start at the basics - you're currently wearing a STR neck and 2 VIT rings on your BRD (as pictured by Lodestone). Try using DEX accessories instead.

[warren-ragnarok]

i agree with this very much. reality is, many people that fail at certain things is because of internet connection related issues

but i do kinda disagree with movement speed, in exchange though, i would rather the boss/bosses/mobs get a casting speed penalty by the same percentage as echo
this would actually make the content more doable for people with these issues, since move speed bonus would only help out with certain things, not all things

[Ellatrix]

i agree with this very much. reality is, many people that fail at certain things is because of internet connection related issues

but i do kinda disagree with movement speed, in exchange though, i would rather the boss/bosses/mobs get a casting speed penalty by the same percentage as echo
this would actually make the content more doable for people with these issues, since move speed bonus would only help out with certain things, not all things

Read my post just above yours explaining why adjusting cast time is one of the worst possible things you can do. If you still can't manage to clear a fight with 25% echo, that is entirely on you and nobody else.

[Yukiko]

Lets face it, SE had a nice idea of MMO reaction based actiongame but failed because hardware is not up for it now. It works great on LAN but not on wide area networks. As we see on other actiongame MMOs the programming is different...