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[Jetstream_Fox]

I live in Oklahoma . No real difference its 1800+ mile to Montreal where the old server was and its just about 1800 miles to Sacramento .......

Wish I could say the same, from my town in Illinois to Montreal it's 849 miles, to Sacramento you ask? 2020 miles. For one of my discord leaders he's out in VA and he said it's almost 3000 miles to Sacramento and about 730 miles to Montreal. Obviously where he and I live, we would benefit from a east coast server, but obviously SE thinks everyone in America lives on the west coast.

[Gumbercules]

yeah i had cd usage issues at times and double weave issues and im sure the biggest culprit was packet loss, could sometimes be in the 20-30% range before. (and apparently that is why i had mana issues with blm and mana usage not tallying up right)
Admittedly servers just came back up so will see if it changes "dramatically" but atm seems im at 0% loss so that is a considerable upgrade for me personally.

[Hasrat]

but obviously SE thinks everyone in America lives on the west coast.

Or they maybe think not everybody in NA lives in the US.

[xJimmehx]

66 to 120.
Aether/Cactuar, Not EU though, Im in the Carolinas.(sorry, should have payed more attention to the question)
Is it just me or is it impossible to double weave without delaying a GCD at 120?

[MistakeNot]

I understand your point, but the thing to remember is that FFXIV was specifically balanced to consider the fact that many players will experience a 100ms+ ping. Other games can afford to demand a quicker reaction time from players because there are more datacenters available to accommodate more regions. SE only has three separate datacenters, and there are many players who are outside of the 'safe' zone of 100ms. This is why 100ms is okay in this game, but not in others. I'm not sure what the 'magic number' is, but I know Yoshi P has been asked about this and specifically mentioned that the game was balanced to accommodate players with higher ping -- but only to a point. I am way too lazy to look it up, but someone else can feel free to post it if they want to. (In case anyone was wondering, this is why those of us on the East Coast were so spoiled -- we could fit a LOT in before running out of an AoE because we knew we had time to do it. Players on the West Coast are going to learn to appreciate that privilege very soon. :P)

Fact is that most MMOs (not just FFXIV) are perfectly playable with ping times as high as 150-200ms. People may notice the difference between 50ms ping and 150ms ping, but it will not make the game unplayable.

I have played FFXIV on both EU servers (~40 ms ping time) and on NA servers (~120 ms ping time in the old data center) and did actually not notice much difference between them.

[dlgc]

Well, I am in Edmonton, Canada.

My geographical distance from Montreal is about 2,978km, used to have about 75ms.

My geographical distance from Sacramento is about 1,774km, and now I have about 94ms.

I did a brief test with my BLM just now in the game, and I can see no difference in how I performed.

Cheers,
D.

[Shurrikhan]

Down from 150 to 100 without WTFast, 100 to 30 with. Sad how much I'm still losing to bad jumps even at 400 miles from the new server, down from 3000.

[Theodric]

I have no clue what it was before, but it's sitting at 180 at present. I'm in the UK.

I imagine there's methods to improve it somehow, so I'll be looking into those as at present I haven't done anything to mitigate any issues.

[Krythas]

Atlanta here. My ping went from 55ms to 84ms. Nothing to panic over.

[Ageofwar]

I have no clue what it was before, but it's sitting at 180 at present. I'm in the UK.

I imagine there's methods to improve it somehow, so I'll be looking into those as at present I haven't done anything to mitigate any issues.

i'm UK too and it seems I have gone from about 100ms to 180ms