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[LunarEmerald]

I like how you're just purposely missing the point now.
100+ ping doesn't only effect progression raiders. It's silly to even think that.

I didn't say it doesn't affect you, I said it's not a big deal unless you're a progression raider. A small dps loss isn't going to make or break the game for you. MUH DEEPS.

[Amiral_Benson]

That was interesting read. With the upcoming changes in the expansion, is there a chance for this issue to be fixed? I understand very little of the technical mojo (obviously) so I'm wondering if such issue is too deeply rooted to be fixed or it's something that could be among the changes in SB?

That's the real question MuseTraveller, lots of us believe it could be fixed, because they somehow already fixed in some extend some skills like Mudra.

The thing is, instead of making all this noise about the new Datacenter location, it's better to tackle the root of the problem, and what can be fixed, so that East or West coast location stop to matters, and for this, everyone who feel their game is now not responsive enough, they feel they are losing some DPS, etc. instead of screaming on the Datacenter location, they should go to that net-code topic and give there their support and testimony, make some noise there, and those problems could be solved without having to move again Datacenters.

[Uzephi]

This might be overkill for checking ping, but it does do some magic like jitter test to the server, checks for ping spikes, PL along the routes, etc.

[Amiral_Benson]

The real question is why is it a discussion about the ping, when it should be a discussion about the root of the problem: the net-code.

All these high ping issues have the potential to be solved by changing the game net-code, so I really wonder why people vent everywhere about the server location, instead of being more constructive by going testify about how unresponsive the game is now for them in the topic about how net-code changes could make high ping issues irrelevant.

Go there, make noise there.

[Raikki]

I didn't say it doesn't affect you, I said it's not a big deal unless you're a progression raider. A small dps loss isn't going to make or break the game for you. MUH DEEPS.

For a lot of us it's not about "muh deeps" per se, it's about whether or not it's fun to play. If Fuma Shuriken clips my next GCD, for example, that's not just about DPS. It messes up the rhythm of the job. It feels clunky and uncomfortable. It's playable and you can still get good DPS with it, but it doesn't feel good to play anymore. That's the bigger issue.

[RaijinSupreme]

Please, can we not create more threads about this?

this is like the 4th "everyone calm down about the ping" thread up already.

[Kyouki]

I would kill for a 120 ping... Even for a 150 lol...

[Fourbestintoner]

I definitely can't play nin or blm anymore unless I want to be trash at them, 100ms+ being playable is a total lie, only paladin is unaffected.
Shame they were they were the jobs I loved the most, but now swiftcast is not working properly and everything clip on nin, time to become a drg main.

[LunarEmerald]

For a lot of us it's not about "muh deeps" per se, it's about whether or not it's fun to play. If Fuma Shuriken clips my next GCD, for example, that's not just about DPS. It messes up the rhythm of the job. It feels clunky and uncomfortable. It's playable and you can still get good DPS with it, but it doesn't feel good to play anymore. That's the bigger issue.

All jobs are going to greatly change come StormBlood anyway. The value of skill speed will change the timing of everything alone. I feel things are being blown out of proportion.

Your bubble of comfort was gonna burst anyway, the server change just did it prematurely.

[Lelila38]

I definitely can't play nin or blm anymore unless I want to be trash at them, 100ms+ being playable is a total lie, only paladin is unaffected.
Shame they were they were the jobs I loved the most, but now swiftcast is not working properly and everything clip on nin, time to become a drg main.

I'm a Blm main since beta and my ping was never below 100ms, now gone up to almost 200, so let me tell you that Blm is still playable. It might take some time adjusting, especially if you were used to an extremely low ping, but it's certainly doable.
I know the swiftcast problem though, my advice on this is to just slightly move while pressing the swiftcast button and the skill you are trying to swiftcast. And no, you're not going to lose dps while doing that, as it's swiftcast, an instant cast. Helped me avoind the cliping most times.