[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

[Fourbestintoner]

Bullshit. We played with way higher ping than that at the server's old location. Learn to adapt, like we did.

Allow me to be rude, you're a potd main paladin what do you even know? 30ms, 100ms, 400ms makes no difference to you.

I'm a MCH, from Australia....I raided the first savage tier of Alex with 220ms (Sarganatas) - including AS3. Did it take more time for me to learn fights? No. I learnt the fights at the same time as my team. Even so much as using blank on a bomb in AS2 as part of our strat. My DPS was on par with the community - and at times above. In PVP I'd often get praise for my healing abilities, playing against players in the US/Canada. I consider myself an average player in Aus.

Let me doubt your numbers, only one parse uploaded and it's grey.
And mch is one of the least affected job by bad ping, only the opener is.

[Emerald_Swords]

The difference is very negligible on your end. From Montreal myself and haven't noticed any big lag so far.

[Pence]

Allow me to be rude, you're a potd main paladin what do you even know? 30ms, 100ms, 400ms makes no difference to you.



Let me doubt your numbers, only one parse uploaded and it's grey.
And mch is one of the least affected job by bad ping, only the opener is.

You don't play MCH at all, do you?

[dragonseth07]

Allow me to be rude, you're a potd main paladin what do you even know? 30ms, 100ms, 400ms makes no difference to you.

Because it's not "I", it's "we". Believe it or not, there are raiders that didn't live in NE Canada. You can discount me all you want. You can't discount everyone else who has dealt with ping upwards of 200 for years.

[bounddreamer]

Results may vary. I'm noticing a difference in some things and it's a big improvement. Other things are same as they've always been.

Already I've noticed I'm able to get out of aoes last second where they would have hit me before; and my healing is much smoother and faster so I don't have to precast or anticipate as much.

[Raikki]

Move pushed me from 30ms to 105ms and the difference was pretty noticeable. Significant GCD clipping, combos take much more time to light up on the hotbar, casting cancels became much more delayed, and AOEs hit me when I dodge them the same way I always have. Using a tunneling service (Pingzapper) has helped bring the responsiveness a little closer to what it was like before, but not thrilled about the extra expense.

[Canadane]

You're focusing too much on the ping. Which isn't everything. The change has removed level 3 from many people's route and that's a much more important factor. Level 3 has been the cause of countless connection issues with XIV and when the data center was in Montreal, many people had to suffer through it. If the change has removed level 3 from yours then you're going to see a huge improvement in stability and reliability, long term.

I'm only routing through level3 now.
this wasn't anything SE had in mind.

[Naria]

I've played FFXIV from several different locations over the years, and in my experience the game only starts to get frustrating to play once you are getting into the 200-300ms range. I have noticed a difference in the lower ranges, but nothing that made me upset. Currently, my ping went up by 10ms with the move but my packet loss is gone despite the 'higher" (negligible) ping, so the game is playing more smoothly for me.

[Pence]

Square Enix is a highly profitable video game company.

Wasn't SE in quite a bit of trouble not long ago?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

What if it was a sudden and silently forced change, after putting the new expansion pre-porders up first, with no reasonable way to improve or question said situation.

Yup, I'd be pretty triggered as well.

Talking for you people! Nobody deserves this poo on a 1.0 legacy server - somewhere in the middle of the re-launch.

Nobody does.

Well I'm on a legacy server, as a legacy player, before Balmung even existed, and my ping went down and now I have 0 packet loss. I guess we didn't deserve that though.