Titan Extreme is NOT Fun

[Calyanare]

So basically you want it be more carebear....

Not everyone wants MMO's to have an easy progression...

I like difficult things. What I don't like is a fight that is a straight-up latency check with instant death if you happen to have lag at the wrong time. Since the maintenance right after Christmas, instances have been mostly unplayable for me during primetime because of lag spikes making the constant Insta-Death gimmicks undodgeable (however, I just tried it a couple hours ago at 6am, didn't have any lag, and it was pretty fun). Things that are beyond the player's control should be recoverable, IMO.

[Craiger]

I like difficult things. What I don't like is a fight that is a straight-up latency check with instant death if you happen to have lag at the wrong time. Since the maintenance right after Christmas, instances have been mostly unplayable for me during primetime because of lag spikes making the constant Insta-Death gimmicks undodgeable (however, I just tried it a couple hours ago at 6am, didn't have any lag, and it was pretty fun). Things that are beyond the player's control should be recoverable, IMO.

That's another thing... If that's what the OP means, then I'm sorry for my post, but as I understood it, he was complaining about how he has to learn the fight and be able to react fast (kind of)

I have experience of delay too, I live in Sweden, and I normally had 160 ping... which is (or was at least) noticeable when doing Primals, but the after the 0.1 sec position update improvement (was 0.3 sec before) and with some other tools (WTFast)... I haven't had much problem. If you have high ping, I recommend looking up how you can lower that number by using different DNS server or using WTFast(easier choice) for example.

The best thing would be for them to change these kind of content in the future though... But NOT make it easier. You can have engaging fights that is really hard, without requiring very good ping.

They can't account for people with 200+ ping though (sorry if you live very far away from server), that would ruin the content for the people who have acceptable ping.

[Quattrob]

Lag and latency issues will always be in any MMO, so I don't see any reliable way to fix this issue for players that cant seem to beat difficult contents with this issue. Sadly if it's latency/lag issue that is stopping pple from beating endgame content, best thing to do is just not do them. In any ONLINE game there will always be lag or delays, so this isn't just a FFXIV problem.

[Kevee]

Lag and latency issues will always be in any MMO, so I don't see any reliable way to fix this issue for players that cant seem to beat difficult contents with this issue. Sadly if it's latency/lag issue that is stopping pple from beating endgame content, best thing to do is just not do them. In any ONLINE game there will always be lag or delays, so this isn't just a FFXIV problem.

The thing with FFXIV, though, is that I, and many others, only have a problem with FFXIV.

I'm a good player.

I know I am.

But I have to use WTFast, and I've never had to do that with any other game.

[Craiger]

The thing with FFXIV, though, is that I, and many others, only have a problem with FFXIV.

I'm a good player.

I know I am.

But I have to use WTFast, and I've never had to do that with any other game.

You from Europe ? If so, it's pretty obvious why you and many others (including me) have higher ping... Cause there are not servers in Europe, unlike almost every other MMO.

If you live in US, then I don't know... Shouldn't be any problem. I get the ping I expect from Sweden, 160 without WTFast(not "premium") and 140 with it. Which is to be expected.

[Tupsi]

You from Europe ? If so, it's pretty obvious why you and many others (including me) have higher ping... Cause there are not servers in Europe, unlike almost every other MMO.

If you live in US, then I don't know... Shouldn't be any problem. I get the ping I expect from Sweden, 160 without WTFast(not "premium") and 140 with it. Which is to be expected.

There's problems with people in the US and problems with people that have only a stone's throw to the data center servers - That means it's an ISP problem because unlike other MMORPGs, XIV's data tend to get throttled by ISPs due to it appearing as torrent type P2P traffic. This is why with some other MMOs, WoW included, some people have issues updating the game but not necessarily playing it.

[Craiger]

There's problems with people in the US and problems with people that have only a stone's throw to the data center servers - That means it's an ISP problem because unlike other MMORPGs, XIV's data tend to get throttled by ISPs due to it appearing as torrent type P2P traffic. This is why with some other MMOs, WoW included, some people have issues updating the game but not necessarily playing it.

Thanks ! Didn't know that actually

Had heard something about this before, but I thought it got fixed ?

Not something I notice, since we don't have any throttling of p2p.... That would s*ck.