genuinely surprised none came in and went "hurr durr get PC" o3o,

What milmoko said :3 get a solid state drive, it tends to cut a couple seconds off your loading time and when out of FFXIV it makes a lot of other games (like say GTAV) much faster since thats loading off the drive rather then awaiting information from a server,
the only other way is to go onto a server with the lowest PING to you, the lower your ping the faster your loading times would be.