I added http://fronter.ffxiv.com to my trusted sites list and chrome and it didn't work. Disabled windows defender, still didn't work. The entire time I couldn't get to the forums either. Then suddenly, it worked and I was also able to get to the forums at the same time. Also made sure there were exemptions in windows firewall for FFXIV, they were there but I created new ones anyways.

Really stumped, nothing I do seems to fix it but the issue seems intermittent at times. Don't want to turn off windows defender because that's what microsoft security essentials has become in Windows 10 and that's what I use as my antivirus.