Serious Performance Issues (latency/server response time)

[Synovius]

Thanks for the replies.

As to it not being server-side and it being with our connection, I'm afraid to report that this isn't an issue isolated to me or even 2 or 3 or 5 people. This is an issue spread across literally everyone I've ever raided with. This is through 100mbps connections, through using Battleping or WTFast or even through VPNing to locations close to the data center. This is an issue with FFXIV and not with our machines or our connections. For example, here are my stats:

i5 2500K CPU
GTX980 4GB GPU
8GB RipJaws DDR3 RAM
Intel SSD
100mbps down / ~20mbps up

This is an issue with the game and with the servers or the way the game handles collision detection/positioning. I can even make a video if you want of me running directly through the balls on AS4 to have them not explode. I've even done this on AS3 where I've accidentally side-stepped through the little ball that comes out in the last phase only to have it not explode (thankfully in this case).

All I can say is that were I to fire up a game like WoW (I don't play WoW anymore because I find it boring and old), the responsiveness of the game is extremely crisp and exact. Things are far more fluid and synchronized there. I have no idea why this is but it is.

As to E'P's point, that makes sense with what limited understanding I have of networking concepts. I wonder if WoW uses UDP? At the very least I know the positioning of their data centers makes for substantially better routing. Although I could have sworn my latency to Gilgamesh was around 100ms which isn't amazing but it's all that bad (for an FPS it would be noticeable but shouldn't really be noticeable for an MMO). By comparison, the latency I feel in FFXIV, were I to compare it to my days of competitive UT2K4, would be like I was playing Bombing Run at 300-400ms.
Also HI E'P'!