Is WTFast Required To Play XIV?

[Cleanse]

With no real replies to the 'Latency' thread (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Data-Center%29) and having talked with both Comcast and Level3 (they are both 'looking into it'), is a VPN a requirement to play the game?

The issue has been around for a very long time and no real information has come from SE or ISPs on a fix in the near future.

[worldofneil]

If you use an ISP that routes you via Level 3 (i.e. Comcast)... maybe. Depends if you play at a time when Level 3 is busy or not and drops packets. If you have an ISP that doesn't route you through Level 3... you probably don't need any VPN software.

[Lexia]

Short answer no. Long answer maybe as Worldofneil explained.

[Shurrikhan]

In my case, if I want to play optimally, yes. If I'm just doing casual content, no. I run about 85-115 ms with WTFast and 120-185 without, due primarily to bad hubs that a VPN is the only way I have to avoid with the local internet service. In the few times that hub isn't hugely trafficked, the difference is seemingly minimal, but still enough to prevent a minimal skill-speed maximization of GCDs within a given buff window (e.g. a maxed Berzerk). When it's especially bad, the 330-420 ping makes the game feel unplayable.

[Lambdafish]

I'm from the UK but play on a US server and WTFast is mostly necessary for raiding and current EX primals, though I only switch it on for those events, the rest of the time the I can play fine.