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[Judge_Xero]

Ontario Canada.

Went from 30ms to 79 ms

Not a huge difference, but I notice that my oGCD skill will not always go off if I try to double weave. I will have to spam the 2nd skill to make sure it goes off with the potential to clip the GCD.

On a positive note my GCD skills are significantly faster. There is no longer a slight delay for when they go off after being queued.

[Archchancellor]

Kissimmee FL My ping went down by from 126 to 106.

[SaitoHikari]

Los Angeles/El Monte, CA. Ping went from around 114 ms, to 76 within the first hour of the servers opening up again, down to 24 ms since.

The ping drop has allowed me to modify my opener as a Bard to use an extra Heavy Shot instead of using Feint to cram in two oGCDs before my buffs fall off, or use Feint to fit in an extra resetting Bloodletter or two. It's a fairly significant opening burst damage increase.

[Mysticales]

Los Angeles/El Monte, CA. Ping went from around 114 ms, to 76 within the first hour of the servers opening up again, down to 24 ms since.

The ping drop has allowed me to modify my opener as a Bard to use an extra Heavy Shot instead of using Feint to cram in two oGCDs before my buffs fall off, or use Feint to fit in an extra resetting Bloodletter or two. It's a fairly significant opening burst damage increase.

Not to stray from topic, but that is quite a difference when someone reports from the other side of the fence saying how it increased their DPS with a latency change.

Has anyone else seen any differences from high ping to maybe lessened in case dns and isps routed differently now?

[SaitoHikari]

Not to stray from topic, but that is quite a difference when someone reports from the other side of the fence saying how it increased their DPS with a latency change.

Has anyone else seen any differences from high ping to maybe lessened in case dns and isps routed differently now?

Well, to be honest, I main Bard, probably one of the most ping-dependent classes in the game. Machinist would be in a similar boat, I'd think. People talk about Ninja lag, but I think Bard players had it a lot worse, many just don't realize it because most people ran for the hills as soon as WM became a thing and never tried to really optimize the class.

I'd pretty much notice immediately when I go through my opener and notice I still have like 2 seconds remaining at the end to fit in an extra GCD, and the delay between activating each buff is significantly shortened AND Bloodletter doesn't really clip into things anymore. Not sure how it's like for other classes as while I've leveled virtually all of them, I haven't taken them into serious raid content.

Uh... I actually do have video footage of sorts to compare, I stream my roulettes sometimes for possible documentation purposes. Though since I don't have Twitch Prime, my pre-transfer footage is going to get nuked soon.

May 6 (Before Transfer): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/140620010
May 17 (After Transfer): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/144574932

(Before anyone asks, that's not my real raid opener, I can't be expected to use potions all the time. However, the standard roulette opener I use has actually made it really easy to see exactly how much of a difference going from 110 ms to 24 has made for me. In pre-transfer footage, my first attack tends to land with Hawk's Eye having 15-16 seconds left on the timer, whereas in post-transfer, it lands at 16-17 seconds. Already from the start, it's a big difference, for me at least. Plus my Bloodletter often clipped into things pre-transfer, and pretty much not at all post-transfer.)

[Hetchy]

It seems specious when you make that statement before you move the servers to a secret location that you know will subsequently screw over vast swaths of players to having -- you guessed it, 200ms latency, AT BEST.

But don't worry, stop complaining! 200ms is fine, great, perfectly playable and enjoyable. In fact, those under 200ms should really be lagged out by the server to 200ms. I mean...that's how they've proclaimed the game should be played, right? It's probably better at 200ms if you really give it a chance!

Please. 200ms is not worth $15 a month. I'll move to EU if I experience that to be better, I guess, but the very idea I have to do that is ridiculous. I can't imagine how many new players this will chase away. If I hadn't just hit 60, met fun players, and really enjoyed the game (crafting and gathering can be fun? who knew), there's not a chance in the world I would continue on with this.

Just, what the hell?

[Faliandra]

And you really couldnt fit that into one of the other 34089120349801580565t25901 outcry threads?

[vientown]

And you really couldnt fit that into one of the other 34089120349801580565t25901 outcry threads?

Yassssss sis! Defend this bad business practice! You sure showed him! I bet he is #shook af after that sick putdown.

I love minimising discourse! Yoshi P is the best, can't wait for Fanfest Saudi Arabia! It doesn't matter that no other threads are explicitly talking about the 200ms 'baseline' that is clearly ludicrous (especially for a server side battle system). You shouldn't have to see opinions and discussion on your FF hugbox site! No worries though, we can police comments together, and bring back the ~*~*~*love*~*~*~ for this service that they are kind enough to let us use actual money to pay for!

EDIT: Would you rather talk about how in 2017, after the end of support for PS3, the game still doesn't have anti aliasing and looks like trash garbage?

[Faliandra]

completely irrelevant BS rant

U mad, brah? I'm not defending anything. Dont put words in my mouth.

So you think LITERALLY flooding the forums with 304982358205 gazillion threads is gonna make a difference?

in JP, they get more feedback because they discuss and gather information about a topic in ONE big thread.

This just looks like a few angry snowflakes who feel they deserve a separate attention post of their own.
If anything, THIS behaviour will just make the devs take input from NA/EU less seriously.

[vientown]

U mad, brah? I'm not defending anything. Dont put words in my mouth.

So you think LITERALLY flooding the forums with 304982358205 gazillion threads is gonna make a difference?

in JP, they get more feedback because they discuss and gather information about a topic in ONE big thread.

This just looks like a few angry snowflakes who feel they deserve a separate attention post of their own.
If anything, THIS behaviour will just make the devs take input from NA/EU less seriously.

yeah bc they take it so seriously now sis :eyeroll:

Man, who pooped in your cornflakes?

XDDDDDDDD you're so funny!! that should be a meme