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[Makeda]

As Pence notes this might just be in my head, but thew 43ms ping makes me feel like I move "too fast". I am now over running or spinning because things are done before I expect them to be. I suspect I will be used to this in a few days, and the people on the other side of the equation will get used to that soon as well.

[Ayerinn]

As Pence notes this might just be in my head, but thew 43ms ping makes me feel like I move "too fast". I am now over running or spinning because things are done before I expect them to be. I suspect I will be used to this in a few days, and the people on the other side of the equation will get used to that soon as well.

I had a similar experience at Gold Saucer - I had a horrible time with the "stop the moving bar on the line" mini games...I was not used to it stopping instantly (despite only recently starting playing them) and not having to hit the button a bit ahead of time, lol.

[Stormfur]

I was leveling monk on an alt last night in POTD it sometimes it felt like button presses didn't react so I'd have to mash them again, but that has always happened from time to time. Not sure if more or less since the move, and it's so inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

I wonder why SE doesn't make more things client-side, like they did when they fixed mudras -- is it that the software is too easy to hack? Or some other reason?

[Aladire]

I feel that they did more than just relocate the data servers. For me, my ping went from 45ish to 100ish. Yet, my actions respond the same and I see enemies attack sooner so I can react earlier to move out of things.

Yet, the HP bars seem to respond much slower. For example, I was in PotD and after casting a heal, I was able to start casting another one the moment the animation finish all before the HP updated.

[TheLastDream]

This game is so smooth now!

[Shurrikhan]

The real point of difference appears to be somewhere in the high 70s to low 80s. Below that point you will see zero difference in rotational throughput with identical double-weaved rotations. Previously I could occasionally get as low as 82 ms some nights but generally hovered around 100 ms. The difference was enough for me to shave off some 70 skill speed while still barely meeting bonus potencies in certain extended rotations. It's significant. It's not huge, but it IS definitely noticeable. My ping has since fallen to ~35, however, and there has been zero difference in the same gear with the same rotation between the new, reduced latency and the low-80s ms ping.

Just speaking from my experiences without using WTFast, wherein I have 40 to 100% higher ping times due to horrible routes to the server, it also seemed like the difference seemed to taper off again in terms of how oGCDs were handled after ~160-170 ms latency. Regardless at that point you're forced to single-weave for best net output (true unless you'd waste the oGCD in most cases past 110ish ms), but after 160 didn't seem to make much difference in how much the oGCD clipped the GCD, even going up to around 300 ms. It did, however, make the full difference in AoEs. There's the abysmal tick frequency, and then there's a third of a second atop it. I'd often appear to be out of an AoE circle a full second before its collapse and still be hit. By 160, it felt almost fair. 100, due to the time spent at that latency, felt very fair. And now, at 30, I feel like I'm accidentally running into AoEs by returning to my spot apparently a little too soon. Sync/desync with the server polling rate makes this hard to test, but it would seem that only the oGCDs or other queuing functions seem to follow a sort of tiered and retiered taper in regards to latency's actual effects.

[Vice-Taicho]

Montreal player here , had to drop mch since opener clips way to much and double weaving is now impossible, was playing pvp mnk and probably drop that too since burst, take forever to come out, I'll stick to pld pve and mnk pve.It just suck that I cant play well as I used too because the changed server location

[ElasmoFan]

Being under 150, it's really just a matter of getting used to it a bit and. It's the people that shot up 200+ that are going to have trouble.

[LittleChickenNugget]

I went from 150 ping to 440 and it's... pretty damn noticeable on my end.

[Jxnibbles]

I went from 20-30ish to 90-100. I noticed the difference almost right away Bard is more unresponsive my double ogcds are clipping. I can't cancel cast on blm anymore at 55% now I have to get it to 80%. And I used to be able to get out of aoes at the last second. I can no longer cheese aoes.