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[Yeol]

So where are the people benefiting form this?
Probably too happy playing the game.

[SilkaN]

So where are the people benefiting form this?
Probably too happy playing the game.

Positive feedback is not allowed on these forums. ARE YOU NEW OR WHAT?!?!

;^)

[Exiled_Tonberry]

But do you raid?
Do you raid aiming for world 1st / server 1st?

Most people who do are going to have issues now. If you don't raid, you don't understand.

You don't even have to aim for server/world firsts to feel the hit on such a high ping. Just being decent at your job will start to become difficult.
Most jobs require double CD weaving, which is POSSIBLE, but so much easier on a ping less than 100...

[DarkRain]

I live in Oklahoma . No real difference its 1800+ mile to Montreal where the old server was and its just about 1800 miles to Sacramento .......

[cakesphere]

In Western PA and I can definitely feel the ping spike. I think I can just barely double weave properly on BRD but it's a tight fit. On BLM slidecasting feels kind of wonky and I'm going to have to relearn where the sweet spot is. People saying you can be competitive in high-end content with high ping are delusional, sorry. Your connection absolutely makes a difference.

I was hoping to drop WTFast with the server move (kept being routed through level3 to montreal which was destroying my latency) but now I have to keep WTFast AND my ping is worse...worst of both worlds I guess hoping for Chicago was too much.

[Semmi]

This game feels near unplayable at a high level for me now. Having been accustomed to reasonable latency playing the game for the past 4 years (40ms), the server move has just about tripled my latency and I can no longer dual weave without clipping my GCDs, as well as slidecasting feeling a lot less consistent. My Raiton as a Ninja now clips significantly into my GCD, and overall the game just doesn't feel responsive anymore.

The game is of course playable and all content can be cleared with their target latency in mind (200ms IIRC), but my quality of service playing this game got significantly worse to the point where it's just frustrating being unable to play at the level I was able to play at before. I am now having less fun since there's really just no reason to push myself in this game as much as I have in the past.

[Kaethra]

200ms pings from the east coast...

Can someone explain why this is when Everquest's NA servers are just up the road from the FFXIV servers and the ping is half that or lower? Even before the server move.. twisting mudras was laggier than twisting bard songs in a 18 year old game.

The problem isn't distance at all. There's a 100ms added just because its a SE operated server.

[RaijinSupreme]

Can't wait for this one to blow over.

[Jetstream_Fox]

I live in Oklahoma . No real difference its 1800+ mile to Montreal where the old server was and its just about 1800 miles to Sacramento .......

Wish I could say the same, from my town in Illinois to Montreal it's 849 miles, to Sacramento you ask? 2020 miles. For one of my discord leaders he's out in VA and he said it's almost 3000 miles to Sacramento and about 730 miles to Montreal. Obviously where he and I live, we would benefit from a east coast server, but obviously SE thinks everyone in America lives on the west coast.