Getting around high ping

[Sebazy]

I had close to the same ping when the EU servers were located in the US. A few tips I picked up from then as well as my time spent on WoW NA:

Take a close look at other things you can tweak to improve your setup's responsiveness. Double checking Game Mode is enabled on your TV or monitor is a great place to start. This knocked a good 30ms off my old Dell U2713H and can save you as much as 100ms or even more on some TVs. With a TV there are other settings you can tweak for faster response times as well, switching off motion interpolation is sometimes worth half to a full frame of latency on the chance that game mode doesn't lock it out already.

Factor in the efficiency of your UI. Do you click abilities? Think about adjusting things or creating additional hotbars to minimise how far you have to move your mouse. Are people's HP bars or key cooldowns tucked away out of sight? Again, consider shuffling things around to give yourself more of a HUD approach to help watch important buttons and bars. I'd suggest having a look at Elia Sand's UI if you want to see how far the UI efficiency rabbit hole goes.

Knowing what's coming easily makes up for almost any latency deficit. If you know that a mechanic is coming, you can prepare and potentially precast for it. If we ignore DPS metrics and logs rankings for a moment, this is really what makes a great healer truly shine and IMHO is a very significant part of why my groups have held me in high regard even if my actual damage is mediocre at best for the most part. Even when it comes to people making mistakes, being able to observe and appreciate the big picture will often allow you to anticipate someone's failure before they've even done it. This gives you plenty of time to get that heal or barrier heading their way before the damage is done. The best way to learn this? Record yourself. I swear I say this in every thread that's asking for advice but it's the single biggest tip that anyone can ever receive IMHO. It's easy to do irrespective of your platform and unless you play on a PS4, have no upload speed and even less spare money to go get a capture card instead, there's no excuse in 2018.

One final tip I would suggest, if you do get a recording of yourself and want some earnest advice on it, don't be afraid to put it up here.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...70#post4123070

If you're ever in doubt of how concise, well thought out and thorough some of the advice here can be, the above should dispel that.