Effects of ping/latency on animation lock and ability to perform rotations normally.

[Malpercios]

Hello,

I'm pretty sure I'm the one that asked Yoship those questions, or at least very similar ones since I also live on the east coast of Canada. While 120 ping is 'playable' the job feels very unresponsive and can sometimes cause clipping issues during weaving. In the worst case scenarios this can lead to missing an entire heatblast. I have since started using a VPN at the start of SHB since I've been raiding mostly, if not exclusively on MCH for my static. While this alleviates the issue, I'm forced to also pay a subscription to said VPN (Exitlag). Whilst there is cheaper options, none of them worked for me. More popular and cheaper options such as Mudfish barely had any routes available for where I live (Montréal) and/or would just keep DC'ing me. My issue is pale in comparison to people playing MCH overseas or even in south America (200+ ping). I don't think a VPN should be needed to play a job.

As it was mentioned in a above post, this issue has been talked about multiple times on these forums. In the early days of Shadowbringer this was probably the biggest subject of conversation around machinist and multiple ways of fixing this was proposed. Even from a job design point there are ways to fix this. Reaper for instance plays very similarly to MCH. Their shroud form is basically a version of hypercharge, except it is not as limited by time like the latter (30 sec vs 8 sec). The reaper chooses to end this window with it's finisher move. Something similar could have been added to MCH as well. Another options would be stacks similar to the new Inner release or perfect balance, though it would not fix the weaving issues per say.

Machinist's playstyle feels complete to a certain degree but changes to part of its core design such as heat would make it 'feel' better to a lot of players and even allow some unfortunate ones to be able to play it even at higher ping. I get that it is late into ShB and EW is about to release so I doubt anything will change in the short term, but please consider one of the many options your community is providing.

PS: As asked in the QnA, my internet provider is Videotron, connecting to Aether.