Thread: Constant packet loss since patch 6.3

I resubbed 4 days ago after a break since 6.0, and never in the years that I've played the game have I had the latency issues I've been having in the past few days. I play on Cerberus (EU server), and in the mornings the latency seems to be manageable (it's still very much there), but in the afternoons and evenings the spikes often last 10 to 20 seconds, with complete server disconnects becoming more frequent later on during the day.

Needless to say, this makes dungeons as a damage dealer a lot more dangerous than they need to be, and as a healer or tank they're downright impossible. This evening I tried twice to do some ocean fishing and got booted from the server both times.

I'm not the most savvy person when it comes to internet tech issues, but resetting the router has done nothing to alleviate the problem. I can try playing via a VPN, though I don't know if that would help at all. If anyone has any other tips or tricks I'd love to hear them as this is really sucking the fun out of the experience...

Originally Posted by Keadin

I resubbed 4 days ago after a break since 6.0, and never in the years that I've played the game have I had the latency issues I've been having in the past few days. I play on Cerberus (EU server), and in the mornings the latency seems to be manageable (it's still very much there), but in the afternoons and evenings the spikes often last 10 to 20 seconds, with complete server disconnects becoming more frequent later on during the day.

Needless to say, this makes dungeons as a damage dealer a lot more dangerous than they need to be, and as a healer or tank they're downright impossible. This evening I tried twice to do some ocean fishing and got booted from the server both times.

I'm not the most savvy person when it comes to internet tech issues, but resetting the router has done nothing to alleviate the problem. I can try playing via a VPN, though I don't know if that would help at all. If anyone has any other tips or tricks I'd love to hear them as this is really sucking the fun out of the experience...

I am using a VPN now and it helps with the constant freezing when I use a VPN at US West but it raises my ping

Hi all,

playing on Raiden/Light DC.
Since Patch 6.3 I have massive lag issues that are especially bad in the evenings rendering the game unplayable. It affects all gameplay aspects (other players teleporting, GCDs not lighting up, retainers take forever to load etc.).

My connection to Light DC is showing up as Poor, although it used to be Excellent, as I'm located not far away from the physical location of the servers.
My connection to Chaos DC is displayed as Excellent, but I haven't checked, if lag persists there as well. Will check with DC travel.

But yeah, it's extremely annoying and with the new raid tier coming up, idk if I'll be able to play at all - leveled up a character on EU because NA raid times are rough - can't always raid until 3am in the morning with a job.

Originally Posted by Esquel

Hi all,

playing on Raiden/Light DC.
Since Patch 6.3 I have massive lag issues that are especially bad in the evenings rendering the game unplayable. It affects all gameplay aspects (other players teleporting, GCDs not lighting up, retainers take forever to load etc.).

My connection to Light DC is showing up as Poor, although it used to be Excellent, as I'm located not far away from the physical location of the servers.
My connection to Chaos DC is displayed as Excellent, but I haven't checked, if lag persists there as well. Will check with DC travel.

But yeah, it's extremely annoying and with the new raid tier coming up, idk if I'll be able to play at all - leveled up a character on EU because NA raid times are rough - can't always raid until 3am in the morning with a job.

Not sure what to do about it, I tried uninstalling the game, changing WiFi connection settings etc. Not that tech-savvy so I really have no idea anymore. Playing on PS5.

Cheers!! ✨

Posting here because my spouse and I are having same packet loss issues and have been for a few months now. Internet is running fine, no packet loss with other applications that are running at the same time as FFXIV. Only seem to experience the packet loss somewhere between us and the SE servers. Seems to happen mostly in the late evenings/night. It set my spouse back on his TOP prog because he's had days where it caused him to freeze over and over and cause wipes (eventually they did clear, but not without a lot of lag along the way). Meanwhile, I'm trying to do EO and I just keep freezing/lagging my way through.

Please, fix. Thanks.

Sadly's still some lag spikes happening after the patch 6.4 dropped. It's rough because the blind seconds of what is going to happen is nerve wrecking that I stopped leveling up Tank and Healer Classes... and today in a Dungeon run did I got knocked out from full health to zero due to lag spike while leveling up the Samurai class x.x (Almost lv 70 on it, just Monk is left sitting on lvl 60 and all Melee DPS classes will be lvl 90 for me.) Yes that's the only thing I can do, leveling up DPS classes and avoiding to go to Endwalker content until the issue is fixed...