Quote Originally Posted by CuteBucket View Post
I keep seeing people debate if it's the actual FFXIV servers getting DDOS'd or this NTT node people keep mentioning. How do we determine what is causing it? Because I remember I time I had to use a VPN to get around the problem node and there was ZERO world from SE in the Lodestone about it. But now we're getting a Lodestone post almost every day about DDOS attacks.
I’m curious about that too… back when the first big lag spikes started happening ages ago and they were having us do tracerts, the San Jose and Sacramento nodes at NTT were showing up as the point where it was all going bad. I freely admit I have no tech knowledge, but this feels different. Back then I had near constant lag and stuttering. I couldn’t walk more than 3 steps without a noticeable pause. My minions and mount animations would stutter. When things got really bad, things would freeze up, then all the animations would go off at once in fast forward mode.

Tonight’s Strayborough… Went fine til the hallway just after the balloons. I don’t “feel” the lag, I’m walking around just fine. No one else appears frozen. The pokeball is over my head off and on, and I’m still able to move through the dungeon with the rest of the party, but I can’t use any of my buttons. The noise plays for the beginning of the spell but doesn’t do anything. There’s no freeze and fast forward, it’s like I only got the last split second visual of any attack showing up with no time to dodge it, or it’s registering my movement too late and I’m being teleported to another spot on the floor. I could finally use skills when we got to the dolls, but then the lag came in. Rest of the night was just “normal” lag, with the occasional pokeball for me or other party members, while getting hit with things I should’ve been well clear of. Other nights, I’ll know it’s starting up when I’m hitting buttons and the animations are actually playing normally but damage isn’t registering to the enemy and the spells are still there like I hadn’t used them.

I don’t know if this is DDOS or bad NTT nodes or a combination of both… but it’s just about every day now!