mostly wired, same thing on wireless connection
have had a couple disconnections in the past but not recently
lag intensifies with player density/how many actions are happening from and other players nearby.
I only use one character
happens without a VPN, not much testing with a VPN so far
especially bad lag in packed areas/instances, can be anywhere in the game
orange in france
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I said I have packet loss, but I never get disconnects. It's technically playable, and what I see other players/enemies do is pretty accurate to the truth, but pressing abilities is very laggy which feels bad and only becomes a bigger issue as I try to get into harder content.
At first I thought I just had absurdly high ping in this game for no reason (2000-14000 in packed areas) but I do not feel that much of a delay, and a tracert to neolobby06.ffxiv.com (chaos) confirmed that my ping was very low (<10-35), but a few nodes were dropping packets consistently. Another test I ran showed me that I had 100% packet loss to the ffxiv servers but I can't remember the command for that one.