Do we need to keep our FFXIV client for the benchmarks?

[Lucke]

The A Realm Reborn client is completely different from the current version, so it's fine to uninstall the game if you'd like!

However, please keep in mind that it will be possible to import your current character data to the ARR character creation benchmark to play around with. So if you'd like to do that, be sure to back up your FFXIV folder located in your My Games > FINAL FANTASY XIV before uninstalling.

You can delete/uninstall the entire XIV directory if you want, but if you wanna use your character for the benchmark, make sure you back up your character data first.