[LAG SPIKES] - Unplayable!

[wissymaru]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...serious-issues
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nection-thread.

[Frater]

Only workaround is to use a vpn to get to the game servers using a route that doesn't screw up until they get their networking issues solved.

[waka_swag]

I was actually just about to post about this. I'm playing on a PS3 and my ISP is Verizon FiOS. Could this be the ISP issue i've read about? I have no issue doing anything on my internet, from Netflix to other games and multiple people on at the same time, but with ff14 it's nearly unplayable. I know PS3 has graphical issues displaying things all the time, but what I'm experiencing is straight up lag, 5-30 second loss of info.

I'll run my rotation twice before anything actually happens, and it all happens at once, then stops again. I'm a tank btw, so it makes it kinda tough to keep mobs on me when I pull and it takes up to 10 seconds for anything on my screen to react. At that point the mobs are already over everyone else, and I'm now struggling to bring em back to me.

I feel your pain, I am on PS3 as well and dealing with these issues as a Paladin is unacceptable because you can do what you're supposed to do in group situations. I have been all but unsuccessful at completing the Garuda fight and other instanced dungeons because I lag too much to tank it properly or keep up with the mechanics. It sucks to have the game lag out when you have to run behind the rocks to avoid AOE or when you lag out and can't get hate on a group of mobs before they're running everywhere. I also have issues of the game not registering targets movement and have mobs frozen in position and I get a "target not in range" error. At first I thought it was just my Playstation, or my connection speed, or even my wifi, but these have never been an issue any other time.

[Ricje]

It sounds like the need to do a roll back because whatever they did for five minutes last night has just guttered everything up completely.

It's been going on for a week.
See the sticky