I am an American who lives in Japan but prefer the atmosphere of the NA Datacenters for various reasons. The issue is, my ping to NA is about 120ms. Not terrible, but according to high-end players, somewhat bad for “ping-reliant” jobs. For reference I get 20ms on the JP servers.
I really want to try out NIN among other DPS jobs but have been somewhat warded away from the idea due to my latency.
I’ve never attempted high-end content and before I put hours into grinding jobs to max level to “try” them, I’d like to ask some questions and get realistic answers from the job mentors here..
1) I don’t need to be the highest parsing player, but would my ping (120ms) truly hurt my DPS so much on NIN that it would be noticeable to the group?
2) When people say “high ping will be an issue” are they simply talking about the most meta, optimal way to play (i.e. parsing in 90%+) or will there be job actions which will legitimately be inaccessible to me due to combo timings, etc.?
3) Is the 100ms difference between NA and JP worth transferring? What would you do, assuming you’re in my position?
Thanks all!
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I really want to try out NIN among other DPS jobs but have been somewhat warded away from the idea due to my latency.
I’ve never attempted high-end content and before I put hours into grinding jobs to max level to “try” them, I’d like to ask some questions and get realistic answers from the job mentors here..
1) I don’t need to be the highest parsing player, but would my ping (120ms) truly hurt my DPS so much on NIN that it would be noticeable to the group?
2) When people say “high ping will be an issue” are they simply talking about the most meta, optimal way to play (i.e. parsing in 90%+) or will there be job actions which will legitimately be inaccessible to me due to combo timings, etc.?
3) Is the 100ms difference between NA and JP worth transferring? What would you do, assuming you’re in my position?
Thanks all!
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