Help me understand AOE markers

SE has accepted this as a bug:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-everybody%29

Not sure if they are doing anything about it yet but at least they are aware.

Thank you for letting me know! I'm happy to hear it's not simply a case of "move faster" or "pay more attention" - means I'm not going mad XD

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Originally Posted by LeoGreenwood

It's a bug, I still get hit even when I'm out of the aoes circles/beams :

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...aving-red-zone


This is nasty, people get mad at me in dungeons, I don't want to go into dungeons anymore T_T

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I wouldn't go around calling it a "bug" because that implies that it would some day be fixed.

This is not something that can be "fixed". It is a characteristic of the netcode which can have various degrees of severity due to connection quality.

As someone said, move immediately. And after the red AOE area has disappeared, you may move back to your previous position... the attack animation can't "hit" you.

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Originally Posted by Z3M0G

I wouldn't go around calling it a "bug" because that implies that it would some day be fixed.

This is not something that can be "fixed". It is a characteristic of the netcode which can have various degrees of severity due to connection quality.

As someone said, move immediately. And after the red AOE area has disappeared, you may move back to your previous position... the attack animation can't "hit" you.

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Umm... check this link - http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-everybody%29

...and note that it's been moved to Bug Reports>Accepted Bugs

The devs say this is a bug. Which means it's definitely not just people failing to react in time.

Ok it isn't exactly a bug, its what is called server lag. You see what happens is the server sends your system a message, your system pops up the aoe box, you move, your system tells the server you moved and the server goes thats nice but the aoe actually went off when the attack bar was at around 50% so too bad. It is really bad in XIV, also sucks when trying to stun. How much you wanna bet SE claims they are working on it for the next 10 years or so without doing a thing about it.