EU tanking, lag?

So, having hit level 38 and started doing Cutter's Cry, it became really obvious that final boss in Brayflox's Longstop as well as Cutter's Cry both have a AOE that you have to run out of before it's finished casting, but no matter how far or how fast i react, there is always a 50/50% chance of getting hit, even tho i'm way out of the cast range.
So i ask you, other tanks of EU, are you having the same problem?

If you are having issues getting out of range, id suggest you keep strafing during the fights, that way when the aoe is visable for you, you will be far enough to one side or the other to get out of range in plenty of time. Unless of course its a 360 degree aoe then this won't help much.

Alright, just tried it with the strafing, that worked now have an 80%/20% to dodge, but the times i do get hit i'm still way out of range.

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Originally Posted by Berserker

Alright, just tried it with the strafing, that worked now have an 80%/20% to dodge, but the times i do get hit i'm still way out of range.

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Its not just people in the EU, I live 1hr and 20 mins away from the server and there some weird little lagg going on. I can see this because when I move on my screen I see my char move right away yet on my wife screen she shes my char move 2 to 3 seconds later and I am sure that is why I keep getting nailed in the brayflox endfight. They made the time you have to move too short compared to previous content and it doesn't cover this "latency" .

People that say it's easy you suck blabla are not doing this fight as intended (which is to move out of the way when the game gives you the visual clue to do so) they are compensating for this latency by strafing beforehand. They are compensating for a technical problem.

I just completed that dungeon and had similar issues as well. While the frost AoE alone wasn't such a big deal, I had really hard time avoiding his frost breath which lead me to being slowed and therefore unable to move out of the AoE. The issue with Frost Breath was that it had shorter cast time and combined with the latency, I even managed to get hit by it while standing behind the boss. You can see same kind of latency issue with Flash, very hard to intercept moving monsters with it due to small reach and because you need to use it "ahead" of the mobs.

Having the same problem and it's really annoying me. People on groups keep giving out to me, they must think I'm thick or something. But every time, I am out of the red circle and I still get hit. Dunno what's going on :/

In general I'm having the same issue. Unless I clear the AoE area immediately I still occasionally get hit even if I've left the area before the attack happens.

For me (EU) It only seems to happen if I use an ability INSIDE the red aoe area, if I don't it never happens. So try not to use an ability inside red aoe.

In Brayflox, my healer who ran with other tanks last night, says that Americans are actually able to interrupt he Dragon Breath.

We have 300-380ms lag from Australia. When you have 350ms lag that means you are 1/3 of a second late at knowing he is casting, and even if you do happen to be not on cooldown when you see he starts casting your interrupt takes another 1/3 of a second to get back. That is most of the mobs spell cast. Add in that you might be on cooldown and you have no chance.

I have tried and tried interrupting since I started playing the game, I am lucky to get 1 out of 20, and I only get those if I count seconds between castable spells.

Square needs to make this asynchronous. So that if we interrupt the boss *on our screen* then he is stopped.

Unless they do that then the USA tanks are going to have a distinct advantage in fights as they get harder.

As for what are likely uninteruptable spells. If you are inside them at any time, you will suffer the full brunt. It's terrible, the game are going to start losing tanks.

Was running Bray, Healers screaming at me why can't you dodge. Half the time even moving as soon as I see the box still getting clocked. I have good internet speed, U.S. player on EU servers which is Canada as far as I know?

There really shouldn't be an issue here .....

Best method is to kite the boss. Usaully A tank will "tank" and dodge when visual clues pop up. IN this fight you cant do this you need to "kite" the boss by taking him to the wall and strafing right and left as you FB/SB/RoH. If you keep strafing right and left while keeping him in place (thus kiting him) and only moving forwards when you need to it will be not so much a problem. You can do one combo FB/SB/RoH but then you are best to start strafing..

Unlike what uber players are saying it is not skill related but rather taking advantage of a server weakness in the fact the server is not able to keep up with your true position in the game thereby exploiting your way to victory and that is how I see it. You can actually do this, move out of the way come back right in front his attack and not get hit because the server thinks your an inch to the left or right of the attack.