i have been doing this fight for a while now and alot of it with the same people and some new poeple as well. here is what i noticed, first off i live in middle east and the ping to Montreal is around 300 yet i dont get hit with those aoes and can dodge all of them easy. but the thing is i am using battleping and if i dont use battleping it becomes impossible just like what alot of you have been saying, i thought this was just due to battleping giving me a better route until i met some guy from EU. this guy had the same problems alot of you are complaining about and he then started using battleping and used the closest server to him in EU, this basically solved all of his problems and he can dodge the aoes fine with no issue.

what am trying to say is that yes SE need to have EU data centers but i think the major problem is from the ISPs not the game itself.