Ability delay, macros, GCD, casttime and general gameplay. Suggestions & whine.

[Erra]

All the NA (and EU) servers are in the same datacenter located in Canada(Montreal).
so yes if you play from Europe ( l'm also from EU ) you will have ~120-140ms to datacenter or even higher.

[Aldwin]

I have this same issue. Especially when using <mo> to target and I'm spamming an ability like Cure.

I have a very fast home connection, my ping is usually 50 or less in games, sometimes 15 or less. Basically, when I spam a key, the action won't register my mouseover target as you said.

So far I have still been using the same macros, but I do feel like I always wait, instead of spamming the button, to cast spells now. Some might say that's a good thing, that I shouldn't be spamming keys. But have your party be at 50% or less from getting hit by a nasty aoe, and you panic, lol...

As for the long gcd, personally (and this is just my opnion), I think they implimented such a long gcd to balance out gameplay between pc (keyboard/mouse) users and controller.

[Rgho]

Don't know if this means anything or not, but the issue has supposedly been forwarded to the developers:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...95#post1226595

[Shayem]

I have movement lag to be honest. It takes my character 1-2 seconds to realize I moved my joystick... Thought maybe it was just the controller and tested it on the controller. Nope still a delay from trying to move. It doesn't happen when I'm already moving, just when I'm standing still and try to dodge an AoE. It hurts horribly on the red circles that go off quickly, I react in time but my character doesn't. Sigh.

[Bloodborn]

Hey guys! I need to make macros that targets the target of enemy target. How to create one, any suggestion? For example if enemy had agroed on someone i need fast switch to the target of enemy and cast skill for example cover!

[amaranthe]

Actually I'm having the same issue. I'm not really lagging ping wise but the macro timer is definitely off. I have a buff macro that looks like this

/ac "Raging Strikes" <me>
/wait 120
/echo Buffs Ready!

Raging Strikes has a 120s cool down with enhanced trait and the echo command goes off like 30 seconds before the cool down is even done. Pretty annoying.

That's because the max "wait" time you can put in a macro is 60 seconds. You would need

/wait 60
/wait 60

As separate lines.

Also, I agree with most everything. I really don't like the "laggy" feeling all the spells and actions have. I can't say how many times I've cancelled looting/interacting with a quest item because I didn't know if I clicked or not since it takes so long for the action to occur.

[Rgho]

Hey guys! I need to make macros that targets the target of enemy target. How to create one, any suggestion? For example if enemy had agroed on someone i need fast switch to the target of enemy and cast skill for example cover!

You can use <tt> to modify an ability to go directly to your target's target. So for example, the following macro will cast cover on your target's target:

/ac "Cover" <tt>

[IvyRose]

Macros

When i have, let say a boss as my target and i hover the mouse over the groupmember i want to heal, i have noticed that every once in a while the heal is not landing on the groupmember iam hovering my mouse over, but hitting myself.

Target is out of range. Modify your macro (because it won't notify you target is out of range)

/macroicon "Cure"
/ac Cure <mo>
/ac Cure <t>


You don't need to target a boss/mob with macros. Let's say you want to cast Aero.

/macroicon "Aero"
/ac Aero <t>
/ac Aero <tt>

With your tank (or anyone else) as your target it will always apply Aero to his target. It works normally targeting too.

/macroicon "Stone II"
/ac "Stone II" <t>
/ac Stone <t>
/ac "Stone II" <tt>
/ac Stone <tt>

This will cast Stone II on your target's target, Stone if LevelSync and will work normally for your solo play.