Sorry SE, but endgame won't work if you don't fix something.

[TheMoonflow]

If the cast bar is gone, then the red circle/animation should also be gone.
There should be no margin of error between the two.
There isn't in other, older games, so it really isn't acceptable in 2013.

[Astarica]

If the cast bar is gone, then the red circle/animation should also be gone.
There should be no margin of error between the two.
There isn't in other, older games, so it really isn't acceptable in 2013.

I don't get how people think it's acceptable that your screen is often rendering a very inaccurate portrait of what's happening in the world. It's not just limited to Titan, but having a false rendition of the world is just especially glaring on a fight with very tight time limits to get out of near instant kill abilities. In any other game, if you attempt to tell people "but I dodged that!', nobody would believe you because it's a fundamental assumption that cast bar/telegraph area are in sync in a MMORPG. But this game, it's definitely a very valid thing to say, and that's precisely what's wrong with the game.

[Virtuso]

If the cast bar is gone, then the red circle/animation should also be gone.
There should be no margin of error between the two.
There isn't in other, older games, so it really isn't acceptable in 2013.

This is much! I don't understand why there's no other option but to have this obvious disconnect between the games visuals vs it's mechanics. I've never known them in other MMO's several years old. I see no reason why SE can't keep up with outdated standards. It's gotten to the point where I literally run INTO the aoe's at certain points because I know the server won't realize I'm really there. That's just sad.

I could never get away with that in other MMO's at launch. See no good reason why I should settle for less here.

[Elim]

This is much! I don't understand why there's no other option but to have this obvious disconnect between the games visuals vs it's mechanics.

I play SWTOR endgame, and have been pretty much since the game came out. SWTOR has had it's problems, but it's never had this obvious disconnect between when AoEs visually go off and when they actually happen.

I'm known as a pretty decent healer on SWTOR. In fact I have two healer characters, in two raid group that are part of the top guilds on my server. I don't get caught in AoEs unless I loose focus or do it on purpose, and my character dies or looses health immediately when he gets hit on my screen.

Honestly, FF14 is the first MMO I've played with this server lag/visual disconnect/whatever you want to call it issue.

[Yukiko]

Honestly, FF14 is the first MMO I've played with this server lag/visual disconnect/whatever you want to call it issue.

Not my first one, but that was a problem pre 2000...

[Virtuso]

Not my first one, but that was a problem pre 2000...

I remember in the olden days. Playing action games online with dial-up speeds like Mech Warrior 3. You had to learn to shot "ahead" of where the enemy was instead of directly at it. Because of the lag you couldn't trust your eyes to judge if your making a hit or not. So players would shoot into empty air until the mech nearby would just suddenly blow up. It's sad in 2013 we're back to the "compensate for lag" gameplay design from the "Dial-up" era.

[Astarica]

Honestly, FF14 is the first MMO I've played with this server lag/visual disconnect/whatever you want to call it issue.

The closest SWTOR or any MMORPG have a similar problem is 'fire burns in a bigger area than they appear', as in you stand what appears to be the edge of some hazard but the actual area is bigger than that so you die anyway. But that's got nothing to do with lag and it's easy to figure out that the fire burns bigger than it appears after a few deaths. In FF14 the telegraph boxes are generally accurate, but you're not where you think you are most of the time.