Maybe it's just lag!

[Inferiae]

If your PC is so slow that it's stops you from being able to perform basic maneuvers in the game then you should either upgrade or not play. Period.

The requirements are there for a reason, but as I can see, OP has an "adequate" PC. If he shouldn't be playing with his config, then the minimum requirements must be changed.

[Kyant]

The requirements are there for a reason, but as I can see, OP has an "adequate" PC. If he shouldn't be playing with his config, then the minimum requirements must be changed.

If you are close to the minimum requirements that I'd expect the game to be a bit sluggish. I bought a computer for 1200 like 4 years ago, so today it would probably only be around 800 or so idk... but I have never had any issues with lag. I had my game set to the high performance for a Desktop, but I didn't notice much difference between the highest graphics settings on the game and the lowest, so I have my graphics set pretty low. It may be that everyone is trying to set their graphics as high as possible for their pc and that causes the lag (while they just assume its the internet lagging). I do not know where the data centers are or what my ping to the server is but there is nothing SE can do if you live super far from the data center and get a few milliseconds delay from the server. Actually I just pinged the lodestone japanese servers from ohio and got 175ms(thats a bit short of 1/5 of a second... and thats going across the world to the farthest server. When skills take 1~2 seconds to cast and people sometimes say the skill never even appeared on their screen due to lag... thats when you know for sure its your pc. I think the majority of the lag people get is from trying to crank out the best graphics from their PCs while forgetting about performance. If everyone gets the lag then its probably the server having a hiccup, but usually its just one person lagging. The minimum requirements are the minimum for the game to run, they are not for smooth gameplay.