Titan is hard because your camera isn't zoomed out, not because of server-side delays

[RynaultB]

"the common denominator between all players is the server,"

I have an example where this logic fails. Demon wall and his Repel ability. I was tanking last week and repel went off everyone got pushed back but me I'm still using my combos and taking dmg and getting healed all showing in the combat log. The second I move to the side to avoid the purple zone I get pushed off the side.

I'm using the same server yet everyone got pushed but me til later. I've always said the problem is with the communication between the server and client. That's where most of the problems exist.

Titan is a huge example of the poor communication with server and client. I shouldn't have to Force Update my position. I know when I'm playing bad and I'll admit it. But for me I play from China and sometimes I've moved long before the ability goes off and I still get hit by it.

I've beaten Titan but that day the stars aligned and I had minimal personal lag and I was able to avoid most stuff til near the end of phase 5. Since that day though I continue to have the same delay issues I've had since playing the game.

Movement should be an instant to stop your casting but in FFXIV is takes several milliseconds for it to update and stop your casting. Looking at WoW its instant the second you move the spell stops casting. That's how it should be.

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I have an example where this logic fails. Demon wall and his Repel ability. I was tanking last week and repel went off everyone got pushed back but me I'm still using my combos and taking dmg and getting healed all showing in the combat log. The second I move to the side to avoid the purple zone I get pushed off the side.

Yeah, I've seen this before, and it happens in plenty of other places too. What people don't realize is that the whole "300ms position update" is one issue, and the time it takes the server to actually process commands and send you responses is something independent of that. It might do the repel for your two party members, then be busy working on logic for 20 other instances, and finally get back to processing your repel push-back.