This is why you're dying on Titan.

[Risae]

Jesus, people - Stop whining already! Yoshi already said that with the new server architecture and engine for 2.0 there will be no lag anymore. I mean, come on, in the year 2013 where even F2P BS can do this better this should be a cakewalk for a company like Square Enix. iirc this also is their 3rd MMO game.

Can't possibly get any worse 1.0.

[Mikedizzy]

Everyone needs to learn to pre-dodge and you will be fine...if you don't know the plumes are coming...then you are going to die...plain and simple. I wish the game played like it is suppose to but...this is what we have to deal with so we have no choice at the moment. If you cannot remember the moves make a cheat sheet and tape it to your T.V. or Monitor.

[Zfz]

Looks like no look-ahead prediction on player position. So the server doesn't know if a player at any given instant, is standing still or on the move.

They then probably had to increase the position poll time interval to avoid having people rubber banding all over the place just because we all have different latencies.(?)

One thing led to another and it became a colossus of a patchwork job.

Perhaps? I'm not a network engineer. But I'd be very interested in some informed guesses. Just out of curiosity sake. :3

[Geobryn]

well if you can fire off esuna while constantly running, then even if you pre-dodge there is still a chance to get hit by plumes as the server have absolutely no idea where you are and if you are running or not XD

[Pikachew]

My Esuna works like that yet i can still dodge fine.

[IvoryFox]

C'mon guys... this is just beta...

[Shiki_Lockhart]

That is your own ISP fault not SE server. Because for more I try do that auto cancel every single time. Do you have fiber optic internet? No? Then that's explains it. Or do you expect someone using 56k to not lag too? :|

[Kathryn]

That is your own ISP fault not SE server. Because for more I try do that auto cancel every single time. Do you have fiber optic internet? No? Then that's explains it. Or do you expect someone using 56k to not lag too? :|

I have Fibre Optic internet and I get the exact same issue, People need to stop being so damned adament about pre determing Plums on Titan because this is not how a game should be played, Also never had or continue to have any of these Position problems with any other online games New or Old, Also my equipment has been tested and looked at as has my Husbands it's all fine and runs everything else perfectly it's only FFXIV we have the Character Position Updates issues with.

Tired with these threads and the whole it doesn't affect me so you have to learn to pre dodge noob comments because your all idiots for accepting shoddy connections /rant off.

[waycool]

That is your own ISP fault not SE server. Because for more I try do that auto cancel every single time. Do you have fiber optic internet? No? Then that's explains it. Or do you expect someone using 56k to not lag too? :|

I'm getting very tired of comments like this, how can it be so hard to accept that there is a problem on SE's end somewhere?
Honestly..
I have 100/10mbps connection and I can cast Esuna while auto-run. I don't know how fast internet do you think people need to play online games without getting constantly annoyed by it, but I think mine should be fast enough. Of course I live in Finland, which obviously means I have over-seas connection, BUT
It also seems to happen to people on the other side of the Atlantic-Ocean as well.

And if it really were the case that Europeans are practically unable to play this game due the server distance, that'd be pretty dumb from SE's side.. They'd just kill one huge market area.

[Borland]

The only reason anyone is dying to Titan now is bad skills or a sudden huge lag spike (The kind where your game suddenly skips). All his moves are entirely predictable, you should have memorized when to start moving away and spreading out for plumes seconds before he even starts and keep on moving, don't stand still if it helps. Be mindful of where everyone else is also and where they're moving to.
I'm not saying lag isn't an issue, but a small latency issue like this shouldn't be why you're dying to Titan.

You shouldn't need to predict his moves. You are needing to though, purely because of the lag. The fight itself is really pretty easy, but it's being made difficult by the fact that all players are playing with 1-2 second lag with the server.

The way the fight likely was designed, was so that when something like plumes appear, you could just move away, rather than needing to start moving away before or the exact moment the plumes appear.