Quote Originally Posted by Kaedan94 View Post
The solution is all on your end: Get a better internet connection. *snip*
While latency certainly does play a part in the issue, being hit by AOEs when you are out of them is completely the fault of SE and how they chose to program their game. Why? Latency/lag is not new to MMOs. Every single MMO on the market is going to have players with various ping speeds connecting to them. Every single MMO can experience rubberbanding, or periods where players/mobs stop for a few seconds, and then everything super speeds up.. those are generally signs of a bad internet connection that you probably shouldn't be using to play online games with. FFXIV however, is the only MMO where you can get hit by an AOE you were out of.

I don't care if player A has an 80ms ping and player B has a 200ms ping. Both should be able to rely on the on-screen indicators to know when to dodge, how far to run, and not be hit when they are clearly out of things. The precedence has been set by literally every other MMO out there. It's not acceptable to be hit by stuff when you got out before the cast bar went away. You can go ahead and keep defending the bad programming though. It's not like it already killed the game once or anything... oh.. wait...