I'd love this game, but it's not for me due to the "issue" with AOEs

[Axidrain]

i have had no problems dodging at all in this game. but i have around 90-150 ping. if anything its ur latency.

[whilke]

i have had no problems dodging at all in this game. but i have around 90-150 ping. if anything its ur latency.

You have no problem dodging because you've memorized the very simple fight mechanics and have just trained yourself to start moving 300ms before it even starts.

I wonder how many people who be face down in titan if his rotation was random.

[Axidrain]

You have no problem dodging because you've memorized the very simple fight mechanics and have just trained yourself to start moving 300ms before it even starts.

I wonder how many people who be face down in titan if his rotation was random.

its the latency. u have about a second to move before the aoe pops. enough time to react unless u have latency over 200ms

heres a test for u. http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/ check how fast u react. and if ur latency is lower than that. u will be able to react in time

[whilke]

its the latency. u have about a second to move before the aoe pops. enough time to react unless u have latency over 200ms

heres a test for u. http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/ check how fast u react. and if ur latency is lower than that. u will be able to react in time

I have no problem dodging anything in this game, and it's not latency. You know it's coming, and your mind/muscle memory is kicking in before the AOE even starts so that you can get out of it.

1000ms is not enough time to get out of most aoe's range, if you really and truly don't start moving until you have physically see the aoe indicator/cast bar.

[Axidrain]

well i dont know about u but im pretty sure i only move when i see it popping beneath me.

[Alhanelem]

Not even remotely true. Guild Wars 2 is FAR more responsive. The entire game is built with the idea that there is no tank or healer and YOU are personally responsible for keeping yourself alive. The means to do that is very well timed dodging.

Seeing as I leveled most every class to max in GW2, farmed all of the dungeons and climbed the difficulty ladder in Fractals...I can say with absolute certainty that FFXIV makes dodging really, really hard. GW2 has the same 1-hit kill attacks as FFXIV does, yet somehow you don't feel like you got cheated on that game. When you get hit by it there, it's because you timed your dodge wrong or didn't react fast enough.

When you get his by them here, it's because the game told you .1 seconds before the attack lands that it is coming. Or hits you even though you are on the other side of the room before the circle vanishes.

The dodge mechanics in XIV aren't even remotely difficult, even with the set 300ms response time (which is being changed to 100ms for endgame instances and PvP in 2.1 btw).

If you can't dodge in XIV, you're either having a serious connection issue (whether or not it's beyond your control) or you're bad. Dodging is easy in this game.

At twintania people were ocmplaining about how hard it was to dodge Twister with the current response time. They relaxed the timing, and now people are calling it "easy." Titan was never hard, nor are any of the other bosses where dodging is important, such as the boss of Dzemael Darkhold.

[Despite]

Prob latency related. I had the worst lag ever and had to resort to paying a sub fee to battleping just to play the game. GG

[PenutButter]

Unless you're playing from a place that just have horrible latency, then I'm sorry but you're just bad, and quitting cuz you're bad is pretty hilarious. The discrepancy between effect and animation is a well-known issue in this game, one that for the love of god needs to be fixed; however, if everyone else can do fine despite it, why can't you?

[Dale]

To the OP:

That same thing happened to me one time in Darkhold. I usually have no trouble dodging the stuff. But one run I would be a 6 inches away from it and it would still hit me. I could not dodge it to save my life. It didn't matter how hard I tried or how fast I moved or how far away I got from it.

I think there is a bug or a latency issue that kicks in there sometimes. I'm not sure which, but sometimes it is definitely off. And I've seen it happen to other players as well.

[Chippy2]

Sorry you feel the need to quit!. The people you party with must be assholes!. If you want to join a friendly EU FC then let me know. We will NOT persecute anyone for mistakes made in a game. We all were FFXI veterans and have our own little FC personal invites only (To weed out the assholes). We on Cerberus Server and my chars name is Pheobe Daggers. We would love to have you join our little family. Don't get to down on yourself give the game another try after patch if you still feel same way then fair enough!. Good luck Goodberry.x