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

[Rhas]

I agree but there is nothing we can really do as players except hope for the best or quit.

Wrong, there are things you can actually do to help make your connection better.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ove-Ping-Guide

[GilbertLapine]

If you're interested in a transfer, pop on over to Balmung and run w/ my FC. Latency sucks, but there are lots of ways to get around it and we'd love to help you.

Cheers.

[DarkB]

Just ran Darkhold and died like like 7/8 times (lost count) to AOEs in boss fights. Every time I could die, I died. Healer called me "bad" and sincerely I couldn't argue against that, after all the times s/he raised me.
Just stating the facts making me unsubscribe:
1) Being a MMO veteran brings negative consequences, too. Maybe my reflexes aren't what they used to be.
My subscription here ends in a couple weeks. Have fun. :P

Come play with me

[whilke]

Wrong, there are things you can actually do to help make your connection better.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ove-Ping-Guide

Your connection is fine. FFXIV just sucks hard balls when it has a connection that is not 100% optimal. The internet is not optimal, and it's very common to have some packet loss and jitter.

No MMO should require that you use a VPN (the only *trick* in that post that is actually going to affect your FFXIV connection). Hell, most AAAA MMO's can operate PVE just fine at up to 300ms pings, and you'd not feel any difference.

[Celee]

the sad thing about this game is that a lot of people in this thread are actually telling us to subscribe to another service to make this game playable. How ridiculous is that?

[Lecreuset]

It's like facebook, twitter or w/e else people use for attention. They always have the need to tell everyone what they're eating for lunch or how unreasonable their mom is except here it's "bye everyone I don't know and people who don't give a crap, Unsubbing Lulz".

[Despite]

I just can't believe we're at the point where the game puts large colored areas on the ground to tell us where not to stand and everyone is ok with this. I remember in WoW when someone came up with a mod that did this Blizzard banned the mod. My times have changed in favor of easy mode.. and not for the better,

Slightly off topic sorry.

[Allyrion]

I just can't believe we're at the point where the game puts large colored areas on the ground to tell us where not to stand and everyone is ok with this. I remember in WoW when someone came up with a mod that did this Blizzard banned the mod. My times have changed in favor of easy mode.. and not for the better,

Slightly off topic sorry.

Coincidentally, I just read something about this from the Wildstar people who are mostly vanilla WoW developers. I'm not really interested in Wildstar myself, but the article was interesting enough.

Our trick for that is to add telegraphs to combat. Raid bosses in many other games will mark a circle on the ground to show where bad things will happen, and you have to move before it’s cast. Well, we introduce that at level three, then we just build on it. People will argue that telegraphs are easy-mode or we’re showing too much. No! It gives you a language, a visual language that you can use to make your combat all the more complex. Once you’ve established that, then you can have things like knockbacks and huge walls of fire you need to avoid. And it’s communication; if you’re communicating on the ground with what spell you want to cast, it unlocks a wealth of combos for me.

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/...wildstars-gain

I don't think visual communication is dumbing down either.
Mostly because I don't think avoiding things should be the core of challenging combat. Timing and coordination obviously involves avoiding, but they're also larger categories that can mean so much more. De-emphasizing void zones with telegraphs actually allow for more freedom in that regard.

[Eisah]

It's that every aspect of the game is controlled by Mob AoE. ... They aren't special. They are on every mob. It's overkill.

I agree. This is a part of the problem. It gets old fast.

I'm confused by people who defend the game and claim it's all the player's fault and then list the third party software/subscriptions they use to make their game work. If you have to use third party software or memorize what will happen before it happens, the game is broken.
I just got the new LoZ game. If I popped it in my 3DS and it didn't work, then asked around and got told, "It's FINE, just download this patch from this place that isn't even Nintendo and you can play the game!", my reaction wouldn't be that the game is working as it should. So why is this the reaction from so many people for FFXIV? I understand, "I'm not having an issue so I don't care", but I don't understand, "The game has no issues it must all be on everyone else' end!".

[Umo]

Wanderer's Palace for one. I have run it many times but sometimes on the first boss I just can't seem to get out of his circles.

It happens for me aswell, alongside Magitek Cannons on Castrum Meridianum. As a caster I've got used to cast Sprint beforehand, but I can't do that while playing a TP-user job :/
I admit it's annoying, but not to the point of consider FFXIV: ARR unplayable for this very reason. I'm welcoming any improvement on the matter, though.