Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[Tersia]

Can the horror in my story be me?

I just got back into the game after a few months, couldn't afford due to financial issues. I healed a few low lvl roulette to get back into the swing of things then decided to "test" myself and que for low lvl Titan.

I swear no matter how early I moved I could not avoid getting thrown off the edge T_T The tank informs me that the actual radius is about 50% bigger than the indicator but even being totally like 120 degrees around the boss from the attack by the time it hit I get knocked off. I have never felt like such a failure in dodging aoe before. My tank friend logged on later and took me through Stone Vigil for my first time and the last boss was similar, aoe's hitting me like 10y from the effect.

I tried to tell if it was lag but I admit to being confused by the sending/receiving difference, other mmos have only one number for latency that I have played. If someone can explain if maybe this was my problem? My sending number was very low (50ish) and my receiving number was very high (1k ish).

[Haprimac]

I tried to tell if it was lag but I admit to being confused by the sending/receiving difference, other mmos have only one number for latency that I have played. If someone can explain if maybe this was my problem? My sending number was very low (50ish) and my receiving number was very high (1k ish).

Dunno if this will help you at all, but from my personal latency-driven experience: the only way I have any hope to dodge aoe (dragonbreath in Brayflox, icebreath in Stone Vigil, Chimera tank-targeted aoes in Cutters' Cry, Landslide on Titan etc.) is to predict. It's not about reacting to it, but predicting it and being on the move when it's just showing up. I can't trust my screen with aoes, I just have to know when they're about to come and ready myself. :s