Sorry SE, but endgame won't work if you don't fix something.

[flavored]

Sorry to say bro but your problems don't lie with the game.

I live in Australia. When I'm in Melbourne my ping is ~240. It's VERY playable. Things are responsive and dodging is visually correct. When I'm at work on my mobile phone internet, my ping is ~380. It's still easily playable. I have no troubles on any of the fights in the game. Ping, or the game, aren't your issues. It's more likely the problem lies with your house's internet cables, your modem or your ISP.

Don't blame the game for something that isn't its fault.

Your perception of latency is awry. Having ~380 ping would be EXTREMELY noticeable in any mmorpg when trying to complete reactionary content, and ESPECIALLY it is in this one. Saying that having ~250-380 still allows you to dodge things without problems is very far from truth (250 requires you to pay a really close attention to all the channels, which probably is not a bad thing making you grow a player), so unless you somehow shape space allowing you to make up for the delay I'm taking your statements with a huge pile of salt. In that case, my hat's off to you, great master of time and space. When I still played this game, there were a lot of Australian players trying to groupfind content - it's always been a disaster when they tried to avoid anything.

[Blimbeard]

It's been confirmed for awhile now it's an ISP problem. (Level3.net, Tata and Sky have all been pretty much confirmed to be the problem.)

Could somebody provide a source to this 'confirmation' or is is just conjecture ? I'd love to come back to ARR but while this issue is still outstanding it's not an option. I'm not with any of the aforementioned ISP's so I'm skeptical, but I'd loved to be proved wrong and have a good reason to come back!

[Dinian]

How could it be an ISP problem when for the vast majority of folks *no* other MMORPG's exhibit this anomalous behavior. I can consistently dodge AoE's in *every* MMO I play with the exception of this one. That is why I am no longer a subscriber. This issue is netcode and framework based. End of story.

@Blimbeard: This issue has not been fixed but has been acknowledged (in a roundabout way) by SE. IIRC some of the newly released instances force positional updates more frequently than the older ones in order to attempt to remedy this issue. When asked why it was not possible to do this for every instance/zone SE stated the servers as they currently are setup would be unable to handle the increased communication between clients and server. Understanbly, going from a forced positional update every 300 to 100 MS essentially triples the amount if incoming packets to the server, but the fact of the matter is the game should not have launched with such an inadequate system in place.

[Shaddix]

So I've been gone for a while, did they ever fix this?

[Nanamix]

No. I still got it. Even I moved out for 0.5 second before it happened, I still get the damage spike.

Something must be done about this.

[SukoshiSeppen]

More then half of you people who complain about lag...its not your isp its your computers hardware and settings as well as your game settings. Yes your game runs well everywhere out titan...if the mob for twintania shot out equal number plumes to liquid hells It would be the same lag issue. For the most part your vid card camt draw the stuff fast and well enough. Drop your graphics and get yourself a tcpic latency fix for mmo's amd you will probably see a night and day lag issue.

[Goodberry]

Based on all I know about software, net, games etc. (and contrary to many the self-appointed "gurus" here) I am 100% sure the lag issues are generated by SE, by coupling a suboptimal infrastructure with fights based very heavily on fast reaction times (or memorisation and anticipation, which is the same thing) and a 2.5 global cooldown that makes combat feel terribly slow and unresponsive at the same time that it requires lightning reaction times from the player. I'll even go out on a limb and say that probably nobody would have noticed the latency problems were it not for Titan and a couple other fights. At least, nobody would have unsubscribed for that reason...

Said that, if you really like the game, instead of quitting you could do like me: not do that "content".

Is this the only game where everybody wants to be a raider? A minority raids in WoW. An even smaller minority raids in RIFT, etc.

When I want some challenge, I do Sirius or Haukke HM (yes, I have lag problems on Halicarnassus, but can beat the fight with a decent group). The rest of the time I have fun and look around. Titan can return to the Hell it came from. :P

P.S.
I wonder how many subscriptions the game lost on Titan. Darn unbelievable what listening to elitists entails...

[Davionx]

The game feels like its designed to have delay built into it.

Ie. "Instant" cast abilities.

[Tashigi]

More then half of you people who complain about lag...its not your isp its your computers hardware and settings as well as your game settings. Yes your game runs well everywhere out titan...if the mob for twintania shot out equal number plumes to liquid hells It would be the same lag issue. For the most part your vid card camt draw the stuff fast and well enough. Drop your graphics and get yourself a tcpic latency fix for mmo's amd you will probably see a night and day lag issue.

That's not the problem, please read the thread again.

It has been explained in detail it has nothing to do with the client/hardware on the user's end.
It's an issue with the game being built backwards, with the server as the position checker. There is also internal delays in place and to make things worse, there is a routing problem with Square Enix server ISP.

[Apinaheebo]

Practise harder.