Titan Extreme: Latency Needs to be Addressed

[Rein-Yagami]

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I can indeed reliably say that it's a problem~ I can also reliably say that those not affected by this problem....don't see it as a problem~ go figure huh?
When you end up standing still for 10+seconds and then get the entire battle on fastforward~ having eaten a WoL/Bombs/3-5way landslide in the seconds that NOTHING WAS HAPPENING ON YOUR SCREEN, do you want to again tell me that it's "I didn't dodge well enough".

In Guildwars 2, I can stand on the very edge of an aoe 100% of the time and never get hit. FFXiv? atleast 80% of the time I'm 3-4foot from the edge and guess what? Dead to double WoL or 3-5way landslide.

[Grotesque]

I can indeed reliably say that it's a problem~ I can also reliably say that those not affected by this problem....don't see it as a problem~ go figure huh?
When you end up standing still for 10+seconds and then get the entire battle on fastforward~ having eaten a WoL/Bombs/3-5way landslide in the seconds that NOTHING WAS HAPPENING ON YOUR SCREEN, do you want to again tell me that it's "I didn't dodge well enough".

In Guildwars 2, I can stand on the very edge of an aoe 100% of the time and never get hit. FFXiv? atleast 80% of the time I'm 3-4foot from the edge and guess what? Dead to double WoL or 3-5way landslide.

We have this frozen-picturen -> fast-forward sometimes but rarely. If we have this we leave instance and open a new instance, most times it fixed the problem, probably we were moved to a less crowded instance server.

[bokchoykn]

I can indeed reliably say that it's a problem~ I can also reliably say that those not affected by this problem....don't see it as a problem~ go figure huh?
When you end up standing still for 10+seconds and then get the entire battle on fastforward~ having eaten a WoL/Bombs/3-5way landslide in the seconds that NOTHING WAS HAPPENING ON YOUR SCREEN, do you want to again tell me that it's "I didn't dodge well enough".

In Guildwars 2, I can stand on the very edge of an aoe 100% of the time and never get hit. FFXiv? atleast 80% of the time I'm 3-4foot from the edge and guess what? Dead to double WoL or 3-5way landslide.

Alright then. So, when some people are affected by it and most people aren't, would you agree that the problem is not universal and depends on your ISP?

Also, it actually doesn't matter how far you are standing away from the AoE. Latency has nothing to do with that. What does matter is how long it's been since you've gotten out of the AoE. Latency doesn't affect distance, just time.

[Kyras]

I can indeed reliably say that it's a problem~ I can also reliably say that those not affected by this problem....don't see it as a problem~ go figure huh?
When you end up standing still for 10+seconds and then get the entire battle on fastforward~ having eaten a WoL/Bombs/3-5way landslide in the seconds that NOTHING WAS HAPPENING ON YOUR SCREEN, do you want to again tell me that it's "I didn't dodge well enough".

In Guildwars 2, I can stand on the very edge of an aoe 100% of the time and never get hit. FFXiv? atleast 80% of the time I'm 3-4foot from the edge and guess what? Dead to double WoL or 3-5way landslide.

What you're describing is not an effect of latency. Latency is the communication delay between you and the server. Even with a latency of 500 (which is on the high end of what an Australian would see connecting to the NA servers) you would still see the battlefield updating every half second. What you describe is packet loss, which is where data is being lost when communicating the server. Packet loss is almost never caused by the server you're trying to communicate with, and rather is caused most often by part of the network in between you and the server (such as the oft reported issues with the Level3 data center).

Square Enix has very little sway in fixing that issue.

If you're going to rant about something ranting about how tightly tuned and unforgiving the fight is would serve a better purpose.