N.American Ifrit Lag Makes it Unplayable

[Antipika]

Hate to say it, but I kinda agree. Ifrit with no lagg is kinda tank/spank.

He will be just "another" mob you can kill to get fancy weapons (if you are lucky enough)

Kind of sad for a game designers to rely on latency in order to make a challenging encounter don't you think? Not all players are even equal when it comes to latency, with JP players having the least, EU being the worst and NA in-between.

SE admitted it and I am pretty certain that they weren't even aware of the issue when Ifrit was designed. We are supposed to play the game the way devellopers wants us to play the game. If Ifrit was "tank & spank" without latency, then so be it. SE's job to make it harder and not player's job to pretend that the fight is challenging thanks to latency...

[Vackashken]

Kind of sad for a game designers to rely on latency in order to make a challenging encounter don't you think? Not all players are even equal when it comes to latency, with JP players having the least, EU being the worst and NA in-between.

SE admitted it and I am pretty certain that they weren't even aware of the issue when Ifrit was designed. We are supposed to play the game the way devellopers wants us to play the game. If Ifrit was "tank & spank" without latency, then so be it. SE's job to make it harder and not player's job to pretend that the fight is challenging thanks to latency...

Exquisite post. Unfortunately, it'll fall on deaf ears as usual though.

[Mamba]

Sorry, I know people love to say this is trolling but I play with a lot of folks who have lag issues. It can be overcome and it just takes practice. Yes, it shouldn't be this way but it is and it will be for a long while more. Adapt and make do.

And about animation locking, well, that's your own fault. You should know your class well enough and know the fight well enough to not animation lock at bad times. If you can't overcome that then you are just spamming WS and attacks without thought.

Lots of other people complained about this and now they have no problem winning.

This.

I lost 10000 times in Ifrit, never running out of Eruption on time and I always thought it was the lag.
I got stuck on animations when eruptions appeared and I wouldn't have time to run far enough to avoid the plumes etc.
Now I have won Ifrit more than I have lost and I have learned the patterns of abilities Ifrit uses and I can predict when I should not start casting stoneskin because Eruptions (or some other ability) was going to happen.

Should it be like this? No
A battle should be challenging without players having to memorize patterns so they can avoid some fatal attacks. Lag (or w/e you wanna call it) is a huge issue on this fight and is should be fixed - but something then should be added because Ifrit would be a push over without the lag.

[Whax]

so ISP problem.

Not being in Japan is the problem of my ISP.

[Magistrat]

Not being in Japan is the problem of me.

fixed.....

[AndySolace]

Tonight is the worst lag for everyone in my ifrit group. This fight is barely tolerable in north america as is. Whatever is going on with the servers tonight it ruined the night. Strange behavior eruptions in the middle of the circle mid fight DC's. We lost 5 fights in a row and we dont lose this fight anymore. How defeated do you want us to feel when we cant even see the eruptions that are killing us?!?! absolute bullshit please work on this fight.

Welcome to Europe 3 months ago.

[AndySolace]

Kind of sad for a game designers to rely on latency in order to make a challenging encounter don't you think? Not all players are even equal when it comes to latency, with JP players having the least, EU being the worst and NA in-between.

SE admitted it and I am pretty certain that they weren't even aware of the issue when Ifrit was designed. We are supposed to play the game the way devellopers wants us to play the game. If Ifrit was "tank & spank" without latency, then so be it. SE's job to make it harder and not player's job to pretend that the fight is challenging thanks to latency...

+10

/+10char

[Myrhn]

I beat Ifrit yerterday night. We were 1/3, there was lag sure like allways but not intolerable. The ones that we lose was because bad timing for us went casting and get caught in eruption beside that we did ok

[Zenaku]

me and my linkshell been winning ifrit and today i have to say was pretty bad some people did not even see the eruption too 3sec when it blow up and they die.

I don't know if it's ISP or Network but just have to deal with it too 2.0.

[Forerunner]

Tonight is the worst lag for everyone in my ifrit group. This fight is barely tolerable in north america as is. Whatever is going on with the servers tonight it ruined the night. Strange behavior eruptions in the middle of the circle mid fight DC's. We lost 5 fights in a row and we dont lose this fight anymore. How defeated do you want us to feel when we cant even see the eruptions that are killing us?!?! absolute bullshit please work on this fight.

Move to the UK/EU where this shit is three times worse. Then make a thread like this.

I start moving before anyone in eruptions, get sniped by them ACROSS THE BOWL OF EMBERS. -.-