Yuweyawata Field Station is so wrong

[Carin-Eri]

Have you ever spoken to players who find dungeons hard? I have. They read guides and their tooltips, watch videos, observe cast bars, and pay attention. And they struggle.

I'm going to go out on a limb here, because I was wary of posting in this thread - I'm all too aware of how disapproving some forumites can be toward the sort of player you describe.

But... you just described me.

I mean, at my best I'm on the low-end of mediocre at the game and tend to 'scrape through' the more difficult content. I've tried Ex/Savage content and found that I was a burden to the team I was with and, both due to having enough insight to realise I wasn't suited for it and on advice from another player, decided to stick to Normal content.

Even so, I'll confess I struggle like hell with Jeuno: The First Walk any time my friends want to play it. And I daresay, if the currently difficulty curve continues, I'll struggle with the 7.2 content too.

And it's not as if I don't try - whilst I'm told that some of it may be down to poor ping (from my perspective I'm outside an AOE but get hit anyway) it does seem as if my reaction speed is lacking and, try as I might, I don't seem able to improve on it.

[Mawlzy]

I'm going to go out on a limb here, because I was wary of posting in this thread - I'm all too aware of how disapproving some forumites can be toward the sort of player you describe.

But... you just described me.

I mean, at my best I'm on the low-end of mediocre at the game and tend to 'scrape through' the more difficult content. I've tried Ex/Savage content and found that I was a burden to the team I was with and, both due to having enough insight to realise I wasn't suited for it and on advice from another player, decided to stick to Normal content.

Even so, I'll confess I struggle like hell with Jeuno: The First Walk any time my friends want to play it. And I daresay, if the currently difficulty curve continues, I'll struggle with the 7.2 content too.

And it's not as if I don't try - whilst I'm told that some of it may be down to poor ping (from my perspective I'm outside an AOE but get hit anyway) it does seem as if my reaction speed is lacking and, try as I might, I don't seem able to improve on it.

Don't tell a soul, Carin, but on NA/EU players like you and me are in the majority. Unlike us, however, most have the sense not to wade into these forums.

Oh and in before "anticipating snapshotting on high ping is easy, stop watching Netflix."

Solidarity and gl/hf.

[Arohk]

And it's not as if I don't try - whilst I'm told that some of it may be down to poor ping (from my perspective I'm outside an AOE but get hit anyway) it does seem as if my reaction speed is lacking and, try as I might, I don't seem able to improve on it.

That is (mostly) not a ping issue, the game uses snapshot mechanics, that means when you are inside an AOE when the boss finished casting you are hit, not matter where you run afterwards, and because some animations takes 1-2 seconds before you take damage it APPEARS that you get hit outside of an AOE, you simply ran out too late.

But that also means that you can run into AOES the moment they resolved, you dont need to wait for the animation to happen.