I definitely appreciate you bringing up this issue again. There are certain AoEs that seem almost impossible for me to move out of, like Magitek Reapers' "Magitek Cannon" in Castrum Meridianum.

I've also been having a lot of trouble recently with my combos on PLD. I will use Fast Blade, but the combo will have not registered, apparently because it was waiting on something from the server. Sometimes, I will use Fast Blade, and it will just... not even do anything. It won't have missed. It will just act like it never happened. Then I use Savage Blade, and it's out of combo, despite me having just used Fast Blade. So now I've got to start my combo over; meanwhile, the DPS are breathing down my neck and yanking hate away because I'm delayed.

If this were a free-to-play MMO, I would understand. However, I'm paying $10/mo (Legacy), so I expect SE to be able to handle the server load. You can't launch a subscription MMO that feels worse to play than some F2P Korean MMO. Otherwise, what's the point in me paying each month?