I've been playing mmos since EQ1 and have never seen these sorts of issues to this extent. I'm running the game on its highest settings and still get between 40-60 FPS, with most boss fights being in the 50s, so it isn't an FPS issue. The character select screen always says I have an "excellent" connection, and I haven't checked on this game, but in WoW I get between 80 and 100ms latency; I'm on the east coast in America.

Despite all that though, I CONSTANTLY get hit by aoes even when I'm 2-3 character lengths out of the red zone when the cast finishes; so far Titan and the Chimera in Cutter's Cry have been the worst offenders.

On top of this I also get "hitching" issues, which is something I haven't seen since Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. For those that don't know, hitching is when there is a slight pause in the screen and your movement, that then rapidly corrects itself, giving your character the appearance of being a cart hitched to something that is stopping and going.