Question for people in Australia about Ifrit HM

[zetayuri]

So I've been having trouble stunning Ifrit as OT. This is largely due to a latency issue. Are any other Paladins in Aus having the same issue or do I just have a sucky ISP?

[Taemek]

Just pre-emptively get ready for Eruption, he does it at certain points, watch the fight closely.

Besides, if people know how to see Eruption they can dodge it anyway and lastly, if you have decent healers, they can heal through it.

[zetayuri]

In the second half of the fight one eruption is usually enough to wipe entire party. That's where lag comes in as well.

[Paikis]

I play with 400 ping and can interupt no problems. You simply ahve to know the fight well enough to know its coming before he cast it.

[Castillan]

I play with 400 ping and can interupt no problems. You simply ahve to know the fight well enough to know its coming before he cast it.

Playing from Australia means anything from 500-2500ms ping in instances, depending on the vagaries of international traffic. For me, four times out of five, I can react in time to most things. For the other one out of five, it doesn't matter how quickly you react, the thing has already happened/been cast as far as the server is concerned before you even move.

[Paikis]

Playing from Australia means anything from 500-2500ms ping in instances, depending on the vagaries of international traffic. For me, four times out of five, I can react in time to most things. For the other one out of five, it doesn't matter how quickly you react, the thing has already happened/been cast as far as the server is concerned before you even move.

I play from Newcastle(NSW) and I am usually 250-500. If you're getting anything that bad, you've got an issue.

[Taemek]

Playing from Australia means anything from 500-2500ms ping in instances, depending on the vagaries of international traffic. For me, four times out of five, I can react in time to most things. For the other one out of five, it doesn't matter how quickly you react, the thing has already happened/been cast as far as the server is concerned before you even move.

This is an ISP issue, nothing more.

If you are with a well known ISP company and have a decent plan speed of anything over ADSL 2+, you will never see anything over 500ms at worst anywhere within Australia.

[juniglee]

I think the Aussies pick one of the JP servers due to having better ping.

I'm on Tonberry (the unofficial Oceanic server) myself, and even with my crappy net (I live 4.2km away from the nearest exchange, no plans for NBN in my area anytime soon, still using crappy copper wires, and I'm using TPG), I don't lag against Ifrit HM. I'm able to OT him just fine.

[Taemek]

I think the Aussies pick one of the JP servers due to having better ping.

I'm on Tonberry (the unofficial Oceanic server) myself, and even with my crappy net (I live 4.2km away from the nearest exchange, no plans for NBN in my area anytime soon, still using crappy copper wires, and I'm using TPG), I don't lag against Ifrit HM. I'm able to OT him just fine.

NBN has been canned thanks to new government, so you are ^&*% out of luck.

[RapBreon]

So I've been having trouble stunning Ifrit as OT. This is largely due to a latency issue. Are any other Paladins in Aus having the same issue or do I just have a sucky ISP?

Know the fight, he has a specific pattern in which Eruptions are cast in each phase. With phase 3 being the most important, but the most predictable. Dodging a triple eruption in a pug group isn't going to happen. If you learn the rotation well enough, you can MT and interrupt at the same time.

If you're unwilling to learn, get a tunnel service; WTFast or some such and just auto attack your way through the fight only shield bashing as necessary.