I have to play on a satellite Internet connection with a ping of around 1s so I am very familiar with how latency affects the game. With almost every AoE attack if I am within the indicator area when it appears I will be hit by the attack no matter what I do. Alternatively, if the indicator appears next to me I can run right into it without being hit. I have played other online games where the hit detection is done client side (such as Terraria) and it makes an enormous difference when timing and accuracy are important, it almost feels as though I am playing the game locally. My connection is an extreme case but this seems to affect almost everyone enough that it is a common complaint. Since the difficulty of FFXIV seems to be in quickly dodging attacks it needs to actually allow us to do it. Losing battles through mistakes is a learning experience; losing battles through latency is just frustrating.