Red Ring of Death!

[Sephirah]

So, I see a lot of people complaining about getting hit while outside of the red, and I just gotta say, there is something WRONG with your connection.

I know everyone complaining about it inexplicably has 5+ years in IT experience, but news flash, just because you can connect to the googles, and netflix, does not mean your internet is flawless.

There IS a delay, nobody is disputing that, but if you are out of the red when it finishes casting, you WON'T get hit. If you are, then you need to troubleshoot your connection, or get a better one.

I don't know what OP's purpose was with this topic.

This:

Nobody is saying that lag doesn't exist people. It does, we all know it does. But there is a big difference between the servers lagging during prime time or some other issue and this. The former will affect most if not all of your raid, not just 1 person.

I'm not saying SE shouldn't work on improving issues (don't worry they can't afford to do that, they are working their butts off). But most people experiencing this issue are not troubleshooting their own connections, they use justifications like, WoW doesn't lag so I don't need to check or change anything on my end. And I'm sorry, but that just isn't true.

Hopefully the people following this thread will try some of the things people have suggested in this thread to see if it improves their situation at all, even if they think it's SE's fault.

I'm sorry if I somehow offended anyone, but people need to do basic troubleshooting before they blame SE. And sorry to say, but yes, if you are playing in a part of the world that isn't near the servers that they launched, then you need to either use tunneling software to get a more direct connection, or wait for them to launch servers in your area, which isn't cheap.

NOBODY IS BLAMING YOU!

People keep looking at this like we are blaming the player, and that isn't true, your connection is not you.

I think people are irritated with being told (by people other than SE) to go jump through hoops to make a game that they pay for work well when they do not experience the same set of issues (or any) in other games. I don't have much of a problem with lag in this game, but I can tell you that if I did, I would be willing to submit a ticket to SE, but I'm not going to sit here and play liaison between SE and my ISP for hours/days/weeks to try and resolve it. It's not worth the effort. SE needs to break radio silence on this issue one way or the other. Even if all they do is make another RFI thread for people to dump traceroutes and pathpings in, they need to address the community.

Fair enough, once again I just want to say I'm not trying to place blame on anyone. Was just pointing out 2 things, that AoEs are infact avoidable, it's just as damaging to the games reputation and potential if nobody even gives it a chance because they see things like those old beta 3 gifs floating around; and to point out that there MAY be a solution for people without waiting for SE.