Letter from the Producer LIVE Part X: Will the netcode issue be honestly addressed?

[Sunarie]

Mayhaps the N.America servers are substandard quality and JP servers are better and the JP players have no such issues to complain about..

Actually, others who can read the language report similar threads in the Japanese forums. So, they too get the issue.

No, I don't see how this would ever be addressed because it's not a problem...

Don't people find the instant skill lockouts for animations far worse? Nothing is better than casting a Lustrate and watching it go off after the tank is dead!

I'm not sure who exactly you are replying to, but the fact that zero other MMOs have the issue where you can be out of an aoe and still get hit, coupled with strats being developed around having to memorize skills and pre-move because you can't rely on screen indicators, a 150+ page thread, another 40+, the issue helping to kill 1.0, and an accepted bug in the accepted bugs forum. I would say that it's safe to see this as a problem.

As far as skill lockouts for animations go? That has been stated as working as intended, annoying as it is. SE has at least come out and said "no, we want it to be that way and you guys need to adjust your strategies based on that."