What I find unacceptable about FFXIV mechanics is that they have the most appalling servers I have ever had the displeasure to play an mmorpg on, yet the majority of mechanics require that you dodge stuff. In other games you dodge and you're out...you're OUT, in this game you may or may not be...all according to server lag, so what you see on your screen is not what is actually happening.

In fact it's the only game I've played where people see DIFFERENT things on their screen, we used to often laugh in CT when we're on TS, as one member would say "I'm in the lead!" as we raced to the next boss, whereas another member would say "no you're not you're sitting in 3rd"....minions...the wolf pup and coerl pup who interact with each other, everybody sees them doing something totally different on their screen. I'm not sure if this is something to do with server lag, but if you see you're out of something you have to dodge, I can bet that somebody would have seen you standing slap bang in the middle of it.

There is absolutely no way to 100% ensure you have dodged something unless you react in advance (and as many have said, learn the rotations) reaction to situations is irrelevant in this game, you have to know what's coming next and in all honesty that makes a game boring. Learning anything by rote is boring....something that should be left in school, not part of a game.