Bad ping/latency/lag problems

[Ekko]

My wife plays FFXIV too, her computer is right next to me and there's a 3 seconds delay between what my character is doing on my screen and what it is doing on her screen. Strangely it only seems to concern moves, because when I craft there's is no delay.

[Zacko]

My wife plays FFXIV too, her computer is right next to me and there's a 3 seconds delay between what my character is doing on my screen and what it is doing on her screen. Strangely it only seems to concern moves, because when I craft there's is no delay.

Same thing with me and my wife
It's funny to watch sometimes, we're on different spots on each screen, when we run to certain place she's often far ahead of me on her screen while I'm far ahead of her on my screen lol

I just don't know, combat recently got much better (I would guess after 1.8 patch), and there's no more delays with combat moves and action bar that I experienced before...however i did notice strange things like OP said, you move away at right time...and still seem to get hit, like your character didn't really move i don't know, just doesn't feel right, and not only with moles...and this has been going on since alpha.

The delay that i can see on my and my wife's monitor is always there, no matter what or where we do.

It's also important to notice that same thing happens to us in both US and EU.
EU (Croatia) and USA (Vegas).
I forwarded and opened all the ports needed for FFXIV, our patch download speeds are great and we have a lot of remote connections so i would say that ports do not really help with this issue.

Take care

[Zenaku]

My wife plays FFXIV too, her computer is right next to me and there's a 3 seconds delay between what my character is doing on my screen and what it is doing on her screen. Strangely it only seems to concern moves, because when I craft there's is no delay.

That going to happen the severs are in Japan even in FFXI i had this issue with me and my gf playing that noting to worry about.

This is FFXI/FFXIV it's not wow or fast step game that you need low ping like wow you need low ping for PVP and such but not really needed for FFXI/FFXIV type battle system.

i still want them to fix the lag issue tho lol

[Alcide]

That going to happen the severs are in Japan even in FFXI i had this issue with me and my gf playing that noting to worry about.

This is FFXI/FFXIV it's not wow or fast step game that you need low ping like wow you need low ping for PVP and such but not really needed for FFXI/FFXIV type battle system.

i still want them to fix the lag issue tho lol

Have you ever tried an Ogre fight as a melee?
Ideally it should be really easy to do, every AoE has a quite long cast time and different casting animations, so you should be able to avoid/stun all of them, but everytime I try to do it I still get hit because of latency, and I react as soon as I see the mob casting on my screan.

They're clearely going for a dynamical type of battle, but at the current state it's already a fail, since you can't react when you see a skill coming, you just have to guess when it's coming and hope you're doing the right thing...

[PeaceWalker]

Have you ever tried an Ogre fight as a melee?
Ideally it should be really easy to do, every AoE has a quite long cast time and different casting animations, so you should be able to avoid/stun all of them, but everytime I try to do it I still get hit because of latency, and I react as soon as I see the mob casting on my screan.

They're clearely going for a dynamical type of battle, but at the current state it's already a fail, since you can't react when you see a skill coming, you just have to guess when it's coming and hope you're doing the right thing...

And that's why everybody hates melees right now
We're a dying breed.