Less Memorization - More Reaction? (Trials/Raids/Bosses)

[Kinkoz]

This game is simply too laggy to have anything timing or reaction based. Just look at how hard it was for people with lag to clear Titan EX. The game has poor net code, server architecture, and it's located in a location (Montreal, Canada) which had frequent congestion and routing issues to the Internet at large. There is no way timing and reaction based fights would work in this game for the majority of players worldwide.

That's a rather subjective argument to make, especially considering that there are already mechanics for certain fights in the game that are timing and reaction-based. Although I can't necessarily deny that the game does have its latency issues from time to time, which can come from a multitude of factors.

[Illya]

That's a rather subjective argument to make, especially considering that there are already mechanics for certain fights in the game that are timing and reaction-based. Although I can't necessarily deny that the game does have its latency issues from time to time, which can come from a multitude of factors.

That's because the fights are scripted, you can memorize what's going to happen and start reacting to the mechanic before it even happens. That's how people who had lag beat Titan EX, they would start moving out of mechanics before they even appeared on their screens. This would be impossible if you had to see the mechanic first before reacting to it.

For example, I have enough lag that when Bennu appears it is already going straight for our WHM even while it's just the name and Bennu is still materializing. I know this is going to happen, so I am already doing Skull Sunder the moment I can select Bennu even though it hasn't even fully appeared yet. Sometimes my Skull Sunder goes off, I see the damage number over Bennu's head, but it still takes off for the WHM and then turns around halfway there and comes back to me. That's how laggy and unresponsive this game is, and I'm on the West Coast US. Timing and reaction based fights would be literally impossible with this kind of inherent lag.