Hi All,

Apologies if this has already been discussed, I'm sure it has at some point. Google has only come up with very general answers but I am after some specific information from people currently playing the game.

My husband and I both play and are having a lot of difficulty with aoe attacks. Even when we are well out of the area by the time the cast bar is full we still seem to be taking damage.

We're both fairly seasoned MMO players so we are use to handling aoe's and the need for quick response times but are finding it difficult to come up with a solution when playing FFXIV.

We are based in Australia and understand this increases ping but to date that hasn't been a massive problem in other games.

So is there a special technique to managing aoe's in FFXIV? At this point we are both sticking to ranged classes as melee and tank classes are not playable for us due to this.