Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
Yeah, it's purpose wasn't in question; but nice try though. And, I don't recall saying I had a hard time with the mechanic.

I think my reply was just stating that the proposed solution doesn't help healers as much as the other jobs, but there is Focus Target. However, the castbar on Focus Target is a lot smaller. So to make it as noticable, as someone mentioned, it would need to be significantly larger.

Oh and the issue people are having is with the delay of the AoE. A delay that is independant of lag. The move counts your placement a few milliseconds before the AoE disappears.
So latency is the issue? I live in Europe and play on the NA servers, and still have plenty of time to move for the mechanic. I think what is happening is that people aren't anticipating the mechanic when they should be. Its a mechanic that does require thought, and you need to work out which way he is facing ahead of time. If it was a static left/right then nobody would have an issue, but the fact that he might turn catches people off guard. That has nothing to do with the name of the skill, and would still catch people out regardless of whether it is literally called left/right, in fact it would probably be worse that way because people would instinctively move left when in fact they need to move right because it is Omegas left, not the players.

All of that is just an observation though, there is ultimately no issue with the mechanic, and it is just one the players need to practice and get their heads around. Changing the moves name won't change anything, and nerfing the mechanic (which thankfully nobody has mentioned) would be a huge disservice to the encounter. All people can do is pay attention, and commit the mechanic to muscle memory.