Square enix, Stop this.

[Wynn]

In very very very rare cases the latency is higher than normal, meaning you basically die no matter what. But when I say rare I mean really really rare. Of all the times ive done Ifrit, it might've happened like once...and it was likely a combination of latency and lag. Deaths due purely to that circumstance are very rare though...95% of the time it is the fault of the player. This is why I say its just not a big problem, unless your hardware is just bad, in which case SE can't do anything about that.

You really cannot speak for everyone so please stop trying to do so. What is true for you may not be true for everyone. Like I said, watch the video. Or you can sit here with your fingers in your ears and your eyes shut and ignore the facts. Up to you.

[NoctisUmbra]

You really cannot speak for everyone so please stop trying to do so. What is true for you may not be true for everyone. Like I said, watch the video. Or you can sit here with your fingers in your ears and your eyes shut and ignore the facts. Up to you.

You can't speak for everyone either. Neither can the OP. With a solid connection and good hardware, it is true that a lag spike so severe as to cause getting hit by eruptions or plumes is rare. If this was such a widespread issue then all the people I play with, as well as myself, would not be successfully avoiding eruptions a vast majority of the time.

Is there server lag? Yes. Is it annoying? Yes. Do we have more than enough time to dodge them? Yes. If I could dodge them back in 1.18 even without Fleet of Foot equipped, we can all surely dodge them now when active mode doesn't inhibit our movement speed at all.

[Atoli]

..we can all surely dodge them now.

No.
I'm even starting to wonder if the server ever knows where I am standing at all.
Lately I'm even getting hit by the lava thingy even when I'm standing in a safe spot. Not just moved to a safe spot but standing there for like 3 min without moving AT ALL.
Other players see me in the safe spot too, still getting hit.

Eruptions..lol.
Sure, sometimes it's my own fault because I take some risk and execute a skill even though I should probably wait.
But that's like..once every 5-10 fights.
I'm just SO sick of getting hit by stuff I evade by far. I live in Europe, so granted, it takes a while for the client to communicate with a server at the end of the world, but still, this shouldn't be happening.
I'm willing to bear with this for now, but I think we really need regional servers for 2.0; not servers in Japan dedicated to Europeans but European servers in Europe and American servers in the US, etc.

[Wynn]

You can't speak for everyone either. Neither can the OP. With a solid connection and good hardware, it is true that a lag spike so severe as to cause getting hit by eruptions or plumes is rare. If this was such a widespread issue then all the people I play with, as well as myself, would not be successfully avoiding eruptions a vast majority of the time.

Is there server lag? Yes. Is it annoying? Yes. Do we have more than enough time to dodge them? Yes. If I could dodge them back in 1.18 even without Fleet of Foot equipped, we can all surely dodge them now when active mode doesn't inhibit our movement speed at all.

I don't recall speaking for everyone. Perhaps you can quote where I did?

[NoctisUmbra]

I don't recall speaking for everyone. Perhaps you can quote where I did?

Simply saying the argument goes both ways. Just cause you or the OP are somehow apparently having more issues with this server lag than others, doesn't mean its some huge widespread issue.

The facts are there. Plenty of Ifrit clears with an abundance of Ifrit weapons everywhere. The server lag has been there from the beginning. I'm sure all of us have fallen prey to glitched eruptions or cases of severe lag spikes. However there are more than enough people claiming that they are more than manageable and that these unavoidable situations are rare. Even more people in game repeatedly clearing Ifrit, thus showing it is not a problem.

Of course nobody can speak for everyone. People are different. They vary in skill, experience, knowledge, internet speed, PC build, etc.