ELI5: How are the current dungeons hard?

[Jinglypockets]

Yes, and it's totally counterintuitive and amounts - once more - to how FF netcode works. It was okay-ish until DT, but in some places it starts to show.

It's very counterintuitive. I want to be clear: FFXIV's netcode is terrible, and it makes the game feel weird and janky.

However, it's still perfectly *functional*. If you play exclusively around telegraphs and completely ignore everything else, then everything about the game, the netcode, and the timing feels 100% consistent and fair.

It doesn't mean their netcode is *good* or that it wouldn't be better to be able to rely on the boss timing instead of the telegraph timing, but if you can flip that switch in your head it'll start to feel natural and you'll be dramatically more successful.