Out of touch? PLL

[Kuroka]

I wanna add, its not just "cant see"... some mechanics feel like they expect you to sit on fiber being 20m away from the servers lol

Not its not always a skill issue, sometimes i can compensate for lag by moving early, sometimes i just cant avoid too fast mechanics - you die despite being 2x as far into the savezone then other players next to you.

Take the lag and add all the light and its... hard, but not in a good way lol

M4 its so hard to tell where exactly im standing bc of the other players and you know, the giant lasers around me >_>

[KernCadfan]

I wanna add, its not just "cant see"... some mechanics feel like they expect you to sit on fiber being 20m away from the servers lol

Not its not always a skill issue, sometimes i can compensate for lag by moving early, sometimes i just cant avoid too fast mechanics - you die despite being 2x as far into the savezone then other players next to you.

Take the lag and add all the light and its... hard, but not in a good way lol

M4 its so hard to tell where exactly im standing bc of the other players and you know, the giant lasers around me >_>

This is so true, because I'm a North American player (and a live streamer), and I play with a friend called Kresh. This is a friend I made back in FFXI, but because of the fact we're both not from America (kresh is from the UK), I play on the EU servers, and raiding just... isn't fun on bosses that don't choreograph well. I do find it a tad infuriating that FFXI managed to provide a gameplay experience that allowed us to play on mostly equal footing no matter what server you happened to be on... but I'm not going to play on an NA server when most of our original linkshell from way back in the day happen to be EU based... this is a downside I have to live with, and I do... I'm not going to fault FFXIV for being more action oriented in battle...

But, what I can and will fault them on is that they should know life long final fantasy players like myself expect jobs to act a certain way, and when the jobs don't act that way at all, I not only lose out on my ability to contribute to a party the way I might like (PLD, RDM, BRD in fFXI) and (Bard in Rift). If that's the case, boss mechanics should be accounting for the fact that not everyone has perfect latency... I mean, after all, we're all getting older too. We don't have the same time to "no life" a game the way many of us did as young teenagers. We've got families, jobs, all kinds of other concerns that would take away time to practice on progression...

unless you have a static, you're kind of out of luck if you're a player like me... purely by virtue of where I live I will always be more weight to a party than I can personally contribute or midigate... At least Pictomancer is a very accessible new job because I have a bubble when I know I'm about to eat the floor dude to an unavoidable attack... if not, I don't know what I'd do with the increase in raiding difficulty...

[ReynTime]

I wanna add, its not just "cant see"... some mechanics feel like they expect you to sit on fiber being 20m away from the servers lol

Not its not always a skill issue, sometimes i can compensate for lag by moving early, sometimes i just cant avoid too fast mechanics - you die despite being 2x as far into the savezone then other players next to you.

Take the lag and add all the light and its... hard, but not in a good way lol

M4 its so hard to tell where exactly im standing bc of the other players and you know, the giant lasers around me >_>

This bothers me as well. I never fully agreed with their take of trying to make XIV more and more of an action game in an engine and tab target system that isn't fit for that, on top of how slow the tick rates are compared to the reaction time for some of the mechanics.
But for CS3 if it works for Japan, it works for everyone.

[Kuroka]

But for CS3 if it works for Japan, it works for everyone.

Yeah that. usually my connection is fine but sometimes i cant help but think "man you really plan this for ppl literally sitting next to your servers and having every single effect turned off, dont you?"