AOE issues preventing me from beating titan.

[Wakaflaka]

I've actually had this problem too, i play on Excalibur which is a NA server but not that it matters since EU servers are at the same place, i'm from the UK have 60MB connection, an have had this problem a lot, mainly when i use the DF. when i'm actually on my server there isn't much of a problem. it all happens when i'm using DF which are the instance servers. It really does make a lot of content very difficult to do, an its not like this problem is new its been around since 1.0, so I'm just not sure why they haven't acknowledged that there's still a problem with this.

[echogame]

If you're playing on a wireless network, try switching to a wired. It won't solve this completely (since most of it is on SE's end), but it'll help.

[Holyhunter]

Ok so I'm on Odin, EU, and I'm playing from the UK, on a 120mb virgin media DSL connection. I've been having problems with AOE attacks, I see the AOE marker on the ground, move out of the way the attack triggers and still hits me despite me being way out of the box. During the titan fight this makes his knock back attack an instant kill unless I'm right on the edge of the box when it spawns, and I run about three times the distance away from the box, which means that after three angry parties I still haven't beaten the boss. My party members swear blind that I'm not moving out of the target area.

I assumed it was lag at first, but I'm a healer so my party would obviously be dead if I were lagging, I'm not showing any visible signs of lag, and after pinging the server my latency is sub 110ms.

there really isn't anything you can do about this except learn to predict the fight (Titan has a very predictable order of moves he uses) because you're simply too far from the servers

[Rose-Wild]

I made a topic to try to get this fixed, post your opinions here please.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-not-in-Canada.

[MisoMisa]

Same issue here, located in Australia. I did the Ifrit fight for the first time today as Arcanist, whenever I saw an aoe indicator drop I would move well out of its zone and still be hit a second or so later.

I went back in as Archer and didn't stop running the entire fight and sure enough I wasn't hit by any aoe whatsoever.

So basically to avoid aoe you need to be moving before they even start casting..

(Also never had this issue with any other MMORPGS, coming from someone who does WoW raid content and knows how to move from bad stuff on the floor.) :\

[Kiat]

I'm from the UK and get this problem. Even on mobs outside of duties I will get hit even though I moved out of the way of the red cone/circle/rectangle etc.
Took me a few attempts on the final WAR quest.
I've had major issues with Titan (still not beat him) to the point I got abusive messages from the pickup party. Wish I recorded it so I could show them I was moving in time and then post it to their faces....with hot glue....and feathers.

Since the update I cant even play the game. I login fine but then lag hits me and 90k closes the game.

[Ramiren]

If you're playing on a wireless network, try switching to a wired. It won't solve this completely (since most of it is on SE's end), but it'll help.

Tried that this evening, it makes no noticeable difference.

[Ramiren]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...37#post1192037

I created a topic in the bugs section if you guys want to head on over and chime in.

[baconlaserbeam]

Sad truth of it is there is probably very little SE can do. Its not like they're going to be opening a new UK Aus based data center/servers any time soon. It might be latency from your ISP to the servers.

[Prototype79L]

It's annoying because this is ONLY happening with AOE attacks, my healing is spot on, nobody is moving funny there are no other signs of lag at all, this isn't happening to anybody else in the same instance as me, or on the same server as me (that I'm aware of).

I guess it's too much to ask that square actually provide some technical support in their technical support forums, right?

I have the same issue, lv47 tank, and it would be crucial to avoid AoE attacks, which i do, as soon as i see the red mark i move way out of there, often i go completely behind them, and i still get hit. I failed many attempts because of this lag, and it is quite frustrating. Currently i am at the final boss in Aurum Vale,and i always get hit by bad breath. This needs to be fixed. Fix this AoE latency!!!