Primal Battles

[Flich]

Okay... I have a little rant here. Primal battles continually get harder and harder as you progress the storyline, as expected. The difference between ifirit to titan is 10 fold. Between titan to Garuda its even harder.

My problem isn't with the difficulties in the bosses, but the time to get away from their attacks. Often times I find myself halfway across the battle field and I still get hit by a meteor that Ifirit has spawned and still get killed, even after I done 1k damage (got off 3-4 dot spells with summoner). The same happened with titan and now the same is happening with Garuda with my brother's healer (as I am not up at that point in the game). Has anyone else had this type of issue? I have been able to dodge nearly every thing outside of dungeons. Some bosses in dungeons do the same but not to the degree of the primal battles.

[Hikozaemon]

these are all cake walks ............... all u have to do is pay attention and dodge..... Garuda is easiest all u have to do is dps her hide behind rocks kill plumes and dps her only person that would have the slightest problem is the healer keeping up w/ garuda dmg which is still easy as in the last phase all u do is stand in place and medica bomb until fight is over. these fights are made for noobs to complete. People need to learn to play there classes and people need to learn to dodge thats all there is too it. I did wanderers palace darkhold brayflox stone vigil all first attemp w/ pickup groups because my party members did there jobs and payed attention and adjusted to the boss mechanics on the fly w/ ease. start complaining when u get to Titan Hardmode because that takes real teamwork.

[Flich]

I am not complaining about the difficulty go back to your home. I am complaining about already dodging their attacks and getting hit regardless because of the mechanics of the game.

FYI: I ran the benchmark and got 120FPS, and I average 70-80 FPS in the game and during primal battles.

[KageNeko]

I just want to make sure of the obvious....You're not referring to Ifrit's hellfire, and the similar on the other primals, are you? Cause you can't dodge them.

[Neo_bahamut]

I agree completely I think their a glitch in the primal battle I get punch and thrown into death by Titan the very second the red line appears I hit E I managed to run all the way behind him once and it still threw me straight through him and down the whole on the other side -_- ... but I have heard people in the party say they see the line show up for 30-40 seconds and they doge it the few times the fat bastard does not target the healer :/ so I am not sure if we are just lagging the problem here is I am deathly afraid of 1017 and I dare not "turn it off and on again"

[p3king]

I also experienced this "lag" when doing Titan. As healer I would run out immediatly (not even trying to finish any casts) of the aoe knockback and got out in time, then about half a second later I still get knocked down that damn platform. We did it in the end but I died a lot to this.

[Themis]

It could be a side effect of the currently known server stress, especially with the server used for instances. There's also other reasons it could be, like local hardware relates, network issues etc.

I have to say, though, I've done all 3 of those fights (and all of the story dungeons where this can also apply), and the only times I've been hit by any telegraphed moves is when I've been in a really bad spot (the shortest path out isn't long enough to quite avoid damage) or I've not been paying as much attention as I should be. I would say that any time I have been hit has mostly been my own fault.

[Skoll8]

I really hope they fix this lag issue. I occasionally check my ping times in the top right corner of the screen, and typically the sending is good in the 100-400 range, but the receiving is around 2000. Other games my pings are normally double digits so doubtful it's my connection.

Pretty much every aoe is an instant response required thing. Like stated above, even if the boss gives you 2-3 seconds of warning, if you don't react immediately then you'll get it, even over a second after being out of the zone. I guess this at least makes the fights more difficult, because if we actually had all the time we should, these fights would all be cakewalks.

[Fear]

I really hope they fix this lag issue. I occasionally check my ping times in the top right corner of the screen, and typically the sending is good in the 100-400 range, but the receiving is around 2000. Other games my pings are normally double digits so doubtful it's my connection.

Those numbers are not your ping, for a start a ping is the time it takes for a packet to travel from your computer, to the destination and back to your computer again so it doesn't have a in or out time.

Those numbers are the amount of bytes(or bits) of information being sent to and from the server. The sent will always be low as it's what your doing, the receive is the server telling your computer all the information of where other chars are and what they're doing so it's much higher.

[Ryuni]

It might be related to the information you can find in this thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nd-AOE-markers

If you are 100% certain that you are at least an inch away from the red area when the boss' cast bar finishes, then it's most likely a delay bug in instance servers.