Help me understand AOE markers

[KimimiAvesta]

Fantastic! I'll give that a go next time I log in and if it doesn't work I guess Zetonegi's macro will give me a bit of help - thank you!

[MusouMugen]

Well for me and guildies (and some pugs I talked with in dungeons) it's most likely the lag to Canada from EU. I can be literally half a boss room away and still get hit...aka move as soon as I see a circle and still get hit. It's annoying as hell. Which is bad, I'm used to 35-50ms ping...but here...sometimes it seems like 500ms. I just hope some of it is the crappy servers fault. WTB EU servers :/

Heh worse was when I did Titan. I was behind him and still got hit from his frontal AOE and knocked down. And I wasn't alone. I can see I'll have to install fraps so I can show people that I always avoid red stuff . And no, I don't lag from crappy computer...I just laugh when ppl say Svara laaaag.

[KimimiAvesta]

I'm in the EU... but I play on a JP server. The thing is I also play PSO2, a game that's waaaayyyyy more action-orientated than FFXIV on JP servers and I get nothing like this there :/

Edit: I must say though it's comforting to hear that it's not just me - especially with Titan! I'm dreading the hard version of that fight D:

[charlemagne]

I'd say it is very likely down to the various problems with the duty finder servers. I know that I for one suffer from terrible lag in duty finder instances compared to open world content. Hopefully this will be addressed in the upcoming maintenance. If not then certainly put in a response on the feedback/bugs section of the forum.

[Vektrat]

I detailed this information in this thread, it's not just the red markers, and yes, it's related to server-side latency / poor implementation

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-everybody%29

[MrSeco]

you have to move before the red aoe ring is gone
or youll be hit no matter where you are.

countless times i see people sit in the aoe ring for too long and the complain that they got hit.

MOVE FASTER.

[Nellana]

You can also make the boss your focus, and the focus bar will have the cast bar above it. Target the boss and press SHIFT+F and it'll keep the thing you targeted as your focus.

[Ruprect]

you have to move before the red aoe ring is gone
or youll be hit no matter where you are.

countless times i see people sit in the aoe ring for too long and the complain that they got hit.

MOVE FASTER.

Oh yeah, explain this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5g4TM1fkCg

This is from the other thread about this same thing.

Also, if you have less than 333ms lag you are not lagging out, the server checks your location 3 times a second (very slow).

[HamHam]

The problem is this. On the server side, the markers appear first, then on your client, by the time you see the market, you are already late. By the time you react, you are already at the end of the casting.

This doesn't seem to apply to the cast bar. So, it is better to see the mob casting bar, rather than rely on the aoe marker.

[Ruprect]

The problem is this. On the server side, the markers appear first, then on your client, by the time you see the market, you are already late. By the time you react, you are already at the end of the casting.

This doesn't seem to apply to the cast bar. So, it is better to see the mob casting bar, rather than rely on the aoe marker.

As a healer I am not watching the enemy cast bar, I rely on visual cues from the boss. This is unacceptable for the lag time to be this long, I have never played a game that is this bad with the lag. My ping to their server is like <50ms and no matter how fast I get out sometimes I get hit.

Does anyone know a way to do focus target? That way I could focus the tank and still see the enemy cast bar. I vaguely recall there was another game that had that option and it was great, just cant remember which one right now.