Help me understand AOE markers

[KimimiAvesta]

It'll be above the mob's health bar, you have to have it targeted to see the progress. Don't worry about it, that's more important if you're trying to stun or something. Knowing that the mob is almost done casting isn't going to help you run faster. But you can have a /ac "cure" <tt> macro to let you idle on the mob when you aren't capping off the DDs but that's another slot on your hotbar and something for you to get used to.

I appreciate the suggestion, thank you!

[Ryuni]

Thank you for all the replies so far!

Ryuni - as a WHM that's almost looking at the party rather than targeting an enemy, where do I see the cast bar? It's something I've heard of but I'm not familiar with, sorry.

I'm not quite sure since I haven't tested, but I think focused targets get a cast bar as well. So if you set the boss/enemy as focused target (I think CTRL+F is default), then you get an extra little bar somewhere on your screen (depends on how you modified your UI), this might display a cast bar when they use spells so you don't have to switch targets when healing.

[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).