Standing out of the red, and still getting hit

[nulian]

Do you live in Europe. The EU tag on the servers is nothing more then timezone thing they are in America. So for European players its almost impossible to evade stuff.
It square enix totally not taking European players serious. latency from EU to US is way to big for games you need to evade stuff.

[Kenka]

UK Player here and never had a problem avoiding AOE attacks, except when it's my own fault, so I think this is not the case :s

Another EU here. I can say that latency DOES play a non-negligible factor here. Depending on the time of the day (the quality of my internet connection varies greatly from time to time...) I can dodge AoEs easily or I get hit even when apparently I'm several yalms out of the red circles.

Quick reflexes are a must to avoid AoEs. Sadly, reflexes alone do not guarantee your safety :/

[Aldora]

Do you live in Europe. The EU tag on the servers is nothing more then timezone thing they are in America. So for European players its almost impossible to evade stuff.
It square enix totally not taking European players serious. latency from EU to US is way to big for games you need to evade stuff.

I'm sorry, but i don't agree to this statement. I live in the EU, have had 0 lag/latency issues and i can dodge AoE/Cone attacks just fine while playing on Sargatanas (NA/EU Datacenter). I'm not saying that people do not have lag/latency issues, but saying that it's impossible to evade stuff for European players is simply not the case for everyone.

Lag/latency issues always depend on where you are, what type of connection you have (ISDN/Cable/FiberOptic) and to which server you are connecting to. If you are experiencing a lot of lag on a world connected to the NA/EU Datacenter, make a new character on a world connected to the JP Datacenter and see if there are any differences in performance.

Then, collect all your findings and post it in the Technical support section of the forum so that SE can investigate the issue at hand. Right now we don't have an official EU Datacenter, but based on the info of the user base they CAN add one down the road. Again, they will need all the info the players can give them.

[Rillifane]

what type of connection you have (ISDN/Cable/FiberOptic)

Why you leave out ADSL/xDSL? *sniff* lol.

[Aldora]

Why you leave out ADSL/xDSL? *sniff* lol.

Because i.... Um... Forgot...

I'm sorry! /grovel

[BlazeChronic]

This is a case of madcuzubad, unfortunately.

React faster. The damage registers at about 85% cast bar completion; Even if you avoid it last second, and you were in the area at roughly 85% cast, you ARE getting hit. Learn the mechanic, deal with it, and move on. It was much worse in Beta.

You should be grateful that they even added a red AoE marker for you to avoid. There is no 'issue' and nothing is going to be 'addressed'.

Lastly, you are a GLD, you should be shield bashing the majority of those casts, anyways.

[Vektrat]

Hello, I just made a thread that recaps this among other issues (all are because of the same).

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

[Lexarious]

It was like this in the beta but a lot worse. People were also saying it was intended but it's pretty obvious that it wasn't and it's been fixed for the most part.

[KogaDrake]

what my experience has been is in open world i never get hit, but in dungeons I do still have issues at some points. My guess is that since it seems to work correct in the open world (low stress on server due to login restrictions due to duty finder server issues) and not well in dungeons (i.e. on the duty finder server) it is due to the heavy load on the DF server, and the problem should lessen with the addition of new DF servers tonight. But we will just have to wait till tomorrow to see.