Either make dodging AoEs possible, or make them not instant-kills

[faris]

He's telling the truth [snip]

I thought the same thing until the second boss in darkhold tonight. In short, as a white mage which dodges the red circles and still gets hit, the fight's impossible. I haven't managed to dodge one, in 10+ attempts and believe me, I've been out, healthily out, a long way out of them and they've still connected. I've attempted running backward and forward constantly, only stopping to cast, and it hasn't done a damn thing. Even if the circle doesn't appear under my feet because I'm already out of it, it hits. In short, I've had to tell my static to do darkhold with another healer. I'll probably clear it when I level something which when KO'ed, doesn't lead to the death of everyone else.

[Dorion]

Fail troll levels all the way to cap? Most impressive.

What's so impressive about grinding FATEs for a couple days?

[BrodyAlgana]

Melopahn: I am not sure what video you were watching. If you are talking about the video that started this thread, she was clearly way out of the box.

[Jackofham]

I'm sorry, I don't have this problem. I'm not bragging, I'm just letting you know that not everyone suffers from this issue. Perhaps there is a problem with the way your ISP is handling FFXIV traffic.

[Wazabi]

I play from a non-japanese speaking asian country on NA server. I have only half a second to start moving through the shortest route out of the aoe. If I start moving more than half a second later, or I did not take the shortest route out, I get hit by AOE... I hope they will be able to figure something out to fix that for non-american players.

[gigi_frana]

+1 the lag will eventually have to be fixed, if we are to raid.

[Vektrat]

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

[ErnestoGiovanni]

Ok if you said, "it's because you are NA playing on a Canadian Server" or anything of the like, What do you propose that the European players do? Its obviously a problem if you need be on a server near you, and there are no servers on your continent. Same goes for Western Asia and Australia, and a whole lot of places.
If it requires you to be on a server within your locale then they need either shorten the server ping, or put servers everywhere. I play with a 100 meg connection and there are times when I have enough time to get out of the zone, because I am already sprinting, then turn away and cast a spell and still be hit by the move. As a healer, no you can not see the cast bar that is also an issue that needs to be addressed because it is a move targeting you, maybe knowing how much time you have would help because you can't tell if its lag or the move has a long animation.

[gigi_frana]

I don`t remember WoW having this type of issue. Did Blizz have EU based servers?

[Kiteless]

This has very little to do with the actual distance (well, okay, it does have some to do with it, but that's not the primary factor). I live in Canada, and I still get the same problem.

It's because of the way the game is built to handle information from client and server. The game was intentionally built in a way that causes lag. Information has to be sent back and forth between server and client in an incredibly inefficient manner.

Essentially, in most MMOs, the information that a certain AoE is sent to your client. You then get that information, and then move to avoid the attack. A packet of information saying you dodged the attack is then sent to the server. The server reads that you avoided the attack, which then continues carrying on with business as usual.

In FFXIV, the information that a certain AoE is sent to your client. You then get that information, and move to avoid the attack. What is sent to the server is a packet of information saying that you moved to a specific location, not one that says you dodged the attack. At the time the AoE is scheduled to go off, the server compares its relevant information with the relevant information of your character's location at the time the attack goes off. However, the packet of information saying that your character was at a location outside of that of the AoE may not have reached and been processed by the server in time.

So you may have moved out of range of the attack before it was supposed to go off, but because of the way the game's netcode operates, the server can't actually know that, so you just get hit instead.