Sorry SE, but endgame won't work if you don't fix something.

[Ryuko]

Memorization helps, but sometimes the instance servers are just inherently lagging. Pro groups that I *know* can dodge will get hit by stupid things they would never get hit by, like bombs or landslide. Note that I'm pretty sure these laggy instances don't affect everyone, or at least you won't notice the effect if you have a pretty good connection naturally. I'll enter Titan extreme with people and four people I know can dodge still die, even though I feel my connection is fine. Then we reenter and everyone does everything flawlessly. It absolutely baffles me how unbalanced the instance servers can be. And then there are times of the day where no one has lag issues, ever, and we are farming these fights nonstop for hours. I think it has to do with congestion... and the time of the day/week. Going on primetime on a Monday is sure to spell trouble.

[Simbosan]

You cannot avoid AE with any reliability, at least if you play in Europe. You can be the best player (like me!), you can pay attention, dodge AE and still get slaughtered even though you are yards outside the AE area. They need to do a position update whenever you cross an AE border, not wait for a cast or a turn.

Destroyed the fun of the game, the rest of which I really liked.

Shame, could have been a great game otherwise

[Buddhsie]

Sorry to say bro but your problems don't lie with the game.

I live in Australia. When I'm in Melbourne my ping is ~240. It's VERY playable. Things are responsive and dodging is visually correct. When I'm at work on my mobile phone internet, my ping is ~380. It's still easily playable. I have no troubles on any of the fights in the game. Ping, or the game, aren't your issues. It's more likely the problem lies with your house's internet cables, your modem or your ISP.

Don't blame the game for something that isn't its fault.

[Rostum]

Sorry to say bro but your problems don't lie with the game.

I live in Australia. When I'm in Melbourne my ping is ~240. It's VERY playable. Things are responsive and dodging is visually correct. When I'm at work on my mobile phone internet, my ping is ~380. It's still easily playable. I have no troubles on any of the fights in the game. Ping, or the game, aren't your issues. It's more likely the problem lies with your house's internet cables, your modem or your ISP.

Don't blame the game for something that isn't its fault.

I'm also in Melbourne, what ISP are you with? I get around 270ms with Internode, and lately I've been able to dodge things fine but whenever I enter Titan EX I get huge lag spikes making it impossible. Then I just abused by everyone - getting really sick of that..

[flavored]

Sorry to say bro but your problems don't lie with the game.

I live in Australia. When I'm in Melbourne my ping is ~240. It's VERY playable. Things are responsive and dodging is visually correct. When I'm at work on my mobile phone internet, my ping is ~380. It's still easily playable. I have no troubles on any of the fights in the game. Ping, or the game, aren't your issues. It's more likely the problem lies with your house's internet cables, your modem or your ISP.

Don't blame the game for something that isn't its fault.

Your perception of latency is awry. Having ~380 ping would be EXTREMELY noticeable in any mmorpg when trying to complete reactionary content, and ESPECIALLY it is in this one. Saying that having ~250-380 still allows you to dodge things without problems is very far from truth (250 requires you to pay a really close attention to all the channels, which probably is not a bad thing making you grow a player), so unless you somehow shape space allowing you to make up for the delay I'm taking your statements with a huge pile of salt. In that case, my hat's off to you, great master of time and space. When I still played this game, there were a lot of Australian players trying to groupfind content - it's always been a disaster when they tried to avoid anything.

[Arkghyom]

Memorization, huh? So much fun!

[Shaddix]

So I've been gone for a while, did they ever fix this?

[Nanamix]

No. I still got it. Even I moved out for 0.5 second before it happened, I still get the damage spike.

Something must be done about this.

[SukoshiSeppen]

More then half of you people who complain about lag...its not your isp its your computers hardware and settings as well as your game settings. Yes your game runs well everywhere out titan...if the mob for twintania shot out equal number plumes to liquid hells It would be the same lag issue. For the most part your vid card camt draw the stuff fast and well enough. Drop your graphics and get yourself a tcpic latency fix for mmo's amd you will probably see a night and day lag issue.

[Tashigi]

More then half of you people who complain about lag...its not your isp its your computers hardware and settings as well as your game settings. Yes your game runs well everywhere out titan...if the mob for twintania shot out equal number plumes to liquid hells It would be the same lag issue. For the most part your vid card camt draw the stuff fast and well enough. Drop your graphics and get yourself a tcpic latency fix for mmo's amd you will probably see a night and day lag issue.

That's not the problem, please read the thread again.

It has been explained in detail it has nothing to do with the client/hardware on the user's end.
It's an issue with the game being built backwards, with the server as the position checker. There is also internal delays in place and to make things worse, there is a routing problem with Square Enix server ISP.