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

[Pandalishus]

In this link the guy moves rather late. You should be premoving on ripples and know when its coming and you will won't get hit.

Whether he moves late is not the point. The point is that he successfully moved out of the AoE before the cast ended, but still got hit. If you could show me how he was still standing inside the area when it went off, I'd say you were entirely right. But you can't, can you. All you can say is "yes, he was outside the area of effect before the effect went off, but still got hit." Basically, you're advocating working around a problem with the game. OK, fair enough. There's a lot to be said for that. Sort of a "If you can't work around the Titan issues, don't queue for Titan." Heck, I agree with you. On the other hand, w're advocating fixing the problem. I wonder why you appear to be against this? Surely you must be of the mind "work around this issue, but I agree they need to fix it"?

Personally, I've cancelled my sub. This is a great game, but I'm tired of having to anticipate everything before I even see the cast. I did this in my hardcore days of raiding, but now I work, have a family, and just play MMOs for fun. I'll stick with WoW HM raids and Challenge Modes until SqEx fixes this. Sad too, because WoW is really getting old and FFXIV:ARR has been a blast everywhere except endgame content.

[ElunaMay]

Personally, I've cancelled my sub. This is a great game, but I'm tired of having to anticipate everything before I even see the cast. I did this in my hardcore days of raiding, but now I work, have a family, and just play MMOs for fun. I'll stick with WoW HM raids and Challenge Modes until SqEx fixes this. Sad too, because WoW is really getting old and FFXIV:ARR has been a blast everywhere except endgame content.

Exactly the same boat here mate, I love so much about this game, but I'm not paying a sub for laggy servers

[Sneakaboo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3leMnErroL0 this video sums it all up.
For me it's a bit better but not much, this is aside from the 2-3 second freezes.

[Sneakaboo]

What bothers me is that there are a lot of topics about latency/lag/freezes and people being unhappy about this matter.
This started in beta where SE decided to lock the topic since 'we know'.
Even now they silence a lot of them and don't respond much.

When the server has so much problems as they have now it takes a bit more than ' bug accepted'.
You expect people to sub while the game is just unplayable.
That aside everything technical seems to be a problem from sending codes/fixing servers/billing/customer support/coding.


It's just ridiculous but in the end the only thing that surprises me is that I'm surprised.
I tend to avoid Asion mmo's because they tend to be utterly trash one way or the other.
Usually servers/customer support/bots and RMT are sticking out like a sore thump.

This one is no different.

[Yukiko]

If we do not have the OneHit mechanic, people would care less about latency.
What is bugging me most since 1.x is that they dont simply increase the cast time of Enemy Abilities? Sure, just a temporary fix, but still makes it possible to avoid for most players.

[Ranghar]

We have multiple threads, and just on this one there are 35 pages of responses...yet there is no official response. Gotta love that.

[complexxL9]

We have multiple threads, and just on this one there are 35 pages of responses...yet there is no official response. Gotta love that.

Well in beta we got it to almost 2000 likes and hunderds of pages until we had response from Yoshi. To be fair some forum moderator responded a bit earlier (1000-1500 likes) letting us now that the "devs are aware, they are looking into it and will respond shortly". But it seems that was all they were capable of, looked into it and realized "we can't fix this/too expensive to fix".

[Silverwalk]

Well in beta we got it to almost 2000 likes and hunderds of pages until we had response from Yoshi. To be fair some forum moderator responded a bit earlier (1000-1500 likes) letting us now that the "devs are aware, they are looking into it and will respond shortly". But it seems that was all they were capable of, looked into it and realized "we can't fix this/too expensive to fix".

Sadly that's why we can't expect this to be fixed. There is nowhere near enough support from the player base. So we just have to work around the lag to continue playing. If a fix ever does come it will be a very nice surprise

[Silverwalk]

Here is another video showing the cast bar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsHuXAl-bOY
At 6:21 landslide cast begins
At 6:22 player leaves aoe with cast bar at 75%
At 6:24 player is hit by landslide and knocked off

This video is one of the clearest demonstrations of the lag problem affecting AoE's that I've seen. Usually video's show it from a healer's PoV which does not show the cast bar.

[Ryios]

The point of this thread imo is that if you move out of the red it shouldn't matter when you did it. If you are out of the attack you should not get hit, even if it was the last 50 milliseconds. THat's where people are complaining about the way it's designed and how latency affects it. I'm not saying I can't do this or that, just that the latency issue exists where you get it by it even though you are clearly not in it, I saw it on chimera, I saw it on hydra, I see it in AK on the first/second/third boss, I've seen it in every piece of content I've done.

So like others have stated I just move before it even happens my predicting it, which isn't always possible as some fights randomly cast stuff.