This issue needs to stay at the top of the forums. It is killing many peoples enjoyment of the game. Personally it is driving me nuts. I have raided in virtually every major MMO in the past 13 years. I have never ever had problems avoiding telegraphed attacks in games that had this mechanic. However even last night tanking Dhorme Chimera for example I couldn't avoid some of the attacks to save my life. I was out of the breath attacks for a good half second or more before they finished casting and still got hit. I get about 100ms ping from my location to the data center, which while not amazing, it is not that bad either. It is what is to be expected when you have only one data center for the entire continental US. This has to be compensated for, either in a slight increase in cast times or better server location checks. I am already on optical fiber internet, I can't get anything better and in other games it has served me just fine and I have been considered one of the better players in all of my raid groups. Here in FFXIV I feel like a failure due to the way this game handles things. This needs to be fixed.