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

[Astarica]

I will actually disagree with that claim. If everything was true to screen, and they didn't make the cast longer or anything, but only sync'd the cast bar and the aoe indicator with the cast bar, and when you moved out of it you were truly out of it, I think a lot more people would successfully dodge. I would even wager that many DF pugs would down Titan. Most people die to Landslide and Weight of the Land. Both have about 2 seconds cast time.. that is a long time to dodge.

What I mean is that lag in this game is so consistent, it basically functions the same as if the cast time is simply shorter. If WotL is 2.0s to cast, you might as well think of it as if it's just 1.4s. Therefore ultimately skill does determine whether you'll dodge it or not. If WoW needs to duplicate the exact difficulty of FF14, they'd just use a 1.4s casting spell, and if you can't dodge 2.0s in WotL, you still won't dodge 1.4 (without lag) in WoW.

Of course, then we got to ask what's the point of having a castbar if a significant portion of that bar isn't even there. I think that's the issue that makes people angry. In WoW if you have an ultra fast casting AE, people will get hit by it but they will see they clearly weren't able to escape on time. In FF14 you basically have the false hope with a fake castbar that makes you think you dodged something, except the castbar is wrong. This is actually pretty consistent, like I pretty much always know if I beat an AE or not. There's no randomness involved once you get the timing down. You will pretty much always know when you beat the AE and when you did not. Right now, even eliminating the castbar would be an improvement, as without a castbar, at least nobody would be tricked into thinking they dodged something. It's not like the current castbar tells you anything useful against an ability like WotL. All it does is make people angry by displaying false information.