The latency issue is killer and should have been fixed like yesterday. We can fashion all the work arounds we want, but the fact that we as a player-base are forced to in order to clear content is unacceptable in a contemporary MMO. Period. I'm unsure whose idea it was to code this game in crayon and then decide to make the mechanics severely punishing to anyone who lives more than two blocks from a data centre... but they're terrible.

Disclaimer: I live in Australia and have cleared 4 relics (twice as healer). The first two were on an NA server, the most recent ones on Masamune. I have a shitty laptop and am on wireless. But you're right, I'm a bad player if I acknowledge there's a problem.