Quote Originally Posted by Fornix View Post
As a tank, a very clear example on what's off with this game is Grand Strike on the third boss in CM.

What happens? Grand Strike is an attack directed towards the tank, it essentially turns back towards the tank, throws down a narrow red rectangle and upon hit, it knocks you backwards. How to avoid it? Obviously, you want to get out of the red.

So, what happens in practise? You side step out of the red. .... Wait what, knockback?!
Try runing through him, he will knock you behind his back

Like you said this is clearly not latency issue even though it can have some contribution to this, 100 ping is not that bad for this kind of MMO.
Similar thing happens with ifrit charge, sometimes i see ppl out of it and still getting hit or right in the effect and not getting dmg. Its all about position detection and graphical interpretation of danger zones.