(07-30-2014, 06:53 AM)synaesthetic Wrote: Because apparently in XIV, panic buttons are not actually panic buttons and the defensive buff takes a couple of seconds to actually register.Goes with everything apparently. Even before playing the game I kept hearing complaints of "BUT I DODGED THAT HIT" because the orange zone doesn't disappear as the ability completes casting but only starts doing so when the cast time's done, leading to a false positive.
I've also noticed it's pretty generous with the latency (can press at 1/5th left of cooldown and it won't eat the input or say cannot cast that yet) and that some abilities having a long start-up (Butcher's one of them, IB isn't that bad but it's at least one full second before the hit registers which is when the defense buff comes in).
Panic Button might end up being Infuriate + IB. Infuriate's on a 60 sec cooldown so if it's up and I don't have 5 Wrath yet might be a good idea provided the ability is pretty slow.
