Or perhaps you could read what I said earlier in that my ISP does not offer anything better.

Besides, as I thought would be readily apparent, lag is only a part of the problem and exacerbates the fact that dealing with fiends is a test of reflexes, something which should be avoided in a game that is in its very nature online. I gave an explanation on this earlier: even if you have a small amount of lag, it can be enough to move fiends from being possible to react to, to having the reaction times needed be at or below the minimum human reaction time. The only other option to make things doable is to get gear suitable to conquering fiends, which I am looking into but is still a personal bandage for a problem in their design that is continually ongoing. Even FSC doesn't absolutely require the most fitting gear based on many solo videos by skilled players.

And yes, if a game is online, you're going to be dealing with lag and some accomodations need to be made. Period. Just because you have no lag does not mean that the issue doesn't exist - look back on the general forums and there are a spurt of people complaining about lag. In fact, the EU servers were recently added in response to this. But this is not even my largest point, it's just adding onto already-broken balancing.

And in fact, if you'd have read the thread before this, you'd have already noticed that many do not have a huge amount of money to spend on graphics cards and upgrades per month. My issue is not some isolated case which nobody else shares, etc. etc. why am I repeating myself.

Keep in mind that I have another option: appeal to the dev team to try and change what I'm complaining about (which is what this entire subforum is for; suggestions), for reasons I have already stated a multitude of times and which apparently never occurred to anyone to be a viable alternative, which I'm putting into place right now.

I have also suggested that fiends be reworked and nerfed in terms of speed, but buffed in other areas so that they remain a challenge. This was apparently ignored, and was called the same thing as a nerf by Asukalanforum, so at this part I'm starting to wonder whether the "anti-nerf" policy is actually anti-change.

Can someone please ask me a question I haven't already repeated myself on half a dozen times?

I've already heeded Nicoya's and Gwen's (and others') well-worded and benign suggestions to get better gear, but I don't feel like wading through personal insults and tirades about my skill level/Internet connection (most of which are impossible to follow through with)/disposition to find something of worth. I have no obligation to, and the "issue" is more than simply the fact that I have issues facing them:

What I'm arguing is that Fiends, like every other mob in the game, should in fact not have to have an armor set specifically tailored for dealing with them, due to the swiftness of their attacks and the extreme difficulty of dodging them. Even in Nicoya's video, he got hit quite a lot by cheap-shots from Devilites, and if at all possible said attacks should be more avoidable, so that players are not dependent on extremely specific gear sets to win.

Should I get better gear, all it'd mean is that suddenly I could beat them. It wouldn't change the fact that they're currently broken encounters and ones that introduce fake difficulty by more or less acting as their own gear-checks. All of the points saying to get better gear I have actively heeded, and in fact have started to act upon ingame. It's the best form of advice I've been given so far, but it's far from a solution to what I think of the problem.

I am patient enough to be put through personal insults, malicious attacks on what my intent is, and jabs at my skill as a player, but please do not tread the line of libel and say that I have not heeded a single good word to the contrary.