Depends on your latency. At my latency, you will get hit if you are a fair distance away from a devilite and you shield as soon as it starts it's attack animation. The only way to shield it's attack is to shield before the devilite attack animation starts. (aka, shield while the devilite is standing there doing nothing. If it doesn't attack lower your shield then quickly re-raise it and hope that it attacks you. Also hope that it doesn't decide to attack you the moment you lower your shield, because that will result in you getting hit as well.)

...Yes, I think the attack is too fast.

I don't think it is a latency issue at all. I can block almost any other attack in the game but once the devilite projectile is in the air it will hit me unless I move out of the way. The key point is that I can avoid it if I move after it's been thrown but I can't avoid it if I shield after it's been thrown. It seems like a problem with the way the projectile is coded or shields not coming up fast enough (there has been other complains on shield not activating quickly enough). Either way, I don't see why anybody would object to changes that would make the projectiles more fair.

When I speak of latency issues, I will randomly seem spikes where I'm suddenly half away across the screen, stuff already in mid air. I don't normally see it often, but when I do see it, it occurs in short bursts for a decent period of time. I often try to avoid levels with those throwing minions for that reason alone.

I've dealt with Devilite groups on my own, hoards of them. Just use a pistol and slowly drag them to you one/two at a time. Other than that, if you want to bash into them quick, just click the right mouse button twice for attacking and automatically dodge after that. Wait until anything around you finishes attacking or throwing stuff at you and then rinse and repeat.

If you lag then that's your problem, not the game fault, so you either need to play more safely and shield even if nothing is coming your way then or just suck it up and keep going. Enough things have already been nerfed and turned into bleagh things as it is.

A fun games means it has some challenge to it, I don't want to play a game where I can mindlessly go around moving and hacking and everything misses to hit me. As it is I can breeze through a lot of depths with little to no problem (unless I get a really horrible lag spell) and the few times I do get hit or die I just shrug it off and keep going. I really don't thin the Devilites need any more nerfing as it is. If you don't what to be standing with your shield forever try luring them away from the main hoard into ore secluded areas and hack away at them -- or start hitting the blue ones.

Usually when one of those dies another more dangerous Devilite turns into them until the amount of Devilites left is around 5-6. That's what I do when in a room that's closed off and filled to the brim with these guys. If I die once it's a miracle -- and if you're running around in a team some other person can heal you so you don't have to waste ME/CE.

Everyone's reflexes are good here, like its been numerous times, we shield before they throw projectiles and we get hit, even people in US get this issue. If people who are so close to the servers get this issue then this clearly must be somehow adjusted. I suggest you also to try to go with your pistol to Tier 3 and try to fight them there. Dark City levels feature small, cramped arenas, you basically kiss the devilites all the time, i wonder how do you draw them out into a space when there is no space there?

Just little more time between when the devilites "telegraph" their attack and when they throw would be good enough (maybe not even a second more). Although, I'm sure we've all figured out ways to deal with them in open spaces. The main thing that makes me agree with this post is when fighting several of them with no room to run / dodge.

Seriously... I'm man enough to admit it. Comparable to other monsters they are significantly harder. T3 fiend strata are the new shock strata. You can claim you're all too rad and you just have to do X strategy, where X is some super limiting play style, but fiend attacks are out of line with the rest of the game. Plus, who wants to buy a magnus... seriously, I hear that guy is a douche.

I tend to do lone grinding through the first and second tier dungeons (a good way to vent a bit of stress without having to get frustrated at the challenge) and haven't really had much issue with fighting anything from the Fiend Family of monsters. @Rizuchan's method is the one that I typically use except that I do it with sword instead of pistol and/or bombs. Basically lead them out one to two at a time to an area away from the hoards and kill them.

I will put my shield up the instant I see them getting ready to attack (usually by watching the forked lines in the direction they're pointing) and bring the shield down to attack them. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Sometimes I end up having to fight a small hoard of them because of a mistake (like on one level hitting the block that destroys all connecting blocks letting them all loose, but I've learned that if you run away far enough, the hoard you were facing, thins out to one or two, leaving the rest to stick around the Pit Bosses.

In parties (with friends) I tend to focus on the Silkwings, Pit Bosses and Yesmans while the rest will go after the Various Devilites. Most of the reason why is because the party I tend to adventure with likes the challenge of staving off the Devilites, while I can take out the Pit Bosses for the high heat and rewards that get distributed to the party. (After all, if you kill off the Devilites, then Pit Bosses and Yesmans turn into Devilites. By this tactic you get less numbers of devilites in the end).

Well, rather than too fast (unless you're close, the projectile is actually fairly easy to dodge, provided you see it coming) I'd say it's too sudden.

They telegraph and raise their arm for about .5 seconds then if you don't have your shield up or they aren't being beaten at that precise moment or you're far enough away, you are instantly hit.

I don't really see how people can't say they're way more dangerous than other enemies. Most other enemies are slow and/or predictable, they move slowly, they telegraph for a good 2 seconds before attacking, they just aren't that spontaneous.

Maybe there are ways to deal with devilites, but it's pretty much undeniable that they're more difficult to deal with than most enemy types.