I'm done with Titan.

[Ryios]

You are using AMD cards, and the're 6800's at that. This game has been proven many times over to prefer Nvidia cards atm. AMD guys are pretty much screwed atm. Get a 660GTX or better (preferably a 760) and it will run a TON better.

I had the exact same card but I had two of them and they were in CrossFire and the game ran like shit. Get an Nvidia card like a 760 and you won't have any issues.

Now I'm not saying the AOE thing is a non issue for me, but its significantly better than others I see. I can run out of AOE at the last second and make it. The only time I get hit is if he's casting it as I'm running out of the red. Which is fine.

People rely on the red areas to much, they are not exact. They are more there to get you to react to something, not to exactly represent the window of the AOE attack. What that means is if you watch the casting bar on some fights with Red Areas on the ground the casting bar ends before the red area disappears. If your in the red when the casting bar ends your getting hit.

However some mobs don't cast, they just shoot something off but there is still red there. For such encounters you have to watch the boss animations and learn what the trigger is for the landing of the attack and you need to be out before that animation drops. Some of these fights require people to watch the boss and just use the red circle/aoe areas as a kind of visual que.

--My Rig--
I5 2500K @ 4.9 OC under water (corsair h55 cooler)
GPU: Nvidia 760 GTX (just 1 on stock fan) runs better than two 6870's
750 watt PSU
16 GB of ram @ 1600Mhz
OS HDD: 2 * 64 Gig SSD Raid 0
Game HDD: 180GB SSD
Monitor: 2560X1440

Same internet, except I have Powerboost at 50mbps (didn't upgrade as high as you)