How to see incoming aoes?

[SirTaint]

I've had that happen to me on PS3. A good way to handle it is settings > controller configuration and then assign l3 to do something else or nothing at all.

^ This should be advice for every controller user. I turned mine off after locking onto Titan EX and dieing. For the extremely rare situation you need to lock on just use the number pad 5 key.