I keep avoiding Aoe(s) from Boss(es) but still get hit.

[Alukah]

In this game you cannot dodge reactively, you have to predict when to dodge and start moving before it starts casting. The outcome of a terrible design choice :P

Fortunately most notorious battles are scripted so once you learn or get a hint of the rotation you can act before stuff happens.

[Elazu]

In this game you cannot dodge reactively, you have to predict when to dodge and start moving before it starts casting. The outcome of a terrible design choice :P

This is a blatant lie, though. To this day, I have not encountered a single boss that required me to dodge pre-emptively.

[Tiggy]

This is a blatant lie, though. To this day, I have not encountered a single boss that required me to dodge pre-emptively.

Same. There is always enough time to react. You must react very quickly though.

[Haibel]

Same. There is always enough time to react. You must react very quickly though.

the biggest thing I have found is if I'm getting a little on the slow side, Stop attacking when you dodge. if you try to squeeze an
attack in while your moving out, the server is recording your position inside the aoe. So if I notice I got hit moving out, I stop swinging
on dodges afterward. If I get out, then I know i'm lagging a little and pay attention a little more.

[Seif]

This is a blatant lie, though. To this day, I have not encountered a single boss that required me to dodge pre-emptively.

Titan EX plumes cannot be outrun based on visual ques if you have at least a tiny bit of lag.

[LalaRu]

This is a blatant lie, though. To this day, I have not encountered a single boss that required me to dodge pre-emptively.

You will.
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[DragonFlyy]

In this game you cannot dodge reactively, you have to predict when to dodge and start moving before it starts casting. The outcome of a terrible design choice :P

Fortunately most notorious battles are scripted so once you learn or get a hint of the rotation you can act before stuff happens.

The only time I had to predict the AoEs was when I was playing on a Japanese server from US. Now that I am on a US server I can usually wait a second or two after the AoE shows up and still make it out. Running 10MBPS DSL. Average ping to server is around 200ms.

[Haibel]

Running 10MBPS DSL. Average ping to server is around 200ms.

MBPS means nothing to gaming. Thats just a measure of how much data you can transfer at a given time frame. How BIG your pipe is per say.
Ping time is what your looking for and nothing else. As long as your < 500ms this game should be hard to you.

[Tupsi]

In this game you cannot dodge reactively.

Yes you can - You can even evade and run back into AoE's and not get hit, this depends purely on your connection though.

Fortunately most notorious battles are scripted so once you learn or get a hint of the rotation you can act before stuff happens.

This helps when 3rd parties are having issues, for example Level3.net.