MK4 is to hard

[Kiyumi]

It sounds to me like while a part of the issue might be the mech itself (I just call it out loud which sides are safe, keep repeating it and memorize it as well as possible before it happens), another seems to me is snapshotting.

So here's the thing,

The /moment/ an AOE marker is gone, the snapshot is taken. The area is now safe. This /feels/ wrong, but you can walk right into beams and flames and everything that looks like it'll kill you and it will /never/ hit you. The moment it feels like it's the least safe to be there, it's safe. Walk right into those tasty beams like a moth!

[Shinku_Tachi]

It sounds to me like while a part of the issue might be the mech itself (I just call it out loud which sides are safe, keep repeating it and memorize it as well as possible before it happens), another seems to me is snapshotting.

So here's the thing,

The /moment/ an AOE marker is gone, the snapshot is taken. The area is now safe. This /feels/ wrong, but you can walk right into beams and flames and everything that looks like it'll kill you and it will /never/ hit you. The moment it feels like it's the least safe to be there, it's safe. Walk right into those tasty beams like a moth!

So lets say it's Right, Left, Right, Left

After the Right beam starts, it's safe to go ahead and move over there before the Left beam starts? You don't have to wait for the animation to complete?

[Packetdancer]

After the Right beam starts, it's safe to go ahead and move over there before the Left beam starts? You don't have to wait for the animation to complete?

For what it's worth, the vast majority of telegraphed attacks in this game are instant snapshots rather than sustained damage; in those cases, you can move in before the animation is complete, because the damage has already been calculated/resolved when the animation started. (And yes, this is one of those.)

I say "the vast majority" because there are exceptions. But if you get used to dodging into mechanics after they go off but before the animation is done, you will very quickly find the handful of exceptions scattered throughout the game. Trust me on that; I speak from experience here.

[Kiyumi]

Correct! About 95+% of attacks work this way. The very rare cases where it doesn't work that way, you'll find out when you come across them. You can usually tell them apart but it takes experience. I don't think this raid has any of them.

For now, eat those tasty damage animations!