Quote Originally Posted by Size View Post
The game determines if you are "in" the area by your position when the casting bar is 100%. It has nothing to do with the actual animation of the attack itself which is often times take a second our two and then damage is applied afterward. So yes, you may be a mile away from the aoe by the time the animation finishes, but if you were in that area when the bar was full then you will be hit.
The "lag" is that if you move out of an aoe -during- the last approximately 1/4th of a cast bar, so you are still out when it finishes, just at the very tail end, then you'll still get hit by the attack.

Since multiple videos have been posted throughout the thread. I would love to see even one video of someone moving out during that little increment at the end of the cast bar and -not- get hit. That's something I haven't seen yet.