How to read AOE attacks?

[Gunnery Goblin]

I've made it as far as Bloki Magu and im having serious trouble reading most enemies' AOE attacks, im presented with the prompt, and sometimes it seems like im specifically being targeted, but sometimes the enemy explicitly moves ahead of where i dodge to land on me. with no indication of where the attack will land, how am i meant to dodge an AOE attack?

[Saint Sanguine]

i have noticed two types of area of effect attacks, one that targets you/somewhere on the map/mobile and one that is stationary. to avoid them you have to be no where near them when they do the attack.

sadly it is not exact when going by the prompt, you will have to learn the the attack pattern more then going by the prompt for area of effect attacks. be it just from out of sync animations or variations in the range of the effect/attack patterns and triggers for them.

such as when and how they do it and the patterns that follow, like with bloki magu i noticed his leap is targeted and is triggered by being at range but his jump/stomp is based on how close you are to him. along with what else is going on with his attack/idle pattern and duration.

one thing i think i noticed is there looks to be a brief prompt on the ground where the mobile area of effect attack will land but it goes by very fast. oh and so far i noticed the roll for double taping dodge is not a dodge in its self, you will still get hit mid roll.

[uRBAN_Spaceman]

Loved this game until the later fights. Its gets pretty ridiculous with some of the bosses. Red circle could mean one of 2 or more moves with pretty terrible windup animations to at least give a clue of which of the attacks is actually coming.