Titan Fight

**Icarian** · 2013-09-06 03:42

It's not about being able to predict the pattern but being able to dodge the weight of the land (or hell, I even got hit by landslide a few times), sometimes it feels like they appear on your screen a good 1-2 seconds later, giving you no time to dodge because even if you get out it'll still hit you, or you get the "everything stops for a second or two and then fasts forwards" and it explodes almost right away :/

**ChocoFeru** · 2013-09-06 04:19

I know exactly the pattern, I know how to dodge everything and still be able to heal everyone in time, but it sucks to have this AoE lag.

I have to keep moving before AoE lands, and that's unfair, because sometimes even doing that, ane being on the other side of the circle, it hits you anyways, and you die THERE, on the other side, and not ON the AoE.

I have a good Internet connection, but I guess Data Center doesn't help enough, and it's very frustrating, because Titan HM is EASY, but server won't let me dodge anything.

tol · 2013-09-06 05:41

I tried HM Titan for the first time today, we were very close to getting heart down and I had a few questions. After you kill the heart before he astralflows, is it pretty much just back to what you were doing in phase 1? I watched a video and it seemed very similiar but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

**ChocoFeru** · 2013-09-06 06:01

Originally Posted by tol

I tried HM Titan for the first time today, we were very close to getting heart down and I had a few questions. After you kill the heart before he astralflows, is it pretty much just back to what you were doing in phase 1? I watched a video and it seemed very similiar but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Basicly yes, but harder, since you have less space, bombs explode faster (and there's a new 3x3 bomb spawn, easy to dodge imo), and it does 5 AoE and 1 more stomp. Also, it does an aditional high DMG attack to tank.

It's just more stressful, but he doesn't jump anymore, and the phase is always the same, so it's still an easy fight and you can take it easy as long as you have MP on healers. The problem is lag ._.

**Icarian** · 2013-09-06 08:03

In a nutshell.

**Falisa** · 2013-09-06 10:10

Yep, after Titan attempts I have learned that with FFXIV you need to run out of the red circle and just keep running. Don't stop until the ability has actually gone off. Once I started doing this (as well as keeping up sprint up as much as possible as a BLM) the amount I got hit for dropped by about 99%, the 1% just me being a baddie and still getting hit. Before I was getting out of the red circle and stopping to start casting again, and then dying to it just like this lovely picture above me.

**enzan** · 2013-09-06 10:21

Can this even be done with duty finder? Have yet to see a group get heart down to 50%. Is anyone on Hyperion doing Titan hard mode?

**Icarian** · 2013-09-06 10:51

Originally Posted by Falisa

Yep, after Titan attempts I have learned that with FFXIV you need to run out of the red circle and just keep running. Don't stop until the ability has actually gone off. Once I started doing this (as well as keeping up sprint up as much as possible as a BLM) the amount I got hit for dropped by about 99%, the 1% just me being a baddie and still getting hit. Before I was getting out of the red circle and stopping to start casting again, and then dying to it just like this lovely picture above me.

The fact is if you do that (ignoring the part of using sprint since I'm melee) you lose so much DPS it's not even funny. It might work on Titan HM, but what about when they add Extreme modes? They're simply just not going to be doable with the servers as they are with the AoEs being a lottery.

**Obsidian** · 2013-09-06 13:26

Originally Posted by Icarian

In a nutshell.

That gif is from Beta (Phase... 3? I think).

**Icarian** · 2013-09-06 14:07

It is, that was before they opened NA/EU servers, but the basics are the same, it's not -that- bad but the point is you shouldn't get hit if you're out of the area no mater if its by 3-4 seconds like in that gif, or 0,5 - 1 (because you don't have that much time to move during Titan HM anyway), the worst of it is the inconsistency, during the same encounter, back to back, you get wrath under you and think you're totally safe but you get hit, then the next one you're thinking "Oh shit I reacted a bit late, I'm dead" yet you don't get hit, it's just fucking random as hell.

**Ezek** · 2013-09-06 14:24

Titan is easy as fuck mechanically but is made artificially harder with the shitty lagfest on the bombs/weights. At least casters have the option of sprint; do that as melee and your DPS is fucked. I get hit by the odd weight now and then and it's just annoying when I take damage after being out of it clean for 1+ second.

**Akiyama** · 2013-09-06 15:47

Beat Titan last night, had a group who didn't know how to dodge landslide, and when they did, some would get killed just due to latency and it not recognizing them out of the line. Though I did notice the line of the attack is actually wider than the outline so gotta be careful there.

Still, fun fight, easy fight as long as people are on the ball.

**MrSamuels** · 2013-09-06 16:01

For Titan HM do you limit break the heart when it spawns, doing tries now and dps seems bad

**Ezek** · 2013-09-06 16:09

Level 1 LBing the heart is viable if your DPS isn't up to par for whatever reason (3 heal strat, bad DPS, etc). If you're going to LB it, do it as soon as it spawns so you don't waste any additional meter.

**Fondue** · 2013-09-06 16:22

There's no chance mountain buster is like triumvirate? Or throat stabby? Or just big damage

I've never gotten that far with pugs

**Almalexia** · 2013-09-06 21:55

Originally Posted by Fondue

what does hitting the bombs do? could I combo on them on mnk to keep greased lightning?

You can hit and damage bombs, but it's impractical since they have so much HP. You definitely could maintain GL on them, though.

tol · 2013-09-06 23:13

Any geared ppl need HM Titan on Gilgamesh? Get at me, Tolan Rielle. I've got a group of 4 (tank dps dps healer) that are looking for similarly well geared ppl to get it down for our relics :C

**zsuper** · 2013-09-06 23:22

Has anyone non-legacy managed to kill him?

With 5 DPS, we can get past heart phase quickly, but then Tumult is unmanageable. It sometimes interrupts our healers, and occasionally he'll do Tumult 7 times in a row directly after Earthen Fury. Sometimes, he only does it twice. It doesn't make sense.

**Alkimi** · 2013-09-06 23:53

There's non-legacy people on Coil already so yeah they've managed it. I think most advantages of being a legacy player have already sailed.

**Tidane** · 2013-09-07 12:38

Can anyone who has done Titan HM on Monk tell me what the hell you did during the heart phase? I finally got a group that managed to make it to the heart, at which point I (almost continuously) got out of range errors. Once I got in a position to hit him that wasn't in front of him, he'd turn and I'd get the errors again.

I haven't had the issue on any other jobs, so my guess is they not only made Monk a shit DPS, but they also gave them the shortest range?

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