Titan Extreme is NOT Fun

The people who cry "go back to ___" or "just quit" or whatever other disparaging comments to make people leave are always the first ones to cry when suddenly their game of choice isn't doing so well because the customers all left.

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Originally Posted by hallena

The only people who have to predodge the weight/landslide are those who suffer from terrible lag. Even with 300ms you have more than enough time to get out of them when you don't expect them

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I guess SE employees and some of the forum community live in a parallel universe where every member of every raid group has direct cables connecting their gaming rigs to FFXIV servers...

Because in our world, if you're lucky enough to have one too many hops between you and Montreal, or live across Atlantic from the datacenter your packets go through a maze of different carriers, and 300ms multiplied by a packet loss here and there equals death with how SE's "wonderful" network code works. I have a friend who had farmed the hell out of Vanilla, TBC, WoTLK and Cata fights in WoW, and the moment he saw Titan EX video he said "screw this, I'm not touching this fight with or without WTFast", because he could record a video of dodging a landslide and flying off in a direction perpendicular to the one it was cast any day being an excellent player otherwise. You can design fights built around tight dodging, sure - but only if

a) Your network code and datacenter placement do not hinder the players
b) Tight dodging is NOT the only gimmick of the entire fight.

I was wondering when an extreme version of Titan complaint threads would appear.

It was only a matter of time. I find the fight pretty fun, though not the funnest.

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Originally Posted by ZeroRains

Go back to the best selling, most popular, paved the way for most modern mmos of this decade? And you make it sound like its a bad thing ;/

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Trust me, after playing it for many years and watching it get progressively worse it is a bad thing.

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Originally Posted by Xenobius

This is not the case with FFXIV's Titan fights, because you can't just learn the steps, you need to memorize the entire fight and pretty much pray you don't get any lag.

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You don't need to memorize the entire fight at all. At least not Titan HM.
All you need for Titan HM is basically:
1) Learn where to run when bombs show up
2) Post-heart, if you have bad lag, remember after which moves the plumes show up

I have a very "reactive" playstyle, and with those two points managed to clear Titan HM in no time when I actually attempted it.
As a healer I was very busy, but at no point did I feel any need to memorize the entire fight.
Why lock yourself into patterns anyway when none of your teammates are going to follow the same pattern every time?
My ping is around 200ms at best.
Titan Extreme sounds like it will be fun when I get there.

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

You don't need to memorize the entire fight at all. At least not Titan HM.

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If you live far enough/have too many connection hops to turn Titan fights into this, you either pre-move or die.

Can someone that play a lot of mmos answer me this.

Is FFXIV as bad as other mmos when it comes to buying runs? Like to the point where bigger FCs act like they're gil sellers spamming to sell runs.

Patch 2.2 is going to bring Titan Super Extreme where there is a 2x2 pixel square that you can stand on to be safe from the landslide. Hope you noobs are up to the challenge!

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Originally Posted by Xenobius

If you live far enough/have too many connection hops to turn Titan fights into this, you either pre-move or die.

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if you look she was still standing in the aoe when he finished casting landslide though she was out before the animation went out. Thats why she still got hit its based off cast time not animation.

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Originally Posted by Xenobius

If you live far enough/have too many connection hops to turn Titan fights into this, you either pre-move or die.

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It's funny, because that video is my exact experience with Titan, but not with HM or Extreme, only the story encounter.
The story encounter for Titan is total bullshit for some reason, yet HM and Extreme are damn near flawless.