http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KrW2...qshqAPIjJtHIzy
This is a good video showing the spot past Heart Phase that allows minimal movement needed to dodge the bombs.
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10-12-2013, 10:34 PMThagyr
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10-12-2013, 11:52 PMIpkonfig
Edging bombs does work, but it really increases your chances of eating two bombs, which as a WAR is a death sentence. Even with 7500 HP as WAR it's a rough fight, so I usually tank it as PLD for farm days so we can run single healer, yaaaa faster than CM/AK and I have every Titan weapon for alts :). Pretty much as a tank you can sleep pre heart phase, save berserk + unchained for heart phase. Post heart phase he will Mountain Buster right after he drops, then after every Landslide a Mountain Buster is coming next. Typically as PLD I use a CD for every Mountain Buster, but as a WAR having pretty trash CDs you can try and save IB for every Buster. Also that late into the fight if you have enough threat keep Maim + Storm's Eye up to boost IB. If you have the DRG set from AK you can swap to that, Garuda's Axe and go back to MRD with all the cross class abilities you can do some great DPS for pre-mades.
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10-13-2013, 12:20 AMNovaLevossidaIt doesn't. SW just scales off attack power, and Berserk modifies damage, not attack power. SW can crit though, so I imagine that Internal Release modifies its crit rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpookyGhost
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10-13-2013, 01:36 AMVmage
titan is much more about positioning than which ability you use and when - at least as a warrior
paladins will need to pop a mitigation cooldown after every landslide post heart - you don't have that option
scream at your healers to be topped off + stoneskin after landslides, or you will likely fall over
outside of that, you need to learn where to position yourself, specifically for the bombs
the circle pattern is easy enough to cheese by standing in the middle of two bombs, and backing up to the edge of the platform
the X pattern is simple, odds are you're in a safe spot already - any cardinal direction is safe, the bombs lay out across the diagonals
the 3 line pattern is where i see a lot of novice titan tanks screw up, he'll lay one row down the middle, then a second at at one side, then a third at the opposite side - you want to be at the end of that third row by the time his landslide finishes casting (bombs start exploding immediately after the landslide - and always in the order they dropped)
you basically just run to the end of that third row, wait for the landslide, then strafe back to the middle
although if you move too early your party will have a pretty rough landslide, move too late and you'll eat a burst which will likely be the death of you
as far as abilities though?
when you pull titan, you want unchained and berserk active before you tomahawk
it's actually very important to get an early threat lead, as most DDs tend to pop every timer they have on the pull, and most white mages don't realize how much threat a medica II puts out (700 total potency x 8 targets x 0.7 healing enmity)
honestly it's a good habit to get in to just pop your damage timer on the pull regardless of the fight, paladins pop fight or flight on the pull, you should pop berserk+unchained
outside of the pull though, you may want to save your berserks for IBs, and you -absolutely- want to be infuriated when titan does a landslide, he follows the landslide with a rock buster (~1.5k) and then a mountain buster (~4.5k) and he's still autoattacking over the top of those abilities
ideally you have your stacks up for the first couple heals you get after/during the mountain buster, then hit inner beast, don't hit it too early or you've screwed yourself out of 15% more cure2/adloquium
still, abilities aren't that important, learning where to stand/move to avoid the bombs 100% of the time is all a tank really needs to know
if you don't eat a burst before the mountain buster, you should live, and if you didn't it was the healer's fault
if you do eat a burst before the mountain buster, you most likely die and you should feel bad for wiping the group.
the joys of tanking :s