sooo titan?

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Originally Posted by joshdavis271

I decided to stay away from titan, I get tired of all the drama with this fight, I got called a s**t tank when a WHM decided to tick Regen on me during a geocrush or that same whm would spam medica. I'm just going to get the mailbreaker, meld it and grind for my AF2 gear, of course this means no coil but Whatever.

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Then work on your play and improve your game, whilst Titan certainly isn't a tank intensive encounter, there are some details that will make your healers life a ton easier and I suspect it's these that had them up in arms at you. The most important thing to understand is how to avoid bombs safely, you must never turn titan to face the party so knowing the little safe spots on the edge and being able to get on them quick makes all the difference, two competent healers won't be phased too much by a tank eating bombs but when I'm solo healing it forces me to be far less efficient than I'd like :eek:

1. good gears.
2. good internet.
3. Youtube guide.
4. practice.
5. when you're good, you'll need other 7 people to be as good as you or better (hardest part of this mission).

I've seen decked out groups in DF, everyone has near full DL and garuda weapons, guess what. No one can dodge. I've also seen groups in DF where everyone is horribly undergeared, yet they know how to dodge and we 1 shot titan when 3 people have ~2800 hp. This seems odd to say, but the undergeared people in DF are probably better than the people will full DL. Because guess what, the people in full DL have been stuck on titan so long that they have gotten enough tomes to buy full DL, yet the undergeared people are probably people's alts who have done titan before...and can dodge.

Fixed my internets, came close to defeating him, Think I can get him with a good group now.

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Originally Posted by Sebazy

Then work on your play and improve your game, whilst Titan certainly isn't a tank intensive encounter, there are some details that will make your healers life a ton easier and I suspect it's these that had them up in arms at you. The most important thing to understand is how to avoid bombs safely, you must never turn titan to face the party so knowing the little safe spots on the edge and being able to get on them quick makes all the difference, two competent healers won't be phased too much by a tank eating bombs but when I'm solo healing it forces me to be far less efficient than I'd like :eek:

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I have the first few phases down, the bombs have sweetspots where I can stand, the problem was, the healer going nuts with medica overhealing during geocrush, it takes provoke to get everything back under control.

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Originally Posted by joshdavis271

I have the first few phases down, the bombs have sweetspots where I can stand, the problem was, the healer going nuts with medica overhealing during geocrush, it takes provoke to get everything back under control.

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Find a better healer, how do you even manage to pull hate on titan as a healer, either they are terrible, or you need to become a better tank. If it's one isolated incident, it's probably the healer. If it is every healer you find, it's probably you.

Titan requires only two things:
1 -- Everyone must be able to dodge well. All attacks are pre-scripted so its a matter of memorization and being ready to run at the right time in the right direction. And of course no lag.
2 -- The DPS must be able to break heart. The more the merrier.

If there was no need to dodge the attacks then there would be nothing of interest to this fight. If too many people fail to dodge then the battle eventually drains resources (healing MP or DPS from attacking) and a loss will occur. Having oodles of HP of course makes up for not being able to dodge, so if having problems dodging, compensate with +HP.

Oh, use Sprint.... all the time its up.

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Originally Posted by ReviiLagoon

Find a better healer, how do you even manage to pull hate on titan as a healer, either they are terrible, or you need to become a better tank. If it's one isolated incident, it's probably the healer. If it is every healer you find, it's probably you.

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Its isolated, I switched out with a different tank to make sure it wasn't me, and sure enough the healer pulled hate off that tank during geocrush.

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Originally Posted by joshdavis271

I have the first few phases down, the bombs have sweetspots where I can stand, the problem was, the healer going nuts with medica overhealing during geocrush, it takes provoke to get everything back under control.

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The issue isn't during geocrush itself as any whm is going to medica at that stage. If they are using medica 2 right from the offset then you need to step in and suggest they stick with medica 1 at least until after the first geocrush. That'll hopefully give you the enmity headstart you need before the heart phase. If things still aren't working out then either they are ignoring your suggestion or you aren't generating enough enmity.

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Originally Posted by ReviiLagoon

Find a better healer, how do you even manage to pull hate on titan as a healer, either they are terrible, or you need to become a better tank. If it's one isolated incident, it's probably the healer. If it is every healer you find, it's probably you.

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It's surprisingly easy to do particularly as you get geared, I'm ~ilvl 79 or so average and with a typical pug tank I'm stretching agro as close as I can before I hit my first shroud just to ensure I'm safe to go nuts later on. Whilst yes, when I do pull hate I'm usually expecting it and have shroud ready, but it still happens :eek: