Suggestion to improve titan egi's usefulness

Im thinking along the lines of titan potentially having a use in serious raid content on some minor mobs, that would release the off tank of his duty for a moment, to do other things like debuffing or some extra dps. Theres the potential that titan egi could grab some of the adds off the tank, to ease the damage for a little while, and sacrifice titan to damage. Theres probably a few uses in other non serious 8 man content as well, like titan egi holding one of the adds on titan ex. Just some small stuff and maybe strategy if your raid includes a summoner.

Its true garuda is best for dps, but sometimes you go ifrit for the stun. In this case you could go titan for the control. It being attached to enkindle allows the summoner to contagion then summon titan for upcoming adds spawn, then swiftcast garuda back after enkindle is gone.

For Titan to be useful outside solo content, he would need something equivalent to Provoke so that if everything is going to crap and you summon emergency Titan, he could actually take aggro. There are lots of reasons why this won't happen, primary among this being that Titan was never intended to tank outside of solo content.

I would love to see titan's earthen ward spread to nearby allies, similar to how radiant shield does. I think this would give titan a lot more utility other than being a living stoneskin.

Ehh titan egi works fine in a lot of dungeons. So it's not solo use only really.

And healers can just setup a tagreting filter that targets pets only and it makes it a breeze to heal.

But yeah the one skill titan egi lacks is provoke.

Titan egi saved my party ass many times, like take one of blue/green adds on Bismarck when one tank fall or missing, he is good at mobs spawns, If he had provoke would be overpowerd and using him in tank swap mechanics in high end contents.

Personally I usually just focus target on the Summoner's Egi for most 4 man dungeon content (obviously this doesn't apply to Midas or Void Ark) and throw a diurnal sect aspected benefict it's whenever I see it's taking damage.

On topic, I'm currently leveling ACN, and I just got Topaz carbuncle so take my comments here with a bit of skepticism. But I feel like Topaz (and Titan respectively) should generate a little bit more emnity overall, and that perhaps have a sort of passive that if any enemy attacks their Summoner both of them will use a form of provoke to pull that enemy off of their Summoner.

NOTE: This provoke that Titan-Egi/Topaz Carbuncle would be able to do should NOT be a power that the Summoner can actively make them do in Obey mode, it should just be a passive ability both of them possess

In ffxi beastmaster got a move called snarl which gave all the masters enmity to the pet. I think SMN needs something like that, cause the sad fact is, a SMN generates more enmity than Titan does unless they hold back, and if your pet dies and you resummon it, due to a lack of provoke it's never gonna get hate off you again. This would fix both those issues without being really broken since compared to other players SMN doesn't generate that much enmity anyway.

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Originally Posted by Cabalabob

In ffxi beastmaster got a move called snarl which gave all the masters enmity to the pet. I think SMN needs something like that, cause the sad fact is, a SMN generates more enmity than Titan does unless they hold back, and if your pet dies and you resummon it, due to a lack of provoke it's never gonna get hate off you again. This would fix both those issues without being really broken since compared to other players SMN doesn't generate that much enmity anyway.

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Actually, doing a bit of testing, if you let Titan get in a couple strikes then it is hard for you to pull aggro from it. However if you summon it after striking the enemy, it will not be able to pull anything off of you. It's great at holding on to what aggro it has... not so great at gaining new aggro.

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Originally Posted by Cabalabob

In ffxi beastmaster got a move called snarl which gave all the masters enmity to the pet. I think SMN needs something like that, cause the sad fact is, a SMN generates more enmity than Titan does unless they hold back, and if your pet dies and you resummon it, due to a lack of provoke it's never gonna get hate off you again. This would fix both those issues without being really broken since compared to other players SMN doesn't generate that much enmity anyway.

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Im gonna take this one step further. What if this skill involved spending stacks to give the pet instant enmity towards its current target? I say pet, because you would ideally use this on titan, but maybe not!

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Originally Posted by keyburz

Outside of solo content, titan egi has no use.

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I can't say I see this as a bad thing. In group content, tanking is someone else's role.

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titan's earthen fury additionally tethers all mobs hit to the titan egi (for 15-30 seconds). Think of it like eye for an eye, except its guaranteed to proc every single time. The mobs cannot be pulled off, even if a tank has higher aggro.

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In general, I'm opposed to this suggestion almost solely due to how annoying this could be to those tanking as well as it's potential for abuse.