How long did you take to beat Titan?

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Originally Posted by Dano

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This fight is very bad against healers imo, they have to avoid puddles/landslides, keep everyone alive during stomps, babysit the main tank so he doesn't get one shot by mountain buster and maintain hate so titan won't cleave everyone down. I have the utmost respect for healers than can beat the fight legit.

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It is only bad when the healer doesn't remember when the plumes are coming and try to cast Cure at the wrong time. Plus, good PLD tanks will use Sentinel or Flash to migrate/dodge damage and it just isn't as bad as you think. Even further most of us just spam Medica I/II (other than the first phase when tank has not enough hate), barely any skills needed.
The only real nightmare is when the tank doesn't know the Rock Bomb's "sweet spot" and try to dodge in the normal way like everyone does, jeopardizing the entire group since some of Titan's normal attacks are also AoE I believe.

I have yet to win with a WAR tank, tho.

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Originally Posted by ForeverZero

I've been stuck on this for about 3 weeks now. Kind of giving up hope. I can only use DF groups because no one on my FC is this far into the story mode yet.

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That's not true at all. Why do people think that if you don't have an FC that can run it that you have to use DF? Go to Ul'dah. There are always groups there looking to find members for Titan, some for clears and some for weapon farming. And failing that you can try to make your own group.

Did people from MMOs other than FFXI/EQ never have to make groups manually? o.O

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Originally Posted by Ran1880

I really don't know what to say anymore seeing Party members die &almost blaming everytime 'It was lag!!!'

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I dont blame lagg, i die from the Lagg.
Last phase you have to stack, Doesnt matter if you know rotations, Stacking causes the deaths from lagg on weight of the land.

Youtube it if you dont believe me

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Originally Posted by ForeverZero

I've been stuck on this for about 3 weeks now. Kind of giving up hope. I can only use DF groups because no one on my FC is this far into the story mode yet.

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Why would you limit yourself to DF? This is how I got my Titan kill.
1) Make your own party. Ask experienced LS members to make your first few members.
2) Shout in Mor Dhona to fill your party. Network with your friends list and your other members' friends/LS if they know skilled players. Yes, this takes a while, tough it out.
3) Make it clear that while it is nothing personal, anyone who consistently dies will be replaced. This will improve your odds AND make everyone feel better. Some will try harder, and those who know what they're doing will stay longer knowing the problem players will be dropped. You will also attract better players who are serious about the clear. Everyone I ever had to replace was cool with it and apologized for holding the pt back. Be polite.
4) Rinse, repeat.

I spent a few days doing the DF and pug thing on my own. I got discouraged because it sucked. Once I sat down and made my own group this way, took me two days. I did not get a lot else done those two days, but hey, I finished Titan.

Took me 3 days due to work hours. DF like 7 times, wiped countless, been called a Noob because I forgotten about SCH's LB3.

After doing what I usually do if I face an issue, nailed it with LS, FC, random shout grp.

*hint below, please highlight my msg to see hints*

Sacrifice a few dozen Lalafells to the Dark Gods, you might wanna keep it a secret or your LS, FC, Lalafells will reject you, and not come and help you. Causing you to lose trust, which you result in you unable to find more Lalafell sacrifice in the future. Will buy the bodies, PST

Took Me about 4 long days ( about 12 hours the first 2) on my bard.I had about half DL ifrit wep.

Second time on WHM I killed it twice on the first day trying. I had just 1DL piece , rest ak and ifrit wep.

All 3 times with groups created in /shout.

You really don't need even close to the gear some ppl think. It's all in timing the first ae heal, never dropped below half hp on tumults with barely over 3k( and no they weren't interupted). It certainly helps to know titans rotation. I actually find it easier on whm than brd for the fact that I can sprint all the time and barely even have to pay attention to movements.

After 40+ wipes

2 Days and 15 groups between those days. 6 Groups were DF more or less to learn everything about the fight for myself. The rest were in server PuGs.

Beat HM Titan in my 2nd group. First group was DF and we failed miserably for about an hour. Though it ended up being a great learning experience and I really got down the ability rotations. 2nd group was with some FC pals that all needed the win and we beat it by the skin of our teeth. I'm talking me and 1 other dps alive during the final blow. But hey, a win is a win! Total Wipes: Around 30.

luckily my fc was pretty boss and well geared (All with full dl) like myself. Plus we were on mumble so that was key. We downed it in our 4th attempt.

With a full 8 in Ventrilo with me raid leading with the chart of the abilities up on a 2nd screen and having watched the videos 100 times and pugged it in the DF 3 or 4 times to get a feel for it, we 2 shot it.

Both times I beat him were in random groups from Mor Dhana shouts.

Both times I got him in the same day I tried him seriously. Usually leading up to the real attempts I would go into DF to get some practice with the different jobs I was attempting it on. My gear level each time was mostly AK armor/accessories with ifrit weapons and maybe a piece or 2 of darklight.

After beating him as a healer the first time my second attempt seemed like childs play.

took weeks for me. i rushed to end-game only to find that i needed to spam CM to get DL. once i knew that... i said EF it and worked on something else. weeks later i came back to titan and decided to knock this out. my anti-social behavior conflicts w running things im unaware of w FC members due to embarrassment. DF'd it for a week straight. not a week of once per day, but literally Q'd for titan all day all week. and DF titan on my server group Q'd verrrry quickly. once i learned to play through the lag (yes it exists, notably after every "fix"), adjust my target bar to set right above my crossbar (so i can see the ground, myself, titan, and his skill cast) and felt good enough i tried a pug. 3rd time was the charm. i think it took 40+ DF to learn (mainly due to ppl leaving/starting over)...


ps. DO NOT PAY FOR PEOPLE'S FC HOUSING BY BUYING TITAN.. learn it!
pps. i hope they add 'join in progress' option in the future. i feel bad for people that buy this game in a month's time..

been so long, but something like 3 or 4 days, looking back it really is a simple fight

tried for one day, about 5 DF tries and two pugs in mor dhona... Beat it in the 2nd mor dhona pug.

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Originally Posted by whilke

To what end though? Only reason to get your Relic, and beat Titan is to get into Coils, which is just more of the same....

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I would buy relic just so when Im farming AK or WP I can do it faster and more efficiently .

Also ever tried holding agro tanking from relic players when not using relic ? It is a lot harder it seems .

Beat it in about a week with a Mor Dhona PUG.

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Originally Posted by Ran1880

I did manage it to 10% of his lp,but people always die.
I really don't know what to say anymore seeing Party members die &almost blaming everytime 'It was lag!!!'

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"blame"? how about you start searching youtube first? if you're too lazy, how about looking at these below

landslide "LAG"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZtAH101ms

opps more landslide hax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDdhLy3ZRu4

what is this then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clSqTHmGRgQ

yay =D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGSnnof--LY

yes don't fall..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5g4TM1fkCg


and dig the rest yourselves..and if truly there's no lag..there won't be a thread of "delay in red circles" etc throughout this forum.

You can't deny that they DO exist.

First shout group I was in I beat titan. I started it, two of my friends were doing it with me, the tank, a brd, and myself as SCH, and we made sure everyone was properly geared for the fight. We had to kick a few people because they thought pink gear was good enough for titan. After a few attempts we nailed it down pretty good and beat it. My friend still brags about the LB he used to save our asses, never seen a more perfect BRD LB than to heal the tank after table flip, raise the other healer and dps, AND no one dies after the fact, while I am gaoled.

We ran with 1 PLD, 2 SCH, 1 WHM and the rest DPS. The other SCH just went cleric stance and dpsed up until phase 5, then he started healing, and it worked out well.

It took me a few weeks to down titan cause i tryed to df it since people had issues with my gear to join a premade. Honestly had some good encounters on df, but unfortunately it only takes 1 person to leave and you cant just replace them no matter how good the group is. The best encounter I had was with people that had what people would term "undergeared", but still we almost got it down and never came close to dying to tumults, sadly not everyone was experienced in phase 5 so the bombs/landslides/plumes is too much for some, and on top of that the second heal was lagging.

Anyway the fight is a joke so i dont understand the gear check argument, right now id say im "overgeared" and have solo'd healed titan a few times, even yesterday a farm run with me lagging cause someone was dling at my house, and i still didnt have issues solo healing in phase 5 and no one came close to dying from tumults.

I mean nothing the boss does is a coincidence, just practice

No one wants to invite WARS to tank this so I'll probably be stuck on it for a very long time as WAR.

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Originally Posted by Shinebox

No one wants to invite WARS to tank this so I'll probably be stuck on it for a very long time as WAR.

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I feel your pain man, one of my friend is a WAR and I'm a Paladin, we have to Duty Finder because as soon as we invite someone they ask why a WAR is in the Party.

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Originally Posted by Shinebox

No one wants to invite WARS to tank this so I'll probably be stuck on it for a very long time as WAR.

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Contrary to popular belief, warriors can tank Titan. They just need to be super decked out in order to do so, with healers that both have relic +1's.....

But seriously, if you have a garuda weapon and full DL then you should be fine, assuming you can find competent healers, which seem to be few and far between.

Took me like 3 weeks... took our FC member through Garuda and Titan today in one shot each... I almost feel like we did them a disservice now because it's not the same as when you take a while and FINALLY beat it.

In the last month I've gotten 5 Relics, meanwhile a LS friend is working on his 8th already.

1 try. Did Titan on the 2nd day that I reach 50.(green/white gears with 3090hp)
with 5 experienced player from FC(full DL),1 first-time DPS, and 1 PUG WHM. (thx to this WHM to carry my healing)
The 1st-time DPS die at the start, so it was like 7-man, tho I survive till end of the fight.

3 weeks for me.

Was stuck on Gungnir, and let me be honest and say:

English ls's/fc's/static groups just dont exist there. My first win took 3 weeks because all I could use was Doody Finder.

Lucked out after my first win and got repped into a Coil static being made that was English players. After that the cake was made, downed Titan 5 times in a row, 1 shot each time.

About 3 days of real progress. Lag is awful in prime time

I took a break after trying a few times (on real character) but i ended up winning when i got a bunch of confident 8 people together, so all together maybe 2-3 weeks? but i didn't exactly spam it none-stop.

DF groups are always a mess because to many people try to come in thinking they can get carried. Which happens...quite alot. very rarely will you actually get 7 people who know the fight, but it is possible...

I tried for about a week. Then I decided I wanted to track how many pulls it was going to take because it felt like I'd done it a million times with no success. I bought 3x stacks of food and only used it when Titan was pulled. I mostly qued through DF. There were a few friend groups and server groups mixed in, but primarily DF groups since I mostly play from 5am-10am during the week. I finally got my Titan kill yesterday morning with a server pug group. It took us the full timer, but at the 11th hour we pulled it off. It was my 244th pull according to my food stacks count. (total, not with that group, but total pulls.) That's right. 244 pulls of Titan, and that was only since I started tracking with the food stacks. Keep at it. Eventually it will happen. I don't recommend doing what I did though, counting attempts with food (or anything else) because man oh man is it disheartening.

First DF group, 3rd try. Everyone in the group seem to have the patterns memorized and there was also someone using <se.1> to announce when plumes are coming.

Beat him today with some friends with relic & rdm people in mor dhona . :D

1. Paladin (dps) - 1st group, 2 tries disbanded with no one complaining. 2nd group, 1 shot.
2. Paladin (tank) - While helping a friend for his relic, 1 shot.
3. Monk - together with 2 other people (random) I did the whole chain from Chimera with in a straight marathon of the quest, 1 shot.

This was all done in JP DF. I don't queue EN for primals.

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Originally Posted by Shinebox

No one wants to invite WARS to tank this so I'll probably be stuck on it for a very long time as WAR.

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I run Titan with some friends and FC mates on a regular basis. My first Titan was cleared in one round, without any wipes - I did it with my FC.

There's a Warrior who joins us quite often, and he runs a DPS setup - using stuff like Scale Mail and what not (equipment that gives more str than vit), so he essentially functioned as a DPS.

Could work like that...

Welp...Two attempts so far today... Both ended with 30 min long Titan-plays-baseball-with-healers sessions until healers[white Mage, summoner] from both parties ragequit. (Yeah I Pugged both times)
:(

EDIT:nvm 3rd times the charm! But this boss...NEVER AGAIN!

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Originally Posted by Ran1880

Beat him today with some friends with relic & rdm people in mor dhona . :D

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You played with RDM????

I think it took about a week and a half? That's maybe 20 tries? Guy was a pain in the ass! But fun as hell.

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Originally Posted by Lisotte

I agree with your first point but as to your second... assuming you did it with your FC. I would certainly call that being carried. Having half your DL and AK gear for the rest is one thing, but 3 DL pieces?

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The fight isn't about gear. This is the reason people have such a low opinion of pick-up groups; they base their success rate off of gear that is handed out for attendance (Talking about DL here in case that wasn't clear). The fact of the matter is you only need to be able to burn down the heart phase and then the rest of the fight is about knowledge. It's painfully simple to do if you have someone calling out Titan's rotation during the fight.

popped titan quest. couple hours later finished quest. maybe my 4th pug attempt? i had the cheat sheet next to me so i could stand a chance with my latency. at phase 5 though i think half the pt wiped and it was just a very very skilled light party that tanked the whole phase 5 for 5+ minutes

2 days with my FC about 3 hours -ish