Tanking tips fro warrior on titan HM

I have full DL, Garduda's scream and AF+1 chest, and Titan does the mountain buster about every 45 - 60 seconds on phase 5, while my main mitigation sill, Foresight works only every 90 sec, I'm alternating it with thrill of battle + featherfoot, still if I'm not fully healed by that point I usually die.

Any tips to counter this or do it better?

No, I won't play as a PLD as I want my relic on WAR.

Cross your fingers and hope your healers own, like every WAR.

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Originally Posted by PessimiStick

Cross your fingers and hope your healers own, like every WAR.

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Nothing I can do better to ease their task?

Your healers will have to be REALLY up to the task, most aren't.

What will help is if you have some sort of communication as when the Mt buster will come. Mt buster is usually proceeded by Rockbuster a 2k hit. So when you see that attack, pop a inner beast if you aren't topped off already, hopefully that will be enough. Mt buster also follows the bombs. There's a vid of the rotation, so copy that vid down and have somebody else in the party create the macro and use it, and especially use the macro when a upcoming MT buster is coming.

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Originally Posted by Dannythm

Nothing I can do better to ease their task?

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I had to form my own party and go as dps to get mine done.. was next to impossible to get people to even try with a warrior tank. I ended up getting all str accessories and doing it... Was able to avg 146 dps for the fight with Ifrits axe!

You know something is not balanced when the best way to do titan is have a pld tank and warrior dps to complete it.. really hope some things get changed. I made a warrior to tank. I was never even given the chance to TRY to tank it - No one would even let me try - and i was well geared too.

Yeah, same here, I had to go as a DPS or the off tank spot, The healers just weren't able to keep themselves alive focus on me as a main tank. I made it down to 10% but then the healers began wiping. Same healers did just fine on Paladin fight and one shot titan. Really shows you how gimped we are.

If you trust your healers, IB after mountain buster to help them out. If you don't, IB before to top yourself off.
When titan stomps, run behind him so you dont get auto attacked. This makes healing easier on your WHM.
Circle pattern bombs are the only ones you should ever get hit by. If you are going to get hit, just pop your cooldowns and get hit. Berserk and Infuriate are defensive cooldowns.
When titan does the square pattern bombs, dont worry about moving to dodge the explosions until he starts his line attack. Having him farther from the "safe side" makes it easier to everyone else to dodge.
Other than that, it is on your healers to play well. A damage shield does wonders. Asking people nicely to virus, and rain of death could help.

I've 4 manned the fight post heart. Working on 3 manning it. Warrior is a perfectly viable tank for titan and the preferred tank for selling titan runs due to its potential to 3 man the fight while a PLD cannot.

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Originally Posted by Kunkka

If you trust your healers, IB after mountain buster to help them out. If you don't, IB before to top yourself off.
When titan stomps, run behind him so you dont get auto attacked. This makes healing easier on your WHM.
Circle pattern bombs are the only ones you should ever get hit by. If you are going to get hit, just pop your cooldowns and get hit. Berserk and Infuriate are defensive cooldowns.
When titan does the square pattern bombs, dont worry about moving to dodge the explosions until he starts his line attack. Having him farther from the "safe side" makes it easier to everyone else to dodge.
Other than that, it is on your healers to play well. A damage shield does wonders. Asking people nicely to virus, and rain of death could help.

I've 4 manned the fight post heart. Working on 3 manning it. Warrior is a perfectly viable tank for titan and the preferred tank for selling titan runs due to its potential to 3 man the fight while a PLD cannot.

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Why do you say a pld cannot? I thought warriors only did about 10% more damage in tank stance... How could that make up the difference? where as if a pld is doing it the healer could toss in a bit more dps?

It has already been said but when I tanked Titan Hard Mode on my WAR I brought 3 healers. It was a FC run and everyone knew what they were doing throughout. We wiped a few times due to random dps dying, however no wipe was due to me dying. With 3 healers and me timing thrill of battle and Inner Beast to every mountain buster I could we made it through. Granted it helped immensely that I was able to parry 2 consecutive mountain busters which was pretty epic when the healers were strapped for mana.

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Originally Posted by Derza

Why do you say a pld cannot? I thought warriors only did about 10% more damage in tank stance... How could that make up the difference? where as if a pld is doing it the healer could toss in a bit more dps?

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The problem is a healer being put in a gaol and wiping you. a pld cant break the gaols fast enough. A warrior has double inner beast up for every gaol. Mind you, this only matters if you're 3-4 manning it.