Gear check for Titan HM

Hi Guys,

I do not post a whole lot here, but read the forums daily.

I just beat Ifrit and Garuda HM over the weekend and was studying up on Titan. I gather a gear check is a must and want your opinion if what I have so far is enough to tackle Titan?

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/2176783/

I think with Defiance up I have around 6495 Hp

Thanks for any insight or help.

You can probably do it... But your party would probably love it if you had some heavy darklight flanchards.

You can definitely do it, there are tricks in titan hm.
During last phase make sure you storms path and inner beast after landslide for the 30% mitigation, cause table flip will always come after a landslide. You want your healers to virus every second landslide for the stomps, but its whatever. Save ur stun to stun in between third and fourth stomp to stop it. You can dodge mountain busters, paladins flash for the blind, you cant do that, but you have featherfoot. For you, there really isnt anything remotely hard if you can manage to mitigate table flips, just have to remember to pop a cd and keep up mitigation after a landslide.

edit: well, just because you can do it doesn't it mean you'll have the healers to be able to do it. DF is a bitch, and premades will probably want another tank, so... I think you should get the DL gear for all the whiny bitches

Imho you should gear up, getting full DL isnt hard, there isnt any cap on phi tomes.
Lvl 45 feet? AF1 body? Come on...
You should get DL armor before DL jewels, the defence upgrade is much higher.

Thanks for the insight so far guys. The darklight flanchards are next on my list and I am about halfway saved up to get them.

Get hoplite body if you can so you can skip the ugly DL top.
Also get AF2 body as soon as you can the defence upgrade is huge.

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Originally Posted by SaucepanKaoz

well, just because you can do it doesn't it mean you'll have the healers to be able to do it. DF is a bitch, and premades will probably want another tank, so... I think you should get the DL gear for all the whiny bitches

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Worst case scenario, this is your best bet. But as i've found out last night, people will still bitch and wine. For example: I was trying to get an FC member with WAR past titan and we needed to PuG two healers and a dps. The War had a few iLv90 piece and the rest was DL. The Summoner complained becuz he had an Ifrit axe.

People are so butthurt -_-"

Well at least you can enter:
The Navel (Hard) ilv57 or above
Your ilv 66

Recommendation:
Heavy Darklight Flanchards
Hoplite Tabard(AK) or Lord's Cuirass(Pharos Sirius)

Thanks a lot guys. This really helps.

So what I understand so far is:

1. What I have now will get me in, and can be done… but I am doing no one any services with some of the gear I still have on.

2. Darklight Flanchards halfway saved up for

3. Hoplite Tabard if I can get my hands on it in a AK run. (Drop rates for me have been horrible so far.

On a side note, I wanted so bad to stay away from the DL body piece. The vanity in me did not want to look like a coal train

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Originally Posted by Ketch

1. What I have now will get me in, and can be done… but I am doing no one any services with some of the gear I still have on.

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Exactly.
You already got the i90 head piece so you can definately skip on the DL body.
I think the GC weapon might be slightly better than the rampager. Not sure. Its free anyway.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/4d813707ab9/

edit. nevermind the rampager gives you parry, and your accuracy looks fine for Titan

The hoplite ring will work from AK will help too.

However, The tank is the least important of the jobs in Titan. A good tank can help a little with well timed cool downs, but largely it boils down to good healers and DPS being able to move. As a member of my LS once famously drunkenly said (and we oft repeat), the key to titan is: Stay out of the shit, and keep people healed up...

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Originally Posted by SaucepanKaoz

Save ur stun to stun in between third and fourth stomp to stop it.

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You can do this? As a long time PLD I knew it was possible to silence it. I had no idea that it could also be stunned.

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Originally Posted by Keneblerz

Worst case scenario, this is your best bet. But as i've found out last night, people will still bitch and wine. For example: I was trying to get an FC member with WAR past titan and we needed to PuG two healers and a dps. The War had a few iLv90 piece and the rest was DL. The Summoner complained becuz he had an Ifrit axe.

People are so butthurt -_-"

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Complaining about an I frit axe? Ha! For the tank it's a gear check, not a weapon check. I did it no problem with a GC sword, but full DL armour/accessories.

But it is true that tanking Titan is easy. Finding the group you can do it with is the challenge.

Just want to say I also did it with Ifrit axe and no one pulled threat off me. Memories~

Only advice I would give you is not to worry too much about your gear. If you enter it in DF like I did, you will soon see that in this fight everything depends on everyone but the tank and offtank. I wouldn't go with AF pieces though, it just looks cheap, like you're not really into your job imo, also I've seen pld tanks in full/partial AF in those fights but they could only tank titan until heart phase after which he uses mountain buster (I think is the english name for that attack) and that obliterates them. So I don't know what the new item level gear check for Titan is and where your equip stands in comparison, but I'd replace chest and feet, prolly legs for MTing considering the healers (THEY might not show up well geared and also this fight is movement-heavy for everyone but the MT). But don't forget you'll have the warrior skill changes also available when you fight him, they will help you a lot I imagine (prolonged ToB, less dmg through IB+Vengeance, no dying with Holmgang will all help with those mountainbusters).
If you go as OT you'll have a walk in the park, you could go naked. As MT you're just that guy at the edge of the platform. Titan fight imo is all about dps check in the sense of them 1) staying alive and 2) bringing actual damage.

6.5k indicates that your gear is more than enough. Post patch you'll have more tools to help with mountain buster. There's one after the heart phase transition and then after every landslide (every 30 seconds) there'll be a rockbreaker (cleave for 1.5k or so) + normal melee and then mountain buster. Time your Inner Beast appropriately to have the new DR up for every one.

Save a good cooldown or two (Thrill of Battle/Vengeance) for the clock bombs as you're likely going to have to eat at least one of those before the related mountain buster. Try to safe spot the line bombs to lower the burst you take during them as well. Healers have to move a bit during the bombs, so it's a bit more effort for them to top you off compared to the pre stomp mountain buster (so Convalescence is better used a fair bit before MB, like around when the bombs spawn, so it helps them top you up a bit more easily).

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Originally Posted by Vortok

Save a good cooldown or two (Thrill of Battle/Vengeance) for the clock bombs as you're likely going to have to eat at least one of those before the related mountain buster. Try to safe spot the line bombs to lower the burst you take during them as well.

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Or stand in the right spot and get hit by no bombs. All tho personally I lazy mode 1 bomb in phase3 rampart/stoneskin eh.

I think you could be a good test for the 2.1 update.
With your current gear, it would be hard for your healers to keep you alive, but still doable. You have all DL accessories, but you miss some pieces of DL/Amdapor armor and garuda weapon, so you get nice Hp but lack in other stats (like other people said: DL pants + hoplite tabard).

However, I saw paladins with equivalent gear tank titan just fine.
That's why you look like a good test subject for the update. It will tell right away if the changes work fine.


Also, a good (and fun) alternative for Titan is to gear up with WP/AK dps stuff (that you'll get quite fast if you farm), to drop defiance and to dps Titan.
(since DF doesn't need two tanks, it's always good to have one try to dps as much as possible)

Your gear is fine for Titan. Stun doesn't work to stop stomps anymore. This was fixed. Avoid bombs and you'll be fine.