Anyone tried to just spread out in titan ex and heal through the plumes?

I don't think having everybody spread out and eat a single plume and drop a medica 2 or so to heal them back a bad idea... at least from the number I am seeing, it's perfectly doable without taxing much on mana, and it saves the gamble from relying perfect performance from everybody in each attempt.
just wondering if any group has actually tried it this way

And for double plumes?

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Originally Posted by Grotesque

And for double plumes?

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Dodging is easier.

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Originally Posted by Grotesque

And for double plumes?

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Just eat 2? xD

the thing is, when I pug it with PF, no matter how high the ilvl is set, or iffy check or whatever, the group can still fail easily due to 1~2 person performing badly for whatever reason
so much so that many fail group will have everyone on 4k+hp which probably allows eating 2 plumes in a row...

was just thinking whether it'd be a proper strategy

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Originally Posted by Lanceton

Just eat 2? xD

the thing is, when I pug it with PF, no matter how high the ilvl is set, or iffy check or whatever, the group can still fail easily due to 1~2 person performing badly for whatever reason
so much so that many fail group will have everyone on 4k+hp which probably allows eating 2 plumes in a row...

was just thinking whether it'd be a proper strategy

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No wonder you fail at Titan Ex. Have you even heal that fight? If not don't say mana is not taxing. What is next eat a bomb too?

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Originally Posted by Myrhn

No wonder you fail at Titan Ex. Have you even heal that fight? If not don't say mana is not taxing. What is next eat a bomb too?

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Eat it all, let the healer do his work :D :D :D NOT

2 Plumes can hit for 5k, too much for most nontanks.

Actually that cross my mind not far back, spread and take 1 plum is easily heal and keep up with 2 healers and eating bomb isn't as bad as you think, you can eat super bomb if you time it right with cure 3 (as bomb goes off and just before titan land again, you have about 1-2 sec).

The problem will be plum interrupt your cast so you not really gaining, I tried timing cure 3 on superbomb a few time and it is not too bad, you can probably use swiftcast and bypass the timing.
The truth is dodging is probably easier....

It won't work. Further in the fight there won't be enough room to spread and hit only 1 plume, and the double plume is not two plumes overlapping, it is plumes, and then plumes again. You won't make it through this way.

The best tactic is to pack (really pack, don't to try to be sneaky and stay a bit on the side or to start before everyone else it might works for *you* but you'll kill ppl in the process) and dodge left or right. At least you all stay in the same column and dodge left/right.

You can even eat double plumes with warding potions.

Noone should make anyone else's job harder than it needs to be. If it's avoidable, dodge it. I still dodge bombs as titan tank even though it's easier to just sit there and eat one.

Most of the times, WotL comes right after stomps so you'd be really overstressing your healers. Also, after double plumes, you get a WotL during superbombs, and unless you have 4x ranged DDs, you're gonna get overlapping plumes... So no I don't think it's a viable strategy.

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Originally Posted by Myrhn

No wonder you fail at Titan Ex. Have you even heal that fight? If not don't say mana is not taxing. What is next eat a bomb too?

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It's cool not to agree with someone, but you don't have to talk to him like that. I've solo healed Titan EX multiple times and I feel it isn't that mana intensive when there are two healers. If you manage cooldowns correctly (SoS for WHM) you never get near half MP at any point in the fight.

Even with that being said, I don't recommend the strategy you're thinking of.

As a healer, I'm not sure that would be the best option. Even though the tank doesn't take quite as much damage per hit as he does in Ifrit, it would require a lot of AoE heals through the fight. As an experienced healer, my guess is that both healers would be pressed for mana by heart phase if they had to keep using AoE heals. Post heart, healers will slowly see their mana pools deplete while they use all their MP recovery abilities because healing through the add phase does rake a net loss to MP. That is during normal operations. I think it would be very difficult to maintain AoE heals post heart without running out of MP.

just form a line with melee at the front, range and mage at the back, dodge to your left or right when plumes happen.

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Originally Posted by Grotesque

Eat it all, let the healer do his work :D :D :D NOT

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Hell yeah, make those jerks earn their pay. Lazy ass slackers

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Originally Posted by Myrhn

No wonder you fail at Titan Ex. Have you even heal that fight? If not don't say mana is not taxing. What is next eat a bomb too?

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I tank/heal/dps it and pass it with the right group i.e. nobody gets killed by stacked plumes multiple times.
pug = random fail, especially in titan ex and there's nothing you can do about it.
my point is then whether it's possible to develop a semi-carry strategy that could increase the average pass rate.

wouldnt be consistent, consistency matters

majority of plumes are straight after tumults and if you're not gathering for those already you've probably failed anyway