Shiva ex icicles is like titan's weight of the land all over again :(

I'm on ps3 so not the best platform, but its bad I have no chance of being able to successfully dodge the icicles, the amount of times I think I've done it only to die in the middle after all the effects have finished is depressing. I've tried the just stand in the middle technique too, but usually half way through the third stage I don't survive as I'm not getting healed or some other reason (damage increasing?)

I don't pretend to be a great player but when I can't even practice :(

You should start by not blaming PS3

Tip: pay attention to where the first AoE spawns and move to the empty spot right next to it. wait until center disappears and move ASAP. It's extremely easy to dodge once you learn how to dodge it. Perfectly easy to dodge even on a PS3 if you know how to handle the mechanic.

I know several PS3 players who have no problems. Either your internet connection is the problem or you're genuinely failing the mechanic.

Out of curiosity is your PS3 connected via cable or wifi?

If my pathetic, sorry for an excuse toaster (laptop) can dodge icicle rains, then PS3 shouldn't have any problems. Heck, my PS3 can run titan's weight of the land just fine as well (opposed to my toaster dropping to 5 FPS, effectively freezing my game and getting killed by x4 weights).

Shiva EX rain works in a reverse pattern, the center has the first set of ice, then it rotates. If you can't find where the safe spot is, just run along where the icile rains appear then move into the center when it starts dropping. If you move fast enough, it wont clip into permafrost.

If you're doing all that and you're still getting hit by a rain that you moved out of, then it'd be more of a connection issue and has nothing to do with ps3 (for the most part)

Hardwire your PS3 to your router(LAN), turn down animations and if you're still having problems it's with your ISP. Can try making sure ports are open for your PS3 on your router as well.

Shiva is all about pattern recognition.
You can actually tell where the next icicle will be by noting the location of the first. She ALWAYS rotates to same way: NEWS->NWNESESW or vice versa. It never changes.
The only real difficulty can be if the clock icicle pattern pops in an awkward place.

Don't think of Icicle Crash like Weight of Lands -- think of it like the circular (clockwork) bomb pattern and treat it exactly like that.

You'll want to be in the spot where it last appears like bombs then immediately run to the middle where it'll have gone off first. Occasionally they'll go clockwise or counterclockwise so don't get in the habit of thinking one way.

I know *how* to dodge this move... the problem is actually seeing the effects and knowing where to go @_@ The AoE indicators used there are not easy to see on that particular field, at all, especially when they're that big and overlap each other.

No. Weight of The Land is far worse. It is the only reason I get killed in Titan Hard and Extreme. Nothing else kills me other than that.

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Originally Posted by Fynlar

I know *how* to dodge this move... the problem is actually seeing the effects and knowing where to go @_@ The AoE indicators used there are not easy to see on that particular field, at all, especially when they're that big and overlap each other.

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You need to move your camera angle down more level with your character. It's a lot easier to see the safe spot when you don't have the aerial portion of the AoE overlapping with the ground portion of it. Camera angle makes all the difference in that situation.

I have 300-350ms latency and i dodge it 90% of the time.. And i'm playing in a descent laptop (30-35fps)

I think, in my age, I have developed snow blindness, so the tells are a little difficult for me to spot. On the other hand, I have yet to die from the icicles.

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You need to move your camera angle down more level with your character. It's a lot easier to see the safe spot when you don't have the aerial portion of the AoE overlapping with the ground portion of it. Camera angle makes all the difference in that situation.

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I didn't even know there was an "aerial portion", so I don't think that's my problem :<

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On the other hand, I have yet to die from the icicles.

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The icicles might not necessarily kill you but they still inflict vulnerability up, which can't make it easier to survive everything else.

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No. Weight of The Land is far worse. It is the only reason I get killed in Titan Hard and Extreme. Nothing else kills me other than that.

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Try this; /focustarget (Shift+F, hotkey)

Move the focustarget bar somewhere more appropriate under HUD layout.
Move BEFORE the cast-bar ends. If you're inside the WOTL as it cast-ends sever-side you WILL get hit.
If you suffer from latency issues, knowing the fight pattern is even more important to move pre-emptively.

The in-game graphics timing means nothing.

http://i.gyazo.com/c3e683fd26d4f35b0d074193e0e8a97b.png

Hi guys, thanks for the advice, I've done ita few times now. Don't get me wrong, I love my Lil ps3 but it does have issues. For example I don't get to see the mob in about 80% of the hunts I'm in and I've never seen Odin even though I've apparently done enough to get gold on a fair few occasions. Its not my connection, my husband also used to play on pc, we have funny footage of us both in titan. I would get pushed off by landslide, on my screen the animation was at a 90 degree angle to where I was stood! On his screen I was just stood in the middle of it. The

lag is better but it is not totally gone. The only way I survive weight of the land now is because I know is coming and can move in advance whilst continuously casting in order to update my position. I get caught out every now and again on the double weights as nobody is stacked at that point. The problem I'm having with shiva is with the clock aoe. Its such a small space to run into (as opposed to running out of an aoe like weights) and its not a location I can just go to as it is different every time and the lag is just enough to be an issue.

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I know several PS3 players who have no problems. Either your internet connection is the problem or you're genuinely failing the mechanic.

Out of curiosity is your PS3 connected via cable or wifi?

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this is really important

i used to live in a house with like 6 other guys and one of them would bitch that he could never play games online on his PS4. i told him for months that if he got an ethernet cable and stopped trying to play off wifi it would fix his problem, but he just wouldn't listen lol

until of course one day he did

Don't cast to update your position. Move in the opposite direction

Run out of weight, then take a step back towards it. It'll plant your position at that point. This approach let me continue playing the game when there was definitely some sort of ISP issue going on.