IMO, Titan HM is the most poorly planned progression point in the game right now

[Yavi]

he is right in saying the weapons are pointless. They have the same item level as Garuda - an easily farmable fight. In fact due to her poor scholar book drop I had to run her close to 50 times and have 5 of her weapons.
Titan was introduced in to the game too early. The skill level required is on a completely different level to Garuda. I'm bored. All we do all night is throw ourselves at titan and hope that all 8 people can avoid the several boring insta-death skills. There needs to be something else to do between Garuda and Titan.

The mechanics are from insta death if you are not under geared. Remember, Titan is a ilvl 80 fight, so you should have mostly ilvl 70 gear when you fight him, and if you do, even as a dps bombs nor weight will one shot you, in fact the group I killed Titan with the few times dps got hit they took less than half their hp in damage. The only instant kill is failing to kill the heart, which is fine.