How did you stop sucking at Titan?

[Kayanarka]

Well, I've beaten Titan, proceeded to try again for my second relic, wiped 9 times and gave up.

That is why people fail. At around the 9th to 10th wipe some groups are just starting to get into the groove. The way I look at it is everyone in the group should be expected to fail on one of the mechanics atleast once before a succesfull kill. There are like what 4 or 5 mechanics. So expect 16-20 wipes on the average if your not with a steady group that does it every night. Edit* I wrote this with the assumption the OP was talking about normal mode titan lol.. With 8 people I really think you should be using PuG's for practice only, then finding a static group when you feel you learned your own role good enough.

[CalvatE]

I don't mean to toot my own horn but I've never sucked at it in the first place. After dying from each mechanic at least once I never got touched by them again unless I was scratching my cheek.

Although, I'm not a person who can follow patterns or rotations. When I see something happen in Titan I just do it, no thinking or knowing .. just kind of second nature to me I guess.

[FinagleABagel]

Practice in the DF - about 10 times. Then made a static.

Passed about a few tries.

[Arrak]

Remember the script:
After Heart phase: Mountain Buster -> Tumult -> Weight of the Land -> Bombs -> Land Slide -> Mountain Buster -> Weight of the Land -> Gaol (rocks someone) -> Land Slide -> repeat.
Don't prerun out of weight, but know where you're running to ahead of time. Weight will only spawn under another player (sometimes I've seen it spawn under the boss). Find a spot where no one is at and run there as soon as you see weight and not any earlier. You could make a strategy where after tumult everyone waits in the middle for weight then runs to the sides or everyone stays on the sides for weight and run to the middle.
Run left and right out of land slide. Never run out on an angle. There are videos of people on youtube running on an angle out of landslide and trying to blame their failure on latency. If you run on an angle you will only increase your chances of being hit by it.

Pay attention to which bombs dropped first. For the bombs that drop in a circle, you will be staying in the middle and then running to the side that the first bombs dropped after they explode. When they drop in sets of threes, you'll be standing where the last set dropped then moving to the middle after they explode.

I usually tank titan... which is uneventful and boring. I decided to DPS titan on my warrior last night just for the hell of it. I did fine. Avoided everything perfectly. It was my first time ever having to do mechanics on that fight. Know the script and make smart decisions and you should be fine. Latency does play a part and maybe I'm lucky there, but many failures on titan AREN'T latency related.

[paradigmfellow]

I died at beginning of phase 5, and the rest of the group beat Titan while I was dead.

[ispano]

Tanking it is not faceroll. As a tank I have just as much of a chance of not dodging one of the mechanics as dps does. I found heart phase to be more difficult as a tank because I can not stand where ever I like but have to be close to him and in front of him in just the right spot or I can not hit the heart and lose agro. Dodging stuff is harder when you have to be in a specific spot in relation to the mob and can not pre run.

I've done every role for Titan HM. Healing certainly does have the most demanded of it. Then followed by DD and Tank last.

[MKJoker]

I play a tank. :3

It's really hard to be bad at titan as a tank.

[magicninja999]

the puddles do target people, best way I have dealt with it is to be away from everyone else, or 1 group I ran with we all stacked up in the middle and only moved when he did the knock back thingy and bombs, and to avoid the puddles, I got crappy 3mb/sec DSL and I still get hit sometimes, but like other people are saying, if u know its coming, its better to move early then too late and die.

[Helza]

I don't mean to toot my own horn but I've never sucked at it in the first place. After dying from each mechanic at least once I never got touched by them again unless I was scratching my cheek.

Although, I'm not a person who can follow patterns or rotations. When I see something happen in Titan I just do it, no thinking or knowing .. just kind of second nature to me I guess.

its so nice being able to react to stuff on titan instead of having to anticipate the casts and other player movements... SE i hate your networking implementation, please check out other mmo's on how to deal with lag

[CalvatE]

its so nice being able to react to stuff on titan instead of having to anticipate the casts and other player movements... SE i hate your networking implementation, please check out other mmo's on how to deal with lag

Haha, yeah. My memory can't store the Titan pattern no matter how much I study it xD

I'm running on 180 ping though, as an Oceanic person who plays on the Japanese servers - I've heard of people with about 230 ping do it just fine, or avoid things just fine. Have you considered tunnels?