HM Titan Fight

[Grailer]

You pretty much have to be moving before the AOE hits to avoid it . ( unless you are lucky and have great connection )

Therefore knowing exactly what is going to happen next is the key to beating the boss and any other boss .

I would go so far as saying bards are an advantage over caster dps since they can move and dps at same time with range attacks . Would need one melee for the LB tho.

Extra healer vs dps better to go extra DPS because attempts will be faster , and more attempts is more chance to get better and win .

[Eldelphia]

Well I finally beat the fight but it took an enormous number of runs. I also then helped a friend beat it for his. I am pleased that I beat this but I still think it's pretty rough. I think if something in phase 5 could be tweaked very slightly it would still be a serious fight but without the hair-ripping...

I did this as a SCH and what I would say is that if you can have super virus on Titan before Tumult. If one odd person dies in Phase 5 don't even try and raise them. As already said, precasting is important. It's an incredibly stressful fight for a healer...

[Weltende]

Well I finally beat the fight but it took an enormous number of runs. I also then helped a friend beat it for his. I am pleased that I beat this but I still think it's pretty rough. I think if something in phase 5 could be tweaked very slightly it would still be a serious fight but without the hair-ripping...

I did this as a SCH and what I would say is that if you can have super virus on Titan before Tumult. If one odd person dies in Phase 5 don't even try and raise them. As already said, precasting is important. It's an incredibly stressful fight for a healer...

Congratulations, glad to hear you beat the fight! I did the fight as a SCH recently too and it's a lot of fun, but there are also a lot of little things you have to manage. It's really a lot less of a headache to go back and help people once you already have your relic, also.

Just a few quick notes for the sake of the thread:
-I actually like to put Virus on Titan immediately as landslide is hitting, so it'll last through the cleave/Mountain Buster combo on the tank as well as into the Tumults. I usually put Eye for an Eye on after plumes, since it needs time to proc and the effect will usually last as long as you need it to.
-If anybody dies in phase 5 (please don't die in phase 5) and they have to accept a raise, it is worth pointing out that Gaol is the safest time to accept. Barring a landslide aimed at you as you're getting up, you're at the most minimal risk for taking damage before you can get topped off and Protected. (But still, please don't die in phase 5).

[C-croft]

Other than lag, Titan is easy for DPS non-casters. The lag is an issue, but half the time, I see people not paying attention until it's too late. They get the tunnel vision and slip. Happens to the best of us. Being a WAR having to go in as a DPS sucked for the heart phase, but not really. We did not preload limit break because we were more concerned about the tumults catching up to us on the back end. So no limit break on heart and still shattered it. For most of our fails, it was due to being in bad, and no one complained about the lag, because we know when we slipped up. Granted, this wasn't a DF group, but this wasn't a carry group either. Well, it was for me. lol. At least I made up for it in always being able to deal damage, and avoiding bad 95% of the time. Plus, I can take a hit and get back almost 2k without the use of defiance/IB. WoW was good in regards to training you to get out of fire.

TLDR: Tunnel vision bad. Lag worse. You can beat one of these things.

[Taruranto]

You can definitely die and raise in P5 (heck, even the healer itself, as long the other healer is capable) but you have to accept at the right time.

For some reason a lot ppl think accepting raise before a series of stomps or a jump is not a problem.

[Grailer]

got it down to 5% . 3 healers 1 died before heart .

5% and a couple slipped up and wipe .

Lag definitely is an issue .

They could slow down Titans abilities a little to allow for lag .
I mean when have 2.5second Global cool down on abilities but it feels sometimes like Titans abilities are faster than that .

As a tank I got it pretty easy , the healers have a total nightmare time .

[YanDere]

Most people here still doesn't understand that in this fight, you have to move BEFORE the attacks start.
You have to start running BEFORE plumes appear, you have to watch out BEFORE Landslide appears, you have to move to the side of the battlefield BEFORE bombs spawn.
No matter how good your connection is, there's 90% probability that you'll get hit by a Weight of the Land if you don't start running BEFORE it starts.
And, you don't really need 3 healers, did it as 1WHM and 1SCH, both under the full DL gear (AK/DL + Garuda weapon) and we went really fine, because we knew that after Landslide there's Mountain Buster. Just use Virus on Titan and Stoneskin con the tank just before Mountain Buster and you'll be fine, if you avoid aoes.
Stop asking to change the fight, it's good exactly the way it is now.
Btw, I'm on a laggy PS3.

[Alenore]

No matter how good your connection is, there's 90% probability that you'll get hit by a Weight of the Land if you don't start running BEFORE it starts.

Oh really ? Never had to run before it started, and i'm in Europe so I do have lags.
I suppose I have an excellent reaction time then ?

[YanDere]

Oh really ? Never had to run before it started, and i'm in Europe so I do have lags.
I suppose I have an excellent reaction time then ?

You don't have 1,5 sec lag.
But still you should run before attacks start, just to be sure. If everyone did so, no thread like this would exist.

[kukurumei]

Other than lag, Titan is easy for DPS non-casters. The lag is an issue, but half the time, I see people not paying attention until it's too late. They get the tunnel vision and slip.

Correction. You see people under lag. The server is not syncing properly that's the point.