Advice on Tanking Titan?

[Maqaqa]

I main WAR but when i brought my PLD on Titan i have been told to Flash righte before Stomp and Mountain Buster. Not to hold hate but to cause Titan to miss.

[Lex_Luger]

Sigh. Why does no one understand? Wastes of GCD? So you suggest running into the center and starting your combo in the center the arena while packpeddling titan to get him into position? I don't know about you, but especially if I'm playing with people I don't know well (in regards to their dodging ability and overall skill) I'll air on the side of caution and give them as much of an area to dodge attacks as possible. I.e. stand as far back as possible and shield lob. Shield LoB + Uncomboed Halone is more snap aggro than the first 2 parts of your halone combo, and like I said, should be the only point during the fight where hate is at all sketchy. I've also tanked a lot of 1 healer titans, so aggro is even a bigger issue with all the healing enmity coming from 1 person, and being able to out aggro the healer during those 2 GCD's where things can possibly can go wrong, is a safer bet.

As I stated earlier. I've done it both it ways. One works for me 100% of the time, one hasn't. Thats all the evidence (and the math to back it up) I can go by.

[Sigrunn]

Yes you can flash Titan before table flip and you'll get a chance to dodge it. But you should still pop a mitigation CD for it. Save your Spirits Within on phase 2 for tumults (spam it on the 3rd stomp).

If you are having trouble maintaining aggro during jumps, use FoF/Provoke/Shield Lob after Medica.

[Traek]

What are you guys even arguing about? Titan pickup on heart phase? He doesn't have a threat table there.. He goes to the person who had hate before jump.. so ya.. doesn't matter. I pull hate asap on my brd all the time getting out DD. As a tank I just stand there and let him come to me. No hurry except to pull some DD if group is low dps.

[Lex_Luger]

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Titan doesnt have a threat table, but the heart does. I've seen weaker geared paladins have trouble securing aggro during the first few moments of heart phase if they aren't quick to react, or build snap aggro. This becomes an issues if not dealt with immediately because than plumes can and will target the tank, if he hasn't established top threat by then. Also, the Red/Orange/Yellow aggro indicators seem to lag behind, and the gauges in the party frame do seem to be slightly more responsive. He'll, I've even seen rock golems in turn 1 spin around, 1 shot a dps, and spin back to me, all without my threat indicator ever going off red.

[Traek]

So you are freaking out over a plume..? I've had plumes happen before, you walk out. Not hard.

[Lex_Luger]

So you are freaking out over a plume..? I've had plumes happen before, you walk out. Not hard.

Jesus christ man, reading comprehension. Who's freaking out? No ones freaking out. Dude asked for titan tips on paladin. I gave titan tips on paladin. I've tanked titan from 50% to death as part of a 5 man, dodging plumes from 50% to death without being hit... not hard, but I've also done titan 100+ times. If someone is asking for tips, chances are they are new to a fight, and if you've never dodged plumes as a DPS before, and especially until you get comfortable with the fight, the last thing a brand new tank needs to worry about is dodging plumes.

[Traek]

Chances are, if someone is new to Titan, they don't need to omgfreakoutsnapaggroeorweallwipe when heart phase happens. So you are arguing over stupid things. Still.

[WowSuchName]

I don't even get why SE design 2 tanks for Titan HM duty finder...

I guess SE designed the 2 tanks (MT/ST) to rotate after 1st mountain buster?

Addonex simply described all what tanks need to do... just memorize the rotation after heart phase.

[WellFooled]

Chances are, if someone is new to Titan, they don't need to omgfreakoutsnapaggroeorweallwipe when heart phase happens. So you are arguing over stupid things. Still.

I defiantly appreciated the heads up Lex is giving me. Not only did he tell me what the watch out for, but also how to counter it. I don't think anyone is arguing in this thread, just different tanks with different ideas on how to accomplish things and I'm all for that.