Item Level and You

[SarcasmMisser]

Something I'd like to point out; it is really easy to get carried as a dps and people in the group, including yourself and other dps, don't realize it. If a tank underpreforms you see it by mobs not staying still, if a healer underpreforms you see it because people die. DPS can disappear in a group, not take their equal share of damage output and come out thinking they're good.

Titan HM is a good example of this. The soft DPS check is really generous. so people take the ability to dodge as the only requirement of the fight, and even go as far to call it a skill check and disregard gear. I've seen so many players who think they can do it because they can dodge, but they do it sacrificing too much dps and depend on other dps to carry them without realizing it. In my opinion a dps at the ilevel req would have to be doing optimal dps while dodging to meet the hard and soft checks, assuming all other dps are at the same level. This rarely ever happens, so you don't see this demonstrated. In titan EM though you do see it, and I feel its a flaw of the game design to let dps go this far into the end game before they hit a skill wall.

A good exmaple I had the other day was in garuda EM, we managed to clear it while carrying an absolutely terrible BLM dps who we were only able to call out on their lack of ability when someone was running a parser and noticed he was only doing 40% of the dps I was doing. Gear could only account for a fraction of that, and we passed anyway so even in garuda extreme BLM who don't even know how to output damage well are getting through. If that was a tank unable to play his class he would stand no chance.

[Moirear]

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Titan HM is only a good example of game design clashing with the technical limitations of the game to create an unfair disadvantage. I dare you try playing any caster or healer on Titan HM from the EU region and still think you're good at it. You will have to learn how to do the fight with a penalty to your dps output or healing capabilities due to the fact that you have to make a habit of dodging plumes and landslides BEFORE they actually happen on your screen. Pair this with a lack of routine on a specific fight which is relatively new to the player and you will inevitably end up spending more time not dying than fulfilling your role.

I don't know though, maybe that BLM was doing something fundamentally wrong when given the opportunity to burst dps. But just saying.

[SarcasmMisser]

I dare you try playing any caster or healer on Titan HM from the EU region and still think you're good at it.

Hi, I play a BLM from Australia, I played on Behemoth before coming here on Tonberry and I cleared titan with 300+ ping, and I still play with 200+ ping. I predodged for titan on behemoth before I started tunneling and on Tonberry I play without tunneling, and can dodge weights consistently. My reactions to the tells has to be very tight, and on EM you can't pre-dodge due to positioning but believe me I know what it is like to pre-dodge.

I am of the belief that you simply need a better connection for EM, and on HM you can pre-dodge. If it was lag or not, the bottom line is that there is no way around having to avoid the weights consistently, so unfortunately you have to bow out. Look into tunneling services and experiment, and if it is still too bad then you need to consider that it may be impossible for you and you are just burdening groups