Request to Dev's. Tune Titan HM.

[Bloodkraft]

With the changes in coil coming, I may just farm i90 weapons on my main for my other jobs. I haven't seen any real reason to get relic past first job , they haven't mentioned any relic +3 in the works.

[Aisukage]

I like to add -plumes order is set but not location, memory doesn't help.

how's memorizing mechanics help this!!

Please tell me this is a joke. I know this fight like the back of my hand and when a plume is about to appear i can move a second before they appear and due to the delay on plumes i am pretty much already out of the plumes before they appear on my screen. Knowing a fight even if location is set or not is one of the most important things to winning a fight. Knowing what is coming and what is next allows a player to decide the best possible action to take. this increases DPS to know how to time your rotation. I really can't believe you posted this. you should never need sprint and if you need TP you will lose a ton of DPS for losing all your tp on sprint.

this post was just horrible. Titan is also roughly around 10 minute fight i have no idea where you got 30 from.

Please don't post horrible advice for people again.

[Hekmatyar-Koko]

A lot of PS3 users have a lot of latency issues regarding Titan HM (and EM), the large majority are all wireless, and outdated wireless cards at that. Not to mention if too many concurrent casts at once (PS3 really struggles with too much on screen at times) there is lag regarding the display of Titan's casts too.

As stated before also, distance to the servers makes a large difference, and due to the difficulty to find servers during the initial several weeks (and months) of release, many players were forced to choose a server that is further than an a perhaps more optimum alternative. Yes - there were server transfers, however too many players had already become part of a community by then (and a lot weren't even at Titan either).

Progression should always be skill based - and unfortunately that's not the case here. (With the amount of threads I have seen on the forums - it's not simply a 'learn the scripted rotation' issue).

[Aisukage]

I am from the UK and play on NA servers so i know far too well about the latency because of the distance of the servers but it is as simple as learning the rotation. If you know your latency issues and you know the rotation you can use that to predict and move when you need to. Trust me it is a pain where i have watched videos of people that move out in time when they see it appear under them with plenty of time. When i do it i can never make it out so i have to move a split second before plumes appear to gaurentee i get out. If i am able to do that then its not impossible and it is about learning the fight.

[Sax]

I am from the UK and play on NA servers so i know far too well about the latency because of the distance of the servers but it is as simple as learning the rotation. If you know your latency issues and you know the rotation you can use that to predict and move when you need to. Trust me it is a pain where i have watched videos of people that move out in time when they see it appear under them with plenty of time. When i do it i can never make it out so i have to move a split second before plumes appear to gaurentee i get out. If i am able to do that then its not impossible and it is about learning the fight.

I think that is the crux of the argument. Having to predodge the plumes dramatically increases the difficulty of the fight, and later in the extreme version it's not really possible because you inevitably kill people in the stack. You should not have to predodge, nor you should have to pay an extra monthly subscription for a VPN to work around it.

[Aisukage]

I think that is the crux of the argument. Having to predodge the plumes dramatically increases the difficulty of the fight, and later in the extreme version it's not really possible because you inevitably kill people in the stack. You should not have to predodge, nor you should have to pay an extra monthly subscription for a VPN to work around it.

The issue is not with the fight though. It is with the connection, like people have pointed out that the closer you are to the server the less your ping and the easier it is to avoid plumes. Many don't have a problem with this fight and if SE makes it easier, it will be a joke i already find HM way too easy even with the latency. Predicting plumes on EM titan is possible also as i do it just fine in HM and EM. All i see is excuses for people to not adapt to their situation and simply learn the fight.

[Bubba_Drunk]

No, no, no. Titan HM is just fine, leave it alone, if anything I say increase the difficulties of Ifrit and Garuda HM. They are meant to be just that, hardmodes but both Ifrit and Garuda (and everything leading up to them) was a joke and had (for me) no concept of scaling at all. The jump in skill level is laughable at best, we need these dungeons to be harder.

[Mikedizzy]

Leave it...I Like it the way it is. I don't get hit by anything except the unavoidable Tumults and Geocrush.

[stpetepiper]

I understand how if you have ISP issues making you lag that could suck, and having to pay extra for a VPN could also be annoying, but the problem w/ this argument is..... there are plenty of people from those countries that don't have to do that. Maybe it's falling alot more down to your individual ISP. I'm not telling anyone to rearrange their whole life for a game, but if its important enough for you to pay extra money for the VPN, maybe money would be better well spent upgrading your bandwith w/ current ISP or seeking out a new one. I'm not saying this as a flame to anyone who lives in the countries where it a prob, but I know plenty of people that do play fine from Australia w/out using one. I'm not going to act like I know 100% how a VPN works, but I can easily assume its not magically making SE servers better, its changing how your ISP deals w/ it's hops or something to that effect.

[Laladen]

So in short, stop trying to dodge and start leaning the sequence. That's how you win. Once you get a team who know this, the game is yours.

Best advise I have seen in this thread. Everything this boss does, it does in a certain order, and that order is exactly the same every fight. If you learn that order, you do not have to worry about latency. You know whats coming up and can deal with it.

Here is a link to a chart that shows the ability sequence that Titan HM uses. Learn it.

Here is another that shows the bomb formations.

When healers know that Mountain Buster is about to happen, they can prepare and precast heals or top the tank off or stoneskin the tank before it happens

When the healers know when stomp is about to happen, they can precast aoe heals in advance to be ahead of the damage.

Etc Etc