Titan EM tanking at 11 or 1 o'clock position

[Calyanare]

As a SCH, since most people tank Titan at 12 o'clock, I place my fairy between 9 and 10 o'clock. If you tank Titan at 11 o'clock, she gets cleaved and dies (and this happens often enough because of tanks forgetting where North is, or using the fairy as a waypoint when they shouldn't). That cleave of his is a lot wider than people often realize.

[Maelwys]

TBH if whichever tank is taking the adds stacks the Patches properly (killing the adds close to the edge between 2 and 3 o'clock, with landslide baited at 3) there's little/no issue here.
Groups on our server usually do adds at 3 and Superbomb at 9 o'clock; with healers and ranged DPS stacking at 6 o'clock right after heart to bait the next few abilities.

Usually when someone dies after heart phase in our groups now it's either due to bad stacking for plumes, or due to tunnel vision on Superbombs (people ALWAYS forget the plumes during Superbombs and the landslide right afterwards- that landslide is the only thing I still use a pre-emptive warning macro for in Titan EM...)

[kayuwoody]

I like when tanks turn Titan toward 11 o'clock position when row bombs are about to spawn because...

-- Every group I have ever seen tank and kill the adds on the East side (around 3 o'clock), leaving very few 'safe' areas on the East side if the last 'safe' row of bombs happen to spawn there during row bombs. The pools take up the majority of the Eastern area at that point.

This is a common problem, but what it actually is, is incorrect landslide baiting. When the last safe row is the side with the slag pools, you do not run to the safe row first (which is behaviour probably most people learned in Titan HM). What you do is bait the landslide in the first row, then move to the safe row once landslide has been successfully baited.

IN Titan HM you move to the safe row first because you can still move sideways after landslide is targetted. You do not have this luxury with EX in the side with slag pools, so you must bait landslide away from the safe row.

[Empressia]

This will result in the row-bomb-pattern opening more save space as he landslides with adds present. There are pt that are fine with that (weekly clear) but there are ppl say it is a bad spot and claim that I wipe the pt.

So can someone tell me if I should continues to tank at those 2 spot or just tank titan at north ?

RULE NO 1 : NEVER STAND ON SAFE ROW BOMBS SIDE BEFORE HE CAST LANDSLIDE

[Gamemako]

RULE NO 1 : NEVER STAND ON SAFE ROW BOMBS SIDE BEFORE HE CAST LANDSLIDE

Had a group do that to me yesterday. Pointed the landslide to Titan's left. There was literally zero safe space left for me to avoid the Landslide, so off the ledge I went.

[Kitru]

As a SCH, since most people tank Titan at 12 o'clock, I place my fairy between 9 and 10 o'clock. If you tank Titan at 11 o'clock, she gets cleaved and dies (and this happens often enough because of tanks forgetting where North is, or using the fairy as a waypoint when they shouldn't). That cleave of his is a lot wider than people often realize.

I actually prefer to keep the faerie on heel (still on Obey though) because, whenever I do it, the group stacks on Titan's butt for everything except for the superbombs and adds. Keeping her on top of me means that, beyond the faerie never getting cleaved, when I'm using Eos, Whispering Dawn is guaranteed to heal the group during Tumults instead of just the tank and the other healer and I are within range of Fey Illumination for that sweet sweet 20% +healing every 2 minutes; when I'm using Selene, it ensures that the DPS are actually getting the speed buffs rather than the ensuring that the tank does. The only EX primal fight where I use place is Ifrit, since I *can't* be stacked up with everyone else thanks to Searing Wind (for Garuda EX, I'm either standing right next to the tank, or the faerie would die to all of the AoEs around the tank).

Honestly though, this is more appropriate for the healer forums.

As to my tanking position, I just tank straight north and dodge bombs only if I can without movie Titan or causing him to face the group. The bombs aren't nearly as dangerous as they were in HM, so it doesn't bother me to soak one or two that I could have avoided otherwise, especially since I'm soaking it to make sure that the squishies aren't getting nailed.

[Calyanare]

IN Titan HM you move to the safe row first because you can still move sideways after landslide is targetted. You do not have this luxury with EX in the side with slag pools, so you must bait landslide away from the safe row.

Actually you can almost always bait landslide to the south in EX. Either that row will be an edge (and thus safe) or it will be the ends of the rows, and thus the bombs on either side of it will be safe. There's more delay before the explosions in EX, so unlike HM where only the row that was placed last is safe, either side row is safe enough, since you have a whole 1.5s-ish after Landslide hits before the middle bombs explode (and you can move as soon as the blue lines disappear).