Quote Originally Posted by Avarghaladion View Post
Like Claire said, everyone still needs to learn the mechanics. I'm not saying this to come off as an elitist or a douchebag or anything but once you know the song and dance of fights like ex primals they're dirt simple. [...]
What planet do you live on? Go join one of those "weekly Titan Ex clears" without your buddies to back you up and let me know how it went.
Do you know how people with 300ms+ lag or on PS3 without SSD 'learn' the fight?

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ers_for_titan/

This! I'm from Australia (but play on American server with friends) and I play on Wi-fi. I can do titan HM so easily now that I know the rotation and am able to move before it happens. But now that I'm in EM, not only do I have to learn a full new rotation so I can dodge ahead of time, but the punishment for any one mistake is death. Makes it so hard to learn! And it's super discouraging with every group I try kicking after someone makes 2 or even 1 "mistake". (I'm on PC with wi-fi just to clarify)
I'm wi-fi on pc. And it's all I got where I am atm. Yep, it'll just take me a while to get the fight down as opposed to being able to react in real time to the mechanics
Yeah I totally get that. But I feel they should at least appreciate that some people cannot afford ideal conditions and maybe give us latency-troubled people a chance (and it's not like I try this fight on high latency days, anything above 1 second delay I don't trouble groups with). I just don't think it should be an exclusive fight for those who have perfect setups. But I do know with enough practice I can predict it all. It's not so much what I "chose", just what I have. (Also I am on PC, not PS3)
Not long ago I was helping out someone with TitanEX and dodged every single weight and landslide for at least four hours. But it means jack sh!t, because the fights in this game are well balanced, sometimes too well, and you need output of 8 normal people to clear the fight and about half of that of overgeared and skilled people.

Echo and any other buffs and nerfs aren't for you or me, because we're done with the content and tossed the gear long ago in favour of i100/110. They're for people who don't have my ping, software, hardware and time to overcome landslide, snakes, twister, dreadknight and so on.