Tanks are so mainstream. (Ramuh extreme done without tanks)

[Atomnium]

Don't worry about the accessories. When Rouse/Spur wear off your pet's stats revert to your current gear. So you have to choose between not using the buffs or gimping your own damage by a lot with the use of tank accessories full time. With the reduction in damage pets have already I'd say it would be more beneficial to have them deal more damage for enmity and for your own hits to be more powerful to kill faster.

To answer both of you, I was using IL70 trinkets melded with VIT to fill my titan-egi some more extra HP, specially for the end when the HP pool was more of an issue to heal.

[Merle]

Funny how you both gave different reasons, no need to get defensive guys

Since i was the one who said it, simple answer: i'm spanish and english is not my native language, so i'm pretty sure i didn't use the correct word. I wrote that after Ramuh started attacking us inside the "circle" at the beginning at the battle, and by "hack" i meant Titan-Egi tanking itself instead using PLD/WAR (again, we were doing this for fun, i wasn't expecting to win xD). I guessed nobody would think "OMG, THEY'RE USING HACKS! HE SAID IT!", but i guess i'm wrong...

[Shurrikhan]

Right, because there's absolutely nothing wrong with bypassing the need for a tank with Titan-egi in content that is supposed to require a full party and is current...

I appreciate novel group comps to clear stuff (40 priests in Molten Core comes to mind), but how this is handled will be determined by how prominent this use of Titan-egi becomes. If it does become widespread the devs would have no option but to nerf SMN, Titan-egi or both. I'm more the type to nip things in the bud, which is why I'd expect them to do it before it becomes prominent.

Or they could just split Shock Strike into a sequential single-target attack and an instantly following donut AoE around the tank. The single-target portion would ignore the pets' AoE-damage-taken-reduction, and that would be the end of that. No class changes necessary.

Seeing as how Titan-Egi is labeled as a "Tank-type" pet I would really hope that they do not remove the ability to tank endgame with him. They wish to bring in hybrid jobs in the future and this is a perfect example of a hybrid in action. They'll have to figure out a way to balance it out in other content and make it more equal to PLD/WAR but it should definitely remain an option.

I would be in favor of that if the pet was just a larger portion of the SMN's dps. But when the pet is scarcely more than a third of the pair's total damage, I don't see why it should be able to do as much as real tank tank while having two thirds of its potential basically unchanged. Make the pet the majority of the SMN's effects, or force the SMN to do more to maximize the pet's potential at cost of its own in order to possibly do this -- such that its variance is a truly significant choice -- then I'd love to have that be the case.

On that note, I am glad that this at least required some gear trade-outs.

[Atomnium]

no need to get defensive guys

Nothing against you Sir But it's always better to quick respond to this than be sorry, especially on this forum, most people that come on ffxiv-forum for rage and trolling purpose or/and witch hunting which is not our case in this thread, we re just a solid team of 8 peeps trying fun-stuffs around on end-game contents

[TeganLaron]

Nothing against you Sir But it's always better to quick respond to this than be sorry, especially on this forum, most people that come on ffxiv-forum for rage and trolling purpose or/and witch hunting which is not our case in this thread, we re just a solid team of 8 peeps trying fun-stuffs around on end-game contents

Of course and good job I love trying to tank stuff with my Titan-Egi, but you rarely find others willing to try on higher end content. Maybe more people will realise how under utilised Titan-Egi is now.

[Narissa]

"ramuh is counter attacking our hack" visible in your chat box by the way.

Probably best to edit out chat window if you discussing stuff you shouldn't be doing lol.

Who or what says we aren't allowed to do Ramuh this way? It doesn't break any rules, they made the game and boss this way, we are just being creative with it.

Don't jump to conclusions please, the comment was merely a joke and nothing more, we had to make alot of preparations and planning to get this to work and even then we didn't believe it was goona work.

With alot of teamwork we managed to pull this off and its an awesome achievement to be the first to do so, we just wanted to share this with yous.

[Atomnium]

Of course and good job I love trying to tank stuff with my Titan-Egi, but you rarely find others willing to try on higher end content. Maybe more people will realise how under utilised Titan-Egi is now.

That's my wish also

[Youmadesca]

Just dint think that strat would get so overhyped everywhere. I'm myself getting spamed in my youtube/ingame inbox, posts about it are growing everywhere and party finders are starting to only go with this strat...our plan wasnt to make it be the new "in" thing to do, but more to get our first ramuh kill in a fun and exotic way.

Sorry if my members seems to overreact a bit, but the hax accusations and whatnot are getting strong right now...personally starting to regret making a post in the first place.

[VidulaSaix]

There's nothing exploitative about this. The Titan-Egi is doing it's job, which is to tank.

Don't let the people who think this makes an already easy fight "Too easy" get you down.

[Taruranto]

Just dint think that strat would get so overhyped everywhere. I'm myself getting spamed in my youtube/ingame inbox, posts about it are growing everywhere and party finders are starting to only go with this strat...our plan wasnt to make it be the new "in" thing to do, but more to get our first ramuh kill in a fun and exotic way.

Sorry if my members seems to overreact a bit, but the hax accusations and whatnot are getting strong right now...personally starting to regret making a post in the first place.

There is nothing wrong with making use of your current tools to find alternate methods of playing. FFXIV players are not used to this because everything is sto static and controlled by the devs, but in FFXI, for example, it was the norm.