Now that it is "old content", could we get a nerf on Titan EX? (lag woes)

[Ooshima]

For the record, a few days just before Patch 2.2 hits we were rushing one of our raid members though some of the side contents such as Primal EX that he was procrastinating to clear (despite being done with T5 and nothing else to do he's still lazy).

Titan EX was one of them. He knew nuts about the fight so we had to carry him. I was on vacation so I was using the free internet from the hotel, which isn't gaming quality. The lag was bad. Damage taken are updated like 1-2 seconds later. Like you see that the stomping animation from Titan was over but you saw the damage applied to you later.

But nope, I did not die, nor fall down the platform.

[micheleuno]

I know that feel, i also had a lot of problems with Titan (i´m from Chile) , those landslides who hit you even if you are a few metters away from the animation, those weight of the land that you need the reflexes of a shaolin monk to dodge em, but after all, me and three frieds (me as a bard, a BM and a scholar) managed to beat him.

Was the most satisfactory boss kill i´ve ever had.

Also Infrit-ex was just a joke compared with Titan

[Miyu20]

Lag on your end should be rectified as much as possible but never forget, Server lag for DPS is bad but for a healer it means they can ran before the cast ends and it still goes off, A LA Weight of the Land.

So Server lag isn't necessarily bad because it helps healers and I hope you get enough practice. I know it's sometimes discouraging because people will quit early and you don't get to practice! Don't fret. You will find that super nice group that will not only let you practice but break down and teach you the fight! ^^

There are good people that play FFXIV after all. ^^

[Waeksyn]

It's really hard to nerf this fight the way you want. Everything comes at set tumes;

Easiest thing in the world to nerf. You just add 200 msec or more to the time when landslide or plumes are visible to the time when they go off.

[Alcorra]

Easiest thing in the world to nerf. You just add 200 msec or more to the time when landslide or plumes are visible to the time when they go off.

Was about to suggest exactly that. Just display those telegraphs earier, so that people with lag actually have time to move out.

I'm suffering from this as well, and can't do Titan because of this. Strangely, I'm not noticing problems with other fights, Levi Ex is fine for me, for example. Titan seems to introduce more lag. I event have issues with normal or hard sometimes dispite having done that many many times. I'll see a landslide, move well away, fire a couple of arrows or half-cast something, and then suddenly get swiped.

[LalaRu]

Titan EX is a ping check.

I know every second of that fight by memory, can move also half second before things happen, but I still can be slided out.

I also add more to the hell that duty is. It also may happen during the fight I dodge all and everything, but the only time of all fight the ping hates me, I am just plainly screwed.

And no, know the duty by memory don't helps. I can move before, but move where? Slides aren't always on same place, you need to see the safe spot to go into it. Heck, it also happened I knew in that exact time will comes a slide, but see Titan do not move do it, it means I am rolling the screwed/notscrewed dice, because I know when I will see that on my screen, all games are already gone and done.

[Keyln]

A basic rule of game design is that if the developer gives the player a signal, and the player reacts to said signal while signal is on screen, then the player should be rewarded. Or at the very least not punished.

Yet, in Titan, SE breaks this rule again and again. We see the plume warnings and the landslide warnings. We react by moving out of the area, yet we are punished as if we didn't move in time. We've seen this time and time again with Titan.

This is not good game design. It doesn't matter if the pattern is the same every time, it's still bad design. We players should not be accepting this, and yet, we tolerate it.

[Snootles]

While connection lag is one source of problems for people, there's one thing people should keep in mind if they play on TV (HD or UHD)... Input lag.
I was looking at a nice UHD TV the other day... And was considering buying it... Until I learned that the input lag on it was as high as 120ms.
Input lag in this case being the time between the TV receives a frame and the TV actually displays the frame.

Not just that, don't forget the built-in latency in a PC as well. You can remove that entirely by editing in the registry, for me that made the difference. Oh, and I play on TV that is hooked up to my PC.
Going hardwired as opposed to wireless will make life a lot easier too. You could even get a CAT6 cable instead of a CAT5, also a little bit faster.

Not everything is just ISP or server side. Check your own hardware and setup first.

[Elusana_Celah]

I don't get any lag and perfectly dodge everything this guy sends at me. Lag is a fairly common excuse used by NA gamers to justify the fact that they suck which is why people who have ACTUAL lag would be accused of making excuses. Have you tried WTFast? I heard it works wonders even for international players.

[Waeksyn]

Going hardwired as opposed to wireless will make life a lot easier too. You could even get a CAT6 cable instead of a CAT5, also a little bit faster.

Not everything is just ISP or server side. Check your own hardware and setup first.

This is a good recommendation. I was having huge problems with Titan EX initially. My lag problems cleared up when I reworked my home network.