Producer live letter 1/12/16, lets discuss.

[Kosmos992k]

If you think people asking for more Chimera and Hydra, two ridiculously easy bosses even when they were first added, as asking for more raid level stuff, you're delusional. This is more asking for HM trials and specific dungeons just for the relic. The original relic quest if you recall had us do some open world mob killing, Hydra, Chimera, Ifrit HM, Garuda HM, Titan HM, and AK. There was nothing in there close to difficult other than the Primal Trio, and that was only if you didn't know mechanics or had problems with lag (Titan was notorious for this).

Titan was a challenge but WP and in particular AK were challenging in their own right. Back in the day, with level appropriate gear and Darklight or less, WP was a challenge, and let's please not forget the Original AK with the original Demon Wall, which was a total pain in the ass DPS check. If you were still rocking Darklight or less in your party, then you did actually benefit greatly from Healer DPS to kill the wall quickly enough that the tank could manage the adds while everyone killed the wall before it got to the final phase and wipe.

Titan was a mechanical challenge, one of the mechanics that originally caused more wipes than anything else IMHO was Tumult, late in the fight 7 stomps did sufficient damage to kill most non-tanks (before we overgeared it). So unless healers were really on the ball and pre-cast AoE heals, or the tank knew about interrupting Tumult, you were in for a pretty hard time with the gear we had when first challenging Titan.

I'd love to see a random selection of the current level 60 players, who ignore mechanics in every fight, have to run Titan HM in ilvl 70 gear, not sync'd gear, actual ilvl 60, 70 and 80 pieces matched together to average out at ilvl 70. Comedy and much rage quitting would ensue.

I used to enjoy Q'ing as PLD for Titan HM and smoothing out the run for groups - before they started nerfing things.