Over the past few weeks, I've been attempting to defeat Titan Hard Mode with no luck. As a Scholar, the best I have been able to get him down to is about 20%, but this post is less about that fight in general, and more about Boss mechanics in general. Titan HM has simply forced me to think long and hard about WHY I continue to fail on this encounter. Sometimes it is me, sometimes it is my other party members, but never before have I felt so powerless to actually contribute to a win.

I believe this has to do with a combination of my and others latency, as well as fight mechanics. I'll explain more about this in a moment.

Full disclosure: I play on the Ultros server (NA), but I currently live in Japan. All of the people I play with live in the US, so simply changing to a Japanese server does not make sense. My tested ping is somewhere along the lines of 250ms, which typically is not an issue in other games (e.g. WoW, League of Legends, DotA 2, TF2).