I love the game, but... Titan

[Jyoeru]

Coil isnt mandatory (i mean, you dont need to beat coil to get your relic) and CT gonna be easier.
I dont suggest to buy the Titan run, but if you really are that desperate... i understand your frustration.

However, what if you level a second job? Are you going to buy a Titan run everytime you need a relic?
What if a friend needs your help? You buy him the run too?

Your best bet is to find a group of people and work with them, that will help you not just getting your relic but being able to take on any content later in the game.

That was kinda my point in "when does it stop." Totally get ya. I have been trying to find players. I reply to the premades all the time. "I need to see your gear, bro." And that's the dude that eats plumes, DESPITE ME, the healer, marking bombs and spamming a <se.1 PLUMES!!!> macro. Grrr.

I can't even register for coil until I complete Titan, I thought. Who wants to take me when I am not even +1? I am not sure. I guess I should check that route. I couldn't care less about the stupid staff. Everyone else does. Then again, the stats are 2x that of my garuda weapon, so that might prove an issue.

[Klingsan]

Well, if you ever decide to move to Excalibur for whatever reason, I will try and help you out with this fight, and no, I will obviously not charge you for it, just good ol fashion helping people out that deserves it. But yeah, can't do much cross server

[ashikenshin]

Well, if you ever decide to move to Excalibur for whatever reason, I will try and help you out with this fight, and no, I will obviously not charge you for it, just good ol fashion helping people out that deserves it. But yeah, can't do much cross server

I could use some help with my titan haha, I have done it with my whm and warrior but my monk can't seem to find a good group :P

[Sunarie]

I can't even register for coil until I complete Titan, I thought. Who wants to take me when I am not even +1? I am not sure. I guess I should check that route.

You do have to beat Titan to unlock Coil, but you won't need your +1 for the first couple turns at least. So that's 900 myth you could be spending on something else As others have stated, your best bet is to find a few people on your server who are also having trouble with him and just practice until you get it with the same group. Maybe even make a temporary (or permanent) LS so it's easier to organize runs. May even end up going to Coil with them.

[Darksword]

I was in your boat for about a week OP.

What I ended up doing was making my own Titan run and inviting everyone who wanted to go, regardless of gear or experience. A straight up learning run, where nobody would get kicked out no matter how bad they might screw up.

A couple hours later we had broken the heart a few times and gotten some good practice at Phase 5. We parted ways without a win, but with a ton of experience.

Beating Titan goes in this progression:

>N00b: You screw up, eat landslides, and die to plumes every single time. (you'll spend 5 or 6 runs like this)

>Newb: You can dodge landslides, but still get hit by single plumes regularly. You're starting to get the pacing of the fight but still not acting fast enough. (you'll be here for 5 or 6 more runs)

>Average: You can dodge landslides and 80% of plumes. And you can avoid the first two bomb patterns. Maybe you kill the heart and maybe you don't. Lots of people stuck here (10-20 runs). This is where you find out if you need better gear or not. Most DF runs will stall here.

>Improved: You can dodge all the landslides and all the initial plumes. You know the first two bomb patterns by heart and can usually break Titan's heart, but you die early in Phase 5 to the huge plumes, new bomb pattern, and small arena. (5-10 runs) At this stage you're starting to really memorize how the fight goes.

>Skilled: You can handle everything up til Phase 5 without any trouble, and you're learning to move pre-emptively to keep the plumes out from under you and how to dodge the new bombs. You still get hit once in a while, but you can get Titan down to 30% or below with regularity. Sounds like you're here (5-6 more runs).

>Master: You can avoid it all. Plumes, Bombs, Landslides. Nothing touches you except Tumults unless you're having bad lag or get unlucky (boxed in by Landslide as bombs go off around you, say). If it were a solo fight you could ace it. This is where you'll end up with practice. You're here or almost here.

>Ragequit: Now you need seven other Masters to party with, and none of them can be lagging. (1-Infinity attempts). Pure dumb luck of the team that you join. This is what held me back from a win for so long (25+ attempts for me). And I went through the early stages a little faster than most. I probably killed him after 40 total attempts.

Titan sucks, but there's a definite feeling of accomplishment when you beat him. He is, as the Internets would say, "Nintendo Hard." If it weren't for him and maybe Hydra, getting a relic weapon would be trivially easy. Once your whole FC or LS has beaten him, going back and doing it again will get easier and easier until he IS trivial. I remember thinking when I first started him "This is BULLSHIT! Nobody could do this! It's WAY TOO HARD FFS!"

But he really isn't, looking back on it. Getting good enough, knowing your moves enough, and being able to predict his movements are important skills in the game. Clearing Titan legitly will absolutely make you a better player.

Don't give up OP.