how long to beat titan hm?

[Cryvil]

It took me like 15 hours of attempts before I got my first win...And it was the most fun I've had with an MMO in like forever. Admittedly, part of this was because it gave me an excellent opportunity to practice my Japanese as I listened to my parties' battle ideas and chipped in my own ideas. Each group stuck together probably an average of 45 minutes, so 20 attempts?


I think the fight is much more difficult in English parties because they tend to be far more ill-tempered. I couldn't imagine spending 15 hours in Titan with them the way they behave. By contrast...I've had well over 100 Japanese groups over the last 3 months and only two of them have been less than friendly. One was an Aurum Vale run where, after we wiped at the first boss, the tank declared that he was tired of tanks always taking the blame when something goes wrong(even though nobody was really criticizing him...) and proceeded to drop.

The second time was one of those Titan runs actually and completely my fault. The group wanted to clump up before plumes(重み) to make it easier to dodge them. I got frustrated trying to explain that the game's ability delay made it impractical for me to do that, that I needed to be running when they appeared if I was to consistently avoid them. This concept is hard enough to get across in English(especially when the other person is meeting you with cynicism) to someone who has no first hand experience of it.

So yeah...two bits of drama in over 100 Japanese parties. English parties? Maybe one in four? More for Titan, less for easier content. Try to ignore the hotheads and enjoy the fight...Titan really is the pinnacle of fun in the game and eventually you'll get it. If you really get tired of it though, you could try politely asking people at Wineport shouting for coil parties. "Hey! Sorry for the random request, but I've failed Titan a dozen times trying for my first relic. I was hoping you and maybe a couple friends could help me through...?" If someone tell'd me with that, I would help them...either on the spot or in a couple hours after I finished whatever I was occupied with.

One more thing...I see you're a Paladin. I don't know if you know or not, but you don't need to move throughout the last half of the battle. You can just stand on the edge of the platform in the NE cardinal direction and you'll never get hit by a bomb. If you do that, it'll reduce the strain on the healers considerably.(I'm cap..err..mp stable solo-healing when the tank isn't eating bombs).

[valho]

3 Days of DF, got into an awesome JP DF party at 5am, got it on 3rd tries, my fault on the 2 wipes though lol. After heart phase is hard when most DF group at the time never pass heart.
Subsequent Relic are all done on the day I hit 50 a the next day, most of the time 1 shot from Ifrit to Titan with FC. Now getting Titan wins in DF on my server is easy, most group just one shot, the most is 1-2 wipes, then they will clear it.

Oh as a PLD, for the love of god don't run to the bomb safe spot with the rest of the party after heart phase, I had that happen in a DF party where the tank kept turning the Titan around the platform during bomb phase, a few times Titan end up facing the rest of the raid and I got hit by rock buster. It was a miracle we manage to clear it after only 1 wipe.

[Ares_Nocturnal]

I farmed him about 25+ times the other day for shield killed him in about7 mins each run. Started running randoms thought for free of charge.

[GuardianX]

It took me about 60 tries to beat titan. On my 57th try, I studied his moves in stage 5 for 1 week then once I memorized his pattern, it only took me 3 tries to beat him.

[CalvatE]

About 3 days, under 20 tries. It was with my raid admittingly.

Now days I do it in pugs for the fun of it, but DPS always die first. In the event there's a DPS or two that don't die, we beat it.

[Aronos]

With a decent group, Titan takes maybe 7 mins to kill. Pretty easy to find or make a group these days. Just have to be good at filtering people.

[Apinaheebo]

Three weeks, about ~100 tries.

[SecsyMancat]

It took me 2 groups. First group was a training group. We did horribly and didn't get past heart once. Second group I lucked out since I got in a group with mostly relic players and it was a clear group not a practice group. I was the only person there that had not previously cleared the fight. I had Garuda wep/full DL and food. I have since helped 5 people in my FC get their titan clears using the same strategy. I set up practice runs and call out the entire rotation in advance over ventrilo for them. I have a macro I hit before weights and I mark bombs when it is clock rotation bombs. Once they do well enough dodging in practice runs I set up clear runs for them with an attempt to make them be the only non relic player in group. That being said there's usually 2-3 people per group going for clear, the rest were relic holders. Try to set up similar groups. make a weight macro, memorize the entire rotation. Learn how to mark clock rotation bombs. If you get the right people in your group you should get your win quickly.

[THETRUESELF]

3 random groups 'till I got my first kill. I think I was pretty lucky with Titan. Needed longer and more tries with second relic though. Didn't count it. :c

[Etgar]

5 tries, less than a hour the first time. Should only take 8 minute or so after that.