The worst part of being a player with non optimal latency is affecting everybody else's survival. I've been avoiding attempting titan ex seriously for a long long time and today my FC finally actually gathered together to attempt titan ex (most of them anyway). After a few attempts, my FC finally told me to go to the back and have half the arena to my own for pre-heart plumes as a BLM and I finally stopped dying to stacked plumes 5 steps away from them repeatedly. If I stack with them, three things can happen: low chance of me surviving, high chance of me dying to at least 3x weights, some chance of someone dying because of my timing placed the plume too early and increased the size. On the latter, I know that my one plume hitting the others wouldn't kill the others which means they got hit by their own plumes too but it doesn't change the fact that it messed with the floors and had my plume wasn't stacked so out of place, maybe they could have just taken one weight damage that wouldn't kill them. Or whatever.

We practiced only until we can get to post heart a few times and then everyone stopped. I have no idea how I'm gonna deal with double plumes when the strategy is synchronized moving to stacking again. I just know that I will die a lot to this and I am eventually gonna catch flak for it from the other players if I ever DF/PF titan to that part. We havent been to T5 that much either, divebombs sounds worrisome too. These days I end up just logging in after t1-t4 to do daillies and spending the rest of the day wondering if I should press that 'join' button (mostly no).