Titan Extreme is NOT Fun

[Billie21]

I'll give you an example: in Dzemael's second boss, I start running as soon as the adds join the fight. This way, when the aoes pop, they are already behind me (I'm out of it before they even appear). If I don't, I cannot possibly dodge them. Delay means I get hit every time if I wait for the aoe to pop before moving.

So this fight which has so many fast aoes to dodge, ends up no requiring any fast reaction from me, none of the skills dodging would be mobilising are actually used. I just run during the whole fight (yes, the delay was the main reason I switched to BRD).
This is an example of how it distorts the whole point of the exercise.

Again, what would you have her do?. "move faster" maybe, but the screen clearly is showing something different from what is actually happening.
Since you only appear to be an elitist *** when provoked, and are, in fact, levelheaded, you will have read my post (the big one) and noticed that I didn't dismiss memory entirely. I even guessed that these encounters were designed to be done multiple times.

Again, the matter lies in the degree to which you rely on your foreknowledge or your speed. It's obviously always a mix of both.
Ideally, it's as you describe. You have a general idea of what's coming next, so you are prepared to react. In reality,the delay often means you have to react before anything happens.
The longer the delay, the more you have to rely on memory, and less on your speed (because the info arrives too late).
For such a fight, that would mean moving when you know a landslide is going to happen, even though it hasn't happened yet, so that when it does show up on the screen, you've already dodged it (like my example in Dzemael).

In such a context, someone trying to take on a new "challenge" will be frustrated by failure instead of stimulated, because failure doesn't feel like you did something wrong and can improve, but rather that the game is punishing you/tricking you.
Only way to overcome this is memorizing then moving pre-emptively. Sadly, doing this can be rather disappointing for people who expected another kind of challenge (the kind you are describing).


And I've reach the max messages I can post, so this is my last message for today.

[EvokerKeii]

Sometimes crap don't sink. Some people out there love crap. That doesn't mean it isn't crap.

[Lunavi]

Can someone that play a lot of mmos answer me this.

Is FFXIV as bad as other mmos when it comes to buying runs? Like to the point where bigger FCs act like they're gil sellers spamming to sell runs.

Yes. Esp. Titan HM.

[HumsterMKX]

Yes. Esp. Titan HM.

Ya, Titan sells got out of hand... even on legacy server I'm on. I personally was caught by suprised

[Shyen]

Next year: Leviathan super mega EXTREME! A ten hour fight and you can't screw up once or you DIE!

2 words for you: Pandemonium Warden
Look it up ^^ (it's FFXI related)

[ArtEmisPalmecia]

It's like reading forums from XIV:1.0.
The "elites" are self entitled because they have gotten so use to working with server lag, they think it is "normal" and it keeps the "scrubs" off their game.

Hint: Your wrong, and you are the minority. Shocking, I know... I hope us"casuals" ruin this game for you, because honestly, the forums and the in-game community would be a lot less toxic with you gone.

[Vektrat]

Lag and delay aside, I love the fight, it's dynamic and different, there's fights with heavy mechanics, fights that are pure DPS checks, and fights like this that are a dodgethon.

Titan is one of the few, if not the only, raid bosses I've not gotten tired of repeating in an MMO.

[Kettle]

It's like reading forums from XIV:1.0.
The "elites" are self entitled because they have gotten so use to working with server lag, they think it is "normal" and it keeps the "scrubs" off their game.

Hint: Your wrong, and you are the minority. Shocking, I know... I hope us"casuals" ruin this game for you, because honestly, the forums and the in-game community would be a lot less toxic with you gone.

If only you'd said 'slap in the face' at some point, this would have been a pretty high Bad Post Bingo score.

[Phantom_Lunar]

The fight itself is very similar to Titan HM... If you can clear that with not much difficulty I would think it wouldn't be that hard to clear it.

[ArtEmisPalmecia]

If only you'd said 'slap in the face' at some point, this would have been a pretty high Bad Post Bingo score.

Awww, did I struck a nerve? It seems so.