Titan Extreme is NOT Fun

[Hitome]

Unfortunately, not everyone understands that feeling.

I'm not a very vocal/loud person but when we beat Twin the first time, I actually said, "!@#$ YEAH!!". I was so excited and relieved.

I then realized I was screaming at my monitor because I beat a dragon in a video game.

Isn't this the type of experience you seek in a game?

[ZeroRains]

Let me clarify, because people are railroading all over the place

1. Titan IS artificially difficult. There is no discussion about that. In fact half of you said it yourself. The fight isn't "hard" its learning patterns and dodging. There is no strategy to be made here. There is little skill involved. Its the most cookie cutter of all fights, allowing literally no choice to the player. The player must dodge consistently for minutes on end, hoping no one gets hit, because if 1 dps dies before heart, or 1 heal dies post heart phase, bam.

2. This is a INDIVIDUAL fight. You could argue every fight is, which is understandable to a point. But like you said, this fight isn't hard, so why are people dying? Because they haven't studied the rotation? Ok, people learn the rotation. They still get hit? So now there just bad. The fight offers very small freedom of choice, while fights like twintania allow you to position collars to drop where be, where to dodge divebombs, where you would like conflags to go, either under twin or around it. Titan offer's nothing but where to bring him after he falls, which still changes nothing.

3.This fight simply isn't possible with a full public group with the required ilvl gear needed. All of you arguing here about how easy it is either ran with a fc or a shout group "either dodge or I will KICK!!!" Duty finder success rate for this fight is utter garbage, and why is that? For the people who know the struggle, they duty finder either to help learn the fight or hope to get carried in one fashion or another. What ends up happening is then everyone in that party is hoping for a carry, and it goes south.

4.The last part and the MOST IMPORTANT PART (READ HERE IF YOUR MAD AND DIDN'T WANT TO READ ABOVE SAID POST!!!)

Is the item level for this fight. That's what is all boils down to. An average item level of 67 is needed to complete this fight in duty finder. This is almost impossible! Groups in near full i80-i90 are still struggling to even clear this content because it lacks and freedom of decision making. How do you expect a full group with less than full darklight to even stand a chance? THE SIMPLE FACT IS the fight WAS balanced around ilvl 67, and you cannot argue that. If your clearing it in a full i90 gear with other full i90 players, great job! But the fight is simply over punishing, not hard. You not only punish yourself, but you punish the party by having to restart.

Sit there and type all you want about how I'm wrong, how I should go "back to wow!!!" (which honestly? It's a fun game, or else millions wouldn't play it) This fight isn't hard. It doesn't require decision making. It's all dodging and swapping, allowing no freedom of choice. Imagine a twintania with the same mechanics of titan, but geared for i80+? You think anyone in there right mind would go in there and practice for hours without loosing there minds? Stop protecting bad content people, we want fun content that provides a challenge like Ifrit and Twintania, not mindless dodging hoping no one will ever get hit.

[Hitome]

Mad

Yes: we heard you the first time.

Anyone who has done this fight knows there is strategy. Do you let the healer or DPS go in or out for double gaols? Do you break the healer or DPS out first? Which method do you use to dodge the cross bombs? How do you utilize LB? How do you utilize tank CDs like hallowed and holmgang? How do you decide which bomb to kill on the gigantic bomb + plume + geocrush? How many people can die before you call it a wipe? Do you take 2 healers or 1 healer and 5 DPS? What method do you use to avoid weights? How do you optimize your strategy to help people with specific job requirements succeed (casters, melee DPS)? How many stacks do you let the tank take until you swap? Can your DPS communicate so that you do not push Titan into another phase during an inopportune time like after a stomp or upheaval?

It's like I'm talking to people who have no idea what they're talking about due to lack of experience. If a DPS dies before the heart, you raise them. 2 of our Titan kills have been with a DPS who was dead all throughout the heart/post heart phase due to a landslide. One of our kills was done with FIVE people dying and being brought back with raise. It's almost like the people in this thread should read the WHM swiftcast thread.

I'd say, the more you post, the better an idea I get about your experience (or lack thereof) with this fight.

You are the same people who complain about benediction not firing off in time because you put all the blame on the server. Or hallowed ground. Or lustrate. Or a number of other things you blame lag for when it's your own incompetence.

It's really sad to see people who cannot admit that they have trouble with a fight and whine for a nerf. If the fight isn't hard, go do it. Can't do it? Get better at what you do. If this means you have to account for the delay with the server, so be it.

Don't want to do that? Quit.

[ZeroRains]

It's really sad to see people who cannot admit that they have trouble with a fight and whine for a nerf. If the fight isn't hard, go do it. Can't do it? Get better at what you do.

This is why we can't have nice things. Because people like you blame all sorts of other things rather than facing the truth. This fight sucks, was terribly designed. Get over it.

[ZeroRains]

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[Hitome]

Mad and blaming own inadequacies on other things.

I'm actually done with the fight. Several times now.

Your turn.

[ZeroRains]

Mad and blaming own inadequacies on other things.

lol your right, being inadequate to voice my concern over content that I've already completed and can fairly review to help benefit future content. To me, it seems your the only one who's upset the majority doesn't agree. Well, back on topic now.

[Peptaru]

Stuff

You know that a % of players who are against these mechanics are people beating these fights. This whole "learn to dodge" or any variation thereof is just a wall of crap to hide behind. Even people winning the fight say its poorly designed.

"Move on to a new game!" Some of these same people are, like myself, 1.0'rs... we stuck with it through worse than this crap, and its insulting that we should move on.

A BS fight is a BS fight whether it is easy, hard, extreme or in between.

[razzgrizz3]

after reading billies post. couldnt have summed it up better myself
and it is really quite shocking of the atitude that yoshida has. he basicaly says **** you to the majority of the fanbase and then proceeds to admit that they are incapable of designing difficult content without 3ms ping one shot mechanics.

gg. this game will definately go places