Request to Dev's. Tune Titan HM.

[Fynlar]

Except Titan is not a brick wall for PUG. Its a Brick wall because of lag. It doesn't need to be nerfed. it needs to be balanced with the average person lag in mind.

Thing is, a lot of people here can't tell the difference and would consider both of those to be the same thing.

[Simaril]

There are two hard things to accept about Titan HM:
1) Gear can't completely trivialize it
2) It's the first instance where you really need a static or fc group. DF has to be near 0% success, and PF is only slightly better, unless you find 7/8 from a FC.

[SendohJin]

There are two hard things to accept about Titan HM:
1) Gear can't completely trivialize it
2) It's the first instance where you really need a static or fc group. DF has to be near 0% success, and PF is only slightly better, unless you find 7/8 from a FC.

you don't need 7/8. you need 1 very good healer and 2 DPS that can stay alive after heart to break Gaols. i've only ever seen one bad tank at Titan.

[Maelwys]

you don't need 7/8. you need 1 very good healer and 2 DPS that can stay alive after heart to break Gaols. i've only ever seen one bad tank at Titan.

Agree. Tanks wearing anything better than Darklight can pretty much just stand to the north; run their fingers over the 1-2-3 keys and doze off, providing that they wake up long enough to take two steps south for each jump phase. Heck, there are videos of Titan-Egis tanking it.

Titan HM is all on the Healers and on the DPS dodging properly. If DPS can dodge, it can be solo healed easilly. If they can't, you either need two decent healers to carpetbomb heals during plumes; or a SMN to spam 'Raise' throughout the fight. You really don't need a static, just a few people who can dodge reliably (either due to experience or being lagfree).

[RyuDragnier]

Just throwing this out there as a suggestion....

I had trouble the first couple times dodging plumes in Titan HM, and I could definitely notice a lag. I then port-forwarded my router (properly, not using portforward.com), and added exclusions to my firewall for FFXIV. I also updated to the latest video card drivers. The difference in the first fight after doing this was night and day.

I'll be the first to admit that SE's servers are absolute garbage, but if you haven't done ALL of the stuff I mentioned in an attempt to fix your lag issue, then it's still your fault that you're lagging. If you have, well, start stalking SE's customer service lines until they get frustrated and fix it.

Done all of it, and I still have problems. There's just something about this fight that causes latency problems for me. I moved the second WotL was coming, was on the other side of Titan and did Bootshine, and then suddenly I was hit by the 2 plumes that were at my original position, when I was out of them faster than they exploded. Everybody else were doing their attacks normally during this, so there's no other way to describe it other than latency.

[fauxbert]

Done all of it, and I still have problems. There's just something about this fight that causes latency problems for me. I moved the second WotL was coming, was on the other side of Titan and did Bootshine, and then suddenly I was hit by the 2 plumes that were at my original position, when I was out of them faster than they exploded. Everybody else were doing their attacks normally during this, so there's no other way to describe it other than latency.

I've always had similar experiences with Titan HM. It's so frustrating when you either get out of the AoE but still get knocked off/double plumed or never even get to see it before it pops and kills you. Such an unforgiving fight.

Garuda EX is easier for me than Titan HM.

[EDIT] Did the fight with DRG. I got so frustrated at people saying "just dodge what the hell?!" Any lag at all = impossible to dodge plumes.

[ariannef]

A bit of context : I live in Asia but I play on a NA server, my connection goes through phone lines, on a good day, I have 200-250ms lag, on a bad day, it's 1500ms. There is no other provider/ISP that I can turn to.

I've devised strategies to help cope and I try to get to fights overgeared so I can absorb direct hits and have time to heal. At the wall at AK, I apologize to the healer for the extra strain and burn from the middle, at Ifrit regular/HM/and Ultima part I stay on the edge of where the lava pools show up so I'm only a step away - if lag is light, I have time to get out - if it's heavy I'm getting hit. I've had fights where the chat feed was erupting with 'thanks' and 'yay' and on my screen, the boss was still up for several more seconds. It's all a bit surreal sometimes.

Because of this, Titan HM is currently impossible for me - I need to be able to survive a direct hit and have time to heal before a second hit without bringing down the entire party with me. Thankfully Thornmarch wasn't aoe heavy, so I've been able to get a good weapon while waiting for relic. So, meanwhile, I've concentrated on other content - I run roulette as much as possible to get tomes to increase my ilvl as well as take on extra lower level dungeons where a few seconds of lag aren't an issue with alts when they're 'adventurers in need' because I remember a time when DPS queues were 2 hours long; I'm leveling all my crafters so I can make myself HQ gear. I spiritbind my gear and convert it to materia religiously and then craft myself a new piece. I do leves. I go treasure hunting. I do beast quests.

I enjoy the game/the story/the lore and don't mind waiting a few months until harder content is nerfed since I know that I'm in a relatively unusual situation (I think Australia and New Zealand are in the same boat). However if, as per a few people's suggestion, older content was never to be nerfed so 'everyone could overcome the same challenges and not have victories handed to them', I can bet that most of the English-speaking players in Asia and Oceania would have to abandon the game as a lot of the mechanics are simply impossible to avoid when you have unpredictable lag (screen freezes for several seconds and either you DC or everything moves in fast-forward as the game catches up with real time).

So, here's to finally getting my relic in patch 2.2!