Request to Dev's. Tune Titan HM.

[baopee]

if your connection is poor you can learn the rotation and move pre-emptively to avoid plumes.

and the weight of land, and as soon as you get out of aoe area, hit a action or cast a spell, that way the server would recognize your current location.

[Mintyfresh]

And I think that was my whole point Maelwys.

I'm not asking them to make the encounter easier per say. I'm ok if we have to incur an even greater penalty if we stand in plumes for example.
But give people more control by maybe extending the time it takes for a plume to explode by 1 second.
Things of that sort.

People jump all over and start going on juvenile emo trips saying that maybe this game isn't for me etc.etc.
Sadly I wasn't even talking about me in this scenario, but of the other 7 people with me that might not be that good. Might be someone's sister, might be someone's mom or dad. Demographics of people who play the game have changed immensely since the old days.
It's a fight that everyone desires to do, that everyone should do(as it's essentially part of the main relic quest that's available to everyone). It's not end game, it's not bleeding edge.
Tuning it will not harm the game but perhaps attract more people.

[Sigvaldus]

you do know there is an extream mode, dude get some friends...

[Mintyfresh]

you do know there is an extream mode, dude get some friends...

I'm not sure what your comment even means.
When I say that "titan HM" is not end game, it directly implies that there is much more content beyond it, which by using simple liner logic implies that those fights might be ex-modes/ coil turn 4/5...

[NyneAlexander]

In a week or two, once you down titan extreme, go back and play titan HM. It feels like playing soccer with a beach ball.

[Aikota]

We 4 man titan HM...cleric stance jails ftw! Its not a hard fight. You just need to find 5-6 people who can stay alive. Not that hard...

[Mintyfresh]

@Nine: I can imagine fight getting much simpler as people start doing Ex and start getting gear from higher level content.
@Aikota: I am pretty sure some great people 3 man it too, and I'm very happy for them.

But, you are wrong if you are expecting new players, with rather shit*y gear to get it done with 4 man team or think that it's Virtua Fighter beach ball. A lot of people that are doing Titan HM are not doing it for sh1ts and giggles but because they are trying to gear up.

Anyone can come here with anecdotal data and say, "hey I got it done on the first try" or "hey you suck, I do it with one hand, while I'm rocking my toddler with the other hand and writing complex regular expression in PERL in my head". It's also possible that you get put in a party of 7 other great skilled individuals who literally crushed him.

However I found that to be highly unlikely in DF after my 86+attempts. Might be a great fight, but terrible design for DF with low gear requirement.

[Size]

I had to check the date on this post to make sure it was current. Are people still complaining about Titan HM? Even after the server side location check reduction from 0.3 sec to 0.1 sec?

The first thing to realize is that FFXIV end game content is not about your reflexes. It's about your memory. Once you learn the pattern, you can anticipate the moves and you will be able to do Titan HM in your sleep. This is what makes Titan very hard when its new but very easy once you 'get' it. It's also what will make Exteme relatively easy once you try it.

So in short, stop trying to dodge and start leaning the sequence. That's how you win. Once you get a team who know this, the game is yours.

[Sunah]

We 4 man titan HM...cleric stance jails ftw! Its not a hard fight. You just need to find 5-6 people who can stay alive. Not that hard...

What the OP is trying to get through to people which I 100% agree on, is that FINDING these 5-6 people who can stay alive is really difficult. Because the people who can stay alive have already finished this and don't care to do it again.

Had a beautiful group yesterday that got Titan down to about 5% twice. But we had this ONE monk who died at least 10 times each fight slowing the DPS down by quite a bit. Its even harder to find said people if you use the DF because the ilvl for that is what 55? Even with a level 2 lb the DPS is just not enough. Trust me I've tried it and cried multiple times.

[Mintyfresh]

What the OP is trying to get .. multiple times.

Thank you, but I don't think my message is registering so I'll just give up(though I have successfully beaten the fight now).
Every other response is "but it's easy" or "how old is this content, stop qq" or "I can do this with my eyes wide shut".
What does it matter how old it is, I just started, what does it matter how easy it is, I just started gearing up.
Things are relative in nature, just because it gets old or easy for some people doesn't' mean that it's the correct design philosophy.

It's like the darn CT lockout nonsense, last person to pass on loot, well guess what, screwed.
Can't post more than 1000 words, what next? 3 alphabet character names? 255 word posts?

It's just some of the weird sh1t that they have implemented that's making me shake my head in disbelief.