Quote Originally Posted by leprov View Post
Actually, it IS skill based. It's not because a lot of people suck that they are right. Lag and delay are the worst excuse. I have some delay too, and I still can survive a whole titan Extreme fight...And if I get hit by something while seeing myself outside of the AE, I still know it's my fault, I know I've been too slow.
You can train your reflexes, but you CAN'T tell lag to go away.

Seriously, the amount of people saying "OMG dude, stop with the lag excuses" really indeed need to stop. Titan fight is just designed wrong. Here we have a game where animation is seperated from the actual damage infliction mechanism, and they try to make it Precision Based

Skill is where you can magnificently swiftly summon your Titan-Egi and keeping it alive while at the same time killing off 4-monster mob in Stone Vigil while your Tank is lying on the floor face down

Skill is where you gracefully switch between Cure and Cure II to maintain your MP while keeping the health bar adequately full

Skill is where you quickly whip out Mage's Ballad when the White Mages are getting strained long before they actually start calling out help.

Skill is NOT where your ISP is trolling and your latency skyrockets and you get struck by Weight of the Land when you're obviously standing 5 yalms out of them

In short, skill is Garuda, Titan is just bad, because it relies exclusively on something you can never control: your latency