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[TornadoFury]

this game is way to easy in my book i have only used a guide on 2 fights and after dieing once i can pretty much figure out the pattern and then it just depends on if the other adds in my party figure out what to do.. I'd like some randomized bosses so i feel like i'm struggling after 5-15 attempts. i feel like to challanage urself in this game you have to lag because if your net is perfect almost every fight is easy.

[kira8267]

Honestly, if your connection is bad, you cant raid in any game period.
Also if they are good players, the fight is super easy because it is 100% predictable, if they watch his moves, know his rotation, they know to already be moving for the next ability.
better yet, move as a team.

besides its not so hard that you cant afford any failures, if one person dies, your usually ok still for the rest of the fight, if you have more than that, theyre a bunch of scrubs anyway.

whats the point of getting your relic when you wont be able to challenge any other content anyway? other fights are much worse.

[Calvnor]

You're the reason games suck so much now. You're seriously getting mad because they made the content challenging? This is seriously the most pathetic post in the history of gaming.

[Ryuko]

I would like to point out to the OP (although it has probably been pointed out by others too) that 'selling runs' is nothing new in MMOs. Plenty of 'guilds' have been doing it since long before FFXIV existed. I don't agree with it, but I wanted you to know that it is not something unique to this game.

I will agree that this game requires a better connection than any other MMO I have ever played. I am on the East Coast, less than a daylight's drive away from the Montreal datacenter... and yet I still could not beat Titan without getting hit by plumes and landslides. I experienced the same "BUT I KNOW I WAS OUT OF THAT" frustration that many other players felt. So, I had to contact my ISP and upgrade to the next 'package'. I live in a suburban area, so this 'better connection' is available to me for a slightly higher fee... but it is not always available to others who live in a more rural area. After upgrading, I no longer get hit by anything. I dodge like a pro. But, others must suffer with the slower connection because literally nothing else is available to them.

I have played plenty of other MMOs during endgame content where you have to dodge stuff within a certain amount of time or you die. I've never felt the need to upgrade my ISP package because the 'average' connection was always enough (I use cable). The only times I had some trouble dodging was when I was sharing a SLOW network with a lot of people in college, and I was still able to do it by using the equivalent of 'dash' in this game (going cheetah form as a druid in wow, lol).

There is something VERY weird about latency in this game. Why are people feeling the need to use programs like pingzapper and wtfast to be able to clear the latest content? And I'm not even talking about being *perfect*... I'm talking about being *passable* and never getting hit by landslides. Why are there random lag spikes in instances that *EVERY PLAYER* in the instance feels? The servers themselves are very unstable, and it is extremely frustrating when trying to run the newest content that SOMEONE is always experiencing server-side connection issues. I can't tell you how many people get 90ked in Titan hard/extreme, or how many people *swear* they were out of something and they still got hit (I believe them because I play with these people all the time -- I know they are good players).

I dodge almost everything because my connection is good... but I agree with the OP. There is something wrong and I really hope they fix these latency issues... somehow. Merely updating how often the server 'checks' your position has clearly not been enough. That said... I do NOT think the content is too hard. I find it challenging, but fun. However... the difficulty doesn't matter when people are lagging. Fix the lag and we'll all be happy.

[Ri_ri]

Titan HM is still relevant in that its a step to get a +1 relic which many of the +1 relics are better then their EM counterpart until you are able to get an Allegan weapon form T5.

Relevant difficulty-wise. We have extreme modes now.

[Marael]

Dodge, all you do is dodge. This game is watered down and super easy because of bads like you.

Bye.

Just because you have no problem dodging, doesn't mean other people don't. Go to youtube and look at any one of thousands of videos that CLEARLY show that there IS a huge problem with lag on that fight. You move out of the way, you're clear by a wide margin, and it still hits you. IT HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED if you care to even bother looking for it.

Bye.

[Zaiekk]

The really sad part is, all the "challenge" in this game is completely artificial. One-Shots, tons and tons of AoE, ridiculously large healthpools, and unforgivable mechanics like Titan's landslide.

If SE wants to add real challenge to this game and make open world PvE less face roll, then they need to improve the AI. Improve the AI and you can dial back the ridiculous number of one-shots and AoE attacks. Take Guild Wars 1 for instance. Sure it had its fair share of artificial difficulty, but the AI was also more intelligent than FF14's. The enemy mobs in GW1 did not have (nearly) as predictable rotations as the AI in this game. Enemy and allied NPCs alike would generally use the correct skills for the correct situations. So the AI had its issues, like attack chains for assassin NPCs or avoiding AoE. Regardless, this, for me, created an excellent environment that was both challenging and rewarding without being downright frustrating.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy this game, or I wouldn't be here. I'm just of the opinion that better AI = better game experience.

TL;DR the first step to truly challenging content is creating more intelligent AI that thinks and acts according to the situation instead of performing the same, predictable attack pattern over, and over, and over.

[KoujiGeki]

You're the reason games suck so much now. You're seriously getting mad because they made the content challenging? This is seriously the most pathetic post in the history of gaming.

This thank you someone said it!

[Fayto]

Beat Titan HM within a day, what is your excuse? Complaining that HARD MODE is hard is very stupid.

[MurakumoMillennium]

Just because you have no problem dodging, doesn't mean other people don't. Go to youtube and look at any one of thousands of videos that CLEARLY show that there IS a huge problem with lag on that fight. You move out of the way, you're clear by a wide margin, and it still hits you. IT HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED if you care to even bother looking for it.

Bye.

Those people should be talking with their ISP about that then. It's not SE fault people use sub par internet. The game requirements do say a good internet connection is required after all. And no, "I'm far from the servers!" doesn't count considering there are people playing on the opposite side of the world from the servers who have no issues.