Need some healing tips for Titan Extreme

[Nukocafe]

So I finally got to join a titan ex practice party for the first time last night.
I've watched a video so I generally get the idea of what goes on. I had no problem dodging plumes,landslides, moved back when I got gowled, stood away from bombs. Everything was ok!


Except that I couldn't seem to heal the tanks when they got mountain bustered.

I'm a scholar and I tried eye for eye, adloqs, succors, sacred soils, lustrates. But one of the tanks would always go from 100% to 10% and I just couldn't get them back up in time.

So my question is what are some tips for this? Is it all my fault? Or is it because my white mage buddy couldn't keep him up either? I had the fairy on heel (even though normally I place her) because I was afraid that if I place her she'd get blown to weight of land. I have a sub white mage (ilvl81) and now I feel like the only way for me to clear this successfully is to go in as a white mage instead of a scholar so I can do quick burst heals. Any suggestions and tips are welcome!

[Taika]

Mountain busters shouldn't be the issue in this fight at all. In my group we don't use virus or eye or anything for them, just heal them after (or let regen do its job). How was the tank gear? Were they swapping often enough (every 2 MBs)?

[xAlice]

So my question is what are some tips for this? Is it all my fault? Or is it because my white mage buddy couldn't keep him up either? I had the fairy on heel (even though normally I place her) because I was afraid that if I place her she'd get blown to weight of land. I have a sub white mage (ilvl81) and now I feel like the only way for me to clear this successfully is to go in as a white mage instead of a scholar so I can do quick burst heals. Any suggestions and tips are welcome!

I know jack about tanking but I do think it's the tank. Their HP shouldn't just drop like that. I've met a PLD who had 3 stacks then his HP drop from ~90% to 20% by which point was too late to use DS > Cure II. I opted for benediction instead -- except I got benedicted instead (not to mention a real nice "wtf why didnt u heal??" from the other whm). I find that the MB after adds spawning tends to hit like a truck. Feel free to drop me suggestions pertaining to my choice of action, however, as I main i88 SCH. Like you OP, I also opted to use my i86 WHM instead because I'd outlive my WHM buddy as a SCH (to be fair, I pug titan ex a lot) then finding myself OOM from ressing, lustrating + succor spamming.

Edit: This post limit thing really sucks.

[Nukocafe]

Tanks looked like they were in mostly if not all Myth gear. I think they were swapping but sometimes I'd see the tank with 3 stacks and I guess that's too much?? That seemed to be the only issue. Tanks would be constantly nearly 1hit KO'ed and no regen or psysick or adloq could save them. Guess it was a tank issue??

[isomy]

Tanks should swap at 2 stacks. Could be tanks are not swapping properly or popping defensive cooldowns. If the adds are up too long preventing the tanks from swapping, then it's a dps issue. The mountain buster that Titan does when he pops his adds are followed by the adds each doing a tumult, without proper mitigation your tank will drop like a sack of potatoes.

I have seen scholars place their fairy to the side of the tank where the arena falls off and the fairy will just float there curing if that helps.

[ninesunz]

Top off before MB
Tank should be flashing and some type of def buff before MB
Cure after MB

[PArcher]

Mountain Busters really shouldn't be an issue in Titan EX at all (with the exception of the ones during the adds phase, which can catch you off guard with the need to heal both tanks and dodge bombs/LS/plumes)

As long as the tanks are geared enough (I like i77 as a min personally, more i90 on the left than the right) and are swapping in time (at 2 stacks; 3 can be too much, but it is doable) MB shouldn't be an issue. Yes, top them off beforehand and heal after, but that's the norm...

[Nukocafe]

We never even got to the little titan ads lol, this was in the first phase and we only really got as far as the first set of bombs before the tanks got table flipped to their doom.
Thanks for the tips on fairy placement. I'll try that next time although I think I'll probably go in there with my White Mage next time anyway!

[Judge_Xero]

Sounds like tanks. I usually only take around 3500 damage from a 1 stack MB. Usually I'll have SS and Aldo on at which point I take 0. So if your tanks are getting 1 shotted then they aren't swapping or using CDs.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Seconding Judge.

It sounds like one tank is trying to eat Mountain Busters at two stacks or more without using a defensive cooldown. My recommendation is to swap at two stacks when possible. Healers start to get taxed more once tanks try to hold on to Titan at 3+ stacks, even if possible, may lead to unnecessary high risk.