So how is EX Titan now?

[Seif]

I've kinda wanted to return to the extreme primals but I remember doing Titan Extreme for weeks in DF just dying because new players landslided right off the platform.

The fight itself is kinda... really fun though so I was wondering if the situation is any better now since:

a) on average the ilvls are higher

b) maybe, just maybe there are more experienced players now.

Is anyone doing this or is going back to original trials just for kicks a fool's errand?

[Seif]

I'm going to derail myself a bit here:

When going through the fight I couldn't help thinking "This would be SO much fun solo!"
It's never going to happen but think about going into this with your chocobo. Awesomeness. (If the bird didn't fly off in first 3 seconds!)

[Kiara1]

I have beaten it once in DF, in probably 100 tries
so I would saaay that there's a 1% chance you will beat it with dutyfinder
Kill groups will take you til adds and then the leader will say "wow this group is great" but you never really get further

Farmgroups for titan ex are the most reliable ones! But in every farm group I join I always see the same people

Soo my conclusion is that, There are 8 players on my server who have beaten titan ex!


And to be serious, no the fight is still hard for a lot of people, due to slow reactions or lag

[Seif]

I have beaten it once in DF, in probably 100 tries
so I would saaay that there's a 1% chance you will beat it with dutyfinder
Kill groups will take you til adds and then the leader will say "wow this group is great" but you never really get further

Farmgroups for titan ex are the most reliable ones! But in every farm group I join I always see the same people

Soo my conclusion is that, There are 8 players on my server who have beaten titan ex!


And to be serious, no the fight is still hard for a lot of people, due to slow reactions or lag

What a bummer. I was kinda hoping to get back to it.
Btw I only cleared this once through PF after dozens of DF wipes.
I wish there was an achievement for "Dodge 100 land slides" so I could set that as a requirement of entry in the PF.

[CUTS3R]

What a bummer. I was kinda hoping to get back to it.
Btw I only cleared this once through PF after dozens of DF wipes.
I wish there was an achievement for "Dodge 100 land slides" so I could set that as a requirement of entry in the PF.

That wouldn't work :P
Why ?

1. Dodges 1st landslide
2. Dies because hes bad
3. Repeat100times
4. Achievement obtained
5. Joins Titan EX on PF with the achievement set as requirement.
6. "Yes im exp i got THAT achievement".

And we know how it ends.

[CGMidlander]

It's still not super great on DF, but if you queue as DPS and are good enough, you can help the team skip or clear certain moves, making the raid more likely to survive.

Bombs can be skipped over during heart phase quite easily, gaolers can die super fast with even just one good DPS nowadays...etc.

[Juneri]

Bombs can be eaten, gaols and gaolers die fast, people get landslided and stomped off the place all the time. Titan EX still sucks.

[Garlyle]

The reality is that the most deadly parts of the fight are still really, really deadly. While I'm now at the point where, as a Warrior when off-tanking, I can eat every single plume stack through raw HP... that's me with a tank's HP. That's not a realistic option. For players who can't handle plumes, you're still doing to die. If tanks can't successfully manage the chaos around when Gaolers appear, people are going to die. If people are mispositioning during Upheavel, people are still going to die. If too many people die, you'll lose.

The good news is that keeping up with the healing and tank survival checks is now really easy (to the point where I've seen several solo tank groups), and all this extra iLvl/echo means that DPS checks shouldn't be a problem. In fact, good DPS should see the fight speeding along and lots of dangerous attacks being skipped - I've been with a group that cleared the final phase before even reaching Superbombs now. But the fight still relies on a number of people being able to actually do the fight and survive, and that's always been the kicker of Titan EX.

[Werhusky]

Took me 5 weeks pf puggin back in march 2014 (as a friends had the garuda curse - get 7 ppl with each 100+ kills and still cant do it as STUFF happens >.>)
And for my first kills u sticked with same people like 3 hours and even now.... if i join kill group (I wouldnt join farm) to help someone out/am bored I calculate it takes the full time as Titan ex is a laggy b*tch and you fast die to "WTH happened?"
And DF... oh well there are DF kills but as far as I heard like we meet 5 capable ppl and kick the 2 others n hope for better... as long as theres no option in votekick "is horribly bad" cannot support this tho

[Gardes]

The fight can be solo tanked now...provided your party have enough dps to only go through one cycle of the last phase (which I doubt can be easily achieved even with max echo in df). Otherwise you just take too many stacks from mountain buster.