I'm done with Titan.

[Austin]

The question is... Why are you still using DF? By this point you're trying to get the best weapon in the game and don't have a group of people you group up with to do stuff on the same server? Tsk tsk

[Animation]

The question is... Why are you still using DF? By this point you're trying to get the best weapon in the game and don't have a group of people you group up with to do stuff on the same server? Tsk tsk

I've never really been one to join clans or whatever, I've always been a solo player. I don't like to harass people by shouting..

[AjoraOak]

Well, if you're still on trial don't pay when it asks and wait for a fix, that is... if they do ever fix the server side issues? Only thing after titan is farming, more titan and farming, or coil zzz first few turns so don't push your patience.

[ish007xx]

Lol u aint the only 1, i myself have tried pugs and premades and neither seems to work i just gave up at this point.Its not that im not good, i know everything about the fight and what to do, is to find other players geared properly and know what to do as well. As for now i'll just use my myth tomes to buy myth gear no sense in keeping these tomes lol cause i cant seem to find the right team to run with to get past him.

[OrionInerghem]

I hope they make this a mandatory i70 fight when they add that :/

[HumsterMKX]

All these Titan rage threads.. I guess I should count myself lucky. I am still gathering tombstones from AK and CM, and re training myself in DD and healing with DD. Tanking is next on the to do list.. and gathering.. and crafting... and stocking up on Lalafail souls, Cat pelts, Elezen organs...

Damnit need more time (>_<

[Jynxii]

I'm sure you already know this, but the plumes stack because people are stacking, that is the reason why. As you pointed out, one alone will not kill you; when people stack. The fight is (after the gear check) about positioning and a bit of coordination, as well as being on your game and understanding your class. You're right that FATE zerging does not teach you any of these things, but as mentioned, players should take it upon themselves to figure things out if they haven't already before even looking at doing Titan, much less the other primals.

I wish people would stop calling foul on the fight because they can't do it, or the group they're with can't do it. There are no promises that even a premade group will do Titan flawlessly, but it does give you a static group to work with IF everyone in the group doesn't give up after 3 attempts. The fight is fine; individuals may mess up (getting knocked off), but it is generally the larger portion of the group that does (stacking pools and trapping people), making it far harder.

I'm aware latency and the animation/casting bar bug/check-in system isn't great and makes Titan far worse, however in isolation the fight is fine, maybe a little hard and intense, but otherwise doable. The problem is either the infrastructure, which I think a lot of people agree on, or the player problem, where some people just aren't ready for the encounter (for whatever reason).

[Nihility]

titan himself isn't really the problem at all.
it's the induced 300ms server lag making it artificially more difficult than it really is

I can't count the number of people that have left groups thinking they are lagging out when that's just how it is

and really, asking people to learn to just deal with everything being 1/3 second out of sync with what your visually seeing is not something that most can cope with

[Shiyo]

Stuff

Why do you rely on the duty finder to kill a boss that's challenging? Are you incapable of making friends, finding a LS, finding a FC, or forming some type of static/community on your server?

Make a group, join a group, kick anyone in bad gear, kick anyone constantly being hit, and keep doing it until you get 7 other competent players. Also, you reduce your chances of killing titan by 60% or more by doing it in DF with 2 tanks(completely useless) and without 3 healers(makes the fight MUCH easier).

Why do threads like this exist? "I QUEUE UP AND GET BADS AND THE GAME SUCKS CAUSE EVERYONE IS BAD". Why can't you make friends? If you could kill one of the most difficult bosses in the game, and get a relic using anonymous match making via duty finder, this would not be a game worth playing.

[Fadigre]

As I have said in others posts and threads, the boss isn't the main issue it's the community. Well this boss is anti-fun and it has so many bullcrap abilities that just make me furious, why the hell do his plumes stack? - That in itself is the main thing that I hate about this boss, the plumes are actually large in size and then they stack? I can handle one, but when you get hit by 3? wtf, the thing that makes this boss even worse is getting hit by server side lag, even to others I have been out of the plume and I've started casting my next spell then I'll just randomly get killed. I've seen people drag dead on the floor for the server to catch up where they were client side, how is that even fair. Instant kill mechanics are not fun, nor are they fair if you're not lucky enough to live in a area with amazing internet.

Plumes will one-shot you in the final phase anyway.
You're going to need to learn to avoid them! Everybody has at least a 0.3 second of latency. Lag is not an excuse, the fights have been designed with this in mind just like 1.0 fights were.

Each time Titan jumps the arena gets smaller and it is simply not viable run around like a lunatic in the end as the entire platform will be saturated in plumes!

In the final phase, stack on top of each other straight away in the middle to survive Titan's 6 Tumults. Plumes pop straight after, as they all spawn in the middle yu can avoid them easily!

Learn when plumes pop:

Before Jump #1: No plumes
Before Jump #2: After each Tumult
BeforeBefore Jump #3: After each Landslide
Before Jump #4 (Heart): After each Landslide
Final: After 1st of the two Tumults and after the second Mountain buster (Image calls it Tableflip).

Here's a handy-dandy image!




If you're with a group of scrubs who don't know when the plumes are coming, make a macro to let them know!

/p Plumes incoming! [Let's move!] <se.8>


Fact hour bonus!
Plumes are actually from an ability called "Weight of the land" and aren't plumes at all.

It's not impossible.
Strap on a pair.