(01-30-2014, 05:54 PM)synaesthetic Wrote: In Phase 5 especially, stack for Weight of the Land. If your group stacks for weight, it becomes impossible to accidentally kill your party members by spawning weight underneath them. When running out of the stack of weight, cast an instant-cast spell to force the server to update your position (throwing Scathe on Titan is a good way to do this). This makes even more sense when you realize that during Phase 5, Titan will always stomp before casting weight, so moving to the center to get Medica spam is something you'll be doing anyway. Stack tightly and your WHM can even use Cure III effectively.
I disagree with this. Â The reason is that if anyone - anyone at all - is slow at getting out of that stack pile, they're dead. Â There's no way around it - they're just dead.
Whereas if someone takes 1-2 Weights, they can survive it (assuming they're geared for the encounter and the healers aren't slacking and not topping people off).
I've done...more Titan HM runs than I can count at this point, but the scatter method just seems to end up with more people alive. Â I've tried stacking, and we always lose at least one person who didn't move fast enough for whatever reason (even trying to force the server to update their position).
Everything else is spot-on, although as a healer I don't think I would ever be okay with someone encouraging to use Manawall as an excuse not to move. I'd rather you use it as insurance, and move anyway. There's always going to be that one time when you took a tick of damage just before the landslide, and boom, you go over the side.