My first Japanese party

First of all, I have to say this: Agerknux you're bad ass D:

No really, not only he helped me cleared Titan HM on healer, dodged all the avoidable move, under 260ms ping(and helped me solved ping issue for Titan HM), he also afked 1 min mid-run during phrase 2 to answer door, and somehow survived when he was back. I don't even know how can a healer afk in Titan HM mid-run for such a long time and stayed alive D:

I've been trying to gear myself for Titan HM, aiming for lv 70 weapon, full DL, appropriate SJ, but I got extremely bored+ burned out spamming primal+ Prae speedruns(I have 1000000 rant about XIV endgame design, I think it's beyond terrible - -). So I decided to screw fucking SJ and just go without B4B.

Then I decided to just buy a melded Sargna +1 and get the weapon done with so I can save some primal farm time. By selling left over stuff from 1.0 I managed to make enough gil to afford it, thank god I beat it before weapon bound hotfix so I can probably resell the weapon :D

I managed to hit 3.7k HP with 3/5 DL, so screw 2 more DL, Afania leech/gimp mode on :D :D :D

One of the major issue I have to face, is lag. I usually play on 4G since my wired connection often d/c at night. my ping is about 280ms to NA server, over 200ms to JP.

Basically, if you have over 200ms in Titan HM, you'd have to memorize every TP move and move before you see the red circle. Dodge by reflex is no longer possible.

After I switched to wired connection I got around 70ms on JP server, which makes it possible to dodge move by reflex, but still over 270ms to NA server.

That means, I'm pretty much stuck on JP server, because I don't want to deal with 200+ms ping in a game rely on dodging red circle for "difficulty" lol.

I tried a bit of Titan DF, and most of the time, I'd see 1 person undergeared, in that case I just leave right away.

And pretty much every DF pt can't beat heart due to lack of dmg. DF setup is always 2 tank 4 DPS, but for inexperienced, item lv 70(sometimes ppl go with lv 60 weapons even) DPS x4 is not very easy to win unless 1 person has relic. If 1 DPS die before heart phrase it's pretty much over.

Ideally, unless there's well geared friend/fc member come and help, it's much easier to do it 1 tank 5 DPS 2 healer or 6 DPS+ 1 healer setup.

That means it's /shout only D:

On JP server, making English /shout is nearly impossible because English community is just that small. Maybe it's possible on Masamune, that's where Oceania players are, but every other JP server is 95% JP population AFAIK.

So, time to make my own /shout in JP because I don't want to join other ppl's /shout pt with 3/5 DL and got /blisted D: D: D:

I have to agree, I was very nervous to speak JP, and often worry about making grammar mistake, because I'm just not good at it. I join JP /shout when I see them because fuck DF pt they always suck. All I ever say in /p chat was something simple like "hello" "sorry"(every JP said sorry when they die, so I figure I'll say sorry when I die in a run too)"Goodbye".

But then again, 4 years ago when I started FFXI it was pretty much the same, I had to speak English to communicate, so I forced myself to speak English, and eventually my English got better.

I started to pay attention to how JPs speak JP in /shout or /p chat when I got a chance, which is mostly different from text book Japanese. I have to make SS for every /shout and /p to learn what they say during X situation, or Y situation. Now I kinda regret not taking JP lesson last time when I had a chance D:

But eventually, one night when I don't suffer from d/c with wired connection, I felt like I'm ready for Titan HM(more like I can't sleep well if I don't beat it), dragged Ager, spent some time figuring out how to spell kanji, and made my first JP /shout in my MMO life :D

Annnnnd won :D

For some reason, the accomplishment felt more like "something" because it's 1 step toward speaking a new language, less about beating a difficult boss(it's really not all that difficult with /shout pt, but 100x harder with DF pt) I feel like I can make JP /shout for everything I want to do in the future.

And maybe one day, one day I can communicate in Japanese fluently, make a couple of friends like how I make friends with NA/EU players.

Maybe.