A solution to the "Who quits first?" in HM Primals.

So, I just got out of Ifrit hard mode. We were with Two Paladins, 2 White Mages, and 4 Bards. There was absolutely no way we'd win that fight. So, when we decided that someone had to quit out but no one wanted to I came up with a game that was 100% fair and anyone was subject to elimination.

I moved my character forward after typing this:

"The first one to die quits! :D"

I pulled with Provoke, and ran like crazy. The "O_O"'s popped up in the text chat as Ifrit got his first victim, a Bard. Surprisingly enough, that Bard left. Ladies and gentlemen, your solution to the stalemate! Strange, but oddly enough more fun than it sounds, running like ants away from the giant boot that is Ifrit and seeing who gets stomped on first.

I think I may have come up with a mini-game. >_>

I'm probably wrong but I think you can survive not killing the nails with tank LB3

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Originally Posted by Ramzal

There was absolutely no way we'd win that fight.

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So glad I never DF.

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Originally Posted by Thyrllan

I'm probably wrong but I think you can survive not killing the nails with tank LB3

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This seriously, get everyone to group up on the tank and get the guard LB. It's the only way for the party to survive the Hellfire damage.

Yep.. better wait until someone leaves instead of trying to do the encounter, and maybe improve your skills by that way. DF gets better and better..

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Originally Posted by NathCim

Yep.. better wait until someone leaves instead of trying to do the encounter, and maybe improve your skills by that way. DF gets better and better..

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Hey, I'd love the challenge to do it with 4 bards. Problem being, not everyone else is and is convinced that it's impossible/not going to try. At that point, I may as well have fun with it as trying to convince random internet people to do something is like trying to break down a brick wall with your face. May as well get naysayers killed in giggles than to sit there arguing with a bunch of people I will never see again.

I know this isn't supposed to be satire, but this is what people do anyway. They don't want to get the quit penalty but they want to leave, so they agro the boss, pull it to the group, and intentionally try to wipe everyone. The only difference here is you've made a "game" out of it, but the same thing being done by jerks leads to the same outcome: one of the first, if not the first, to die to that crap leaves while the offender gets to leave without a penalty.

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Originally Posted by Ramzal

So, I just got out of Ifrit hard mode. We were with Two Paladins, 2 White Mages, and 4 Bards. There was absolutely no way we'd win that fight.

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Why was there no way you would win. I have done that fight numerous times without an LB. People need to stop giving up so easy.

I've done that fight with 2 PLDs, 2 WHMs, and 4 DRGs. Easily beaten w/o a single death because teamwork.

Tbf, sometimes DF groups struggle to beat him with an 'optimal' set up :)

I have had good duty finder groups too so I'm not really knocking it, but you can see why anything that's even slightly 'outside the box' as being a struggle. My biggest gripe with Ifrit is people running into Crimson cyclone. You're allowed to get hit by it once. More than once and you suck! :D