So I have failed hard.

[Chardrizard]

Get better gear, you are not suppose to hit a God like a truck with commoner's gears.

[MeowyWowie]

Ifrit is weak vs Wind (wind blows out fire in FFXIV, silly I know).

[Vahzl]

Um doesn't wind stoke fires in every other place other than Eorzea?

Also it is most likely that you are just not tall enough to cast important spells.

[MeowyWowie]

Um doesn't wind stoke fires in every other place other than Eorzea?

Yep lol. Apparently SE wanted to make FFXIV as different as possible when compared to FFXI that they even changed the elemental wheel lol.

Anyone with half a brain could tell you that winds only spread forest fires and that water is used to put them out

Alas, the same does not hold true in Hydaelyn.

[Answa]

Wind does indeed smother fire if it is used in appropriate amounts. The one I find ridiculous is water beating earth because it... wait for it... turns it into mud.

[MeowyWowie]

Yea, water just makes earth worse. Mudslides and lahars are much more devastating than some dry dirt lol.

Edit: Well.. on second thought, earthquakes aren't exactly a picnic either. But adding water to an earthquake is usually even worse than the earthquake itself.

[Vahzl]

Wind does indeed smother fire if it is used in appropriate amounts. The one I find ridiculous is water beating earth because it... wait for it... turns it into mud.

Actually water beating earth makes sense, as water does weather and shape the earth. That one I agree with.

[Umo]

I shouldn't have to rely on Profundity to do high damage, I should be able to high damage on my own, and do higher damage with profundity when I really need to do it.

You need to do it on this encounter, don't you?
Even though ancient spells need to be tweaked, right now they are pretty decent in the case that you gear yourself accordingly and employ all your arsenal from the Armoury System. It's called "character development", you know...
There are so many variables on the table, so IMHO I guess it will be better if you explain the hole situation and not just "Hey! Ancient spells are still useless!".

[ZirgonSoul]

I shouldn't have to rely on Profundity to do high damage, I should be able to high damage on my own, and do higher damage with profundity when I really need to do it.

You're not gonna do heavy damage on Ifrit. Thats what Lancers are for.... Besides you should be conserving your mp for healing your party that is dying repeatedly

[Junpei]

Hes not healing his party because he's a bad mage that thinks role playing gives him an excuse to waste peoples time ;D