The Ifrit Fight is Dangerous to the Community.

[Blarp]

Content is hard. Please nerf.

[CircusMidget]

Game too hard! Me want Ifrit weapon now!

I didn't read all the posts.... but did anyone tell the OP to play WoW?

[Alerith]

When something cannot be handled even by a group of semi-hardcore players, it's bad design.

But it CAN.

Just because you're having bad luck doesn't mean you represent the entire midcore playerbase.

[Frein]

When something cannot be handled even by a group of semi-hardcore players, it's bad design.

It can if you keep practicing. I don't have a static group to do Ifrit with, so I haven't won yet either but you don't see me crying here. Very rarely do I get hit by Eruption and the few times I've attempted it with a pick-up group we've got him to as low as ~45%. When everyone can reliably avoid first Eruption, then Radiant Plume, the fight is in the bag.

I didn't read all the posts.... but did anyone tell the OP to play WoW?

I haven't played WoW in years but it used to have tons of content harder than Ifrit.

[SirOleas]

Less QQ more PewPew.

Seriously, that's what it takes to beat Ifrit.

[DoctorMog]

One fight is too hard for general populous and all of a sudden SE is catering Hard Core Elitists.

Jesus, really?

[SilvertearRen]

It can if you keep practicing. I don't have a static group to do Ifrit with, so I haven't won yet either but you don't see me crying here. Very rarely do I get hit by Eruption and the few times I've attempted it with a pick-up group we've got him to as low as ~45%. When everyone can reliably avoid first Eruption, then Radiant Plume, the fight is in the bag.


I haven't played WoW in years but it used to have tons of content harder than Ifrit.

I tried World of Warcraft for two weeks and it was boring; I uninstalled it after that. Reason? Too much rinse & repeat, and more of the same old I've done for the last 5 years. I wanted something fresh at the time.

Frankly, here's how I see it: I have a mindset like the game developers over at Valve Software. They playtest their stuff extensively. They then tweak their content based on the feedback.

Example:

If a boss fight or a puzzle proved to be too complex or unintuitive for extended periods of time for the player, they tend to scrap it and/or revise/start over on the design of that particular component.

There is no indication that Square-Enix has done testing of that sort with the Ifrit fight. Which further supports my personal assertion to my friends that Square needs to implement a public test server.

[CircusMidget]

I haven't played WoW in years but it used to have tons of content harder than Ifrit.

Never played WoW... but you get the point. Crying about a fight that was finished in a couple days is just sad... They already made it so you could level up any class to 50 in a day...

Then we hear people whining that it's too hard. Maybe they'll quit when we start paying.

[Alerith]

There is no indication that Square-Enix has done testing of that sort with the Ifrit fight. Which further supports my personal assertion to my friends that Square needs to implement a public test server.

Why? Because the content is too hard for you?

It's beatable, and doesn't require all that much. That says it was tested fairly well and that the server issues, if anything, are the deciding factor in whether a group succeeds or not.

[DoctorMog]

This whole thread is:

"I DONT WANNA LEVEL LANCER AND NOBODY WILL TAKE ME OTHERWISE WAHHH"

Admit it.