The Ifrit Fight is Dangerous to the Community.

[SilvertearRen]

This content is called hard because it's hard. You need this kind of content to keep that kind of player going. This is why they made the loot random and requires you to beat it over 80-100 times if you wanted to get every weapon ON TOP of making it challenging.

Server response and animation lock have something to do with making this a bit more challenging, but there are really good ways at besting this. Try, try again and look at ifrit's stances which are specific to each WS and learn them to know when to run away or embrace a plume. Even if you got a 1 second head start learning these stances you can mostly best the environment.

As far as needing several classes ranked in order to do the fight, you don't need to do this, but it does help you and make things easier. They know that hardcore players, like myself, have every battlecraft or almost every battlecraft ranked max. These battles are for players like me because hard core players make time to accomplish whatever difficult content is thrown at them. While players without the resources make little time, fail, then think there is something wrong with the development of this content when it's just simply not designed for you in mind. The development team creates content for all kinds of players. If it so happens that you need all the hoop jumping for a fight, and the requirements seem to overwhelm you, it's safe to say it wasn't designed for casuals.

Do not take this in the way I know you're going to take this. I am just being blunt. I don't see this content as superior to other content or that this player type is superior to yours. Just calling it as I see it.

I understand the idea of having content specifically for hardcore and casual players, but that would essentially divide the community. Not exactly something I want to see happening to FFXIV. :\

I know Ifrit has certain stances to each weaponskill. The problem is being able to memorize them properly. I really do not have the mental clarity to accomplish memorization of the finer nuances of the Ifrit fight, and yet I would like to at least be able to beat him.

I used to be a hardcore player in other MMO's when I was younger and sharper. Those days are definitely behind me, and I have no desire to really revisit those habits.