[NA] Ifrit Bleeds, We Can Kill It (Hyper): COMPLETE

[TheFatHousecat]

Is sentinel I* really "REQUIRE" to survive hellfire?

No, you can stop Hellfire from going off by sticking Pacification on Ifrit, or you can kill more than one of the nails in Phase 4 to lower the damage, etc. It's not REQUIRED, but it's probably the easiest and most mana/time/Ifrit DPS-efficient way.

Also, will fire veil iv materia help with the fight?

Fire Veil really doesn't do a whole lot, but every little bit helps I suppose. I believe the damage cut is 1:1, so if you've got a ridiculously high Fire Veil it would be nice. But really you're better off getting your party to the point where they just don't get hit by sear all the time, and are able to dodge the abilities.

[Zdenka]

Welp beat it 1st attempt today, PUG weapon tosomeone w/o PUG hurray!

[Chain]

Congrats on overcoming multiple clunky game bugs/mechanics to kill a fairly straightforward boss.

It's just a shame that this fight is more about figuring out how to make the awful game not cock block you from actually fighting the boss and enjoying the mechanics of the fight.

[Treach]

Killed ifrit, all he did was use earthquake move on mages every time he could -_-

[BeePee]

Any updates? Would love to hear your tips and tricks.

[Richard_BG]

Any updates? Would love to hear your tips and tricks.

placeholder strats for the time being. we'll have a pretty large surprise/update in store for the end of November so look forward to seeing some cool stuff then ^^

http://bluegarter.guildwork.com/p/strats

[Rentahamster]

Any updates? Would love to hear your tips and tricks.

Well, once you're got the basic battle down, you can do more advanced stuff like punishing barbs when he does hellfire in order to get that extra bit of damage.

That's kind of hard for some people to do, however, so this might be a better solution:

When Ifrit is down to his last 5% or so, all the DDs might as well just stand where the tank is and pop punishing barbs since the Ifrit's AOE cleave will hit all of you, as well as the AOE sear, and Incinerate, etc.

[TheFatHousecat]

Well, once you're got the basic battle down, you can do more advanced stuff like punishing barbs when he does hellfire in order to get that extra bit of damage.

That's kind of hard for some people to do, however, so this might be a better solution:

When Ifrit is down to his last 5% or so, all the DDs might as well just stand where the tank is and pop punishing barbs since the Ifrit's AOE cleave will hit all of you, as well as the AOE sear, and Incinerate, etc.

That sounds much more dangerous and unnecessary than just having two LNCs pop Chaos Thrust. Anyways, shouldn't be incredibly difficult to make a Sentinel/Punishing Barbs/Quickstride macro and hit it at the right time.

[carraway]

Little things that make the fight go faster or smoother:

- Sentinel any time before nails pop for more DPS uptime
- Tank or lowest-DPS melee performing Comrade in Arms II to increase everyone's DPS
- Slow rotation on Ifrit if you have 3 or more mages
- Pre-buffing WSs during Crimson Cyclone
- Buffing everyone, eating food, etc., before entering the Bowl and engaging immediately upon loading in

[Raikki]

- Tank or lowest-DPS melee performing Comrade in Arms II to increase everyone's DPS

I have no idea why I didn't think of this ability before when I was searching to fill my last tank action slot. Thanks.