An open letter to the creator of the primal battles.

[Kyitrai]

No. Marauder is preferred tank due to much higher DPS, and lancers are preferred for their ability to attack outside of sear range, as well as the highest flat-out dps of all classes.

So damage aside then, what other abilities can be used to break horns?

If I had to guess, I probably have the worst latency in my shell. When our tank calls time for nail pop, it takes me up to 3 seconds AFTER I see the tank call it to actually see Ifrit spawn them. Add the amount of time it takes between them typing it and hitting enter, to when their text is actually displayed on my screen, it's about 4 seconds.

Yet, I still dodge these abilities perfectly fine 90% of the time. The ONLY times I eat them is because of animation lock. Everyone has latency issues, and the severity of them vary from player to player. But I highly doubt it's enough to make you eat these abilities one after another consistently.

That's a pretty shameful response time, on SE's part, and certainly not worth discounting, but it does sound like they have actually designed the fight around the latency issues.

If it doesn't show, I haven't actually done the Ifrit fight enough times yet to know it that well (really my LS realizes collectively we're not up to snuff yet but we go in anyways just to test the waters), but so far the responses have been enlightning.