Quote Originally Posted by Jinko View Post
Go play any other MMO, WoW has much harder fights but its not f***ed up with crappy animation locks, yes its probably partly players fault for not timing their attacks, but should we really have to time attacks like this to compensate for a shit server and animation locks...

Personally I think not.

There is no excuse for SE not to remove animation locks either, they removed them when taking out weapon whilst running its no different, of course it probably comes down to not having time.

If you are going to make a boss fight with time sensitive attacks then you have to give players the ability to dodge them at a moments notice.
I agree, other games do not have animation locks or whatever, but animation lock is the ONLY challenge during the Ifrit fight.

You can avoid plumes by standing on safe spots. If you have no animation lock it is very easy to run away from eruptions. That leaves pressing Sentinel when he does Hellfire and thats about it.

Ifrit without animation lock would be a joke. Not sure if it was meant to be this way, but again Ifrit without animation lock would be like killing Leaping Lizzy with a lv99 BLM.