TIL Ifrit's Infernal Howl is Line of Sight

[Noahlimits]

Someone on Reddit posted this information, so I thought it'd be useful to everyone doing Ifrit EX. It can easily be solo healed now (or still two healers, just having them aware), with either healer running through Ifrit when he's casting the infernal howl. If you run though him, it'll interrupt his cast and you won't have to deal with that mechanic (since you can interrupt it every time he casts it by running through him). It allows one (or both) healers to stay in the center with the party the whole time.

As others in the thread stated, this will likely be the way it's healed in the future as there are no negatives (except that healers will need to dodge eruptions with everyone).

I'll gladly post the thread, but unsure if I'm able to link to the unofficial reddit on here.

Hope this helps everyone.

[FreakinZMartin]

Never been able to do Ifrit extreme yet since I haven't bothered doing titan extreme but that sounds like an exploit and will most likely be fixed.

[PArcher]

I'm guessing they'll fix this; they changed several mechanics so that you can't run through bosses to interrupt a cast. I bet they didn't expect this to happen.

[Noahlimits]

Never been able to do Ifrit extreme yet since I haven't bothered doing titan extreme but that sounds like an exploit and will most likely be fixed.

That's like saying it's an exploit for tanks to run through slip stream on Garuda to avoid it. It's doing the exact same thing to avoid the infernal howl.

But who knows, they might ninja patch it. In the meantime, it's a legit way to beat it imho.

[Ehayte]

I think SE might agree that it is an exploit, but the funny thing is that this "exploit" has been removed from other dungeons. Haukke NM comes to mind, you used to be able to run through almost all the damage from the main boss as a tank, and they changed it so that LoS wasn't affecting mob spell success.

They left it in-tact in WP though, you can run through the fire spells of the 2nd boss.

Now that I'm talking through it I feel like it may have been intentional, as it would have to have been an oversight if it wasn't.

That's like saying it's an exploit for tanks to run through slip stream on Garuda to avoid it. . .

Another great example of the somewhat inconsistent stance on this.

But who knows, they might ninja patch it. . .

I think that's unfair - Yoshi posted a week ago or so that the only time they do not let the player-base know what's going to happen ahead of time is when the changes might affect current play with lasting consequences (i.e. changing the buy-back price on vendors). I don't mean to White Knight but you gotta give credit to the dev/PR team where credit is due.

[Noahlimits]

I think that's unfair - Yoshi posted a week ago or so that the only time they do not let the player-base know what's going to happen ahead of time is when the changes might affect current play with lasting consequences (i.e. changing the buy-back price on vendors). I don't mean to White Knight but you gotta give credit to the dev/PR team where credit is due.

Care to explain them ninja nerfing Dark Devices fate (after they said killing the infinite spawning cultists wasn't an exploit and wouldn't be changed) and never announcing anything or reverting it back?

[BunnyChain]

Searing Wind is the only thing that makes Ifrit Ex somewhat fun...

[PArcher]

That's like saying it's an exploit for tanks to run through slip stream on Garuda to avoid it.

Except Slipstream is an AoE, Searing Wind is a targeted spell...

[LygerZero]

Except Slipstream is an AoE, Searing Wind is a targeted spell...

Wicked Wheel is the AoE, not Slipstream. Slipstream is a Cone attack.

[Musashidon]

Wicked Wheel is the AoE, not Slipstream. Slipstream is a Cone attack.

it's a cone attack meaning aoe. it hits in a certain area,