Absolutley terrible input response in Ifrit battle

[Jutien]

I really hope they address the server lag issues soon as its a serious frustration....and while their at it hopefully they address this "player most stop/stand still during attack/spell animation" its also a serious frustration when trying to dodge incoming attacks...specially when you don't have any real indication on when an attack is going to happen...its more of a guessing game than strategy..

[Jinko]

You absolutely have to /sit in order to regenerate MP during the battle. If the other mages can handle keeping the tank and DPS healed run to a point VERY far from Ifrit and /sit so that you don't get caught by a surprise Eruption or other AoE effect. I learned this from experience (fought Ifrit 6 times in one night). MP regenerates pretty quickly when you /sit so hopefully this will allow any mages that need a quick /sit MP Break to be able to get back to the fight very quickly. Be sure to /sit in a safe place preferably as far as necessary to be out of range of any of Ifrit's AoE attacks because if you are sitting you will not be able to stand fast enough to get out of the AoE of whatever AoE Ifrit is using.

Yea a couple of us were taking turns doing this for very short periods the other night, except in one case when he did his charge and I was sat directly facing him, that sucked.

Of course this isn't a substitute for fixing the regen so we don't need to sit during a fight like this.

[MugenMugetsu]

You're right Jinko we shouldn't HAVE to /sit to regen MP. We need to be able to move as quickly as possible to get out of the way of the AoE effects and position ourselves advantageously so we can keep the tank and DDs healed and buffed and, if we're lucky, cast some DoTs and nukes on Ifrit if we can afford the MP to do so. I certainly hope the issue is addressed in 1.19a.

[Zdenka]

Phase 1 there is no frontal AE, you can have LNC's use Collusion -> Doomspike to dump threat on MT.

But pro-tip, MRD is better tank for this fight. Similar damage taken, and absolutely no threat problems because they do ~60-70% of the damage of a DPS even while tanking (spam Storms Path)

To get shield skills to work remotely good you have to stack Ambidexterity now :/

[Frein]

I did ifrit fight 8 or so times last night not once did i notice freezing of character animations etc...... maybe a poor PC performance problem????

Animation lock as in you can't move while an attack animation is playing, which makes it impossible to dodge attacks that happen when you're using an ability.