Ifrit Fight: Lag Issues Preventing The Average Player From Completing It.

[SilvertearRen]

Whoever thought it was a cool idea to make the ground explode three seconds after they appear is a bloody git that deserves to be thrown out of the dev team.

They failed to account for lag issues - both human and technical. A lot of my teammates said they were outside of the AOE zones for the ground explosions/bursts, and they STILL got hit or incapacitated. The worst part is that the bursts get us while we're LOCKED IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ANIMATION. Thus, preventing us from evading for at least two seconds. Which is too long compared to the amount of time you're given to evade the burst.

Right as I fire off Doomspike 2, the groundburst of doom appears, and I'm unable to evade because of the animation lock. This. Is. Infuriating. Even Diversion is useless against this.

I'm not going to bother trying to beat Ifrit (Hard Mode) until these issues are resolved.

Yoshi-P, please implement a TEST SERVER so that us Westerners can properly test your client and instances for you, so we don't have to put up with this horsecrap in live.

[DoctorMog]

Yep its pretty terrible.

Not the mechanic, but that the sever registers you at a different location than your screen does.

[Lavani]

The timer on the explosions would be no problem if the combat wasn't so slow. With all of the spell animations you basically have to hope you don't get caught mid animation when he casts that spell.

[Zenge]

Yeah it's all about luck pretty much...

[Zdenka]

Yeah it's all about luck pretty much...

Worst statement about this fight you can make.

Beating Ifrit is all about doing nothing. Yes thats right.

When he is about to use a weaponskill, everyone besides the tank, must sit there and do nothing. This allows you enough time to react to anything he does and avoid it. Then you can use a WS/Buffs/Other stuff until Ifrit has his timer up to use a WS again.

Phase 2: Timer is 15s
Phase 3: Timer is 10s
Phase 4: Timer is 15s
Phase 5: Timer is 5s

(well I might be off but Phase 5 you don't even have enough time to buff + WS before you must wait... 3 buffs is all I'd attempt to lock myself before watching for Ifrit or 1 WS no buffs)

Also to note, breath and explosion can be used immediately after Voids / Plume but the next WS after them will follow this pattern.


Ifrit fight, again, is not luck. Its about doing nothing.

[Treach]

Worst statement about this fight you can make.

Beating Ifrit is all about doing nothing. Yes thats right.

When he is about to use a weaponskill, everyone besides the tank, must sit there and do nothing. This allows you enough time to react to anything he does and avoid it. Then you can use a WS/Buffs/Other stuff until Ifrit has his timer up to use a WS again.

Phase 2: Timer is 15s
Phase 3: Timer is 10s
Phase 4: Timer is 15s
Phase 5: Timer is 5s

(well I might be off but Phase 5 you don't even have enough time to buff + WS before you must wait... 3 buffs is all I'd attempt to lock myself before watching for Ifrit or 1 WS no buffs)

Also to note, breath and explosion can be used immediately after Voids / Plume but the next WS after them will follow this pattern.


Ifrit fight, again, is not luck. Its about doing nothing.

Standing on rocks doing nothing and waiting, all it is. Oh, and standing outside of sear range with mrd or lnc, but not for pug lol.

[Zdenka]

Standing on rocks doing nothing and waiting, all it is. Oh, and standing outside of sear range with mrd or lnc, but not for pug lol.

Yeah, it's just doing something different than the normal FFXIV up to now. I think people having trouble with the fight are merely having trouble adjusting to doing something different than "MAX DPS ALL THE TIME".

@Blair: Doesn't seem to do anything. We average 1 weapon per 8 people it seems. We've had 3 times with 0 drops, 1 time with 3, 2-3 times with 2, and most with 1.

[Lavani]

Worst statement about this fight you can make.

Beating Ifrit is all about doing nothing. Yes thats right.

if that's not fun idk what is.

[Treach]

Wait for explosions to happen, move out and then ws/tp, he can't use it back to back. Have your eyes on the chat log and wait for ifrit readies eruption and run like hell.

[SilvertearRen]

Wait for explosions to happen, move out and then ws/tp, he can't use it back to back. Have your eyes on the chat log and wait for ifrit readies eruption and run like hell.

Just forwarded that tip to my party - yes, the linkshell is trying to beat Ifrit. We're gonna see if your tip works out. If it does, great. If not, well - someone's gonna get sodomized by Satan in the Seventh Circle of Hell.