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...

[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.

[DoctorMog]

We are killing it right now, nearly every run is a win if you want to get some tips

Stream is in my signature

[Azurymber]

Just another example of why this game and the V2 of this game will fall flat on its face. the dev team, while ambitious, consistently releases messed up patches without ever properly testing things. the Powerleveling is still ridiculous and this is a joke. I know its easy to get around it but it shouldnt have to be. Issues like these should just not exist.

[MeowyWowie]

Part of the fight is timing your skills so you don't get animation locked. I rarely, if ever, have a problem dodging cracks when I'm not stuck in the middle of an animation.

[SilvertearRen]

Part of the fight is timing your skills so you don't get animation locked. I rarely, if ever, have a problem dodging cracks when I'm not stuck in the middle of an animation.

Somehow I get the feeling some players can't be arsed to think this much about a single boss fight, because they have OTHER things on their plate in life... :\