Quote Originally Posted by Viridiana View Post
Of course, that's not even getting into the animation lock discussion. It's well known that LNC is basically the favored class for Ifrit, but your vaunted Light Shot is why ARC is the bottom of the barrel. At least the other classes can continue their auto attacks in the seconds leading up to Ifrit's attacks, whereas ARC has to be careful on its Light Shots. Note that, in this case, "be careful" actually means "stop attacking."
To expand upon this, we don't have an answer on whether or not your character will automatically stand in place when firing. Chances are it won't, since none of the auto-attacks from any other class force this. This will increase your survivability and might even make you MORE desirable for the Ifrit fight since you can move at a greater distance and still attack while any other job will end up missing out on a few hits because they have to run out of their AA range.

There. A tactic for Ifrit. Even though you have said the tactics for ARC would go out the window, I have presented one to you. Why invite 5 LNC who have to miss several seconds of attacking when you can invite 5 ARCs who never have to stop attacking and can still move?