Have you beaten Ifrit with nobody having sentinel in your party?

[Technolust]

thats only if things go as planned... eruption, vulcan, and incinerate really fcks things up if u wanna be pristine and ready for hellfire with everyone NOT having sentinel. Especially since ifrit isnt an instance where u can assign mages spells at a specific given time. Skill locks on rampart/defender kinda take your time away to move to mages.

Id slap the melee if they were anywhere close to me before hellfire. Last thing i want is a eruption near me while im doin last minute stuff.

Anyone worth there salt, will know how to dodge Eruptions. The DPS stacking on top of one of the mages to survive hellfire sure beats the hell out of having half your party wipe because one person is scared of dying to an eruption.

Things never go as planned, it's called adapting. Some can do it, others will fail at it. The big thing is being open to trying different things, rather then going with a setup that others have done but might not be ideal for your setup.

The only excuse for getting hit by eruption is because you are new to the fight. Period.

[Xaimera]

I dont use sentinel and i do just fine ^^ and on mage i only have 2.7k hp. there are other ways of not dieing to it.
if u have barely enough hp to survive use some tank food or something for more hp lol there are ways around these things ^^.
also ive never noticed the dmg reduction after 2 nails dropping so i dunno what the dmg reduction is or the percentage.

[Haru]

Killing all 4 nails prevents hellfire alltogether! You have 60 seconds which should be enough
3healer+tank leaves 4x DD just when you see his HP bar closer to 20% save up all your TP and wait for timers..
Lancer can output 2000+ DMG in 15 seconds using abilities like focus for TP regen and Heavy stab to gain 1000+ TP