Bleeding Ifrit again...

[Raldo]

If you're trying to join a pick-up group, expect some job/class/ability limitations. Random pick-ups rarely manage to attract the cream-of-the-crop players, so in order to counteract that, they lay some restrictions to make the fight as smooth as possible. After all, why would they allow a sub-par class in when they could probably get the class they want in maybe 5~10 more minutes of shouting?

In other words, if you want to do Ifrit as you are now, you will have to be the one that starts the party.

In other news, classes are getting completely turned on their heads in 1.20, so you and your partner may find yourselves desirable soon enough. Don't count on it though; with THM losing its native heals and all its debuffs, and ARC not likely to lose its animation lock, they're likely to continue being among the worst jobs to bring to the Ifrit fight. On the plus side, you certainly won't have to take GLD to 36 though; if Sentinel still exists beyond 1.20, it's looks like it's a GLD Lv1 ability.

This probably won't make you feel any better, but in order to do Ifrit with my linkshell, I did exactly what you're dreading. I took a completely new class to 50 (THM), then took another completely new class to 50 (CON because THM wasn't good enough on its own), as well as leveling GLD to 36, all because my vanilla MRD wasn't good enough.