Ifrit (Drop rates and lag)

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I'm sure this is a common issue but I've put a lot of time and effort into the Ifrit fight.

As of now, I'm 0/24 on weapons with 4 totems. A LS mate is 0/66 with 2 totems. I understand that it is SUPPOSED to be something to strive for, with good reason. What I don't understand is how people are getting 4th and 5th repeats of multiple weapons and there is no way to disperse this to other PT members. The totems in loot pool was a step (albeit minor) in the right direction, but I've seen a total of about 12 totems drop in 24 fights, between 8 people, that's pitiful.

I got Ifrits Blade on my First Ifrit kill. I then proceeded to obtain 1 ifrit Item, along with a totem here or there, on average ever 10 Kills up until I had 5/7 Ifrit weapons - never once getting a duplicate. At this point I also had 10 totems. I then proceeded to get a duplicate Cudgel, Axe, and Harpoon and gave away a total of 5 totems to LS mates thinking to myself "oh I will certainly get ONE of my last two items before I get another 10 totems. And then it happened. Ifrit's Cane finally dropped, I purchased my Last weapon with the 10 totems I had been holding on and I sold my extra 11th totem for 1 gil to the lady at Bric a Brac. All in all I think I beat Ifrit less than 100 times, and as frustrating as it was I am finally relieved to be done with that hellhole.

On the other hand I know a certain Lalafell in my LS who had gone 0/60+ before obtaining his firt Ifrit weapon. I know nother who is sitting on 5/7 and has obtained FIVE cudgels already. And then there is one lucky bastard who was online last night that got 4 Ifrits weapons (no duplicates) In SEVEN WINS. Yes...FOUR weapons, SEVEN WINS. Granted it was Full Moon...which seems to help the drop rate a little.

Second issue is lag on eruptions/plumes. Countless times I've been standing INSIDE a party member and get hit yet they won't. Second is I don't know how many times I have been on the other side of the map and gotten hit by an eruption or plume that I'm a goodly distance away from.

Okay, so I play on a laptop. When I first started running Ifrit I couldn't dodge an eruption, much less a plume or sentinel before Hellfire. Then one nice Lalafell recommended I turn down my configurations, which I did. Then he told me to turn the graphics configurations down via the OUT OF GAME "FFXIV Config" Launcher. You know?

This is where you go to change the window size settings/windower option etc... There is a "visual" and "graphics" tab that contains a few drop down menus that correspond "Drawing Quality" "Background Quality" and "Shadow Quality" as well as "Texture Quality" and "Texture Filtering". Generally, I turn down "Drawing Quality" to "2" or "3" and the rest to "Lowest" or "1". Having done so I no longer experience ANY lag whatsoever during Primal Fights and I dodge eruptions 99% of the time.

One last note: it seems that dodging eruptions is all about timing, and not about placement. From what I've noiced, eruptions spawn with the target dead center. There must be a circle around this central point from which you must escape before a hidden timer ticks down so as not to take damage.

I say this because I've noticed that you can run away from an eruption as soon as possible and before it blows up -so long as you had run away before the 'timer' ticked down- you can run right back onto the eruption and NOT take any damge at all when it blows up. On the other hand you can run clear off the eruption, but If you didn't get away from the center before the hidden timer hits 0 even if you are clearly off the eruption at the time it explodes, you will take damage.

Does that make sense?

Good Luck, Have Fun, and Get Loot.