We interrupt your current server woes to talk about casting

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

I agree, other games do not have animation locks or whatever, but animation lock is the ONLY challenge during the Ifrit fight.

You can avoid plumes by standing on safe spots. If you have no animation lock it is very easy to run away from eruptions. That leaves pressing Sentinel when he does Hellfire and thats about it.

Ifrit without animation lock would be a joke. Not sure if it was meant to be this way, but again Ifrit without animation lock would be like killing Leaping Lizzy with a lv99 BLM.

Developer has to design content around broken server, just like we have to learn how to play on a broken server.

Blame the original dev team who decided using these crap servers was a good idea.