It's also a smart think for tha tank to pull Ifrit to one side of the field so that the rest of the players can position themselves to evade the inside/outside Radiant Plumes.
If the tank sits there and tanks the thing in the center... well, you're going to have a much more difficult time.
The point of this all is pattern recognition, and the fact that, guess what, you guys recognized the pattern. Good for you. That doesn't make the fight easy.
Easy would be being able to completely ignore the Plumes and Eruptions all together.
What you are arguing is that the fight is
simple, and if you realize you can dodge the majority of the powerful damage, which follows an easily discernable pattern, that you can survive the fight on minimal gear.
That's what we call a skill check. You passed it.
EASY fights are gear-checks only. If you have the right gear for your level you win, period. You don't need to worry about the fight Gimicks. Is the skill check simple on a level 20 fight? Absolutely. You guys are rating this as if it's Ifrit Hard or Extreme and it's annoying to say the least.
Truely hard fights? Both Gear and Skill Checks. Raven Nevermore, the fight that Ostia mindlessly insulted to the point of inciting rage on my part, has both in abundance, to the degree that one slip up will likely wipe the run - and that there is literally no way to 'One Run' the fight, as it requires you to farm meterials for the fight to even survive the first move if you're not a tank.
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Resource management is what made FFXI hard not the gear for most fights.
Exactly, and that is sorely missing from XIV, currently.
Do Brayfox Longstop and try to revive someone twice, you'll see the exhaustion. But, hey, you want to hear a hell of a lot more people complain, make refresh mandatory in this game like it was in FFXI, and we'll have Bard Fantasy all over again.
So long as your players do their job in evading damage, there should be no need to be a major exhaustion issue in the game. Again, we're already seeing large traction in the complaints about TP exhaustion in fights.
Edited, Jul 15th 2013 4:39pm by Hyrist