Ifrit
Depending on your tank composition (e.g: PLD + GNB) and the party’s DPS (whether you skip dashes), you may have to adjust how you tank Ultima Weapon later.
Ifrit will also need to be “awakened” in order for the party to make it to Ultima Weapon.
Waking Ifrit
Infernal Nails can be hit by baited Violent Eruptions. When a Nail is hit by an Eruption, it gains a stack (max two) and increases in size.
Each stack it receives does the following:
- Lowers the damage taken by about 10%.
- Increases the raid-wide damage dealt when the nail is destroyed.
Ifrit gains a stack of “Aetherically Charged” when an Infernal Nail with two stacks is destroyed.
The following mechanics will also change when Ifrit is woken:
| Normal | Woken | |
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| Crimson Cyclone | Straight-line dash, going clockwise. | Straight-line dash, in the order the Infernal Nails were destroyed in, followed by a cross-shaped AoE 45 degrees to the dash. |
| Flaming Crush | Split damage. | Split damage that also afflicts a heavy Accursed Flame DoT whose duration decreases as more players are hit. This should be shared by at least 6 players for minimum impact. |
The ST will take hate at the start of the fight.
| 1. Have the ST tank Ifrit facing south, with the party North. Ifrit will open with Hellfire (heavy raid damage), and shortly follow up with a Vulcan Burst. Vulcan Burst is a large knockback, (just under half the arena) that can be nullified by Arm's Length/Surecast, or by sufficient shields as the knockback only applies if the player takes damage. H2's shields will nullify Vulcan Burst's damage, unless H2 is weakened. Ifrit will then use three Incinerates in a row. Incinerate is a conal tankbuster that also applies a Fire Resistance Down debuff on anyone hit.
(The "proper way" to do this would be to tank swap twice, once between each Incinerate). Once all three Incinerates are done, the MT Provokes and takes over. |  |
Infernal Nails
This is Ifrit’s major mechanic, and where we will wake Ifrit.
| 2. Four Infernal Nails will spawn in a trapezium formation, in a random orientation. Ifrit will also target one random healer and apply a Searing Wind debuff on that healer. Take up positions as follows:
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| 3. The two furthest players from Ifrit (except for the Searing Wind) will bait two sets of four Violent Eruptions. These should be D3 and D4.
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| 4. When an Infernal Nail gets hit by a second Violent Euprtion (gaining two stacks), destroy them. The Nails should be destroyed in a "Reverse-Z" order:
As the Nails take less damage as they grow in size, it is a good idea to lower their HP (without destroying them) while they are small. When a Nail is destroyed, the party will take raid-wide damage, and momentality take extra damage, so be sure to give time to recover some HP in between. One random DPS will also be chained to whoever is second in aggro with Infernal Fetters. This chain applies a DoT, lowers damage dealt by the chained players, and increases damage taken by the chained players. These effects increase as the chain gets longer, although it's effectively negligible. Remember where the fourth Nail is, as this will be the starting position for dodging Ifrit's dashes later. |  |
Done correctly, Ifrit will get four stacks of Aetherically Charged (one for each Nail), and will wake, exclaiming “The flames hunger for thee, mortal!”.
Ifrit will also start glowing blue (which will be important later).
Crimson Cyclone #1
| 5. Ifrit returns with a Hellfire (heavy raid-wide damage). After that, Ifrit will then target a random healer with another Searing Wind. Have the party take up positions as follows:
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| 6. D3 and D4 bait another two sets of Violent Eruptions together in an anti-clockwise direction before joining the party stack. The Healer with Searing Wind also rotates anti-clockwise to end up directly opposite the party. |  |
| 7. Two Ifrit clones spawn at cardinal positions, and dash across the arena. These dashes will always happen along the cardinal directions. |  |
| 8. Ifrit will then target the other healer with yet another Searing Wind.
Ifrit will also target a random player with a Woken Flaming Crush, which should be taken as a 6-man stack. |  |
If the party’s DPS is good, you can defeat Ifrit by this point, skipping the second set of Crimson Cyclone dashes.
Crimson Cyclone #2
Four Ifrits will spawn on the outside of the arena- three of these are clones, but one is the real Ifrit (who will be glowing blue).
This is important, because the real Ifrit (who is woken) will have an afterburn that is an untelegraphed, X-shaped AoE 45 degrees from the original dash.
The four Ifrits will dash in the same order the Nails were destroyed.
| 9. Move to where the fourth Nail was. The healer with Searing Wind will be diretly opposite the party. Look for the Ifrit that is glowing blue. Everybody will run in an anti-clockwise direction to end 90 or 180 degrees from the blue Ifrit. The party will always have to move into either one or two dashes to do this. (In this example, the blue Ifrit is where the fourth Nail was, and the party will be moving twice.) |  |
| 10. First Ifrit dash. Move into this area right after the dash happens. |  |
| 11. Second Ifrit dash. Move into this area right after the dash if you need to. |  |
| 12. Third Ifrit dash. The party should not need to move at this point. |  |
| 13. Fourth Ifrit dash. The party should not need to move at this point. |  |
| 14. Since the fourth Ifrit was the real (woken) Ifrit, there will be an afterburn AoE after the dash. (This step can be layered on top of any of the three previous steps, depending on where the real Ifrit was.) |  |
Wrapping up
| 15. Ifrit will return to the center of the arena. The healer with Searing Wind will still have one more pulse before the debuff wears off.
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| 16. Ifrit will Incinerate three times. This is the same tankbuster at the start of this phase.
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| 17. The two furthest players from Ifrit (which should be D3 and D4) bait another set of four Violent Eruptions before joining the party for a Flaming Crush stack. After this, Ifrit will jump, become untargetable and enrage (Hellfire). |  |
When a woken Ifrit is defeated, it will also leave behind a light puddle that will give a player the Beyond Limits buff.
| Beyond Limits (Ifrit) | Caster |
| 18. Titan will land in the center of the arena, dealing proximity damage (Geocrush) to all players. Geocrush actually has a very sharp drop-off in damage, and might as well be considered a very large AoE in the center. Stand all the way to the edge to avoid dying to Geocrush. |  |