Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (2024)

Phase 1 Alerts

  • Tanks should pull Alexander and face him to the north away from the raid while the rest of the group stacks behind him.
  • Players marked with Red Markers should move away from the group and not stack during 'Incinerating Heat'.
  • Healers should watch out for successive 'Mega Holys'.
  • Players should stack to bait 'Gravitational Anomaly' puddles into one area to maximize safe space.
  • Alexander will cast either Sacrament or Radiant Sacrament - safe spots are in his diagonals or in his hitbox respectively.
Attack Script
  • Divine Spear
  • Punishing Heat
  • Divine Spear
  • Blazing Scourge & Incinerating Heat
  • Mega Holy
  • Mega Holy
  • Gravitational Anomaly
  • (Radiant) Sacrament
  • Divine Spear
  • Punishing Heat

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Divine Spear

Everyone Cleave

Important Notes:
  • This frontal cleave has high damage - face Alexander to the north, away from the raid.

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Punishing Heat

Tank Healer Tankbuster

Important Notes:
  • This attack targets the tank for high damage - cooldown and heal as necessary.

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Blazing Scourge

Everyone Marker

Important Notes:
  • 2 players will be marked with red markers - move away from the group and prepare for multiple hits.

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Incinerating Heat

Everyone Stack

Important Notes:
  • This attack targets a healer - all team members except those targeted by 'Blazing Scourge' should stack to soak damage.

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Mega Holy

Everyone Raid-Wide AoE

Important Notes:
  • This raid-wide attack does high damage - prepare to shield and heal through it.

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Gravitational Anomaly

Everyone AoE Puddle

Important Notes:
  • AoE puddles will spawn underneath players - these begin small and quickly grow.
  • It helps to stack up to bait the puddles into one area to help create more accessible safe zones.

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Sacrament

Everyone Column AoE

Important Notes:
  • This column AoE shoots in 4 directions with Alexander at the center - safe zones are the boss' diagonals.
Important Notes:
  • This attack covers the whole arena in a donut AoE - the only safe zone is inside Alexander's hitbox.

Phase 2 Alerts

  • Keep 'The General's Might out of the AoE cast by 'The General's Time' to avoid buffing its strength.
  • If all three waves aren't killed fast enough, the raid will wipe.
  • Expect Alexander's Ultimate - Tanks should Limit Break 3 at 3-5 seconds on the timer.
Wave 01
  • Expect 8 'Arrhidaeus' Lanners' to spawn - tank them together and DPS them down.
Wave 02
  • Expect 4 'The General's Wings' to spawn - these adds continue to cast a raid-wide AoE that increases their magic damage with each cast. DPS as fast as possible.
Wave 03
  • Expect 1 'The General's Might' and 1 'The General's Time' to spawn - Time will place an AoE that buffs Might - DPS Time down first and keep Might out of the AoE.
  • Both of these spawns have heavy tankbusters - healers watch your tanks' health.
Attack Script
  • Wave 01
  • Wave 02
  • Wave 03
  • Divine Judgement

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Divine Judgement

Everyone Ultimate

Important Notes:
  • This attack occurs after Alexander spawns 3 waves of adds.
  • If ANY adds are alive when the cast goes off, you will wipe.
  • Tanks must Limit Break 3 at 3-5 seconds on the timer in order for the group to survive.

Phase 3 Alerts

  • Chronofoil's cast is free DPS.
  • Temporal Stasis 01 requires communication and preparation - review and understand the debuffs to ensure you're in the correct location for your debuff when the cast goes off.
Attack Script
  • Chronofoil
  • Temporal Stasis 01
  • Gravitational Anomaly
  • (Radiant) Sacrament
  • Mega Holy
  • Divine Spear
  • Punishing Heat
  • Divine Spear

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Chronofoil

Everyone Animation

Important Notes:
  • Alexander will grow a pair of wings - use this time for DPS.

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Temporal Stasis 01

Everyone Mechanic

Important Notes:
  • This attack will freeze time and combines multiple debuffs that complicate party placement.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (1) Defamation: causes a very large AoE to spawn on a player and applies a Magic Vulnerability Up Debuff.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (2) Shared Sentence: causes a small AoE and applies a Magic Vulnerability Up Debuff - this debuff requires another player that does not have Defamation or Shared Sentence.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (3) Restraining Order: tethers two players together with a blue tether - these players should be as far apart as possible.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (4) House Arrest: tethers two players together with a green and red tether - these players should be as close together as possible.
  • The debuffs will be distributed as such:
    • 3 DPS - Defamation
    • 1 DPS & 1 Healer - Shared Sentence
    • 2 Tanks - Restraining Order OR House Arrest
    • 1 Healer - No Debuff

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Phase 4 Alerts

  • Temporal Stasis 02 requires communication and preparation - review and understand the debuffs to ensure you're in the correct location for your debuff when the cast goes off.
  • Temporal Stasis 02 has a different debuff distribution than Temporal Stasis 01.
Attack Script
  • Temporal Stasis 02
  • Gravitational Anomaly
  • (Radiant) Sacrament
  • Mega Holy
  • Divine Spear
  • Punishing Heat
  • Divine Spear

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Temporal Stasis 02

Everyone Mechanic

Important Notes:
  • This attack will freeze time and combines multiple debuffs that complicate party placement.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (6) Defamation: causes a very large AoE to spawn on a player and applies a Magic Vulnerability Up Debuff.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (7) Shared Sentence: causes a small AoE and applies a Magic Vulnerability Up Debuff - this debuff requires another player that does not have Defamation or Shared Sentence.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (8) Restraining Order: tethers two players together with a blue tether - these players should be as far apart as possible.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (9) House Arrest: tethers two players together with a green and red tether - these players should be as close together as possible.
  • The debuffs will be distributed as such:
    • 1 Tank & 1 Healer - Defamation
    • 2 DPS - Shared Sentence
    • 1 Tank & 1 Healer - Restraining Order OR House Arrest
    • 2 DPS - Restraining Order OR House Arrest

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Phase 5 Alerts

  • Players should determine who is responsible for each Timegate in advance.
  • Be sure to bait the Judgement Crystal drops in the proper locations (see images) to ensure you can detect Inception properly.
  • Players should be aware of the debuffs during the second Inception and react accordingly.
  • The final' Gravitational Anomaly' and 'Incinerating Heat' combination happens quickly - be sure to get to a safe zone to stack on the healer to soak damage.
Timegates
  • Be sure to assign players to the appropriate gates:
    • North East / North West: The General's Wings = 1 DPS each.
    • South West: The General's Might = 1 Tank.
    • South East: The General's Time = 1 Healer.
Attack Script
  • Timegates
  • Judgement Crystal
  • Inception 01 & Tetrashatter & Sacrament
  • Radiant Sacrament
  • Punishing Heat
  • Divine Spear
  • Gravitational Anomaly & Incinerating Heat
  • Inception 02 & Tetrashatter & Sacrament
  • Punishing Heat
  • Divine Spear
  • Gravitational Anomaly & Incinerating Heat

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Timegates

Everyone Mechanic

Important Notes:
  • This attack will spawn 4 timegates and 4 adds - the adds will procede to enter their respective gate.
  • Assign the following players to the appropriate add:
    • North East / North West: The General's Wings = 1 DPS each.
    • South West: The General's Might = 1 Tank.
    • South East: The General's Time = 1 Healer.
  • These fights are tough given their solo nature - the healer should prioritize staying alive until the rest of the team can come to help.

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Judgement Crystal

Everyone Mechanic

Important Notes:
  • Players will be marked with red markers for a large crystal to drop on them - it is important that these crystals are placed in the locations indicated in the image below.
  • These crystals will explode causing 'Tetrashatter' if Alexander is close to them - this will be used to determine Alexander's location later in the fight.
  • Judgement Crystal will alternate in the following pattern: 'Judgement Crystal' > 'Incinerating Heat' > 'Judgement Crystal' > '(Radiant) Sacrament' > 'Judgement Crystal' > 'Punishing Heat' > 'Judgement Crystal'.

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Inception 01 & Tetrashatter & Sacrament

Combo

Inception 01

Everyone Mechanic

  • Alexander will disappear and reappear randomly at one of the red dots around the arena (grey circles on the image) - 'Tetrashatter' will be used to predict his location.
Tetrashatter

Everyone Proximity AoE

  • 'Tetrashatter' will be indicated by a proximity AoE field - the crystal that begins the attack will tell you that Alexander is about to land at one of the red dots next to this crystal.
  • 'Tetrashatter' will hit for 2K or 10K damage depending on your proximity.
Sacrament

Everyone Column AoE

  • When he appears, Alexander will immediately cast Sacrament.
  • Players should move as far away from Tetrashatter as possible while remaining in Sacrament's diagonal safe zones (see image).

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Inception 02 & Tetrashatter & Sacrament

Combo

Inception 02

Everyone Mechanic

  • Alexander will disappear and reappear randomly at one of the red dots around the arena (grey circles on the image) - 'Tetrashatter' will be used to predict his location.
  • This time, players will have to deal with the following Debuffs:
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (13) Defamation: causes a very large AoE to spawn on a player and applies a Magic Vulnerability Up Debuff.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (14) Shared Sentence: causes a small AoE and applies a Magic Vulnerability Up Debuff - this debuff requires another player that does not have Defamation or Shared Sentence.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (15) Restraining Order: tethers two players together with a blue tether - these players should be as far apart as possible.
  • Alexander: The Soul of the Creator (Savage) | FFXIV Pocket Guide - Final Fantasy XIV - Stormblood (16) House Arrest: tethers two players together with a green and red tether - these players should be as close together as possible.
  • The debuffs will be distributed as such:
    • Main Tank - Defamation
    • 1 Healer - Shared Sentence
    • Off Tank & 1 DPS - Restraining Order OR House Arrest
    • 1 Healer & 1 DPS - Restraining Order OR House Arrest
    • 2 DPS - Restraining Order OR House Arrest
Tetrashatter

Everyone Proximity AoE

  • 'Tetrashatter' will be indicated by a proximity AoE field - the crystal that begins the attack will tell you that Alexander is about to land at one of the red dots next to this crystal.
  • 'Tetrashatter' will hit for 2K or 10K damage depending on your proximity.
Sacrament

Everyone Column AoE

  • When he appears, Alexander will immediately cast Sacrament.
  • Players should move as far away from Tetrashatter as possible while remaining in Sacrament's diagonal safe zones (see image).

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Phase 6 Alerts

  • Alexander will immediately summon 'Alexander Fortress'.
  • 'Void of Repentance' pools should be soaked in the same order everytime: 2 DPS, the remaining 2 DPSs, and finally both Tanks last.
  • The first pair of DPS players to soak pools should make their way to the healers to help soak damage from 'Incinerating Heat'.
  • Healers will have a difficult time keeping up with damage in this phase - pay close attention to the 'Holy Bleed', 'Holy Scourge', and 'Chastening Heat' combination.
  • Tanks be wary of 'Chastening Heat' and remember to tank swap during the cast.
  • 'Void of Repentance's' second cast requires attention to detail and movement - be sure to use the diagrams to prepare in advance so that players are dropping 'Communion' pools out of other players' way.
Attack Script
  • Summon Alexander Fortress
  • Void of Repentance & Incinerating Heat
  • Holy Bleed
  • Holy Scourge
  • Chastening Heat
  • [Void of Repentance & Incinerating Heat & Communion & Sacrament
  • Holy Bleed
  • Mega Holy
  • Holy Scourge
  • Chastening Heat]
  • Repeat

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Void of Repentance & Incinerating Heat

Combo

Void of Repentance

Everyone Mechanic

  • This attack spawns two large AoE puddles that require players to soak them up 3 times each.
  • Soaking a pool will cause damage and a Magic Vulnerability Up Debuff.
  • Pools should be soaked in the following order:
    • DPS Pair 01
    • DPS Pair 02
    • Tank Pair
  • The DPS pair that hits the pools first are the only available team members to help soak damage from the following 'Incinerating Heat' - make your way to the healers.
Incinerating Heat

Everyone Stack

  • This attack targets a healer - only the 2 DPS players who hit the 'Void of Repentance' pools first will be available to help soak damage.

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Holy Bleed

Everyone Raid-Wide AoE

Important Notes:
  • This raid-wide AoE hits hard - healers be ready to shield, heal, and Limit Break if necessary.

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Holy Scourge

Tank Healer Tankbuster

Important Notes:
  • This attack will inflict Prey on the main tank for 4 hits - cooldown and heal as necessary.

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Chastening Heat

Tank Healer Tankbuster

Important Notes:
  • This attack must be tank swapped - Off Tanks prepare to 'Provoke' during the cast.
  • Use cooldowns as necessary and expect a Physical Vulnerability Up Debuff.

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Void of Repentance & Incinerating Heat & Communion & Sacrament

Combo

Void of Repentance

Everyone Mechanic

  • This attack spawns two large AoE puddles (large red circles) that require players to soak them up 3 times each.
  • Soaking a pool will cause damage and a Magic Vulnerability Up Debuff.
  • Pools should be soaked in the following order:
    • DPS Pair 01
    • DPS Pair 02
    • Tank Pair
  • The DPS pair that hits the pools first are the only available team members to help soak damage from the following 'Incinerating Heat' - make your way to the healers.
Incinerating Heat

Everyone Stack

  • This attack targets a healer - only the 2 DPS players who hit the 'Void of Repentance' pools first will be available to help soak damage.
Communion

Everyone Marker Puddle AoE

  • While 'Void of Repentance' and 'Incinerating Heat' are happening, Alexander Fortress will mark players with red lasers indicating that they are being targeted by Communion.
  • Communion will drop successive AoE puddles (small red circles) on players who must strategically place them while sticking to their soak order for 'Void of Repentance' - see diagrams below for options.
  • These puddles will kill you instantly if stepped into - tanks should be careful to avoid them when running to their final soak.
Sacrament

Everyone Column AoE

  • This column AoE (orange rectangles) shoots in 4 directions with Alexander at the center - safe zones are the boss' diagonals.
  • Tanks should position Alexander appropriately to ensure that Sacrament's columns to not overlap with 'Void of Repentance' pools.

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