AAC Light-heavyweight M4 raid guide

Raid (Normal) quick facts

In the midst of your crowning ceremony, you are challenged by none other than the electrifying Wicked Thunder, sister of Yaana and former heavyweight fighter of fame. The Ascension Arcadia president has authorized a special exhibition match for this thunderous clash, and now the realm waits with bated breath, wondering who will emerge victorious: the unstoppable upstart, or the neoteric witch?

• Category: Raid (normal)
• Difficulty: Normal
• First Appearance: Patch 7.01, *Dawntrail*
• Level: 100
• Item Level Requirement: 685
• Party Size: Full Party (8 players)
• Required Quest: The Neoteric Witch
• Entrance: Greenroom
• Region: Xak Tural

Before queueing

Use the quick facts to check level, item level, party size, required quest, entrance, roulette, and time limit before queueing for AAC Light-heavyweight M4.

• Repair gear and meet the listed level/item-level requirements.
• Tell the party if it is your first clear.
• Use the local wiki link for exact duty facts and related articles.

Boss and mechanic notes

AAC Light-heavyweight M4 has local boss notes for: Neoteric Witch: Wicked Thunder. These notes are pulled from the local wiki and should be treated as source-backed prep unless separately marked as human-reviewed strategy.

• Wrath of Zeus: Raid-wide magical damage.
• Sidewise Spark: The boss gathers lightning to one of her sides with spinning electrope cubes, indicating a half-room cleave.
• Shadows' Sabbath: The boss spawns a blue ring that will fall from the sky either to the east or west of the center of the arena, summoning an untargetable clone of herself that will telegraph Sidewise Spark, cleaving the north or south half of the arena. Shortly after this, the boss will cast Shadows' Sabbath again, spawning a ring on the other side with another half-room cleave.
• After this first usage, subsequent uses of Shadows' Sabbath will cause the boss to summon four clones in rapid succession at the four cardinal directions, each of which will perform a half-room cleave a couple seconds apart. The boss will immediately charge another Sidewise Spark herself, which will go off a couple second after the 4th clone's cleave.
• Due to the visual clutter in later usages, it may be easier to look for which side the spinning cubes are instead of which side is glowing. The clone or boss's tail also points towards the safe zone for that cleave.
• Wicked Jolt: Line AoE magical tankbuster.
• The boss will jump to the north edge and summon a large cannon. The boss will slightly rotate, indicating that the three columns in front of where she is facing will be hit with a multi-hit magical AoE (Stampeding Thunder). These hits deal moderate damage and do not apply vulnerability, but players should move to the safe column, as after the cannon hits, the boss will use a late telegraphed AoE hitting the same three columns, destroying the ground and cause anyone hit to fall to their deaths.
• On the first iteration in the remaining intact column, the boss will use Threefold Blast, indicating three sequential and alternating half-room cleaves based on which side of her cannon receives a marker (the color and symbol of the marker, blue circle or orange triangle, just indicates the side of the cannon, with no additional effects). Afterward, she will perform Fourfold Blast, with the same telegraphs but instead as four half-room cleaves with two total side changes between them.
• In the second and subsequent iterations (except for the final, described below) in the remaining intact column, the boss will use Fivefold Blast, using the same indications as threefold and fourfold blast, but instead as five half-room cleaves with three total side changes between them. Afterwards this is followed by baited circle AoE telegraphs on players (Thunderslam), or spread markers on each player (Thunderstorm) inflicting Lightning Resistance Down II, making overlap lethal.
• Afterwards, the arena will be restored to its original state.
• Wicked Bolt: Five-hit stack AoE dealing magical damage.
• The boss will then equip a pair of electrope wings.
• Bewitching Flight: The boss jumps to the north edge and telegraphs five sprays of purple energy down from her wings, leaving gaps in between. These indicate thin line AoEs with the gaps safe. The line AoEs will leave behind purple electricity lines, which do not harm the player when moved over. The lines will start glowing in a random order, expanding and exploding in a wide line AoE (Burst). Wait for one of the lines to go off, then move into where it was to dodge the subsequent lines. The width of the expanded line is the same as the distance between the residual lightning lines on the ground. During this, baited circle AoEs will appear on random players' locations. The boss commonly follows this is a Sidewise Spark, which goes off a couple seconds after the final line AoE explodes.
• Shadows' Sabbath: If the boss uses this action when she has wings, she will instead summon a single winged clone of herself. The boss and the the clone will move to adjacent walls where each will use Bewitching Flight, causing a cross pattern of line AoEs. These lines will slowly expand and explode in a random order as before, with one line from each direction going off at a time, complicating dodging the line AoEs.

Duty finder and rewards context

Use this section to decide whether the duty belongs in roulettes, high-end queues, mentor roulette, or repeat farming.

• Duty Finder: Normal Raids (Dawntrail)
• Roulette: normal raids
• Time Limit: 90 minutes
• Tomestones: 10 mathematics + 5 mnemonics

Completion notes

After your first clear, check whether the duty has mapping, clear, Blue Mage, loot, music, or collection reasons to return.

• Achievement: Pick on Someone Your Own Size I
• Achievement: Pick on Someone Your Own Size II
• Achievement: Pick on Someone Your Own Size III
• Music: Main: Give It All

Verification boundary

This page is generated from local TJPedia wiki data. It does not invent missing mechanics, NPC coordinates, loot tables, or current-party-finder strategies. High-end positioning and current-prog tactics still need human review before being labeled as a full strategy guide.

• Source-backed: duty facts, local boss notes, achievements, and music.
• Needs human review: exact high-end progression strategy.
• Use official patch notes for changed requirements or rewards.

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