Alexander - The Heart of the Creator raid guide

Raid (Normal) quick facts

Heeding Roundrox's innocent words, Alexander spreads forth its wings of time, swooping you and your bewildered companions three years into the past. There, you witness with your own eyes-and, in a shocking turn of events, help to bring about by your own hand-the tragedy that befell Mide and her companions that fateful day. Is time truly naught but a circle-the past, present, and future long since preordained-as the mad goblin prophet would have you believe? In the face of daunting odds, you press onward, that you might yet seize control of your own destiny.

• Category: Raid (normal)
• Difficulty: normal
• First Appearance: Patch 3.4, *Heavensward*
• Level: 60
• Item Level Requirement: 230
• Party Size: Full Party (8 players)
• Required Quest: Thus Spake Quickthinx
• Entrance: The Dravanian Hinterlands
• Region: Dravania

Before queueing

Use the quick facts to check level, item level, party size, required quest, entrance, roulette, and time limit before queueing for Alexander - The Heart of the Creator.

• 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

Alexander - The Heart of the Creator has local boss notes for: Cruise Chaser. These notes are pulled from the local wiki and should be treated as source-backed prep unless separately marked as human-reviewed strategy.

• Occasionally, OT has to pick up the flying add (E.D.D.), it must die or it will self-destruct.
• Optical Sight: A few different modes.
• The first will target four players with a green AoE circle (make sure not to stand in overlapping circles).
• The second will create a giant light circle in the middle of the room. Move to the outer ring to avoid it, or take damage and get a Vulnerability Up debuff.
• The third will have smaller light circles appear around the room in a clockwise manner until they connect, then one will appear in the middle. Wait in the middle until you have room to go in the outer ring where one already went off.
• Photon: 4 players will drop critically low. Just heal up.
• Propeller Wind: Ensure you're behind one of the round objects or else you take damage and get Confused (it can be removed with Esuna).
• GA-100: Targets the OT, will hit for good damage against OT and AoE damage to rest of the party. Less party damage the further the AoE travels.
• Partway through the fight (around 50%), Cruise Chaser will teleport to the center, cast a knockback, become untargetable and transform into his flying form. You MUST click on one of the four ducts around him, to initiate a timed maneuver or you will wipe. During the timed maneuver, ensure you click the button next to the red progress bar before it runs out to avoid severe damage.
• Limit Cut: Cruise Chaser glows red and gains Immune.
• If you didn't do enough damage before the phase change, four Lapis Lazuli Orbs will spawn and Cruise Chaser will cast Limit Cut. Just dps the orbs.
• Eternal Darkness: Room-wide AoE damage (lots of AoE heals), and the room will now have a bleed. If any Lapis Lazuli Orbs are still alive when this goes off, you wipe.
• Optical Sight now has flying mech adds that are untargetable. These will shoot line AoEs when Cruise Chaser uses Optical Sight that will most likely result in death.
• Cruise Chaser will cast Limit Cut and spawn a Plasma Shield. You need to be in front of the shield to damage it.

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 (Heavensward)
• Roulette: normal raid
• Time Limit: 90 minutes
• Tomestones: 20 Poetics

Completion notes

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

• Achievement: Mapping the Realm: Alexander III
• Music: Pre-Boss: Sins of the Father, Sins of the Son
• Music: Boss: Exponential Entropy

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.

Related on TJPedia

Wiki: Alexander - The Heart of the CreatorDungeon route indexTrial and raid routeGuides hub