Royal City of Rabanastre raid guide

Raid (Alliance) quick facts

Recently, residents of Kugane woke to find hovering above their city an airship unlike any ever seen. Yet while of Garlean design, the vessel distinctly lacked the bleak outfitting common in the Empire's warmachina. No, this was the Prima Vista, private stage for the Majestic Imperial Theater Company-a troupe having won acclaim across Garlemald for their timeless work, The Zodiac Brave Story. Which begets the question...why are they here? The answer to that question and more lies in the selfsame legend of which they sing. The legend of Ivalice.

• Category: Raid (alliance)
• Difficulty: normal
• First Appearance: Patch 4.1, *Stormblood*
• Level: 70
• Item Level Requirement: 305
• Party Size: Alliance Raid (24 players)
• Required Quest: A City Fallen
• Entrance: The Prima Vista Bridge
• Region: ???

Before queueing

Use the quick facts to check level, item level, party size, required quest, entrance, roulette, and time limit before queueing for Royal City of Rabanastre.

• 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

Royal City of Rabanastre has local boss notes for: Mateus, the Corrupt, Hashmal, Bringer of Order, Rofocale, Argath Thadalfus. These notes are pulled from the local wiki and should be treated as source-backed prep unless separately marked as human-reviewed strategy.

• When Mateus casts Unbind, gather up on your alliance's marker.
• Your first priority is the nearest Aqua Sphere. It needs to pop before the ice dancer gets to it, or you'll have trouble later.
• Each player should gather two of the blue orbs that appear during this phase, then stand off of the spiraling ice track to avoid getting frozen.
• The water pillars will turn into Blizzard III pillars if the ice dancer touches them. If three players stand in them, they will disappear.
• Any Blizzard III pillars that form need to be destroyed ASAP, or the players tethered to it will turn into snowmen once Mateus's cast of White Whisper completes.
• If you did the mechanics correctly, there will be at least one safe spot to stand. Run there during the proximity AoE warnings to avoid dying.
• Healers should prepare large AoE heals to go off after the blizzards land.
• Flume Toads need to die ASAP.
• Arena-wide effect causes everyone to get gradually increasing stacks of Breathless. If the stacks hit 10, you die, no exceptions.
• Each toad drops an air pocket on death, run through those pockets to drop your Breathless stack to 0.
• Several players will be targeted for line AoE attacks, keep those lines from intersecting the air pockets to avoid popping them.
• Several players will be tethered by ice orbs that will slowly drift toward the tethered player.
• Don't let them touch you, or you'll die.
• Keep the tether line pointed away from the raid to avoid hitting people with the narrow cone AoEs the orbs periodically cast.

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: Alliance Raids (Stormblood)
• Roulette: alliance raid
• Time Limit: 120 minutes
• Tomestones: 100 poetics + 80 + 10

Completion notes

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

• Achievement: Zodiac Thriller
• Achievement: Mapping the Realm: Rabanastre
• Music: Main: Trisection
• Music: Bosses 1-3: Precipitous Combat
• Music: Boss 4: Ultima's Transformation
• Music: Victory: Victory Theme (Final Fantasy Tactics)

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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