Overview
Taken by curiosity, you activate something called the Savage Initiative at a Garlond Ironworks terminal. Apparently a program to address work-related stress, you are treated to a soothing song composed by a certain minstrel, its lush strains massaging your mind and adding vibrant flourishes to the memories of your trials within the Deltascape...
Strategy Notes
- After you kill Exdeath, for the rest of the lockout you will start at Neo Exdeath. You must wipe after Neo Exdeath is targetable for this to happen. Neo Exdeath does not auto attack, and will reset aggro completely periodically.
- Before starting, assign players loose spread positions for Dualcast Fire III and Delta Attack. Melee should be inside the box's hitbox, tanks should be to the very left and right, and ranged should be in the middle and back of the arena.
- Exdeath has a hard enrage of around 4:50.
- Neo Exdeath has a hard enrage of ~12:45.
- The next mechanic will strike twice. |
- All players not at max HP when this mechanic resolves will be petrified. Anyone under 50% HP will be instantly killed.
Boss Encounters
Exdeath
- Targets 4 DPS with a splash AoE, then 2 Healers and 2 Tanks with a splash AoE. Spread out to avoid clipping other players with AoE.
- Targets multiple players with a ground AoE, then a ground AoE again. Stack and then dodge.
- A magical tank buster that strikes twice and applies a lightning vuln debuff. The offtank must Provoke during the cast to take the second hit. Alternatively you can use invulns on it.
- Healers should top all players off to avoid the DPS loss from petrification.
- Stand on the last tentacle to spawn and then move in the direction they spawn.
- After Exdeath returns, he spawns on a random party member. All players should stand on the edge to make Vacuum Wave easier.
- All melee and tanks have Arm's Length, as well as gap closers - SAM has Hissatsu: Gyoten, NIN has Shukuchi, MNK has Shoulder Tackle, and DRG has Spineshatter Dive/Dragonfire Dive. PLD can Cover one additional player.
- Healers should bring Surecast. Use Surecast before the castbar resolves.
- RDM and BLM have Corps-à-Corps and Aetherial Manipulation respectively and like healers all casters can use Surecast.
- Inflicts a Pyretic debuff for 3 seconds, dealing massive damage if a player does any actions.
- Deep Freezes any player that is not moving for a few seconds after the cast bar resolves.
- Does a large AoE around Exdeath that paralyzes and deals massive damage. Move away to dodge.
- Kite these around until Holy or Flare, which causes them to disappear.
Neo Exdeath
- Similar to Wild Charge from T10 or Spear of the Fury from Thordan EX. Deals massive damage and knocks back the player closest to the boss, while dealing less damage to players behind the stack. This is accompanied with Allagan Field debuffs most of the time. This is indicated by sparkling diamonds around Neo Exdeath.
- Similar to colors from Sephirot EX, however you must stand on the opposite debuff that you have. The best way to think about it is that if you take the same color as your debuff, you die. This is indicated by two large polyhedrons on the left and right of Neo Exdeath, showing which side to stand on. To remove Beyond Death with White and Black Antilight, stand in the same color as your debuff.
- Shoots a lethal beam down either the inner area of the platform or down the outer area of the platform. This is indicated by a large orb in the middle or two smaller orbs on the side of Neo Exdeath.
- Have all party members but the main tank stack in front of the boss. Spread out to assigned positions to not overlap Fire III and not clip anyone with Thunder III. Dodge the second Blizzard III.
- The OT should Provoke during the castbar to take the second Thunder III hit. Alternatively, invuln it.
- The mechanics resolve as such
- Blizzard III
- MT Thunder III + DPS Fire III
- Blizzard III + OT Thunder III + Heal/Tank Fire III
- Stand in the middle when the cast bar resolves to not fall off the edge from Hysteria.
- The tank without Allagan Field must stand in front of the party and use a CD. The healer and DPS with Allagan Field must stand at the back. The tank with Allagan Field must stand behind the first tank but in front of the party, and use a CD.
- Stand at the very north if you invuln in order to not lose uptime. All other players get out of the Neo Exdeath hitbox.
- If you soak it, both tanks move to the center and everyone else stand inside the hitbox.
- One tank is inflicted with Cursed Shriek and Forked Lightning.
- All players must look away from players with Cursed Shriek when the debuffs resolve to avoid petrifaction.
- Forked Lightning emits a circle AoE around the player that paralyzes and deals damage if hit when the debuff resolves.
- One healer is inflicted with Forked Lightning.
- The other healer is inflicted with Death Wave - a stack marker - and Cursed Shriek.
- Two DPS are afflicted with Acceleration Bomb.
- The rest of the DPS, as well as the other tank, are afflicted with Beyond Death and Off-balance. If Beyond Death is not removed by getting hit by an Antilight from Flood of Naught, the player will die when the debuff resolves. Off-balance will make the next instance of damage taken knock the player back a long distance.
Timeline
- Dualcast
- Blizzard III
- Dualcast
- Thunder III
- Dualcast
- Fire III
- White Hole
- The Decisive Battle
- Holy
- Flare
- Spellblade Thunder III/Spellblade Fire III/Spellblade Blizzard III
- Vacuum Wave
- White Hole
- Black Hole
- Dualcast
- Fire III
- Holy
- White Hole
- Dualcast
- Thunder III
Duty Information
- Duty Finder: Savage Raids (Stormblood)
- Time Limit: 120 minutes
- Tomestones: 15 Poetics
Achievements
- I Am the Savage Delta, I Am the Savage Omega I
- I Am the Savage Delta, I Am the Savage Omega II
- I Am the Savage Delta, I Am the Savage Omega III
- Mightier than the Delta
Music
- Phase 1: Decisions (Omega)
- Phase 2: Final, Not Final