#FFXIV #EX #Raid_Plans

Based on Hector Hectorson’s Hell on Rails Extreme Guide.

Pre-positions

• Single Spread positions
• Pair Positions - try to stay in quadrants
• Big Spreads:

Phase 1

• Dead Man’s Overdraught: 4 Orbs - Pairs | 8 Orbs - Spread
• Dead Man’s Express:
  • Knockback! Dodge where the laser ground lasers wouldn’t hit you.
  • Stored pairs/spread hits a short time after the knockback.
• Dead Man’s Overdraught: 4 Orbs - Pairs | 8 Orbs - Spread
• Dead Man’s Windpipe:
  • Knockback towards the boss.
  • Stored pairs/spread hits a short time after the knockback.
• Unlimited Express: Raidwide, phase change. Mitigate.

Phase 2

• Short downtime in the beginning.
• Dead Man’s Overdraught: 4 Orbs - Pairs | 8 Orbs - Spread
• Turret Crossing: Turrets will spawn on both sides of the arena.
  • The glowing side will glow, hide behind walls.
• Dead Man’s Express:
  • Dodge lasers first, then dodge the laser before the knockback happens.
  • Go into spread/pairs from Overdraught.
• Dead Man’s Overdraught: 4 Orbs - Pairs | 8 Orbs - Spread. Will be opposite than the first one.
• Turrets will begin to glow.
• Lightning Burst: Double AoE Tankbusters. Mitigate lightly (Rampart) as there are many incoming.
  • Dodge turrets first, then tankbusters.
• Turrets will begin to glow.
• Dead Man’s Windpipe:
  • Dodge lasers first, then position for knockback, then position for pair/spreads.
• Unlimited Express: Raidwide, phase change. Mitigate.

Phase 3

• Lightning Burst: Double AoE Tankbusters. Mitigate lightly (Rampart).
• Runaway Train: Add Phase
  • Kill orb in the middle.
  • Inner Ghost Train: Sends out cleaving AoEs over tanks. MT go left and OT go right. Use short CDs.
  • Outer Doom Train:
    • Listen to train whistle, then it will send attack with visual and audio cues.
    • 2 cues: 3-man stacks. North-south of orb.
    • 3 cues: Spread. - Healer and M1 between tanks, the rest spread on other side. Ranged far away from tanks.
  • Resolution process:
    • Ghost Train spins.
    • Listen to Doom Train whistle and cues.
    • Wait for Ghost Train to stop.
    • Position relative to the Ghost Train for Doom Train mechanics.
• Mitigate for phase change raid wide.
• Boss grows arm and sends out an un-telegraphed raid-wide at the same time.
• Lightning Burst: Double AoE Tankbusters. Healers beware as tanks may be low on CD.
• Derailment Siege: 3-time repeated tower stack. Mitigate lightly and heal.
• Derail: Boss is about to suplex the platform. Run to the teleporter at the end of the platform to move off it.

Phase 4

• Immediately stack up in a corner of the platform.
• Wait for the boss to Snap its fingers, then run away from the corner as AoEs will pop up under where the players were when the Snap happened. (Twister)
• Watch boss telegraphs, up or down can happen first. Then dodge one then another.
• Arcane Revelation:
  • Split party with melees on northeast platform and ranged on southeast platform.
  • Lightning circle from Normal Mode will spawn.
  • A random tank and healer will get a stack debuff - these are delayed damage stack.
  • Boss raises hands and slowly moves them together.
  • Lightning circle can move 2, 3, or 4 times.
  • There is an audio cue of “lasers” signifying the last movement of the lightning circle.
  • Each Light Party need to get to the safe spot left behind by the lightning circle as the each party stack is big.
    • Stack markers will only count with people on the same elevation.
  • Each party reset to platforms.
  • Dodge lightning circle and stack with party again.
  • Note for when the lightning circle in front: Melee party can stay on a small sliver of the platform to dodge it.
  • 3 cycles of Arcane Revelation total.
• Boss will be casting up-down/down-up telegraphs. Dodge those.
• Stack into a group or two and watch the boss as it snaps its fingers. Once it does, move away from the stack positions to dodge the Twisters.
• Lightning Burst: Double AoE Tankbusters.
• Derailment Siege: 3-time repeated tower stack. Mitigate lightly and heal. Optionally, a tank can invuln this stack.
• Derail: Boss is about to suplex the platform. Run to the teleporter at the end of the platform to move off it.

Phase 5

• Psychokinesis:
  • Boss will clear some boxes off the platform and cast AoEs on 2 party members.
  • One AoE top left, one AoE top right, and the rest of the party move into a safe spot wherever the box was removed.
  • Stay in place and wait for the snap, then dodge Twisters.
• Psychokinesis 2:
  • More boxes are removed. 3 AoEs will spawn.
  • One AoE top left, one AoE top right, one AoE away.
  • Try to give melee uptime.
• Lightning Burst: Double AoE Tankbusters.
  • If one of the tank was with the party, let the tank go to the corner of the platform.
• Psychokinesis 3:
  • More boxes are removed. 5 AoEs will spawn.
  • Move into Big Spread positions.
  • Stay in place as the AoE goes off.
• Wait for the boss to Snap its fingers, then dodge between the players to avoid the Twisters.
• Derailment Siege: 4-time repeated tower stack. Mitigate lightly and heal. Optionally, a tank can invuln this stack.
• Derail: Boss is about to suplex the platform. Run to the teleporter at the end of the platform to move off it.

Phase 6 - Final Phase

• Dead Man’s Overdraught: 4 Orbs - Pairs | 8 Orbs - Spread
• Turret Crossing: Turrets will spawn on both sides of the arena.
• Turrets will glow.
• Boss will begin telegraphing up-down. Down is safe first.
• Turrets shoot.
• Wait for the up attack from the boss.
• Dodge the down attack from the boss.
• Turrets will glow but stay up to dodge the attack. The boxes on the bottom will be removed before the turret fires.
• Psychokinesis: 4 AoEs
  • Dodge into Big Spread positions.
  • Stay still until the boss snaps.
• Dodge the Twisters.
• Left turrets will glow - You must stay behind the raised platform.
• Dead Man’s Express/Windpipe: Dodge knockback accordingly.
• Go into pair/spread positions to resolve stored Dead Man’s Overdraught.
• Lightning Burst: Double AoE Tankbusters.
• Dead Man’s Overdraught: 4 Orbs - Pairs | 8 Orbs - Spread. Doing the opposite.
• Arcane Revelation: Going to be execute twice. Resolve similarly to before.
  • Ranged can stay on the left platform as there is a tiny sliver to stand on while dodging the lightning circle.
• Stand still after 2nd Arcane Revelation until the boss snaps. Dodge the Twisters.
• Dead Man’s Express/Windpipe: Opposite of before. Dodge knockback and lasers accordingly.
  • Go into spread/pair right after this.
• Boss will do up-down/down-up attack.
• Lightning Burst: Double AoE Tankbusters.
• Dodge the Snap Twisters.
• Derailment Siege: 6-time repeated tower stack. Mitigate lightly and heal.
• Derail: Boss is about to suplex the platform. Kill the boss or be suplexed.