If you die during Alexandrite Map, you lose your chance at Alexandrite for the day.

Just did the new daily quest for alexandrite map, went to go do it, died, map lost, coffer lost, zero alexandrite for the day.

Be careful.

I like this kind of danger.

http://i.imgur.com/HdNbBU5.jpg

That seemed obvious.

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Originally Posted by lololink

That seemed obvious.

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For someone who has never done a map before? You really think that?

So where do you get these maps

@Darxer

How difficult would you say it seemed? Full party needed? 4 + chocobos? I'm curious! Or do you think you could have soloed it and just weren't prepared for what happened?

as far as i know its only possible to solo this maps

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Originally Posted by Yahavage

@Darxer

How difficult would you say it seemed? Full party needed? 4 + chocobos? I'm curious! Or do you think you could have soloed it and just weren't prepared for what happened?

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Mine could have been solo'd, I just got blindsided. I was fighting a boss-type then 4 bombs spawned a short distance away, I was setting up to Bane dots, but they never came closer to attack me at all, then after about 15 seconds, they all charged at me at once and Self-Destructed, I went from 100% to 0 in an instant

Edit: Just watched a BLM w/ animus get wrecked in the same spot, different mobs in the fight

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Originally Posted by Darxer

Just did the new daily quest for alexandrite map, went to go do it, died, map lost, coffer lost, zero alexandrite for the day.

Be careful.

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Vanished it just because you died or had you your homepoint in another zone?

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

as far as i know its only possible to solo this maps

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I see. I need to go home and play, still stuck at work though boo :(

Imo it seems to work like treasure maps

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Originally Posted by Darxer

Mine could have been solo'd, I just got blindsided. I was fighting a boss-type then 4 bombs spawned a short distance away, I was setting up to Bane dots, but they never came closer to attack me at all, then after about 15 seconds, they all charged at me at once and Self-Destructed, I went from 100% to 0 in an instant

Edit: Just watched a BLM w/ animus get wrecked in the same spot, different mobs in the fight

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Interesting.... wonder if they're trying to push FATE's as the viable option here by making these difficult? Cheeky! Or if he just boo-boo'ed as well lol

Can the maps be done as any class once u get it? Or only by the class with the animus, cause then getting the maps as blm than doing them as smn seems safe.

Poor Dragoons =/

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Originally Posted by Pooky_Pasha

Poor Dragoons =/

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Why poor Dragoons? And wouldn't Monk be in the same boat for anything that hurts Dragoon? Only SMN has a real distinct advantage but if it works like treasure maps then it's timed so slow burning with Titan might time you out.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Vanished it just because you died or had you your homepoint in another zone?

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This is an important distinction. Can we get a report on this?

Try and do it with a party.
Maybe they are trying to enable party play in open world more.

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Originally Posted by Luxx

Try and do it with a party.
Maybe they are trying to enable party play in open world more.

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This is actually really cool if true; gives more value for people to play together if it reduces the risk of things going wrong.

Just helped 2 friends do the maps in parties.
Confirmed you can be in a party while doing the map and they can help you.

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Originally Posted by YmirEsc

Just helped 2 friends do the maps in parties.
Confirmed you can be in a party while doing the map and they can help you.

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Thanks for this. I think I know the answer to my next question, but I have to ask anyway...

Alexandrite drops for whole group or just map owner?

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Originally Posted by JayCommon

Thanks for this. I think I know the answer to my next question, but I have to ask anyway...

Alexandrite drops for whole group or just map owner?

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Map owner.

I'm gonna guess....map owner alone....if not a group of 8 ppl would be able to farm 8 in a couple minutes...

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Originally Posted by Erudain

I'm gonna guess....map owner alone....if not a group of 8 ppl would be able to farm 8 in a couple minutes...

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Right, but you are still gated by what materia costs are going to be, if there is even going to be any materia available to you when you are ready to buy it.

Like I said, I figured...but I had to ask. :D

Has anyone been able to determine if you still fail if your home point is in the same zone as the map?

When doing regular maps and you die you will be able to retry if your current home point is in the same zone as the map. Was the user in this instance home pointing to another zone? If so, yes, you would fail. Just as you would with existing maps.

i also died on my first map, it was a big morbol that binds you and then makes his 20 thousand debuff aoe.
you can do the maps in a grp, only you get the alex, was doing it with some freecompany guys :)

dont make the maps alone, its to risky if you get a wrong mob and tanks have problems with the time limit

Where can i get these Alexandrite Map from? Do i MUST get those stupid ink before the quest open up?

I soloed mine, 4 drakes poped and i just AoE them down with no problems, but they are harder than normal solo maps.

Done 2 maps so far both were easily soloable on a paladin.

Just got kill in one. The first boss from halatali hm spawned and 10 adds spawn kill them then 10 more spawns. Well got killed before I can heal myself up much. Good bye 800 myths, so yeah seems safer to do them in parties, but with the amount of maps that needs to be done it seems hard to always get people to help u right away.

Done 3 maps, all easy with a healer chocobo.

If the fights are giving you issue consider using your utility abilities to avoid needless damage, especially from Bombast.

Just throwing it out there, but for the more difficult maps, it might be very worthwhile to consider a class based build (not job) with xclass abilities picked out for Solo play.

Certainly sounds like having your Chocobo out is just about default if you want to do these solo.

The map I got said "Level 50 recommended." Didn't say anything about a party or recommended size of said party in the description. This was a map with 4 or 5 of a mix of drakes and biasts.

It's definitely a couple steps up from a solo LV50 treasure map, but it didn't seem too bad.

Can anyone confirm whether you have to do these on the Animus job to receive Alex?

went alone and I would have probably wiped if people around did not help...

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Originally Posted by Kanemano

Can anyone confirm whether you have to do these on the Animus job to receive Alex?

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Did on non-Animus job, got alex.

I have done 10 of these maps today solo. It wasn't that bad but then again I do main on SMN. I would say you do need to come prepared to those fights for alexandrite because the enemies hit hard. I saw some of my friends who play MNK and DRG jobs get thrashed really bad. They were very angry due to the fact that they lost over 5 treasure maps with alexandrite pieces in them for trying to solo. Alternatively, fates are viable if you can't get a party together plus I happened to get two pieces today from fates. If you play a melee class like MNK or DRG make sure you have a healer as the enemies AOE is magic based and they hit hard. I could be wrong but I did watch as my friends tried to solo and laughed at me for offering to help saying that they didn't need my help. In the end they got thrashed multiple times.

Got a menace marlboro that kept stunning me before using bad breath so I couldn't avoid it. Even with my healer chocobo, I died.

Don't underestimate these maps. Bring a friend or two.

Is the map stackable? I mean is it unique? Can I like save up lots of map and do them all at once?

what the hell is this? there's no warning at all that I'll lose Alexandrite if I die. I've done 6-7 maps without any problem but the last one had a bunch of bombs self-destructed on me.

what a waste of time grinding for 400 tomes... at least put some warning message to warn the new players.