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

[Seif]

Also I'm SHOCKED no one's speaking about this but: take your damn chocobo with you! This is literally the ONLY thing the companion is good for!

[MiniTofu]

Also I'm SHOCKED no one's speaking about this but: take your damn chocobo with you! This is literally the ONLY thing the companion is good for!

Because we all been there and use chocobo or ask a friend?

It's not like impossible to solo.

[Melinabean0]

The first map I did, I did die and didn't have my home point set to the zone. I was fairly irritated that I lost the chest, but live and learn I suppose. It is only one piece of Alex after all. I've only died one other time since then and I decided to just call for a raise, which worked perfectly.
Once you know how each mob works it's really not much of a problem to solo them. Unless I'm lagging. But if you feel like you're about to die, you can always run out of their aggro range and rechallenge whatever is left once your health goes back up.

[aisustrong]

Also I'm SHOCKED no one's speaking about this but: take your damn chocobo with you! This is literally the ONLY thing the companion is good for!

pfft
get that lame ass chicken outta my face

[Tiggy]

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.

Maps have worked this way since literally the day they were added. If you die the chest doesn't disappear. It's when you home point that it disappears. Get a friend to come res you in time and you will be fine.

Anyways, would be nice if we had consistency among mob types. Not the guess/check/playerdeath/remember what each mob can or can't do.

I prefer the variety. God forbid we have something slightly different to make us think every once and a while.

[CYoung187]

Oh no! Something difficult with some penalty for failure, it must be broke! I died on one of my maps at the beginning, it sucked but I learned from it and moved on. Next time I was sure to have my choco and kill adds first. This is why we can't have nice things.

[KisaiTenshi]

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Mysterious_Map
there's like 7 different things
none of them are hard

Beg to differ.



There's two problems with the Mysterious chests:
- You can inadvertedly pull the boss out of range, which resets it, but not the adds. (Any, but particularly affects the ones with adds)
- You die because you don't expect the adds (Cyclops and Golem)


The multi-spawn (4 Gargoyles, 3 Cocatrice, and 4 drakes) can not be killed one at a time. The only two that are easily soloable are the single Gelid Eye and the single Bomb. The rest, you're more likely to run out of time if you try to solo them due to the above. I blew two maps today due to getting spawns I hadn't seen before, for a total of 4 fails and 9 successes, solo.

[AskaRay]

Beg to differ.
The multi-spawn (4 Gargoyles, 3 Cocatrice, and 4 drakes) can not be killed one at a time. The only two that are easily soloable are the single Gelid Eye and the single Bomb. The rest, you're more likely to run out of time if you try to solo them due to the above. I blew two maps today due to getting spawns I hadn't seen before, for a total of 4 fails and 9 successes, solo.

Incorrect

I killed them solo with my bard every time they appeared, with plenty of time left.
The cockatrices you have to kill in a certain order or else you'll be stoned. Black, Yellow...then the other one, I think it goes.

I mean I can imagine having trouble being a healer or something, but you don't need to be the relic job to do them and...yeah.


Also, suuuuper necro LOL wait guess it isn't, i cant read.

[aerialrave]

Happened to me on my very first map. Got the coincounter and I ignored his bomb adds, which proceeded to blow up in face. This was in town too at Ceruleum so a bunch of people watched me die

It's okay because most people won't finish their weapon in 75 days (1 alex per day) anyway. I don't think most people have a ton of gil and/or materia laying around waiting for this. When I was working on mine, I spent a bunch of Tomes for extra maps to collect the Alexandrites earlier. I later regretted this because after I had the 75 total, I did not have the materia I wanted nor the gil to finish the job. It took me about a week or two extra in which I continued collecting Alexandrites before I was able to finally complete my weapon. The last ~20 materia or so are a real killer. It got to a point where I went around telling everyone "I'm up to the part where it doesn't matter how many Alexandrites I have because I can't afford the materia to meld them".

"This Thread has been a Public Service Announcement"
The more you know~

[Ilenya]

I mean I can imagine having trouble being a healer or something, but you don't need to be the relic job to do them and...yeah.

Note, I have no issues as a SCH, but I have DoTs ticking constantly regardless on what happens. Sure, I get petrified at times, but I just wait it out. Eos makes sure I don't die.

Also, yeah, I got killed my first one as well. My response was basically "Well, that's what I get for ignoring bomb adds..."

Also, how on earth does the Bombast one work? I really don't understand it. Never died, but I feel like I am missing a mechanic that explains why it's just so damn easy.