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

[Andevom]

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.

Seeing as how I'm now at a much higher ilvl and can solo all of these maps with ease, I have to think back to when I was doing these the first time.

*I remember not having any issues with either the gargoyles, cockatrices or drakes (I even got stoned by the cockatrices and survived). I killed each one by one.
*The ogres were the easiest multiple mobs. You can even screw up and still save it.
*Gelid Eye is probably the easiest single mob due to the easy-to-dodge abilities.
*The Bombast was a pain because of the spike-damage it doles out, but it's manageable. I had some elixirs on hand just in case.
*Mythril Golem got me once, until I realized the bombs don't go away if you kill the golem first, and they don't do anything until moving in for the explosions.
*The succubus and her demon friends are fairly simple to down. No noticeable issues.
*Morbol's threat of Bad Breath is nullified via stunning.
*The Cyclops, however, gave me problems. The peapuks don't go down fast enough, and you have to deal with two waves of them while making sure you don't get hit by the Cyclops' AoEs. Also, he can't be stunned.

Another thing to consider is that it's not equal for each job. I did these mostly on DRG in the beginning, which afforded me two Stun moves and Elusive Jump (which removes bind in the morbol fight). On SMN, it's even easier, because Titan-Egi can tank for you. BLM was noticeably more challenging, but not impossible.

[Arkenne]

A chocobo companion is most useful in these, but you can always ask a friend to tag along, so long you both are in party when the treasure is discovered, both can attack the mobs.
Only the treasure map owner will earn an alex, the other person will earn Gil.

adding to the person above.

* Bomb seems like it wont explode if you stop attacking while it gets big. This includes skills, autoattacks, companions or other people in party doing any offensive action against it, after a while it just goes back to normal.
* Morbol's bad breath goes nearly at the end, binding you in front of it, but morbol itself can be stunned, so save a stun for it.
* The golem's bombs are homing but wont move at all for a long while, however that time is not long enough for you to kill the golem first and then the bombs, kill the bombs first.
* At the cockatrices, kill the blue one first. Thats the stoning one, the others 2 are paralysis and maybe stun or sleep, they wont excecute their skills before one of the 3 is dead.
* Cyclops is by far the most fun of the fights, but will require you have some experience AoEing with your job.

All of them should be soloable with the current ilvl100 solds sets, so save some solds for them before trying.
If you are playing with someone, and you for some reason die by the end, your friend can still res you so you can get your alex.

[Tarta]

My SO tried her first map after getting Animus. Died due to never done any before, and how is super salty and gave up on Relic weapons. It's kind of a shit system; I mean, yeah the map crumbled. The chest is still there though. It's just right there! There! You were literally standing on it, you know it's there, who cares about the map? Doesn't make sense except to prolong the grind.

[Rahsch]

I solo Alex maps with my nin all the time.

[Tarta]

I solo Alex maps with my nin all the time.

You're 120+. Your job is ninja. Never did it, granted, but it may confer some bonuses that other jobs may not get.

[Chihaya]

My SO tried her first map after getting Animus. Died due to never done any before, and how is super salty and gave up on Relic weapons. It's kind of a shit system; I mean, yeah the map crumbled. The chest is still there though. It's just right there! There! You were literally standing on it, you know it's there, who cares about the map? Doesn't make sense except to prolong the grind.

Why did you not help out then, not like you have to solo these maps.

But once you learn the mechanics, they are not that hard.

Not saying the system is great but.... lawlz at saying it is shit because you failed

[Adrian74]

If we going to bump this thread again...Hmm...

Here's my experience so far!

OVer 5 relics above Novus stage or further, so, tired of doing maps, SB, win gil for wasting it, and so.... All of my maps were doing solo, only died twice. Once it was with the golem, I had a strange bad feeling my first time when I noticed bombs not moving and being called 'foxy bomb'... Yet I continued hitting the golem and... Boom!

Second time was....My total nooby error, I was using PLD that day and thought (Hey! Let's see if... PLD nice single target damage with sword oath will make it easy-faster for this), so decided to do map with PLD, and I thought "Hey, there's no way PLD could be killed in map, isn't it? Except... Cyclops map... AND THEN... CYCLOPS MAP CAME... All of those little monsters didn't die at time, Circle of scorn was just too weak, the chocobo area attack is rarely used and at certain point it was more focused in healing itself and me than attacking.... Couldn't manage to kill the horde of mini monsters, PLD, area lacking.

[Shori]

May I point out that the alexandrite/coffer doesnt disapear if you are raised? Just make sure you're in a party with a whm sch or smn, or at least your chocobo out to last while you're being raised if not in party. Easy-peasy

[Ashkendor]

When it gets big, don't attack it at all. It'll shrink down and then you can spank it out. What the bomb is meant to do is punish those who just go full DPS and don't care about the damage they take. But yes, the bomb is one of the easiest. Smack it when it's small, sheathe weapon when it gets large, repeat.

You mean you're not supposed to just keep wailing on it and maybe pop a cd if you're bored? :3

There's a reason I always come back to Paladin or Warrior for these maps. I have yet to die soloing a single map on either tank class, even when I had less gear. Even the cyclops is no problem for a well geared tank. Use your cooldowns and abuse the hell out of Bloodbath and Circle of Scorn/Steel Cyclone on the adds. If you aren't all that well geared, just get someone to go with you. If you can't find someone you know, just throw a Party Finder up.

how is super salty and gave up on Relic weapons.

That seems like a huge overreaction to me, honestly.

[Spawnie]

alexandrite maps arent really that hard to solo only 1 ever gave me any trouble was the malboro looking 1 lol