AAC Cruiserweight M4
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- See also: AAC Cruiserweight Tier and AAC Cruiserweight M4 (Savage)
AAC Cruiserweight M4
- Level
- 100 (Sync: 100)
- Item Level
- 715
- Difficulty
- Normal
- Party size
- Full Party
8 man • 2
2 
4 
- Unsyncing
- Not Allowed
- Time limit
- 90 minutes
- Duty Finder
- Normal Raids (Dawntrail)
- Roulette
- Normal Raids
- Tomestones
20 
10 - Req. quest
The Lone Wolf- Location
- Hunter's Ring
- Region
- Xak Tural
- Stone, Sky, Sea
- Available
- Patch
- 7.2
“You have climbed the ranks of the cruiserweight tier to reach the title match, and the stakes could not be higher. With that which gives your lives' purpose on the line, the match between the unenhanced warrior and the Howling Blade has all of Alexandria on the edge of their seats. It is time to see once and for all who will come out on top: the lone wolf, or the undefeated upstart?
— In-game description
AAC Cruiserweight M4 is a level 100 raid introduced in patch 7.2 with Dawntrail. The raid is also known as M8 or M8N.
Guide
Please note that that the arena is surrounded by a dangerous AoE that will inflicts 
bleeding. Being hit with any avoidable AoEs will inflict a stack of 
Vulnerability Up, along with possibly other effects.
Lone Wolf: Howling Blade
Phase 1
- Extraplanar Pursuit: Raid-wide physical damage.
- Great Divide: A line stack physical tankbuster aimed at the main tank. Both tanks should stack.
- Wolves' Reign: An attack combination:
- A telegraphed small point-blank AoE.
- Three shades of the boss will extend in different directions, denoting late telegraphed circle AoEs at the edges of the room where they face.
- The boss will jump to the location of one of the AoEs and use a telegraphed line AoE in front of him with a fast cast. The boss will move to the other side of the arena.
- Finally, he will use a late telegraphed wide conal AoE in front of him.
- Heavensearth: Stack marker AoE on a random player, dealing magical damage.
- Beckon Moonlight: Summons four untargetable Moonlit Shadow adds, one per cardinal. Each add will brandish its sword to either its right or left, denoting a half room cleave (Moonbeam's Bite). The four cleaves resolve in the order the adds spawn (clockwise or counterclockwise). One way to dodge this is to go to the quadrant that is safe from the first two adds, then move diagonally across to the opposite quadrant after the first two cleaves.
- Shadowchase: The boss will briefly disappear and summon five untargetable clones in a pentagon formation, each of which will point its sword in front, denoting a frontal line AoE. Get behind any of the adds to dodge.
- Bare Fangs: The boss will reposition its Gleaming Fang implements to form a line. Two of the adds will begin glowing first, indicating a line AoE (Fanged Charge) through it with no additional indicator, followed by the other two adds.
- Terrestrial Rage: Meanwhile, three sets of circle AoE telegraphs will spawn at random players' locations, followed by another Heavensearth stack.
Adds Phase
- Tactical Pack: The boss becomes untargetable and spawns two adds: a Wolf of Stone and Wolf of Wind, beginning an adds phase. Both adds must be defeated before the Saber Intensity duty gauge reaches 100, or the party will wipe.
- The adds can be stacked together by tanks.
- The adds will use Weal of Stone and Weal of Wind, a telegraphed frontal line AoE. This occurs at the same time as either spread markers on all players (Gust) or a stack marker (Heavensearth).
- The spreads and stacks inflict high damage, so shielding and mitigation are recommended. All players should stack to reduce damage taken.
Phase 2
- Ravenous Saber: Five hits of physical raidwide damage. The arena will also shrink.
- Invigorated by battle, the Howling Blade strikes all the swifter. The boss will use similar attacks as in phase 1, but at a faster rate and with other enhancements. This will be indicated with his
Hungry for Victory buff. - Wolves' Reign: A similar combo as before but faster. Will also contain two Weal of Stone telegraphed line AoEs with the final frontal cleave.
- Terrestrial Titans: Summons three stone pillars. The boss will then use Titanic Pursuit, dealing instant raid-wide physical damage and cutting each pillar. The pillars will fall as untelegraphed line AoEs based on the direction of their cut (similar to The Slice Is Right GATE or encounters with Hashmal in Ivalice/Bozja). There will be three sets of pillars in total.
- Bare Fangs + Wolves' Reign: Dodge the line AoEs from the drones prior to dodging Wolves' Reign.
- Shadowchase: Functions similarly as before but each add will also spawn a Wolf of Wind, which will use another frontal line AoE (Roaring Wind). Get behind any head to dodge.
- Tracking Tremors: A five-hit magical stack AoE on a random player.
- Beckon Moonlight + Terrestrial Rage: In addition to the standard combo, four Wolf of Stone adds will use Weal of Stone line AoEs in a plus-shaped pattern before the Terrestrial Rage baited AoEs. The half-room cleaves resolve much faster than in phase 1, so using
Sprint is recommended.
Mechanics then repeat until the boss is defeated.
Loot
- 20 Allagan Tomestone of Heliometry
- 10 Allagan Tomestone of Mathematics
Howling Blade Card (Drops at a fixed rate.)- 1
Cruiser Holosaber (Guaranteed to each player's inventory. Limit one per week)
Treasure Coffer 1
| Name | Type | Item Level | Rarity | Quantity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cruiser Holosurcoat
|
Other | N/A | Basic | 1 |
 Cruiser Hologauntlets
|
Other | N/A | Basic | 1 |
 Cruiser Holotrousers
|
Other | N/A | Basic | 1 |
 Cruiser Holobrooch
|
Other | N/A | Basic | 1 |
Treasure Coffer 2
| Name | Type | Item Level | Rarity | Quantity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cruiser Holosurcoat
|
Other | N/A | Basic | 1 |
| Cruiser Holotrousers
|
Other | N/A | Basic | 1 |
 Cruiser Holosabatons
|
Other | N/A | Basic | 1 |
| Cruiser Holobrooch
|
Other | N/A | Basic | 1 |
Treasure Coffer 3
| Name | Type | Item Level | Rarity | Quantity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Faces We Wear - Groovy Glasses 
|
Other | N/A | Basic | 1 |
 Unleashed Orchestrion Roll
|
Orchestrion Roll | N/A | Basic | 1 |
Achievements
This duty is associated with the following achievements:
| Name | Points | Task | Reward | Patch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cruising at the Apex I
|
5 | Complete AAC Cruiserweight Tier. | - | 7.2 |
 Cruising at the Apex II
|
10 | Complete AAC Cruiserweight Tier 5 times. | - | 7.2 |
 Cruising at the Apex III
|
20 | Complete AAC Cruiserweight Tier 10 times. | - | 7.2 |
Dialogue
Howling Blade: Let's begin, shall we? Metem: Can the challenger defeat the wolf in his own lair!? Howling Blade: Cleave! Howling Blade: I wonder if you can keep up... Metem: Such speed─it's as if there's a pack of him! Metem: A stylish evasion, well done! Howling Blade: I do like toying with my prey. Howling Blade: Can you fend off a pack of wolves? Howling Blade: Fly true! Howling Blade: The earth is mine to command! Howling Blade: Not bad, not bad. But we've scarcely begun. Howling Blade: Bear my biting winds! Howling Blade: Still you stand... How delightful! Invigorated by battle, the Howling Blade strikes all the swifter. Howling Blade: Fenrir's power can be wielded in surprising ways. Metem: Where did that colossal thing come from!? Metem: He's put the colossus to the sword! Metem: That must have hurt! But they're not out of the fight yet! Howling Blade: You're mine! Howling Blade: A pack of wolves! Howling Blade: Try this! Metem: The challenger's down! Is this the end!? Metem: They're back on their feet! Let's see if they can stay standing!
