The Celestial Nexus

Mission Name:	The Celestial Nexus
Start NPC:	None
Requirements:	Zilart Rank 15
Suggested Level:
Title:	Burier of the Illusion
Repeatable:	No
Reward:	Zilart Rank 16

Previous Mission:	Zilart Mission 15: The Sealed Shrine
Next Mission:	Zilart Mission 17: Awakening

This is a 6 man fight, NOT an alliance fight

Note #1: Magic aggro inside of Shrine of Ru'Avitau so everyone will need Prism Powders and Silent Oils, or the ninjutsu equivalent: Shinobi-Tabi and Sanjaku-Tenugui, respectively. Spectral Jig will also work, if a player is Dancer main job or support job.
Note #2: Someone might need to open the yellow door so that everyone can get past the door. The nearest Monolith to open this yellow door is at this Map at 9/10-I/J of the Shrine of Ru'Avitau.

Head to I-6 in Ru'Aun Gardens (Genbu's island) and enter Shrine of Ru'Avitau Map 2.
Sneak up here.
Head south and follow the path to J-7 past the first yellow door. Note: It is highly possible the door will be closed, so you will probably need someone to open yellow beforehand.
Then head west past the second yellow door to the control room with 2 monoliths at H-7.
Use Silent Oils and head south to a room with 2 Dark Elementals.
You no longer need sneak from here. But you will need Invisible for the Golems.
Head either east or west and follow the corridors till you come to another room with 2 Dark Elementals at H-10.
Head north and then down the stairs to the Celestial Nexus at H-9.
- There are 4 total doors in the Celestial Nexus all with the same name; one after another. The fourth door is the final door and leads into the BC. Do not open this (the fourth door with the sirens in the room) door until you are ready to begin the BC. There is no actual Burning Circle to stand on to enter.
Group up with your party if you have not already and enter the battle field. Once you enter, you cannot flee from the battle.
- If you do need to leave, just die. After being kicked from the BC you will reappear at the entrance of the Celestial Nexus. If you wipe, you will not go to Hall of the Gods.
- Buffs WILL wear upon entry
Watch the final cutscene and prepare to battle Eald'narche, who has two forms.

Note #3: You will not lose Experience Points for dying in this fight. So if you wipe, get up and try again.

When trying to establish hate, try using your enmity tools on Eald'narche instead of the Exoplates.
Orbitals x 2 - have ~130hp and if defeated; they are resummoned quickly. Lullaby works rarely (detector mobs are very resistant, but not entirely immune to it), but Sleep is recommended due to being vastly more reliable.
Exoplates - the armor surrounding Eald'narche. It has about 10000 HP. It does not do melee attacks. Special attacks:
- Cronos Sling: Cone Attack physical damage (~300-600), absorbed by Utsusemi (2 shadows)
- Gaea Stream: Single target(?) damage (~200), absorbed by Utsusemi
- Uranos Cascade: AoE physical damage (~200-400), absorbed by Utsusemi
- Phase Shift: 30' AoE physical damage (~600-1300), Stun, Bind, absorbed by Utsusemi
  - Used at around 66%, 33% and 1% HP, getting stronger with each use.
  - Phase Shift takes away 2 shadows. With only 1 shadow up, WAR75/NIN37 took ~800 damage on second Phase Shift.

Eald'narche - invulnerable to all attacks until the Exoplates are defeated.
- He uses ancient magic and Sleepga II.
- Head Butt works well at stopping his ancient magic.
- Once the Exoplates are gone, he will have only about 2000 HP.

Suggested strategy - have melee use 2 hour specials to quickly dispose of the Exoplates, while mages stay far enough to avoid being hit by Phase Shift. Sleep the Orbitals as they're not worth attacking. After the Exoplates are gone it only takes a few hits to get Eald'narche to his second form. There is very little time to rest before the second form. Consequently, after the Exoplates are killed, do not immediately attack Eald'narche but rest and recover HP, MP, status (and raise weakness if need be) before finishing off the first stage of the fight.
- Eald'narche can EASILY be tanked with /NIN by anyone with a strong hate tool (Provoke, Flash, Ninjustu spam, etc). Keep haste up on tanker.
- Try to avoid doing anything to Eald'narche until the Exoplates are gone; in particular, pull the Orbitals away before using Sleepga. Let your tank get initial aggro and then tank that way.
- Note that if all the frontliners do not have Utsusemi, burning down the Exoplates quickly as advised above will result in a lot of damage (and likely death) due to Phase Shift spam (which is triggered by Exoplates HP). A wiser approach in such a situation would be to do damage until just before triggering a Phase Shift, then have all melees turn around. Heal up, do damage to trigger the Phase Shift, recover from it, and proceed, repeating for each of the three Phase Shifts.

In the event of a wipe, don't Reraise; you will get aggro wherever you are on the battlefield.

This battlefield becomes very easy if all players sub Ninja (including mages). Utsusemi can negate a lot of the damaging TP attacks and spells.

Eald'narche has proven to be moderately difficult. Having a SMN in the group helps with the DD, BLM is a must to dispose of the gunpods that spawn. A well geared tank and heavy DD and a refresher are recommended.