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The Aetherochemical Research Facility

Level: 60 (Sync: 60)
Item Level: 142 (Sync: 180)
Difficulty: Normal

Party size: Light Party
4 man • 1 1 2
Unsyncing: Allowed
Time limit: 90 minutes
Duty Finder: Dungeons (Heavensward)
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Tomestones: 150
Req. quest: Heavensward
Entrance: Azys Lla (X:21.4, Y:22.5, Z:8.7)
Modes: Duty Support, Explorer
Patch: 3.0

“

Your pursuit of the archbishop has brought you to the Aetherochemical Research Facility, at the heart of the floating isle of Azys Lla. However, he and his knights are not the only threat for which you must be prepared; shortly before your arrival, the VIth Imperial Legion entered the facility in search of the secret to mastering primals, and their presence will serve to complicate matters. With multiple factions and their ambitions set on a collision course, your mission promises to be fraught with danger and uncertainty both.

— In-game description

The Aetherochemical Research Facility is a level 60 dungeon introduced in patch 3.0 with Heavensward. With the addition of Duty Support in Patch 6.3, changes to progression and bosses were implemented. Furthermore, it is the only MSQ dungeon to have 4 bosses.

Unlock

Level 60 players need to start the level 60 Main Scenario Quest Heavensward. Players can start the quest by talking to Guidance Node in Azys Lla (x15, y21). To unlock the quest, players need to complete the level 59 Main Scenario Quest Fetters of Lament.

Objectives

Clear Analysis and Proving
Clear Bioweapons Research
Defeat Harmachis
Defeat all opposition
Defeat Ascian Prime

Bosses

The Aetherochemical Research Facility Guide

Regula van Hydrus

Stuns the tank and follows up with a high damage attack. Heal as necessary.

Summons turrets every phase swap, with one additional turret per swap. Turrets self-destruct if not killed in time, causing room-wide damage.
- Magitek Turret Is target a random party member with a visible line and will continuously attack them.
- Magitek Turret IIs target random party members with circle AoEs.

After switching to Phase 2, he will move to the walls and repeatedly cast Magitek Slug, an easily dodged line AoE

At the end of Phase 2 will cast Magitek Spread, a large AoE that hits everywhere except a wide cone behind him.

Harmachis

Party members should remain on different sides of the boss when possible, only stacking up to mitigate Ballistic Missile.

Weighing of the Heart: Changes Forms, form will be announced but may be only a split second before the change. There is no cast or announcement prior to changing back to Sphinx.

Sphinx form
- Riddle of the Sphinx is an easily dodged circle AoE.
- Will periodically attack the tank with a unmarked cone of Poison.

Anti-Cobra form
- High damage tank buster (6000-8000+ damage)

Anti-Naga form
- Petrifaction is a gaze attack that will cause 10 seconds of Petrification unless you are looking away from the boss.
- Circle of Flames is an instant AoE that will target multiple party members, stay spread out to avoid stacking damage.

Anti-Machina form
- Ballistic Missile will target a party member with a high-damage missile, indicated by a small circle on the ground. Have one other party member stack on you to prevent the damage. More than two people sharing the impact will not prevent the damage.
- Gaseous Bomb is an instant cone AoE that will target a random party member.

Lahabrea & Igeyorhm

As of Patch 6.3, the battle will only end when both Ascians' health are reduced to 0.1% instead of 50%, and both will always be targettable.

Shadow Flare: Unavoidable Raidwade damage cast by Lahabrea
Fire Sphere: Lahabrea summons five untargettable Burning Stars that will explode in AoE circles after a few seconds.
- Esoteric Fusion: Another version of this spell will result in two pairs of Burning Stars that are tethered and advance towards each other, which will explode upon contact.
Grip of Night: A frontal cone AoE cast by Igeyorhm.
Circle of Ice: Igeyorhm summons four Frozen Stars that detonate Donut AoE circles. Stand on the Frozen Stars to avoid damage.
End of Days: This is the first time players will see a line stack marker, which requires players to line up between Lahabrea and the targetted player.
- Esoteric Fusion: Igeyorhm will tether two of her Frozen Stars together, creating a bigger donut AoE that covers the safe spots in the other Frozen Stars. Players should therefore stand under where the tethered Frozen Stars will detonate to avoid damage.
One Ascian will also occasionally heal the other for around 5% of their HP.

Ascian Prime

The dungeon does not end when Lahabrea and Igeyorhm are defeated. Instead, a skippable cutscene will show the two merging into the real final boss, an Ascian Prime.

Shadow Flare: Unavoidable Raidwide Damage.
Height of Chaos: Tankbuster
Dualstar: Features combinations of the Burning Stars and Frozen Stars from the previous battle. Players must eye the tethers to determine which Stars will collide first and adjust accordingly.
Universal Manipulation: Causes room-wide damage and five debuffs. As of Patch 6.3, there no portals to hide in and avoid this, and the debuffs will detonate the following mechanics:
- Bleeding: Players take damage overtime until the debuff expires.
- Ancient Circle Ancient Circle: Upon expiring, this creates a massive donut AoE around each player. They should stack in the center to ensure the donut AoEs do not spread there.
- Dark Whispers Dark Whispers: Upon expiring, this creates a purple AoE circle on each player, who should spread out to avoid overlapping.
- Ancient Frost Ancient Frost: Upon expiring, the afflicted player will find themselves the victim of a stack marker.
- Burning Chains Burning Chains: Upon expiring, players are chained by pairs and must run away from each other to break them.
Arcane Revelation: A reprisal of Lahabrea's ultimate from The Ultimate Weapon. Ascian Prime becomes untargettable and summons a large Arcane Sphere. From it, he draws energy to fill a Ascian Prime's Power gauge.
- Untargettable Shades of Lahabrea and Igeyorhm appear and unleash mechanics on the party.
  - Dark Blizzard II and Dark Fire II: Igeyorhm's shade creates several frozen line AoEs while Lahabrea's shade places purple AoE circles on players.
  - Shadow Flare: Both Shades cast this at the same time, dealing extra raidwide damage.
- Annihilation: Heavy raid-wide damage based on how far the Ascian Prime's Power gauge filled. If Ascian Prime was allowed to reach 100%, his attack will wipe the party

From there, the mechanics reapeat themselves until the boss is defeated.

Loot

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Faded Copy of Imagination	Orchestrion Roll	N/A	ABasic	1

100
Allagan Tomestone of Poetics for first time completion

Achievements

This duty is associated with the following achievements:

Name	Points	Task	Reward	Patch
Mapping the Realm: Aetherochemical Research Facility	10	Discover every location in the Aetherochemical Research Facility.	-	3.0

Images

The Aetherochemical Research Facility3.png
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Dungeons

A Realm Reborn (Lv. 15-50)	Sastasha (Hard) • The Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard) • Copperbell Mines (Hard) • Halatali (Hard) • The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak • Haukke Manor (Hard) • Brayflox's Longstop (Hard) • The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard) • Cutter's Cry • The Stone Vigil (Hard) • Dzemael Darkhold • The Aurum Vale • Castrum Meridianum • The Praetorium • Amdapor Keep (Hard) • The Wanderer's Palace (Hard) • Pharos Sirius • The Lost City of Amdapor • Hullbreaker Isle • Snowcloak • The Keeper of the Lake

Heavensward (Lv. 51-60)	The Dusk Vigil • Sohm Al (Hard) • The Aery • The Vault • The Great Gubal Library (Hard) • The Aetherochemical Research Facility • Neverreap • The Fractal Continuum • Saint Mocianne's Arboretum • Pharos Sirius (Hard) • The Antitower • The Lost City of Amdapor (Hard) • Sohr Khai • Hullbreaker Isle (Hard) • Xelphatol • Baelsar's Wall Deep Dungeon: Palace of the Dead

Stormblood (Lv. 61-70)	The Sirensong Sea • Shisui of the Violet Tides • Bardam's Mettle • Doma Castle • Castrum Abania • Ala Mhigo • Kugane Castle • The Temple of the Fist • The Drowned City of Skalla • Hells' Lid • The Fractal Continuum (Hard) • The Swallow's Compass • Saint Mocianne's Arboretum (Hard) • The Burn • The Ghimlyt Dark Deep Dungeon: Heaven-on-High

Shadowbringers (Lv. 71-80)	Holminster Switch • Dohn Mheg • The Qitana Ravel • Malikah's Well • Mt. Gulg • Amaurot • The Twinning • Akadaemia Anyder • The Grand Cosmos • Anamnesis Anyder • The Heroes' Gauntlet • Matoya's Relict • Paglth'an

Endwalker (Lv. 81-90)	The Tower of Zot • The Tower of Babil • Vanaspati • Ktisis Hyperboreia • The Aitiascope • The Dead Ends • Smileton • The Stigma Dreamscape • Alzadaal's Legacy • The Fell Court of Troia • Lapis Manalis • The Aetherfont • The Lunar Subterrane Variant and Criterion: The Sil'dihn Subterrane (Another / Savage) • Mount Rokkon (Another / Savage) • Aloalo Island (Another / Savage) Deep Dungeon: Eureka Orthos

Dawntrail (Lv. 91-100)	Ihuykatumu • Worqor Zormor • The Skydeep Cenote • Vanguard • Origenics • Alexandria • Tender Valley • The Strayborough Deadwalk • Yuweyawata Field Station

Duties

Dungeons • Guildhests • Trials • Raids • PvP • Quest Battles • Treasure Hunt • Deep Dungeons • Field Operations • Variant and Criterion Dungeons • Gathering Forays • The Gold Saucer • Hall of the Novice • Stone, Sky, Sea • The Masked Carnivale

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 ===[[File:Aggressive difficulty r6.png|link=]] [[Lahabrea]] & [[Igeyorhm]]===
+As of [[Patch 6.3]], the battle will only end when both [[Ascians]]' health are reduced to 0.1% instead of 50%, and both will always be targettable.
-Initially, Igeyorhm is active while Lahabrea becomes untargettable and indirectly supports her. When Igeyorhm reaches 50% health, the two will switch roles. The encounter will end with a mid-fight cutscene leading to the final battle once Lahabrea also reaches half-health remaining.
+*'''Shadow Flare''': Unavoidable Raidwade damage cast by Lahabrea
+*'''Fire Sphere''': Lahabrea summons five untargettable '''Burning Stars''' that will explode in AoE circles after a few seconds.
-* Abilities
+**'''Esoteric Fusion''': Another version of this spell will result in two pairs of Burning Stars that are tethered and advance towards each other, which will explode upon contact.
-** '''End of Days''': Line AoE cast by the inactive boss
+*'''Grip of Night''': A frontal cone AoE cast by Igeyorhm.
-** '''Dark Orb''': Basic attack, targets tank
+*'''Circle of Ice''': Igeyorhm summons four '''Frozen Stars''' that detonate Donut AoE circles. Stand on the '''Frozen Stars''' to avoid damage.
-** '''Sea of Pitch''': DoT circle AoE, targets all party members
+* '''End of Days''': This is the first time players will see a line stack marker, which requires players to line up between Lahabrea and the targetted player.
-** '''Blizzard Sphere''': Multiple circle AoEs that will cause '''Frozen''', always followed by '''Fire Sphere'''
+**'''Esoteric Fusion''': Igeyorhm will tether two of her '''Frozen Stars''' together, creating a bigger donut AoE that covers the safe spots in the other '''Frozen Stars'''. Players should therefore stand under where the tethered '''Frozen Stars''' will detonate to avoid damage.
-** '''Fire Sphere''': Multiple circle AoEs, always preceded by '''Blizzard Sphere'''
+* One Ascian will also occasionally heal the other for around 5% of their HP.
-** '''Dark Blizzard II''': Random circle AoEs
-** '''Dark Fire II''': Random circle AoEs
-** '''Permafrost''': Only cast by Igeyrohm while inactive, will apply '''Thin Ice''', causing party members to slip forward when attempting to walk
 ===[[File:Aggressive difficulty r6.png|link=]] [[Ascian Prime]]===
+The dungeon does not end when [[Lahabrea]] and [[Igeyorhm]] are defeated. Instead, a skippable cutscene will show the two merging into the real final boss, an Ascian Prime.
-* Dodge AoEs
+* '''Shadow Flare''': Unavoidable Raidwide Damage.
+* '''Height of Chaos''': Tankbuster
-* Boss will mark two players with a circular AoE with a safe area in the middle. All players should stack up to avoid taking damage.
+* '''Dualstar''': Features combinations of the '''Burning Stars''' and '''Frozen Stars''' from the previous battle. Players must eye the tethers to determine which Stars will collide first and adjust accordingly.
+* '''Universal Manipulation''': Causes room-wide damage and five debuffs. As of [[Patch 6.3]], there no portals to hide in and avoid this, and the debuffs will detonate the following mechanics:
-* Boss will become immune and summon two orbs--Blizzard and Fire--that move towards him. As before, Blizzard will freeze the party if not broken and Fire will deal damage if not broken. Kill the Blizzard orb first in the event there is not enough DPS for both orbs.
+**''{{status effect|bleed}}'' '''[[Bleeding]]''': Players take damage overtime until the debuff expires.
+**''{{status effect|Ancient Circle}}'' '''[[Ancient Circle]]''': Upon expiring, this creates a massive donut AoE around each player. They should stack in the center to ensure the donut AoEs do not spread there.
-* Last phase will spawn four dark portals around the room. The boss will begin casting '''Universal Manipulation''', which deals AoE damage and places a plethora of hazardous debuffs (think Bad Breath with stuns.) Players must jump into the portals before the cast bar completes to avoid Universal Manipulation. Some AoE healing is necessary as the portals place a DoT on each party member.
+**''{{status effect|Dark Whispers}}'' [[Dark Whispers]]: Upon expiring, this creates a purple AoE circle on each player, who should spread out to avoid overlapping.
+**''{{status effect|Ancient Frost}}'' '''[[Ancient Frost]]''': Upon expiring, the afflicted player will find themselves the victim of a stack marker.
-* At around 30%, the boss attaches orbs to all players. The orbs will follow their tethered players, and damage and apply a debuff if they hit. If a player pops another player's orb, they take the damage, but not the debuff. Therefore it is best for players to pop each other's orbs, minding that the tank and healer should move the least so they can maintain their roles. Players can run from the orbs to stall for time if they have any hazardous debuffs or are too low on HP to survive.
+**''{{status effect|Burning Chains}}'' '''[[Burning Chains]]''': Upon expiring, players are chained by pairs and must run away from each other to break them.
+*'''Arcane Revelation''': A reprisal of [[Lahabrea]]'s ultimate from [[The Ultimate Weapon]]. Ascian Prime becomes untargettable and summons a large '''Arcane Sphere'''. From it, he draws energy to fill a '''Ascian Prime's Power''' gauge.
-* Abilities
+**Untargettable Shades of '''Lahabrea''' and '''Igeyorhm''' appear and unleash mechanics on the party.
-** '''Ancient Disruption''': Targeted circle AoEs
+***'''Dark Blizzard II''' and '''Dark Fire II''': '''Igeyorhm's shade''' creates several frozen line AoEs while '''Lahabrea's shade''' places purple AoE circles on players.
-** '''Shadow Flare''': Causes room-wide damage
+***'''Shadow Flare''': Both Shades cast this at the same time, dealing extra raidwide damage.
-** '''Ancient Circle''': Two party members will be marked with circular AoEs, with a central safe area. Stack up to avoid damage.
+**'''Annihilation''': Heavy raid-wide damage based on how far the '''Ascian Prime's Power''' gauge filled. If Ascian Prime was allowed to reach 100%, his attack will wipe the party
-** '''Annihilation''': Causes high room-wide damage
+From there, the mechanics reapeat themselves until the boss is defeated.
-** '''Universal Manipulation''': Causes room-wide damage and five debuffs, can be avoided by stepping into one of the dark portals around the edge of the room before the cast completes.
-*** The portal will cause '''Bleeding''' and '''Fetters''' until '''Universal Manipulation''' is complete.
-** '''Chaos Sphere''': Four tethered orbs will appear and move towards the tethered party member. If they hit their target they will cause damage and debuffs. Players should pop other player's orbs to avoid the debuffs. They will still take damage.
-** '''Entropic Flame''': Three line AoEs targeting random players.
 ==Loot==
 ===[[File:Silver Coffer (small).png|link=]] [[Regula van Hydrus]]===

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Contents

Unlock

Objectives