Necrophobia Forked Tower: Magic Guide in FFXIV

Necrophobia is the third boss of The Forked Tower: Magic. The arena is a circle, and a death wall will spawn alongside the raidwide that will instantly kill any players that touch it. The boss is weak to Ice.

As a reminder, all encounters within FTM will inflict a permanent Vulnerability Up debuff. As such, players intending to greed mechanics must be aware that doing so too often can lead to instant and unavoidable death due to unavoidable damage becoming too great to survive.

• Hail of Hellflares: Multi-hit Raidwide.
• Corpse Mangler: Tankbuster.
• Ancient Fire III: Large point-blank AoE.
• Ancient Blizzard III: Large plus-shaped AoE.
• Ancient Thunder III: Four cone-shaped AoEs in an X shape.
• Summon Heads: Summons four heads (followed by Death Shroud) or eight heads (followed by Vacuum Wave).
• Death Shroud: Tethers to each of the four summoned heads with a previously used element.
• Heads Roll: Each summoned head moves to a position around the edge of the arena, always facing north or south.
• Severed Fire/Blizzard/Thunder III: Casts the Ancient spell again, while mirroring the spell to any heads tethered with that element (denoted by a particle effect around these heads during the Severed cast), causing multiple instances of the same spell at the same time.
• Vacuum Wave: Telegraphed half-room cleave. Often paired with eight heads doing Deathly Ray, line AoEs in the directions the heads are facing.
• Dark Current: Line AoE in front of and behind the boss, which then pulses outwards to the side as multiple identical line AoEs.
• Severed Dark Current: Identical to Dark Current, but also sets off some of the four heads around the arena.

1. Hail of Hellfires
2. Ancient Fire III
3. Ancient Blizzard III
4. Corpse Mangler
5. Summon Heads (four) + Death Shroud (four fire)
6. Death Shroud (four fire)
7. Heads Roll + Severed Fire III
8. Summon Heads (four) + Death Shroud (three fire, one ice)
9. Heads Roll + Severed Fire III + Severed Blizzard III
10. Hail of Hellfires
11. Vacuum Wave
12. Summon heads (eight)
13. Deathly Rays
14. Vacuum Wave + Deathly Rays
15. Dark Current
16. Ancient Thunder III
17. Summon Heads (four) + Death Shroud (two ice, two thunder)
18. Heads Roll + Severed Dark Current (Ice) + Severed Dark Current + Lightning
19. No new mechanics from here onwards

• Keeping melee uptime in this boss can be difficult due to the large size of many AoEs. Players who are not confident in their ability to read Heads Roll may wish to avoid greeding to have a larger margin of safety for incoming damage during these mechanics if they make a mistake.

Clearing Necrophobia will reward players with a personal treasure coffers that only they can see, which can be found near the exit of the boss arena.

There is a stretch of walkway between the third boss and the fourth, and players will be required to defeat all enemies here in order to progress. A treasure coffer will appear upon defeating all enemies. Next, players that have Phantom Thief mastered will wish to use Lockpicker in order to open two locked doors and reveal two more treasure coffers.

The next boss is The Index.