The Forecaster
The Forecaster is a Rank S Elite Mark found in Living Memory.
Killing the Elite Mark will reward the player up to 100 Sacks of Nuts, 100 Allagan Tomestones of Poetics, 80 Allagan Tomestones of Aesthetics, 30 Allagan Tomestones of Heliometry, 1 Cracked Novacluster and 1 Cracked Prismaticluster.
Coordinates
Zone | Coordinates | Level range |
---|---|---|
Living Memory | (X:4.2, Y:29.3) | 100 |
Living Memory | (X:5.1, Y:12.4) | 100 |
Living Memory | (X:12.8, Y:28.3) | 100 |
Living Memory | (X:18.9, Y:20.6) | 100 |
Living Memory | (X:26.8, Y:31.6) | 100 |
Spawn Conditions
Trigger
Cast the blue mage action Northerlies on spawn points.
Time
84 to 132 hours after it's been killed; or alternatively 50 to 80 hours after maintenance has ended.
Tips and Tricks
- Wildfire Conditions is a telegraphed donut AoE applying a Vulnerability Up.
- Hyperelectricity is a telegraphed circle AoE applying a Vulnerability Up.
- Gale-force Winds is a telegraphed column AoE covering the entirety of the front of The Forecaster applying a Vulnerability Up.
- Blizzard Conditions is a telegraphed + shaped AoE applying a Vulnerability Up.
- Forecast applies 3 random buffs to itself and announces the order they will be executed:
- Chance of Blizzards uses Blizzard Conditions without a telegraph.
- Chance of Hyperelectricity uses Hyperelectricity without a telegraph.
- Chance of Gale-force Winds uses Gale-force Winds without a telegraph.
- Chance of Wildfires uses Wildfire Conditions without a telegraph.
- Weather Channel releases these buffs' effects in the order shown on the text bubble while it was casting Forecast.
- Climate Change applies a buff indicating which weather effect is replacing one of the other weather effects. It announces which one will be replaced before the cast.
- Flood Conditions is a telegraphed circle AoE at a random target.
Description
“The data we extracted from the mainframe told us that there's an automaton called the Forecaster stationed somewhere in Living Memory.
It's a bit of a misnomer, to be honest. It doesn't report the weather so much as control it, manipulating the aether in the air to create and maintain different climates.
At least, that's what it was designed to do. According to the error reports we've seen, it's taken on something of a life of its own─and if left unchecked, the chances of it causing an unnatural calamity are growing by the day. We don't know where it is right now, but we think we might know a way to draw it out. Its “extreme weather event suppression system” is still operational, you see, so if you can find a way to summon up a localized blizzard or somesuch, it might just come on over and suppress you!— Rinuri, Solution Nine
Lore
Dialogue
The Forecaster: <bleep> ErRoR... Initiating system reboot. Preparing to relay today's weather report... The Forecaster: Expect a sizzling salvo of scorching sunshine and arid air. Perfect wildfire conditions! The Forecaster: Prepare for a high-voltage bout of booming thunder. A hyperelectric phenomenon! The Forecaster: Brace yourself for a pane-shattering tempest of epic proportions. Gale-force winds incoming! The Forecaster: I forecast frozen fiends and sparkling snowscapes. Don your mittens for blizzard conditions! The Forecaster: <bleep> <bloop>! Time for the latest forecast!