Vana'diel Bestiary: Helldiver  

Ok so I was looking up the boomerang for my nin. I found that this NM dropped it. So i come out and had same result as everyone else, 4 PH...then NM. I didnt get the drop. There wasn't any info on the respawn time so I just stayed and killed PH until it popped again. The respawn timer appears to be 2-3 hours. I waited 2:15 for it the second time. NO DROP AGAIN!!! Im going to {burn} {down} Square Enix if they dont give me the damn boomerang!

when does he pop up

Didn't know a thing about this NM. Just checked a random bird with a weird name while I was running to check out the lighthouse since I'd never seen it before and discovered the "Helldiver is impossible to gauge!" message.

Figured I'd kill it for the hell of it...This thing is tough. I just got killed as a 36WHM/18BLM. Didn't think I'd lose so I didn't have Reraise up. >< Just casted Protect II and ran in.

My bad... T-T

i saw this guy one time and passed up the chance to fight it bcus i thought it was a normal bird! doh! >_<

(good thing i did, idve gotten served)

got this guy once on a silk run took him out pretty fast got the drop sold it in AH 4,500gil not to bad (55rdm/blm) He was the last thing i was expecting to find out there, saw him and i had to take a second look. sleept him buffed up and much to my surprise he didnt give me much of a fight >< didnt realize he was a low NM

Just solo'd Helldive on my BST23 and I thought I'd tell my story.

I was XPing in Buburimu earlier, mostly killing goblins in the area marked on the map as the spawn of Helldive. Competition for pets (crawlers and dhalmels, mostly) was rough, with 6 or so DRGs farming the area on the coast. I already dodged 3 MPK attempts from them earlier, and was weary of trying this NM when I found it.

I ask my LS about it (ClownphobiaBeasts, an all-BST LS on Leviathan) and they said go for it. Being a mere level 23 BST/WHM, the only tool I had at my disposal was Cure2. I charm a DC Zu and send it against Helldive, and I'm surprised at how strong it is. My Zu hit for ~15-20 a hit and Helldive hit my Zu for 50-60 a hit. I'm like "Oh sh!t." and scuttle off to find a second pet to throw at it.

This goes back and fourth for quite some time. It ripped apart any crawler, dhalmel, or zu I threw at it. One of the weaker Zu's I threw at it went down almost imediately. It was hit for 90-100 twice (this mob has double attack) followed by a Helldive in the low 100s. Unprepared, I threw a jug crab at it.

It's HP began to dwindle. 75%, 60%, 30%, and eventually, it gets down to 15%. It manages to hit me a few times for ~40-60 a hit, and a crit of 80 something. This thing was tearing up everything thrown at it.

I'm running down to the beach and I check the first leech I find. Charm it, pop Familiar, and send it at Helldive. The leech finally manages to kill the beast, and I'm rewarded with 200 XP, a fire crystal, and a bird feather. Even though I didn't get the drop, it was a lot of fun, and it put my skill to the test. I estimate it killed 8-10 mobs and a jug crab before it died.

was in Buburimu Peninsula one day and had around 30 minutes before i needed to log
decided to go after this guy for fun
killed all the zus in the area
after awhile he popped southeast of the lighthouse
disposed of him easily as a 50war/25thf
and he dropped the wingedge for me

I was hunting that yesterday, it took me about an hour for it to spawn, the wingedge is only worth about 5k on Cerberus. The wingedge and a bird feather dropped for me.

To make it spawn, just kill all the ZUs in the said area and it will eventually spawn, also whilst you are doing that, hunt all the crawlers since they also have a good drop rate for silk.


Edited, Mon Feb 2 02:56:37 2004