Vana'diel Bestiary: Death from Above  

i just got my dagger today. i was VERY lucky, i walked into temple just for giggles, killed a wespe, and got sack. me and a 75 pld from my shell we going there to check on offering anyways so i asked him to help me with this bad boy. he and i (rdm 70) took it down no problem. it took like 15 minutes. i did not cast any damage spells. pld took next to no damage because he subbed ninja and used utsusemy a lot. i made sure to use a lot of blind/slow/paralize so that plds shadows lasted longer.

Bee liked to spawn pollen, each time doing over 1000 heal. it took a while but we had no fear of death.

even when it used final sting for like 1/3 of its life the pld only took a couple hundred damage.

many ups to imortalisle for helping me with.....just about anything i want help with.

Edited, Fri Aug 26 11:41:53 2005

Hello i'm Gunitsoldier on the Hades Server.
I would like some high level people to help me with this item.
If you are helping i'm willing to give you a reward or money reward for your efforts.
/tell Gunitsoldier. Thank You

Does anyone think a 61PLD/WAR and 61BLM/WHM can take this NM?

OMG my other characters name is deathfromabove... lol and i didnt even know that it wuz a name of a NM until now...

I'm just wondering can a lvl70 rdm solo this bee?

Hello all, I have been wandering around the The Temple, I have not hound any Treasure coffer for a map, but where in the heck is this be located. I know F10 but I need directions to f10 map 1,2,3,4? thanks

anyone on Ramuh server can help me kill this NM?


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Name:Blaran
Server:Ramuh
Job:THF55/NIN27

I did this yesterday with 2 others in my LS. We came as 60NIN(me), 60WHM(Sive), and 60THF(Dagg). I had the larvae and we were getting the dagger for Dagg. We get through the door and I'm immediately aggro'd. 3 things are on me and we're all fighting them. We almost died right there, but once we cleared everything, we were alright. We even got another larvae from one of the Wespes that aggro'd.

Hardest part of this fight is clearing the room. The NM is a breeze. It seems to have a constant double attack thing going on, but more often than not, it missed. Pollen was annoying, but DFA did Sharp Sting just as often. We fought it twice, and both fights were really easy.

Well last night i was gonna kill this guy with alot of help... 4 hours looking for a bee larvae when a JP thf sent me a /tell that said "(bee Larvae)? (please invite me)" i did i had no idea what she was gonna do so i invited her she didnt say a word... then something popped up that said You find a beehive chip and a hornet needle on the Death From Above (also got 356 gil lol) and i was going wdf!?!?!?! so was everyone else, the 75 thf i guess soloed this beast... didnt ever seem to lose hp i guess this bee is a respectivly put puss...

This sad story begins when I was soloing crawlers in CN as my THF45. My linkshell was rather empty, simply me and my friend Areus (NIN52/RDM26), when one of our good friends and the highest member in our linkshell, Tescov, got on. He told us the saddest news ever, he had to quit FFXI to save his marriage. I've known him since he was a WAR17 with no sub. Now he was a NIN72/WAR36. He said that this night would be his last and that he wanted to go on one last adventure. I thought a Notorious Monster would suit him best for his final fight. Hence, Death From Above. So, while Areus was working on Promyvion - Holla, we prepared for take off. As we were looking for a Teleport-Yhoat, our other friend Devlinne (NIN50/WAR25) logs in (mind you its 1230am where she is and shes usually logging off at this time of the night). So I invite her to go on the final adventure and she more than willingly joins (she and I were supposed to go gil farming instead). So we get a Teleport-Yhoat and proceeded to Temple of Uggalepih. Upon entering, we noticed that all the Wespe's were being slain by 2 70+RDM's. Yes, they were there for DFA too. Upon talking to them, they informed me that they had been there for 4 hours with no Bee Larvae. I figured we'd ally with them for the sake of sharing my TH2 and some Wespe kills. We slaughtered Wespes and Tonberries over and over and over, wasting about 2 hours with no luck. As we were killing them, another LS friend, Ladybassline, got on and cried about Tescov's departure from FFXI. Then, another got on, Brenn, who was so convinced that Tescov would be back eventually. Then both Ladybassline and Brenn logged. Devlinne had to go as well so she logged inside of Temple of Uggalepih amidst aggroing mobs as well. Areus finished up Promyvion - Holla and came to help us. Shortly after Areus got there to help, the 2 RDM's left. We proceeded for about another hour or so until Areus aggroed a few too many Tonberries and was slain. He waited for a bit for a raise, claiming that he wanted to be there to see Tescov kill DFA, but seeing as how my shouts were unanswered, he home pointed and logged. That left Temple of Uggalepih to me and Tescov. We were both getting ready to log and he gave me his Elusive Earring and Tiger Ring as a parting gift. Then, as he was about to log, he saw a Wespe and provoked it. We fought it until another popped and he provoked it as well. He killed the first and the larvae dropped. He killed the other, passed on the larvae and I lotted on it. We proceeded to the room with DFA and I began trading the Larvae to the ???. It didn't spawn DFA. Tried again. Nothing. I kept trying and trying and nothing. He obviously had to log out but he didn't. Then, he realized that there are 2 sets of ???'s in the room. Well duh! So I traded the Larvae to the other one and sure enough, DFA came and took out 2 of my shadows (Ninja sub with Utsusemi). Tescov immediately Provoked it after that and we proceeded to slaughter him. In the midst of battle I snapped a shot of his final NM fight and promised him that I would send him a copy of the picture. DFA was easy. He missed Tescov a whole bunch and used Pollen once for 1162HP recovery, bringing him from 25% HP to about 60% then as he was on his last legs, about 10% or so, he used Pollen again for 652HP recovery, bringing him up to 25% and we proceeded to widdle him down to his death from there. All in all, the fight was long but easy. Tescov took no damage at all and I still had one shadow up and ready to take some damage. Tescov and I said our goodbyes and he Mijin Gakured his final Mijin Gakure and I used a warp scroll. Back at Jeuno, we met up again and I was his only real witness of his final logout. He was gone, but gave me the best gift ever, my Hornetneedle.

All in all, I'd say that DFA has about 3.5K HP and is a total pushover. He never used Final Sting nor Sharp Sting.

Edited, Sun May 1 17:16:57 2005