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Vana'diel Bestiary: Aquarius  

Family:Crab
Found in:The Boyahda Tree
Found at Location:H - 10
Spawntime:2 Hours
Level:69 - 71
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Detects by Sound
  • Based on Water
  • Weak against Ice
  • Weak against Lightning
  • Strong against Water
Drops:
Stolen Items:
Updated: Wed Apr 23 02:35:09 2008

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General Information

Aquarius's Spawn Location
Aquarius's Spawn Location

  • Aquarius's melee attacks have an additional en-Water effect that cannot be dispelled.

Aquarius's Special Attacks

  • Big Scissors: Single target physical damage.

  • Bubble Curtain: Self target Shell effect (effect can be dispelled).

  • Bubble Shower: AoE Water based magic damage with an additional Strength down effect.

  • Metallic Body: Self target Stoneskin effect (effect can be dispelled).

  • Scissor Guard: Self target Defense boost (effect can be dispelled).

Historical Information

In Greek mythology, the constellation Aquarius was created by the god Zeus to memorialize the youth Ganymede, who acted as the cup-bearer for the gods.

In other cultures and mythologies, the constellation was said to represent the figure responsible for pouring out the water that submerged the Earth during the Great Flood.

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Woot!
# Jun 23 2005 at 8:29 AM Rating: Decent
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Was at the trees yesterday night with my rng at level 54, there were 3 high level summoners killing Knight Crawlers and waiting for this NM to pop. They were nice enough to let our exp party kill the robbers.
However, we ran out of robbers so I was just walking around looking for pops and then i saw a pop right beside me and it was a crab, so i just pulled it without even looking at the name, and she enough, it was the NM.
The pld one of her friend realized it right away because my pull macro was "[Fishing] <t>".
And he said, NOOOOOO, but it was too late.. he dropped in like 3 hits and our drg friend voked it and zone.
once zoned, the 3 summoner claimed the NM and after a brief period, one of the summoner /sh anyone needs Fransisca?
I was in shock and /sh back me!
needless to say, they invited me and let me lot on the axe. Woot.
fast fast fast kill
# Jun 20 2005 at 4:04 PM Rating: Decent
74-75rdm/blm can solo this guy np at all. only thing you have to do it get rid of the nervousness once u get the claim (dia). keep stoneskin/blink up at all time while waiting on pop. once claimed, ES + Gravity him, back far away and recast SS or blink (if he hit u between claim and gravity). then hit chainspell and have some major fun. he will be dead b4 ur chainspell is up. hard to mpk someone in under 30 secs from claim.

Edited, Mon Jun 20 17:05:36 2005
Is this possible
# Jun 18 2005 at 8:09 PM Rating: Decent
I am a 73blm/36rdm right now with all decked out gear spells etc. I was wondering if id be able to solo this for a friend so he can get an axe. If not would me and a 62rdm be able to duo it? ^_^ ty for your time
Damn the cloth
# Jun 06 2005 at 5:04 PM Rating: Decent
It's gonna be so hard camping this thing for the Fransisca when people are camping it so much for the cloth ><
RE: Damn the cloth
# Jun 14 2005 at 6:22 PM Rating: Decent
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Not as bad as you'd think. I just asked the guy that was camping it "(notorious monster) (axe) (can I have it?)" and he invited me to party. Campers have no use for something they can't sell, so they tend to be pretty forgiving over monopolizing an NM that drops something they don't even want.

Plus having you in their party assists them in the countercamping of anyone else that's around. The biggest pain is waiting for the ******* to spawn >.<
An Angry RNG
# Jun 02 2005 at 5:38 AM Rating: Default
I was partying in the tree today, and while I'm 950 till level 55 my stupid party decides to disband and won't even stay till I get sidewinder. It was 4am though, but I put my flag up and decided to see if I could find a coffer in the mean time. All of a sudden I see a RDM kiting the NM so I send him /tell {Rare} {Axe} {Can I have it?} {please} {please} {please}

He was japanese, no response. Eventually he loses the NM and a BLM starts to kite it, he eventually died from the NM and Robber Crabs, then a SMN showed up and the NM was chasing the SMN and carby was chasing the NM and everyone else was chasing carby enjoying the show. The NM had virtually no health left, you couldn't even see his health bar. All of the sudden the SMN dies and I see the RDM casting buffs since no one else around.

All of a sudden something comes over me and I say to myself...I might be able to kill that with barrage and EES. I ready Sharpshot/Barrage and the second I hit my ranged attack he gains a small tick of HP back...barrage did a pathetic 55 damage, so I EES him and it does 117. Again he has that same nonexistant sliver of life...and of course the NM rips me a new one since I was only lvl 54RNG. The RDM casts blizzard II for 23 damage and kills it -.-, he targets me and does /laugh, sends me a tell saying {Rare} {Axe} {No thanks.} {death} {You can have this.} and warps.

I admit it was stupid of me to try and kill it, but had it not gained a tick of HP back that would have been dead and I might have had 1.7 mil right now >.<, anyway, it was a fun experience anyway...plus I got my RNG AF hat today so its all good. Just thought I'd share my experience for any low lvls who think they can finish this off.
RE: An Angry RNG
# Jun 22 2005 at 1:32 PM Rating: Default
damn bro what a **** rdm. he didnt even raise u? thats **** :\ btw sidewinder woulda killd it lol cuz if u landed max barrage and EES, u woulda had enough TP for sidewinder and as any rng knows... sidewinder, barrage, eagle eye shot, sidewinder owns anything XD i killed one of those dire bats in king ranperres tomb at 55 with just a whm curing me with that chain lol. only way it could get better was if u created ur own SC lol
RE: An Angry RNG
# Jun 09 2005 at 8:49 AM Rating: Decent
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Shoulda Shadowbinded =/... I know how people can be when camping this NM. Suddenly all trust and respect is lost when fighting a few mil drop NM
spawn time
# May 17 2005 at 8:21 PM Rating: Decent
what's spawn time on this guy?
RE: spawn time
# May 21 2005 at 6:17 PM Rating: Decent
I been leveling bst here for a couple weeks and it seems to range from 2 - 4 hours, hope this helps.
Story
# May 14 2005 at 12:55 AM Rating: Default
Interesting story...
My party and I were going to our camp when the blm says he will brb. So we all stop and wait for him, and a war friend of mine says Aquarius. We all start laughing, not believing him when his health starts to fall a bit. We quickly realized he is not kidding and run to his aide. While we are on our way, he swears a few times and says while he was kiting, it was stolen by an HNM ls on our server. So we are kinda pissed and when we arrive, we decide to give the ls hell. We all immediately start curing ourselves and the war several times, and eventually we get hate. The ls gets hate back, and back and forth it goes for about 5 minutes. Eventually, they get hate under control and we are pissed. Our pld then decided to invincible and run away. Aqua follows him, and eventually goes unclaimed and we grab. Tis a shame it didn't drop =(
RE: Story
# Jul 12 2005 at 10:41 AM Rating: Decent
LMFAO! That's an awesome story!
More Info
# May 09 2005 at 7:11 AM Rating: Decent
I solo this guy without any problems whatsoever as my 74 thief.. i've killed him over 12 times and I think he's hit me twice out of all 12. He's extremely innacurate and I bring lots of Blind Bolts =)

Easiest 'high level NM' in the game, i'd say.
Tank at lvl 72 thief sub ninja
# May 08 2005 at 11:13 PM Rating: Decent
Man i tank this bad boy at lvl 72. My evaison is not even max its 260 like 10-15 skills behind but my evaison traits gives me well over 300 evaison. at this point Ninjas can't even come close to thiefs evaiosn. Well any way i tank this bad boy with a lvl 75 whm sub summnor. i took it down in like 20-25 min and yes i mugged every time ^^ i have pics to look at the links below ..
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hey
# May 01 2005 at 3:43 PM Rating: Decent
5/5 on francisca 5/5 on damascene luck Yes,please

Hmmm though every time i killed him i Was about to die lol i really enjoyed killing him. What is the spawn rate on this baby a friend needs to kill him and well go and camp him!
1/1
# Apr 30 2005 at 10:51 PM Rating: Good
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1/1 on cloth >_>
1/1
# Apr 30 2005 at 10:50 PM Rating: Excellent
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64 posts
1/1 on cloth >_>
Camp
# Apr 29 2005 at 7:01 PM Rating: Excellent
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544 posts
The Gill sellers camp this so damn much ;;
i have seen him pop so much and have got him once ;;

Edited, Fri Apr 29 20:02:24 2005
crabs =/= cloth
# Apr 27 2005 at 10:08 AM Rating: Decent
well Siren is infested with Gil Sellers so we were camping against them @_@ anyways....

3/5 on claims ( one time it was stolen by a beast with only 1% HP left omg so mad >,< other time we just plain missed it)

the three times we DID get claim ( for all you rngs to rejoice ) Fransisca dropped... ALL 3 times. so im pretty much convinced fransisca is 90% drop rate at least.

no cloth on any of the drops ( that we claimed and killed >_>)

that cloth does NOT exists....
RE: crabs =/= cloth
# Apr 27 2005 at 5:53 PM Rating: Decent
Fransisca is 100% drop. I'm like 2/5 on the cloth or something (once solo RDM/BLM once duo with a NIN/THF). Personally, it's not worth camping for me because of how unreliable his spawn is. Sometimes he pops in 2 1/2 hours, but sometimes no sign of him for 5+.

Case in point, cloth does exist and does drop from this mob, just not terribly often. I got lucky.
RE: crabs =/= cloth
# Jul 10 2005 at 2:55 AM Rating: Decent
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Fransisca is not a 100% drop rate it is more like 90% (7/8 on Fransisca drop) The cloth does drop right now im 4/8 on it. And yes it does spawn from 2 1/2 to about 6 hrs. So his pop time is unrelable but overall its a fun fight and some nice gil.
Solo
# Apr 25 2005 at 5:50 AM Rating: Decent
I saw with my own eyes a bad-*** 74 Nin/Whm chick easily soloing Aquarius.
No cloth, no axe though, as she said afterwards.

Edited, Mon Apr 25 06:55:48 2005
Aquarius
# Apr 22 2005 at 2:08 AM Rating: Decent
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Killed him twice this week as RDM74/BLM37. No competition either time, so I took time to put up fresh Blink and Stoneskin, Haste, and seal Gravity. After that, Chainspell Blizzard 3 until I run out of MP, convert, and keep going until it wears. Then I alternate nukes until he dies. I killed him with about 350 MP left post-convert today, and got him to drop the cloth (1/2 now). 1.5 million on my server, {/hurray}.

And then I got to torture my RNG friends by throwing away the Fransisca =P
Aquarius
# Apr 16 2005 at 8:21 AM Rating: Decent
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I nearly Solo'd this the other day. I got him down to about 50% HP before I bit the dust. My own fault for not hasting myself for gravity timer. Still had 300 MP and Convert ready, so its in the realm of possibility for maybe even a 64 rdm to solo.

2 of my friends arrived and kept claim...bst stole it then I stole it back. Dont attempt to melee(solo) or tank this thing if in a party; he's perma-hasted and hits hard, you will need to kite it.
AQ & me
# Apr 13 2005 at 2:23 AM Rating: Good
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On my birthday (for real), decided to camp Aquarius. Needed to get 2 Fransisca for my rng and my sweetheart Flanj, which we always pt together with.

It was me 72 nin/thf, her 58 rng/nin, and Sharde 75 rdm/nin. Somehow we got "adds", alzu & dagmar from our LS, who wanted to skill-up on the placeholder crabs, and also trevor, a 72 nin/war who was working on his Blade: Ku kodachi of trials.

While they're off skilling up and killing crabs, I'm the only one constantly watching for Aquarius, as there's a 75 thf/nin and a 75 rdm there camping as a party (for the cloth).

After about 4 hours and a massively throbbing headache, Aquarius pops off to the side of the other rdm. We initially didn't expect competition, so i brought thf sub to "improve drops". So what do i do? I kurayami: ni claim Aquarius..lol. Note: that spell has a 2 second casting time, 75 rdm dia should beat that readily with its 1 sec casting time along with high fast cast trait. i also believe karma aided me in nabbing him. the other party absolutely REFUSED to kill a single placeholder. yes, i know it means you're more available at full strength to kill & claim when it does spawn, but i think karma sided with me because of their poor NM camping principles.

the fight was pretty long for a full party, mainly because 3 of us were way below its level and this guy has high HP & def. Alzu died after 2 AQ hits, using divine seal/erase to gain hate fairly early in the fight. But nobody else died. i think the fight went a lot harder because there were weaker pt members who did minimal damage, but gave TP to Aquarius. Hate to say, but it probably would've been better if they just watched or "back-row maged". Got the axe for my girl and a cloth, which we divided equally among the 6 of us after its sale, approximately 231k each.

Notes from the fight: his bubble shower is pretty strong without a barwater. aquarius attacks very fast and can hit pretty hard, but not ridiculously hard. on a very rough estimate, i'd say he attacks 30-40% faster than a regular robber crab and still has double attacks. he is not soloable by a 72 nin. at that level, evasion skill (against AQ) is pretty good, but not quite high enough yet. if i were to solo him as ninja, i'd try at 75 (74 with major evasion gear), with whm or rdm subjob, probably rdm. and maybe i'd bring some MP juice too. rdm sub would be nicer for the benefit of enspell & dispel (scissor guard). if phalanx/stoneskin were required for my ninja, i shouldn't be soloing it. the only other job that i think can consistently solo it would be a 75 rdm/nin, using MP restoring weapon skills, like energy drain (dagger). yes, i know of bst, blm, thf who've solo'd it. but there are question marks for each of them. bst requires maintaining claim on him long enough to kill (camping ethics can disappear quickly over millions of gil). blm would require sufficient kiting and minimally resisted elemental & enfeebling spells, but more importantly, blm requires high MP at time of claim/spawn, not easy while killing placeholders with other campers around. thf/nin would require the most luck, as there's no consistent support ability (healing/enfeebling); status bolts are inconsistent and keeping up utsusemi is much more important. oh, you CAN mug this guy and he drops good gil too, probably around 18k for the party without gil bonuses. wasn't able to steal anything though, but don't know if it's possible.

footnote: me and sharde camped him again the very next day, just the two of us. i won claim as nin/thf, with kurayami: ni again...lol. killed him much more easily just the 2 of us, but got no cloth. at least my rng now has both othinus bow and Fransisca. i'm much more proud of my o bow story though. not sure how to create a link to it, but it's under wyvernpoacher drachlox.
Easy
# Mar 31 2005 at 2:35 PM Rating: Decent
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Solo'd him as 75blm/rdm. Wasnt really a hard fight, once you stick gravity on he is a bit of a wuss aslong as you keep stoneskin and blink up. I was lucky for my first ever kill on him, he droped the cloth, hello 1.6mill ^^
Later on in the day i killed him again, this time with another blm friend, it took us less then 5mins to kill him, about 4-5 Blizz/thunder IV's.
Now i have started camping him regulary i have noticed gill sellers there now and again, and have heard of them mpking when they dont get claim ^.o
RE: Easy
# Apr 12 2005 at 7:29 PM Rating: Decent
can a pt of 65, 4blm,brd and a rdm kill this?
Axe drop rate?
# Mar 27 2005 at 9:04 PM Rating: Decent
Quick question. What is the drop rate on the Rare/Ex axe, Franscisca? It seems like it is 100%. Anyone know for certain?
It can be done
# Mar 21 2005 at 10:56 AM Rating: Decent
Was partying in Boyahda Tree today and this thing popped. No other campers around so for fun my PT said lets pull it and cast escape. We survived but only just, came back in to see a NIN soloing it. And yes he did successfully solo it.
#REDACTED, Posted: Mar 19 2005 at 1:21 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) LMAO who ever sayed KA can be solod is damn fool
RE: KA solo?? lol
# Mar 23 2005 at 8:50 AM Rating: Default
ok smart *** my friend lvl 75THF soloed him with nin sub kicked its *** ill even take screen shot and show your non beleaveing *** and btw its a 2/4 hour pop not an HNM -.-
it can be soloed
# Mar 09 2005 at 9:12 PM Rating: Decent
I watch a 75 nin on my server solo this all the time. i want to lvl NIN NOW . . .
Solo
# Mar 07 2005 at 4:52 AM Rating: Decent
Can a 75 rdm/blm solo this and can a 75rdm/nin solo this mob? and what combo would be easyer?
RE: Solo
# Mar 07 2005 at 2:54 PM Rating: Decent
RDM/BLM would probably be best. Gravity Kite and Nuke would be how you would kill it best.
lvl 53s can take it too :P
# Mar 06 2005 at 11:52 AM Rating: Decent
i was in an xp pt and then a lvl 75 nin asked us to come along and kill aqua and we went to where it was.About 10min of fighting we killed it got the axe for a soon be rng and shell,and meat but the money it dropped was nice^^
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