PLD62, RDM61, BLM61, RNG62, BRD61, THF62
Same strategy as everyone else. Elemental seal + wind staff + gravity, PLD grabs hate with flash/sentinel/provoke and runs laps in a circle while the RDM and BLM nuke him into the stone age. BRD applied elegy to slow down his attacks. Whenever gravity would wear, I would shadowbind him and it would be re-applied. If shadowbind was not ready, our BLM would use stun.
Took us about 25 minutes, no cloth but we got francisca :).
Vana'diel Bestiary: Aquarius
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General Information
 Aquarius's Spawn Location
Aquarius's Special Attacks
Historical InformationIn 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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PT was NIN65, THF64, SAM65, WHM64, RDM61, BLM63
I was invited to this pt to XP when i was out in the field and didn't even have Wind or Earth staves.
Amazing enough, gravity stuck about 12/15 times...
Fight was pretty dang easy, I think fight went alot smoother when I (RDM61) was the one to kite him around.
I would stick gravity, Blizzard 2, ran a little bit, buffed with Blink/Phalanx/Stoneskin, then threw either a Bliz2 or Aero2... That gave me plenty of hate to do a lap with him. By the time gravity wore off, my hate would decline enough for a voke to pull off me.
95% of the dmg was done via DoT plus BLM and RDM nukes, as melees would hit it for about 2-10 dmg....
Took about 25 minutes, I died once early on when the BLM d/c'ed and I had to dump a big cure on the tank.
No drop :/ Oh well, my first good NM fight with kiting and all... I think I'm hooked now ^_^
I was invited to this pt to XP when i was out in the field and didn't even have Wind or Earth staves.
Amazing enough, gravity stuck about 12/15 times...
Fight was pretty dang easy, I think fight went alot smoother when I (RDM61) was the one to kite him around.
I would stick gravity, Blizzard 2, ran a little bit, buffed with Blink/Phalanx/Stoneskin, then threw either a Bliz2 or Aero2... That gave me plenty of hate to do a lap with him. By the time gravity wore off, my hate would decline enough for a voke to pull off me.
95% of the dmg was done via DoT plus BLM and RDM nukes, as melees would hit it for about 2-10 dmg....
Took about 25 minutes, I died once early on when the BLM d/c'ed and I had to dump a big cure on the tank.
No drop :/ Oh well, my first good NM fight with kiting and all... I think I'm hooked now ^_^
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Killed him with NIN66 WAR61 WAR69 SAM70 2x WHM ~60 and BRD65. Not bad fight, hits pretty fast.
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Fought him today as 60rdm/blm 70 drk/rdm and 75 drk/rdm the whole fight basically consisted of us casting gravity, stun, bioII, drain, and poison II. took awhile kitting him but in the end it was an easy fight. >_< no cloth drop though.
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Posted: Sep 01 2004 at 11:46 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) this bst was soloing this monster lv75 kinda my friend japenese.... and we see it and my thf in pt range attacks and gets it while the bst was switchin pets (aq went unclaimed - SE needs to fix THIS first before they make all these gay nerfs) so anyway we fight it no cloth
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The key to fighting this is the NIN tank.
Today i saw 2 people .. L75NIN and L70+ Rdm kill it rather easy
Pld do not typically do well vs it...
Mid 60's PT can kill it with NIN tank ... cloth we got was worth 720k on Cerberus
Today i saw 2 people .. L75NIN and L70+ Rdm kill it rather easy
Pld do not typically do well vs it...
Mid 60's PT can kill it with NIN tank ... cloth we got was worth 720k on Cerberus
Wrong, a PLD can do well against Aquarius if he kites it. I fought him 2 days ago with a group 64-66 (the blm being 64). The party consisted of PLD,THF,SAM,BLM,WHM,RDM. We were hesitent at first but thf ended up goading the pt to give it a try, told the whm to use reraise and prepare for the worst. The fight started off with the thf thinking he could blink tank it, but with no way to hold agro it came for the blm. I voked it as soon as it moved and proceeded to kite him around the room while the Melee's followed. The main source of Damage was our BLM. All in all the fight took about 10 minutes, the cloth dropped and Isengard (awesome thf btw, your reading this. yo!) got it and gave us each our cut, the Francisca went to the same. To be honest I didn't have an earth staff and was almost certain I was going to die a few times, but we had an awesome pt. I assume it would be much easier with a blm to gravity it and an earth staff to keep the damage low, but nonetheless a PLD can definitely tank it if he knows what he's doing.
Edited, Wed Aug 18 07:40:25 2004
LV71 RDM here.. I can pretty much solo Aquarius. Not too hard, and my Gravity always sticks.. I've killed it like 17 times from lv64 to 71, most of it while in group.. 4 cloths have dropped. x.x
I killed him today as RNG55/RDM20... although its not what it seems. A NIN75 let me join his party as soon as he engaged it so I could lot Fransisca. He took some heavy damage early, so I used my RDM sub to Cure II him, and 25 minutes later it was close to death. So I figured what the hoo, and I used Eagle Eye... 106 damage lol. But it killed him, I KILLED AQUARIUS XD. Didn't drop cloth, but I got my axe, I wouldn't have lotted the cloth anyways. Later that night I got 3 Emperor Hairpins (yes i sent 2 to mules so its possible), so it was a good day for me.
Barthello
Sylph Server
RNG55/NIN26
Barthello
Sylph Server
RNG55/NIN26
red mages can EASILY solo this at lvl 60+,
Gravity, poison, bio, all DoT spells and nuke once in a while, convert, cure, keep doin it
Gravity, poison, bio, all DoT spells and nuke once in a while, convert, cure, keep doin it
Definately not true^^
I've fought this NM with a level 60 RDM, and while he may not have had the very best and top of the line gear, his gear was still good(and magic skill was capped). Out of the 20 or so times he casted Gravity, it stuck three times. I would say the lowest a RDM could consitantly land debuffs on this guy would be in the 64-66 range. Anytime before then would be impossible, because if you can't stick debuffs then the fight is already over.
I would say at best you could at level 65, only if the player is extremely skilled, uses drinks, and has really good equipment. At that level you can land about 80% of the debuffs without too much trouble, but it still has 6000 HP. And it takes a lot of MP and casting to kill it.
I've even seen a lvl 70 RDM die. It's not as easy to beat as it may seem.
I don't mean to sound ignorant about this, seeing as I don't have a RDM job, but I have fought this guy 9 times and have seen it fought 12. I've even wrote a guide for beating him on the RNG forum (for the axe)... And from what I've observed, it's not possible to solo it as a lvl 60 RDM. I'm even doubful about level 65. All it takes is one failed Gravity, and your gone.
Keep in mind it has Hundred Fists attack speed, eats through Stoneskin in one hit, and deals 100-250 on hits and 50-200 on Enwater.^^;
Edited, Tue Aug 10 23:49:49 2004
I've fought this NM with a level 60 RDM, and while he may not have had the very best and top of the line gear, his gear was still good(and magic skill was capped). Out of the 20 or so times he casted Gravity, it stuck three times. I would say the lowest a RDM could consitantly land debuffs on this guy would be in the 64-66 range. Anytime before then would be impossible, because if you can't stick debuffs then the fight is already over.
I would say at best you could at level 65, only if the player is extremely skilled, uses drinks, and has really good equipment. At that level you can land about 80% of the debuffs without too much trouble, but it still has 6000 HP. And it takes a lot of MP and casting to kill it.
I've even seen a lvl 70 RDM die. It's not as easy to beat as it may seem.
I don't mean to sound ignorant about this, seeing as I don't have a RDM job, but I have fought this guy 9 times and have seen it fought 12. I've even wrote a guide for beating him on the RNG forum (for the axe)... And from what I've observed, it's not possible to solo it as a lvl 60 RDM. I'm even doubful about level 65. All it takes is one failed Gravity, and your gone.
Keep in mind it has Hundred Fists attack speed, eats through Stoneskin in one hit, and deals 100-250 on hits and 50-200 on Enwater.^^;
Edited, Tue Aug 10 23:49:49 2004
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Well i fought him today with a few friends and my gravity at lvl 60 stuck moe then 90% of the time and when it didnt our drk would just stun so i think rdm could solo him at 65+ np. Ill try to prove this in a few more lvls.
Thats what I was thinking :/ Still, I'm leveling ninja right now so I can try. with utesusumi I might be able to. And something I havent tried, do utesusumi and blink stack, or does one cancel out the other?
Blink and Utsesumi do not stack.
I saw a level 65 RDM get owned by a robber crab.. how are they supposed to kill Aquarius
Wait, 60+? Should I sub nin or stay with blm for more mp?
For soloing Aquarius: 67+RDM/NIN can do it, if they know what they are doing an have enfeebling and elemental magic capped. Seen It done, very nicely I'll add.
Also have seen a pty of 70WHM/BLM, 75 WAR/NIN, 55 BLM/WHM, 65 RNG/NIN get completely destroyed.
Also have seen 2 level 65 bsts try to duo it, they got to 1/4 of its health (took like 4 hours -.-) then they died.
I have beaten it 2 times now, once in a pty of 70PLD/WAR, 75RDM/BLM, 65THF/NIN, 55RDM/NIN, 56 PLD/WAR (me at the time) we were totally freeloading but the 75RDM almost died 2 times and I saved him once^^ Cloth dropped and we all passed to RDM.
Took it on the other day also, this time as a level 67PLD/WAR with 64RDM/BLM, 63PLD/WAR, 63WHM/BLM... it took about 30 mins but we did it, debuffs stuck about 65% of the time. no way 64 rdm could solo this mob. Everyone 2 houred, other PLD died once, whm almost died once, i almost died like 20 times, but all of us used to be in a static and so kinda knew how each other play, except the other PLD.
I would say that a good pty of 65-67 could kill with relative ease, but likely would need to debuff and kite in the process.
Also have seen a pty of 70WHM/BLM, 75 WAR/NIN, 55 BLM/WHM, 65 RNG/NIN get completely destroyed.
Also have seen 2 level 65 bsts try to duo it, they got to 1/4 of its health (took like 4 hours -.-) then they died.
I have beaten it 2 times now, once in a pty of 70PLD/WAR, 75RDM/BLM, 65THF/NIN, 55RDM/NIN, 56 PLD/WAR (me at the time) we were totally freeloading but the 75RDM almost died 2 times and I saved him once^^ Cloth dropped and we all passed to RDM.
Took it on the other day also, this time as a level 67PLD/WAR with 64RDM/BLM, 63PLD/WAR, 63WHM/BLM... it took about 30 mins but we did it, debuffs stuck about 65% of the time. no way 64 rdm could solo this mob. Everyone 2 houred, other PLD died once, whm almost died once, i almost died like 20 times, but all of us used to be in a static and so kinda knew how each other play, except the other PLD.
I would say that a good pty of 65-67 could kill with relative ease, but likely would need to debuff and kite in the process.
Fought him for the 8th and 9th time today, but this was a little different with before... We did it with three people. XD
It was a lvl 66 RNG (Me), lvl 66 THF (Arsanos), and a lvl 65 RDM (Nelaya).
I was the main tank (or did my best to), it was a little difficult to keep agro... But prettymuch what we did was I would keep agro the best I could and kite it. Then in the circle that I kite it in there is one room we go by that the RDM waits, and he will Gravity and debuff it as much as he can.
While that happens, I try to keep Utsesumi up so I don't take any hits, and when its gravitied or far enough away I shoot/Barrage/Slug Shot it (I also started the battle off with EES, again to help keep it on me). Then the THF trailed it the entire time meleeing, and helped to make sure we don't lose claim. He would also say when Gravity lost effect or it need to be Dispelled.
We also got a light skillchain off in each of the fights, with Heavy Shot (followed by Shadowbind) -> Shark Bite.
Each fight took about 30 minutes.. But doing it this way we won both times with almost no trouble, and hardly took any damage at all. If we perfected it I'm sure we could do it and take absolutely no damage.^^
Sadly, we didn't get any clothes though.
It was a lvl 66 RNG (Me), lvl 66 THF (Arsanos), and a lvl 65 RDM (Nelaya).
I was the main tank (or did my best to), it was a little difficult to keep agro... But prettymuch what we did was I would keep agro the best I could and kite it. Then in the circle that I kite it in there is one room we go by that the RDM waits, and he will Gravity and debuff it as much as he can.
While that happens, I try to keep Utsesumi up so I don't take any hits, and when its gravitied or far enough away I shoot/Barrage/Slug Shot it (I also started the battle off with EES, again to help keep it on me). Then the THF trailed it the entire time meleeing, and helped to make sure we don't lose claim. He would also say when Gravity lost effect or it need to be Dispelled.
We also got a light skillchain off in each of the fights, with Heavy Shot (followed by Shadowbind) -> Shark Bite.
Each fight took about 30 minutes.. But doing it this way we won both times with almost no trouble, and hardly took any damage at all. If we perfected it I'm sure we could do it and take absolutely no damage.^^
Sadly, we didn't get any clothes though.
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Few more lvls then my ls says i can go with them for melee on this thing! i want revenge for the times its screwed over my pts >_< in boyahda tree!
Edited, Fri Aug 6 21:56:59 2004
Edited, Fri Aug 6 21:56:59 2004
We just did aquass 2 times tonight, our PT is 74 75. Best way to dmg him is with spitits within, he has high def so spirits does nicely.
The PLD did 750 and I did 600 to 610 both times, our drk used scythe didint check his dmg but from past fights I have seen that the reg WS's dont do as well as spirits does. We got axe both times and gave them to people in our LS and got cloth on 1st kill. 2 more cloths and verm cloak will be made by our WHM.
The PLD did 750 and I did 600 to 610 both times, our drk used scythe didint check his dmg but from past fights I have seen that the reg WS's dont do as well as spirits does. We got axe both times and gave them to people in our LS and got cloth on 1st kill. 2 more cloths and verm cloak will be made by our WHM.
just beat it with me lvl 72 NIN and my friend a lvl 63 WHM, took around 20 minute to kill got the axe and the cloth but we gave it the axe to some rng that asked for it
This dude creeps me out when I see him while exp'ing in Boyahda.
Fortunately our WHM had hilevel people to come take him on, glad they did, but wow he is mean. Cure V was being dropped on the PLD like no tomorrow, this thing obviously hits incredibly fast and hard. Even our party was healing THEIR paladin. At one point my Cure IV macro lagged and their PLD died, so I pulled off a Raise on him while they carted Aquarius around to who knows where. After weakness wore off they were back in business, but wow this dude is nasty.
Fortunately our WHM had hilevel people to come take him on, glad they did, but wow he is mean. Cure V was being dropped on the PLD like no tomorrow, this thing obviously hits incredibly fast and hard. Even our party was healing THEIR paladin. At one point my Cure IV macro lagged and their PLD died, so I pulled off a Raise on him while they carted Aquarius around to who knows where. After weakness wore off they were back in business, but wow this dude is nasty.
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Droprate... I think I have given up on trying to make gil off this piece of junk. Killed 6 times solo and 1 time with a PT, only had the drop once. Ruke, the axe isn't 100% drop I throw it out each time and one time I killed it no axe.
Edited, Wed Jul 21 08:17:11 2004
Edited, Wed Jul 21 08:17:11 2004
Well, I'm pretty sure the Axe is a 100% drop (or at least close to it), I've killed it myself 3 times in PTs, and then I've seen or heard about at least 10 others who killed it, and they always have got the axe as one of the drops.
If you soloed it, then most likely you didn't get the Axe drop because it's a rare item, and you can only hold one of a rare item. So if you kept one of those Axes, and soloed it again, you would not get the Axe drop as long as you weren't in a PT. Same goes for all other mobs that drop rare items, if you solo the Valkurm Emperor and you already own a hairpin, you'll never get the Emperor's Hairpin to drop. It's similar in that way for Aquarius.
For that reason we were going to try out Disbaning at the end so it's only me and another person who also owns the Axe, and then we finish it off. That way we force the Axe not to drop, which will replace it with hopefully something else (like the cloth). This is often done for BCNM's :P. One member will buy all the rare crap drops, disband from the PT to open the chest, and the chest will usually only give out the other rare items usually worth a lot more money.
EDIT: And hey, you wouldn't happen to be the Tamora I know on Seraph? lol, just noticed your name.
Edited, Wed Jul 21 08:37:18 2004
If you soloed it, then most likely you didn't get the Axe drop because it's a rare item, and you can only hold one of a rare item. So if you kept one of those Axes, and soloed it again, you would not get the Axe drop as long as you weren't in a PT. Same goes for all other mobs that drop rare items, if you solo the Valkurm Emperor and you already own a hairpin, you'll never get the Emperor's Hairpin to drop. It's similar in that way for Aquarius.
For that reason we were going to try out Disbaning at the end so it's only me and another person who also owns the Axe, and then we finish it off. That way we force the Axe not to drop, which will replace it with hopefully something else (like the cloth). This is often done for BCNM's :P. One member will buy all the rare crap drops, disband from the PT to open the chest, and the chest will usually only give out the other rare items usually worth a lot more money.
EDIT: And hey, you wouldn't happen to be the Tamora I know on Seraph? lol, just noticed your name.
Edited, Wed Jul 21 08:37:18 2004
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Yes its me, but I tested it by throwing out the axe each time and once when I killed it I didn't get the axe. So, im guessing that while its not a 100% drop rate its close enough not to matter.
I've done like over 30 BCNMs so I know how it works :P
I've done like over 30 BCNMs so I know how it works :P
Well fine, don't say hi ; ;
/cry
/cry
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blm75 rapes this faster than any other class
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(^-^)/
fun fight, let's do that again.
lol ars...nice melee damage (*'-')b
Edited, Fri Jul 16 10:07:02 2004
fun fight, let's do that again.
lol ars...nice melee damage (*'-')b
Edited, Fri Jul 16 10:07:02 2004
Just fought him today when a member in my exp PT said he was up, and we were all anxious to try it. So after hearing about 3 others failed attempts to kill it, we jumped in and tried out luck.
We beat it with this config:
64 PLD- Nafoi
65 THF- Arsanos
64 RNG- Me :D
63 BRD- Amanra
64 WHM- Yasutaka
64 RDM- Nelaya
Me and Arsanos were the main damage dealers (Nelaya too when possible, but mostly he was curing), while Nel, Yasu, and Amanra worked on keeping Naf healed and the PT alive. This NM hits incredibly hard and fast so Nafoi kited him for the fight, and I have no doubt that if Nafoi didn't kite it we would've lost, it just hits too fast and hard. He circled in small laps around the area while the RDM, WHM, and BRD would usually wait in one rooms that we went by and would throw Cures as needed along with some other buffs (like Ballad and Prelude for me :D), and Gravity to keep it going slow. Other times they would try to keep up with the NM along with me and Arsanos.
Meanwhile Arsanos had to literally stick onto its *** to keep up to melee XD, and I trailed behind and /ra <t> -ed every chance I could along with Slug Shot and Barrage. It wasn't too difficult for him with the help of Gravity, and he was able to get off a few SA+TA combos and even one or two Dancing Edges. Nafoi is a kick-*** PLD, and only lost hate once to me (I was scared to hell when it turned and looked at me ; ;), but other then that it was glued on him. Every chance he had he would Provoke and Flash, no Cures were normally used.
After doing this for about 15-20 minutes, it was dead, and we got the drop^^. Then we headed out and went back to expying.
Here are the Damage Parser results, althought the total damage is not his HP, because we engaged it with about 10%-20% of it already missing.
20 - The Aquarius(26 exp)
Player --- Total --- DMG %--- Melee --- Skill --- Spell --- M Hit %
Nafoi --------- 0 --- 0.00% --- 0 --- 0 --- 0 --- 66.67%
Rukenshin --- 2412 --- 57.22% 33 --- 1253 --- 0 --- 90.91%
Amanra ------ 0 --- 0.00% --- 0 --- 0 --- 0 --- 0.00%
Arsanos ------ 653 --- 15.49% --- 501 --- 152 --- 0 --- 83.53%
Nelaya ------- 1150 --- 27.28% --- 0 --- 0 --- 1150 --- 0.00%
Yasutaka ---- 0 --- 0.00% --- 0 --- 0 --- 0 --- 0.00%
Totals: ----- 4215 --- 100% --- 534 --- 1405 --- 1150
It was a blast :D, and we got the cloth, then once that was done we went back to getting exp. Two hours later, we came back and tried to see if we could get it again. After hanging out for a little under an hour, it popped, and we fought again. This time though we didn't have the WHM, so it was only 5 of us (and also the BRD dinged to lvl 64 and the THF to lvl 66).
And, because I <3 this damage parser, here are the Damage Parser stats from that fight :D
65 - The Aquarius(71 exp)(DC)
Player --- Total --- DMG %--- Melee --- Skill --- Spell --- M Hit %
Nafoi --------- 0 --- 0.00% --- 0 --- 0 --- 0 --- 0.00%
Rukenshin --- 3631 --- 59.81%--- 48 --- 2483 --- 0 --- 92.31%
Arsanos ------ 597 --- 9.83% --- 597 --- 0 --- 0 --- 86.51%
Nelaya ------- 1843 --- 30.36%--- 0 --- 0 --- 1843 --- 0.00%
Amanra ------ 0 --- 0.00% --- 0 --- 0 --- 0 --- 0.00%
Totals: ------- 6071 --- 100% --- 645 --- 2483 --- 1843
This fight was with it at full HP, so it looks to have about 6k HP. No drop on the second try though. But got Francisca in both fights, and the first time it went to a Arsanos, second time we gave it to a RNG in the area. So it seems the axe is a 100% drop. Nafoi didn't lose hate once, and I got off 3 Barrages, 6 Slug Shots, and an Eagle Eye Shot. In fact, here are those stats too, all the damage done for each member who delt any^^
Rukenshin - The Aquarius
Melee Damage: 0, 48, 20
Ranged Damage: 44, 47, 51, 30, 45, 49, 43, 38, 36, 40, 42, 38, 42, 37, 41, 55, 51, 54, 46, 49, 44, 44, 36, 37, 41
WeaponSkills: 277(Slug Shot), 234(Barrage), 269(Slug Shot), 239(Slug Shot), 157(Barrage), 317(Slug Shot), 279(Slug Shot), 231(Barrage), 223(Eagle Eye Shot), 257(Slug Shot)
Total Damage: 3631
Arsanos - The Aquarius
Melee Damage: 2, 1, 0, 8, 5, 0, 7, 5, 91, 0, 3, 5, 10, 4, 7, 5, 1, 4, 6, 4, 5, 8, 2, 13, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 6, 1, 0, 4, 2, 0, 1, 7, 5, 7, 4, 10, 10, 2, 1, 2, 2, 63, 0, 2, 14, 8, 4, 3, 4, 0, 0, 3, 0, 6, 4, 3, 0, 0, 4, 2, 3, 5, 5, 4, 0, 8, 1, 3, 0, 5, 1, 4, 4, 12, 0, 1, 5, 8, 5, 10, 6, 55, 2, 1, 4, 14, 4, 8, 1, 0, 5, 0, 3, 0, 0, 11, 2, 3, 2, 5, 0, 0
Total Damage: 597
Nelaya - The Aquarius
Spells: 245(Thunder II), 245(Thunder II), 245(Thunder II), 31(Bio II), 122(Thunder II), 123(Thunder II), 122(Thunder II), 218(Blizzard II), 246(Thunder II), 246(Thunder II)
Total Damage: 1843
So, all and all, it has very high defense (as you can see from the attack numbers), and moderate evasion (it also didn't resist spells too often either). Then, it has about 6000 HP.
Also based on the experience we got it seems that it would really be a level 62-65 mob. Although because of its extremely powerful and fast attacks, and really high defense, I would not think that just because it's a level 62-65 mob that it would be easily taken with a PT around that level. The Parser also conned it as a Decent Challenge (for me at 64), which I'm not sure how it found that out, but that wouldn't seem too far off. I'd say it was at the highest at the level of an Even Match. But, once again, because of its powerful defense and attacks you would really need to be able 5-10 levels higher to have a somewhat easy fight.
The end, good luck to anyone else in fighting this NM, it's fun :D
Edited, Sat Jul 17 15:12:46 2004
We beat it with this config:
64 PLD- Nafoi
65 THF- Arsanos
64 RNG- Me :D
63 BRD- Amanra
64 WHM- Yasutaka
64 RDM- Nelaya
Me and Arsanos were the main damage dealers (Nelaya too when possible, but mostly he was curing), while Nel, Yasu, and Amanra worked on keeping Naf healed and the PT alive. This NM hits incredibly hard and fast so Nafoi kited him for the fight, and I have no doubt that if Nafoi didn't kite it we would've lost, it just hits too fast and hard. He circled in small laps around the area while the RDM, WHM, and BRD would usually wait in one rooms that we went by and would throw Cures as needed along with some other buffs (like Ballad and Prelude for me :D), and Gravity to keep it going slow. Other times they would try to keep up with the NM along with me and Arsanos.
Meanwhile Arsanos had to literally stick onto its *** to keep up to melee XD, and I trailed behind and /ra <t> -ed every chance I could along with Slug Shot and Barrage. It wasn't too difficult for him with the help of Gravity, and he was able to get off a few SA+TA combos and even one or two Dancing Edges. Nafoi is a kick-*** PLD, and only lost hate once to me (I was scared to hell when it turned and looked at me ; ;), but other then that it was glued on him. Every chance he had he would Provoke and Flash, no Cures were normally used.
After doing this for about 15-20 minutes, it was dead, and we got the drop^^. Then we headed out and went back to expying.
Here are the Damage Parser results, althought the total damage is not his HP, because we engaged it with about 10%-20% of it already missing.
20 - The Aquarius(26 exp)
Player --- Total --- DMG %--- Melee --- Skill --- Spell --- M Hit %
Nafoi --------- 0 --- 0.00% --- 0 --- 0 --- 0 --- 66.67%
Rukenshin --- 2412 --- 57.22% 33 --- 1253 --- 0 --- 90.91%
Amanra ------ 0 --- 0.00% --- 0 --- 0 --- 0 --- 0.00%
Arsanos ------ 653 --- 15.49% --- 501 --- 152 --- 0 --- 83.53%
Nelaya ------- 1150 --- 27.28% --- 0 --- 0 --- 1150 --- 0.00%
Yasutaka ---- 0 --- 0.00% --- 0 --- 0 --- 0 --- 0.00%
Totals: ----- 4215 --- 100% --- 534 --- 1405 --- 1150
It was a blast :D, and we got the cloth, then once that was done we went back to getting exp. Two hours later, we came back and tried to see if we could get it again. After hanging out for a little under an hour, it popped, and we fought again. This time though we didn't have the WHM, so it was only 5 of us (and also the BRD dinged to lvl 64 and the THF to lvl 66).
And, because I <3 this damage parser, here are the Damage Parser stats from that fight :D
65 - The Aquarius(71 exp)(DC)
Player --- Total --- DMG %--- Melee --- Skill --- Spell --- M Hit %
Nafoi --------- 0 --- 0.00% --- 0 --- 0 --- 0 --- 0.00%
Rukenshin --- 3631 --- 59.81%--- 48 --- 2483 --- 0 --- 92.31%
Arsanos ------ 597 --- 9.83% --- 597 --- 0 --- 0 --- 86.51%
Nelaya ------- 1843 --- 30.36%--- 0 --- 0 --- 1843 --- 0.00%
Amanra ------ 0 --- 0.00% --- 0 --- 0 --- 0 --- 0.00%
Totals: ------- 6071 --- 100% --- 645 --- 2483 --- 1843
This fight was with it at full HP, so it looks to have about 6k HP. No drop on the second try though. But got Francisca in both fights, and the first time it went to a Arsanos, second time we gave it to a RNG in the area. So it seems the axe is a 100% drop. Nafoi didn't lose hate once, and I got off 3 Barrages, 6 Slug Shots, and an Eagle Eye Shot. In fact, here are those stats too, all the damage done for each member who delt any^^
Rukenshin - The Aquarius
Melee Damage: 0, 48, 20
Ranged Damage: 44, 47, 51, 30, 45, 49, 43, 38, 36, 40, 42, 38, 42, 37, 41, 55, 51, 54, 46, 49, 44, 44, 36, 37, 41
WeaponSkills: 277(Slug Shot), 234(Barrage), 269(Slug Shot), 239(Slug Shot), 157(Barrage), 317(Slug Shot), 279(Slug Shot), 231(Barrage), 223(Eagle Eye Shot), 257(Slug Shot)
Total Damage: 3631
Arsanos - The Aquarius
Melee Damage: 2, 1, 0, 8, 5, 0, 7, 5, 91, 0, 3, 5, 10, 4, 7, 5, 1, 4, 6, 4, 5, 8, 2, 13, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 6, 1, 0, 4, 2, 0, 1, 7, 5, 7, 4, 10, 10, 2, 1, 2, 2, 63, 0, 2, 14, 8, 4, 3, 4, 0, 0, 3, 0, 6, 4, 3, 0, 0, 4, 2, 3, 5, 5, 4, 0, 8, 1, 3, 0, 5, 1, 4, 4, 12, 0, 1, 5, 8, 5, 10, 6, 55, 2, 1, 4, 14, 4, 8, 1, 0, 5, 0, 3, 0, 0, 11, 2, 3, 2, 5, 0, 0
Total Damage: 597
Nelaya - The Aquarius
Spells: 245(Thunder II), 245(Thunder II), 245(Thunder II), 31(Bio II), 122(Thunder II), 123(Thunder II), 122(Thunder II), 218(Blizzard II), 246(Thunder II), 246(Thunder II)
Total Damage: 1843
So, all and all, it has very high defense (as you can see from the attack numbers), and moderate evasion (it also didn't resist spells too often either). Then, it has about 6000 HP.
Also based on the experience we got it seems that it would really be a level 62-65 mob. Although because of its extremely powerful and fast attacks, and really high defense, I would not think that just because it's a level 62-65 mob that it would be easily taken with a PT around that level. The Parser also conned it as a Decent Challenge (for me at 64), which I'm not sure how it found that out, but that wouldn't seem too far off. I'd say it was at the highest at the level of an Even Match. But, once again, because of its powerful defense and attacks you would really need to be able 5-10 levels higher to have a somewhat easy fight.
The end, good luck to anyone else in fighting this NM, it's fun :D
Edited, Sat Jul 17 15:12:46 2004
A 64 BST killed him over the span of 45 minutes by killing my mandys, bunnies and anything else unlucky enough to get in the way in the area. Another group came and did the PLD running in circles while BLMS nuke it as it goes. It was quite funny to watch. After they killed it they let me join the PT and lot for the axe. So now I am a 55 RNG with Franseca. I think it'll be a while before I will be using that bad boy.
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Killed it last night with this:
69 BLM
70 RDM
very easy as long as he doesnt get hold of you
69 BLM
70 RDM
very easy as long as he doesnt get hold of you
heard of this unfortunate story on the Gilgamesh server. Party killed Aquarius (were lvl 70+) and the leader of the PT (named Richman I believe) switched the treasure-pooling to Quartermaster at the last moment, and it dropped the cloth.
Then he /logout.
heh, sounds like a GM call to me. I'd be so pissed at the guy.
Then he /logout.
heh, sounds like a GM call to me. I'd be so pissed at the guy.
The puller was so unlucky that he pulled that *******, Paladin die in 5 sec (level 55 pt) and I use escape and he hit me for 431 damage when I cast. And I die... Holy **** that crab is a tough fella..
Anonymous
im a 70BST, been soloing this stupid crab since 63-64. this past 2 weeks i think i have killed him 15 times. and NO CLOTH. i have 2 cloth in my bazaar atm. does anyone know if maybe that is preventing the drop of more cloth? or maybe the drop rate is just THAT bad?
Drop rate is that bad i'm 0/13
I killed this guy about 8 times now no drops but 2 times so far I would get him down to about 25% and some highlevels would come in and steal this guy. You would think they would have more respect for ppl and them selfs but they don't. Both times there where other partys there and they all stood there and slaped the group as I grab some nice crawlers to add to them. I figured hey they want to steal my NM's then I will save them the trouble of stealing my crawlers for the lucky and just give it to them ^^. Booooo to the JPN's high levels most of them have no class. I am yet to have a NA party do this to me most of them cheer me on.
Scholar
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Saw it today, one RDM lvl 73 attempted to solo it, which he died pretty quickly too. Whilst i was solowing in the tree i saw it ran past me... I was so damn tempted to kill it so i attempted...lol i did die in the end, but you gotta be kinda surprised i took it down 50%HP all by myself, right?
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