Vana'diel Bestiary: Archlich Taber'quoan  

we nailed that beast hard and broke the Asura server record record was 1m 49s we did it in 1m 13s

PLD/WAR -> I kited the lesser mobs around most of the battle, BLM Sleepga'd them
PLD/NIN
PLD/WAR
DRK/WAR
BLM/WHM
WHM/BLM

Here was the party setup when I did it. 2 DRK 1 PLD 2 RDM 1 WHM. I don't remember subs because I did it so long ago. All you need is 3 ppl fighting the main NM and 1 person to kite about half the others. The only prob we had was the amount of time it takes to kill it. He has terrible accuracy but hits hard. As a 50 DRK I was able to tank him just fine when he got to half health and I got all the hate (well maybe a hit or 2). Just concentrate on healing the tank, DD the hell out of the main and have someone with high evasion to kite the others.

Our party setup was PLD, WHM, MNK, RDM, BLM, and BST (me, at level 49).

I wasn't too confident going in because some rank 6 guy who heard me calling for PT members told me that BST was worthless for this fight, but it worked out very well. There are two corridors that the skeletons come from, in the southwest corner and the southeast corner. I found that using my funguar familiar (for blunt damage against skeles) against the adds and fighting them in the middle of the room with the other melees taking on the NM at the back of the room made it so that new adds entering from the south see my engaged pet first and linked onto it instead of other party members.

Even at the beginning of the fight before I realized how that would work, it was tremendously easy to pull the first couple links off of other party members. As another poster pointed out, I probably should have gone in first, but no matter. I was also amazed that my pet took so little damage jug pets have notoriously low HP and lower stats, but my funguar familiar never went below 50% health and I didn't need to use pet food even once.

I was wondering if this thing can be done with this setup:

PLD/WAR
DRK/THF
RDM/NIN

My 51 RDM friend and I (53 DRK)were in Fei Yin yesterday killing Shadows, Ore Golems, and Underworld Bats for key with no problem. We were going to try this with just us 2, but decided that it'd be safer to take a tank too. Any feedback would be appreciated.

My static party has tried and failed this battle three times now. If anyone could suggest a battle plan for us I would be most appreciative.

Party setup (not negotiable):
PLD/WAR
THF/NIN
DRG/WAR
RDM/WHM
BLK/WHM
WHM/SMN

Basically we would send the theif in first to try to kite the lessor skellies while everyone else focused on the main guy.

nm, we beat him! ^_^


Edited, Mon Feb 6 12:52:02 2006

With the setup we had for this, i really didnt think we would do enough damage. But we did and it was actually pretty easy.^^

setup:
rdm/blm
rdm/blm
whm/blm
sam/war
thf/nin
war/nin

Entered BC, we all ate food(well, those who brought food), buffed and rested. War tanked basically the whole battle while the thf kept the weaker skeletons busy. Lot's of battle spam though so i'm not 100% sure that nobody 2h'd, although the sam grabbed hate towards the end so he may have used 2h.
It wasn't any record setting pt, but we got it done in about 5mins and 30seconds.

Went in with 2 MNK, 2 RDM, and WHM and a PLD (me). I ate a Tavnazian Taco and ran in, voking the Archlich and getting aggro from everything. I used Holy Circle right away, and it really seemed to help- I intimidated the archlich a view times, as well as the lesser skeletons.

Anyway, we melee'd the lich down to about half, and then everyone used their 2-hours. RDMs used Chainspell and Fire II, and the MNKs just wailed. Despite using Invincible, I lost hate to one of the MNKs, but by that time, the fight was pretty much over. It went from half health to dead in about 10 seconds, and we set the record on Sylph- just over 4 minutes. Thanks to everyone who helped! I can finally sell my armor now.

I tried this once with a few people once with 2 who werent prepared for the cap but said they were ><. The brd that time and blm worked as hard as they could to sleep the minions. We got close but first the blm went down then the brd and then the whm and pld and it was over. The second time wasnt nearly as bad and we didnt have a bard or even a whm, we went in with 2 rdm's and a blm for mages. Melee were a drk a sam and a pld. We decided to just tank the minions with pld by having him run out first and use his 2hr when/if too many minions got away and started interrupting spells and hurting the mages. We focused all of our attacks on the archlich and it went down pretty easily in fact. The drk was doing a lot of dmg per hit and the sam did plenty of dmg with his 2hr. After a little bit, we won and the minions dissappeared.

The point of this post is to show that the common idea of using brd or even mages to keep the minions asleep didnt work with a group put together by shouting. And that a mnk wasnt needed in this setup the sam and drk did enough dmg. If you cant get your hands on a MNK or a BRD you should know those 2 jobs arent neccesary for this fight. Nor are they neccesary to have an easy time of this fight. The minions dissapear when the Archlich is killed you really only need to focus your energy on him. Sleeping the minions brings too much hate on the caster, they cant really hurt non-mages nor can they interrupt their spells.

I am a lowly level 44 Redmage, but eversince I saw the Apple Pie video (you all know what I'm talking bout..that Taru is my hero) I have been inspired to solo this mission. I have heard rumours that there has been an update that makes this impossible due to time constraints, just wanted to verify if this was true.
Also I was wondering if this setup would work to deal enough damage in the amount of time.
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I would go in, haste up, stoneskin phalanx etc. Then do as the great Apple Pie and just charge in with Chainspell blazing hoping I can take down all of his HP. I'll be sure to post when I actually try this...until then plz send your comments or suggestions. I done want to die for nothing.

Did all of you have a Samurai in your fight? lol

Just did this tonight, and wanna give ya'll the skinny so you don't make the same mistakes we did. I read through all these before hand, but I figure I learned a couple nuggets of wisdom in addition.

We didn't have a BRD or MNK. Just about every post in this thread had one. We didn't. Asked virtually all of 'em, but no takers.

Characters that needed the mission were 55 DRK/THF (me), 60 BLM/WHM, and 51 DRG/WAR. We had a high lvl RDM and WHM help us out, and a 53 PLD. All, obviously, capped at 50. [Note: the WHM didn't have lvl 50 gear, so basically went nekkid.]

First Attempt:
We went in with the same ole basic strategy. 1. Mages buff; 2. Melee's melee NM and virtually ignore adds; 3. Mages cure, debuff, nuke, and sleep adds. Everyone 2hr'd. Sleeps got resisted about 90% of the time. The BLM and RDM got toasted, and after that it got very ugly. We all died with NM at about 25% HP.

Second Attempt:
Thinking that maybe the adds spawned in the big room, I pulled with ranged attack and we fought on the stairs. Adds still spawned like crazy. Sleeps still sucked (even with elemental seals), but I'd try to keep some of the hate with AOE WS. The DRG and PLD would voke adds, and I'd cast sleep on them to try and pull hate from mages. Again the BLM and RDM went down and everyone else soon after.

Third Attempt:
Before entry, as always, we buffed up. Seeing as the mages always started the domino effect due to hate, I told 'em that when I got close to 100% TP, I'd spam my status macro, and have them run up next to me. Then I do AOE WS, kill lots of mobs and get hate from the others, and hopefully save the mages. This is what finally worked. Two of the mages still died, but we killed the NM and all was right once again in the world.

WHM always cast reraise 2 on herself before battle, and then raise 2 on each of us after battle. So, even though everyone died 2-3 times, exp loss was negligible.

I'm just throwing this out there in case someone, like me, is jonesing for Rank 6 and can't get a BRD or MNK to join party. It's very doable.

-spank

i know everyone says its easy with mnk but would a smn hold out at all i mean ifrit+inferno=everything like dies wouldn't a smn do at least a decent job in this mission if not rival mnk in usefulness?

Took this guy today with a Drg, brd, mnk, pld, whm and sam. Had no trouble, the mnk 2-HRd, the brd slept the links, and we focused all our attacks on the main guy. Got into yellow/orange near the end, but we finished him off pretty fast.

We went in with 2mnks (me 52mnk/thf), rdm, rng, whm, and drk. Beat garuda record with 2min 3sec. we just lit up hundred fists and he was pretty much dead. rdm got one cure 3 on him and a haste on the other mnk. He is incredibly easy the only people who die here are people who go in w/o a mnk in pt. Sorry for all you who have made this mistake. I have beaten him twice now. Never had a problem with him. He is TOO WEAK against my hundred fists.

was there a rumor tat a RDM solo this quest?

We now hold the new record on carbunle for the fastest time 2:24 secs,This was the pt make up.2 mnks,Drg/war,pld/war (me),whm/blm,Rdm/blm,the 2 mnks hit there 2 hours and it was history from there.The best part was watching the whm getting chased during the fight he was getting chased by 6 of the minions we had no deaths and we own the record now..

This guy was really easy. I tanked it as a Drk( i didnt voke it somehow it liked me alot and PLD couldn't get it off until the end). Two SAM two hour wooped his ass and with a BRD sleeping the other skkeletons it was mad easy. I only wish i was high enough to fight the Shadow Lord.

This dude got owned last night =D

Party was: RDM (me), WHM, THF, and 3 SAM

Woo, this was 2hour city. Stoneskin helped to avoid AOE drain, also kept me alive due to Convert. Here's how it went:

We go in, all of us gang the bigarse skeleton (this dude is HUGE O_O). SAMs went in first, targeted the mob, we all attack it less the WHM.

SAMs 2hour, and proceed to do some insane renkeis, and used Meditate when it was down.

THF actually pulled off a SATA in that crazy mess, don't know how, but we were impressed.

WHM was prime healer (durh), but had to use Benediction near the end because things got a little ugly (stupid AOE drain)

I did Chainspell + Cure IV spam + Convert, etc. on the mob. Wow did that rack up the damage, and tick him off ^^

Healing the undead is fun =D

My advice, when you go to do this, bring about 2 to 3 RDMs, and your fight will be a walk in the party. We set the record actually, 3mins 4secs.^^

Many ppl will tell you that this fight is hard but my pt had no trouble what so ever with this fight, Pld, Whm, Blm, Rdm, Drk, Drk we were all capped at lvl 50 except for blm at 49. Pld ran in immediatley voked the main NM all the little skellies follow. Pld took moderate dmg nothing too bad at all the Drk pouned away and I believe they skillchained him twice with blm bursting. Myself and the blm got no aggro whatsoever except 5 secs before fight over he blinded me lol. We managed to beat the Fairy Server record by almost 2 mins....piece of cake :)