Vana'diel Bestiary: Hakutaku  

Did it 3 times with a full alliance of 68+. One of our WHM was being a moron, got pissy and left so we only had one WHM but all tanks were NINs.

First he will use his special move and paralyze people. A lot. Second, the pops are a pain, have 2-4 melee and a mage dedicated to just dealing with them (Tonberrys and Hecteyes). His spells aren't too bad. Myself and another BLM alternated Stuns and only once out of 3 fights was there a point where we both couldn't Stun and that was because I mixed up the order ><. He will cast Fire IV, Firaga III and Flare.

A couple of other things I noticed but can't explain: Hate was all over the place sometimes. Even with the NIN tank doing everything he could it would oddy shift toward a mage. During the first fight I was on Stun duty so I wasn't nuking for a good 2 minutes or so. He cast a spell so I Stunned and then it was the other mage's turn. About 10 seconds later I cast Bliz 3 for ~400, got aggro and was toast. Even though I did nothing for a long time I suddenly got hate and I don't know why.

The other thing is he would resist, a lot. 75%+ of my spells would be resisted for only 25 damage and that's with AF gloves, all the +INT I can have at this level and the appropriate staff for the spell. It seemded like his resists would rotate. For example, I could hit for full or almost full damage on say Bliz 2 and 3 but then doing a Thudner 3 would get almost fully resisted. Then a little later same thing for Thunder 2 and 3 and Bliz would get reisisted. I don't know if it was coincidence or what.

Anyway, we won the first 2, got smoked the 3rd. A couple people left so the alliance didn't have very many mages and we got 2 pops, one of them being a Tonberry with an elemental.

You need to combine all five hakutaku eyes, dropped by named hecteyes around the game, via alchemy: lv84 recipe but I'd recommend a lv100 alchemist on lightsday. You then trade your hakutaku eye cluster to a ??? in Den of Rancor, and this mob spawns.

Fought this once. Melee should be 73-75, mages 65+. This thing has tons of HP and since its a slime, without at least a few blms this fight will last over 20 minutes. So either have a lot of blms or have enough whms that one or more can always be resting.

It's melee doesn't hit extremely hard to a level 75 pld, but can one-shot anyone with Flare. Between the Flare and lvl 3 -ga magic, the PT will die without well placed weapon/shield bashes and stuns.

At some point, it will use chainspell and spam magic... all I can say is... uh, good luck with that.

Its not an easy battle, but it is worth the reward.