Vana'diel Bestiary: Tribunus VII-I  

{too weak} of an NM solo.

Gear used: Hybrid haste/bootleg evasion build (W. Turban/Byakko's/Fuma & SH/Corse Cape/Evasion Earring/Scouter's Rope) only other gear of note was Hagun & Platinum Grip +1, starting off with 300 TP using a Coeurl Sub.

I was a little nervous about my chances but I didn't run into any problems whatsoever. The {Blind} effect from Tachi: Yukikaze and {Paralyze} from Tachi: Kasha were extremely noticeable, but I kept Seigan & Third Eye up full-time despite the mob's poor accuracy. I didn't bother two-houring since he didn't connect with a single swing of his Mighty Strikes and finished the fight at 73% health walking away with about 10k in gil, 2 iron ores, a pauldron and a shiny new Tungi (currently 1/3).

Anecdotal aside: Has anyone else noticed that this NM seems to Double Attack far more frequently at lower HP? From ~50% on it seemed that he was Double Attacking every other attack round.

Edited, Oct 9th 2009 11:08am by Beltenebros

K, well I got smoked by this guy as a 66 Drg, got him down to maybe 3/4 health before his Mighty Strikes beat me down. HB III triggers couldn't keep up. But oh how 4 levels help so much....

I beat this punk last night as a 70 Drg/Whm.......easily.

What I did was build up around 200% on TP from the hovering Ant and another one hanging around just outside the nook. I buffed with my usual for NM fights, Protect 2, Shell, Blink and Stoneskin. I also cast Regen on myself before popping as a safegaurd do to previous loss. Oh and I was using Meat Cheifkabobs.

I opened up with a Penta Thrust, which laughably barely even took a dent out of his HP, even though it hit for around 1000. But the fight after that was pretty straight forward, he was hitting me for upwards of 150 with a base of 97 and crits of up to 250 a shot. But it still took him a good 2 minutes to break through my buffs.

As soon as he 2 houred I Super Jumped out of it, and with Wyvern having hate I recasted Blink and Stoneskin. And when he had my Wyvern down to about 10% HP I 2 houred to get something out of my Wyvern besides his death^^. I quickly Penta'd for 1200, Jumped, High Jumped and took 2 hour effect off and recalled my Wyvern.

As soon as I had 2 houred though he quickly blew through my buffs, since his 2 hour was doing pretty close to 75% more per hit.

But after each of our 2 hours it was pretty straight forward with the fight, when I got 100+ Tp I'd Penta, when I'd dip below 50% health I'd trigger HB III.

Soon enough I had the punk laying on the ground, and me with a Tungi in hand.^^ 2/2 on the thing^^(I had my friend help me before, but he got the Tungi instead of me) with no TH I, II, III, IV, V, L, MM, MML in sight, lol.

Like I keep saying TH (Treasure Hunter), is completely pointless on most(if not all) NM's. I (by myself, and anyone I've helped not having TH either) am 2/2 on Tungi, 8/11 on Shaman's Cloak, and 1/5 on the damned Bow just from the NM's in Quicksands. Not to mention many more NM's I've popped outside of Quicksands and still managed to get the drop without TH, in timely fashions.

But all in all this NM is a {Decent Challenge} at best to a 70 Drg/Whm. And I am now the proud owner of a Tungi, I will happily use on my War.^^

1/2 on him. He definatly does hit hard, so /nin or nin main is really the way to go. First fight his acc blew. Got hit maybe 4x the whole fight. Second fight he might have been a lvl or two higher, cuz he cut shadows down much faster and hit for 50-100 even with def food on. Parsed it and he had a little over 10,000 hp. A high-evasion person with /nin would be ideal on him. War/nin might have it rough w. low evasion and no reliable self-healing method. Not terribly hard either time, however.

Found Antican Tag in 1st room I checked, went to other map, built up TP on a few anticans, rested, used squid sushi, utsusemi-ni and popped it.
Barely took 5-6 hits all fight (capped accuracy on my Thf75/nin), was down only 300 dmg at any time (using venom, acid and bloody bolts).
Drops (with TH3 and 3 lucky items): antican pauldron, iron ore, mythril ore, darksteel ore, dark crystal and.. the Tungi.

Good luck to all others going for this.

Finally, the Brock has come back to Quicksand Caves!

For those attempting this you will need some things before you start...

Patience, silent oils, and a THF with TH2...

I started out searching for this last Thursday. I'm level 60WAR/30NIN so everything pretty much aggros still at this level. I did the research on the locations for the spwn points of the "???". I started out on my own searching for this "???" You can pretty much do this on your own without the help of other players. I would suggest zoning into Quicksand Caves from the South entrance in East Altepa Desert. You can actually loop around the area to check the four spawn points. I would zone into the area and head south and then east. there is a "???" spawn point in the room where you can drop through the sand vagina hole. Check the spot and then drop down the hole if there is no "???". Head north and take the tunnel to where NM Centuro spawns. In this room, there is a "???" in the southwest corner of the room. This is perhaps the best locaction for lower level melee searching for this "???" cause often times, people camping NM Centurio will be killing the placeholders so you wont have as many problems waiting ther efor it to pop. If it is not there, head west and then drop down the ledge and continue heading south through the tunnel. Half way through the tunnel is a room with many mobs. Just spam {Tab Key} and see if is there. If no, continue heading southwest and then head over to the room where you drop down to the Fountain of Kings. There is a "???" spawn here too. What I suggest when I did my run is do the loop twice and then camp the NM Centurio room for the "???". If your high enough, you can actually somewhat camp NM Centurio and the "???". The spawn points are elusive and will dissappear on a moments notice. When I did my run the first time, I clicked on the "???" when I accidentally had Invisible on and when I cancelled Invisible, the "???" depopped. You dont need invisible on anyways so just dont use it. I got my first antican tag in the Centurio room after two days of searching. I made my attempt on NM Tribunus VIII-I and got a whole lot of drops but no Tungi. Thanks Jadoogar for the help though. Right after the fight, I headed back to the "???" spawn points and the first one I checked had the "???". My sneak was wearing though so I made a split decision and said screw putting up Sneak. I grabbed my second Antican Tag and about 4 angry Anticans along with it. I was in the room that linked to the zone of the Fountain of Kings. Zone was about a 3 minute run from where I was so I spammed Defender, Utsusemi, and hauled ass to zone. Unfortunately, an Antican Signifer cast Stonega II on me and hit me for 400 damage. I got the tag, but I pulled every Antican in that hallway and died. Thank God for great linkshell friends. Bliran came and R3'd me and they decided to help me with the NM Tribunus. I got an invite from party. Checked party makeup and found that I had a fellow linkshell party member who was a 75THF (Satii). Great news for me. We head to (J-9) West Altepa Desert and enter (For a second time) to go knuckle to knuckle with our friend Tribunus. Went in, killed the creep at the end of the hallway to build TP. Went in as 75THF/NIN (Satii), 75WHM/BLM (Bliran), 63something? (Canormille (SP?)), and 60WAR/NIN (me). We all had probably over 200%TP. I had 285%TP after we faught those two Antican in the hallway. Hit Utsusemi and got my buffs. I traded the Antcian Tag to the "???" and the there he was in all his uglyness. I hit WarCry, Aggressor, Beserk, and tried Kurayami: Ichi. The NIN blind spell didn't work though. The other three party members started a skillchain and just told me to solo WS after they were done. All's I know is I saw a crap load of hit points come off of Tribunus. I hit Rampage and did my own damage. I actually received enough TP to finish him off with a second round of rampage. We kicked his lily ass without any trouble, and the Tungi dropped! YAY!?! I lotted for my Tungi and passed on the rest of the loot; a prize for the rest of the party for helping me.

So, i'm now 1/2 on the Tungi. I wish I could dual wield this but I'll settle for a Fancisca from NM Aquarius in The Boyadha Tree. That fool is next on my sh*tlist! :) Goodluck to all. It's not entirely hard, just gotta find some friendly THF's to help you out.

Just wanted to say WHM/NIN can solo this guy easy. Cleared out the Princeps, buffed up, popped, and killed before Princeps respawn. I took a grand total of 8 damage through the whole fight.

Went 1/3 on Tungi, no TH around.

2/2 on axe. One for my friend andone for me. The first one we did as RDM75 and BRD75, the second I solo'd as BRD75/NIN37 with mainhand dagger and Joyeuse offhand spamming Evisceration. Very easy fight, I barely even took any hits.

Know what would make sence... If this NM actually used the Axe that he Dropped >.>

I killed this today as THF75/NIN37 with my friend SAM70/THF35. He presented no real challenge to us. I had no trouble keeping shadows up. We got the Tungi, but neither of us really wanted it. We only spawned him because we got the tag while camping Shaman's Cloak. So we let it auto-drop and I think he tossed it.

Popped him last night after gettin an Antican Tag from one of the 4 ??? soawn points. Got my NPC out as 75 pld/war and was killing him pretty good, though he has high HP. A Thf then ran by and wanted to join in, so we kicked his ass together. Only concern was when he did the AOE silence move, but my NPC kept lost silence quickly and cured me. Drops were >
Tungi
Adaman Ore
Darksteel Ore
Mythril Ore
Iron Ore
Iron Ore
Antican Pauldron

So all in all, a great NM to kill, a cool Axe and over 100k in drops. XD

Knocked this out tonight as 75MNK/NIN. I brought my NPC along (Radille, L65 soothing healer) but I don't think I needed her. I wrecked this guy bad, I think he hit me all of 3 times. Got the Tungi, 2 iron ores, and a pauldron. My WAR is 900 from L60 so this will be very handy.

With the new expansion out alot of people who could be camping this aren't. Take this opportunity to make a run. Right now Radille and I are the only two non-monsters in Quicksand Caves.

Just duo'd with a RNG friend. Not hard at all. We got TP before pop'ing on a few mobs around, and did:

Savage Blade > Arching Arrow = Light

Which did some nice damage and just kept at it during the fight. Jammer wave went off twice but no problems till the end when he critical'd my RNG friend for like 500 damage and almost dropped him lol.

Anyway, made out nice with drops:
- Antican Pauldron
- Iron Ore x2
- Mythril Ore
- Adaman Ore
- Tungi
- Dark Crystal

1/1

Got 1 more pop to do as well :D

I'm now 1/8 and all it took was to drag my 75 theif friend out there to come for his TH2. I disengaged at about 10 pecent health and let him finish it off, and BAM! There goes the Tungi!


/Hurray!

I'm now 0/4 on the tungi, the best drops i've got was 3!!!! iron ores and an antican pauldron, normally i get 2 iron ores. Killed him twice tonight with 2!!! 50+ thfs tagging along and still crap drops......

Does any1 know if moon phase could effect drop rate as it's about 25% atm, maybe wait til it's nearer 100?

sadly whm died on final run, tp building and shadows is a must for any sub 70 fighters

I just solo'd him as a 72 MNK/NIN. I also had my healer NPC with me. I also had about +30 evasion. I'm also a galka so I had about 1700 hp for this fight.

If I did not have nin subbed I would have died. If I was not a galka, I would have died (ended the fight with 200 hp). If I did not have my healer NPC, I would have died. If I was not wearing resetsu hakima, I would have died because he wouldnt have got paralyzed from hitting me.

This is what I did. I got 200% tp before the fight. I spawned him and melee'd him down to about 50% while keeping my shadows up. He only hit me twice before 50%. Then, I used dodge, focus, and hundred fists. Spamed asuran fists on him. He was dead before hundred fists wore off. I had about 200 hp when he died.

If I waited til my mnk was 74...this would have been easier with utsusemi: ni.

Good luck to anyone else who tries to solo him.

Edited, Sat Jan 21 10:58:26 2006

Like many others have said : 1/3

First 2 times had TH1 and my uber nin friend helping (Goo Virii!). Dropped various ores, no Tungi. After getting tag #3, I warped to jeuno and decided to shout for a high lvl THF to bring their TH influence. Duno if it was TH2 or the 3rd-time-charm, but got Tungi.

I highly suggest recruiting a high lvl THF/nin to come kill this thing for you. Just buy them some echo drops and tell them they can get all other drops including adaman ores, that tends to seal their assistance.

Couple notes : The ??? for the tag does NOT respawn instantly. Im sure of it. It's more of a 2 hour respawn. Think of the tag as the NM, rather than the antican. If youre facing competition it's like mental torture cuz you have no idea if the other guy got it and you're wasting your time still looking for it.

This NM is prety unimpressive vs a 70+ nin or /nin. No need for a party of 70's, hes {too weak}.

Happy hunting!

gil sellers on my server camp it 24/7

thnxs SE, looks like i'll have to mpk them again

http://www.kharvey.com/ffxi/files.htm

one of the pdf files is how to camp the antican tag and the maps of where that ??? is located

i frequently pop him while farming and campin centurio, loxley bow, and save the queen nms. he's soloable as a 75 pld but its a long fight. mainly because he has a lot of hp, but hes not too dangerous unless the princeps pops while your killing him. soloable as /war and /nin but i brought yagudo drinks and used staff as /war.

he recently seems to be dropping adamen ore more frequently and tungi slightly less but i could be wrong.

My damage count is just a little off because I resummoned a few times (i.e. when running away to resummon, won't see melee damage out of range)

Used Fenrir + 5x Eclipse Bite (991-1231 damage four times, one pathetic 237 damage one)
Total logged damage: 9489 (estimating 10k hp total)
XP received: 36
Gil received: 6000
Drops: 2xIron Ore, Antican Pauldron, Mythril Ore, Dark Crystal (no Tungi >_<)

i was helpin friend with centurio X I when the ??? popped so i hit it and i brought him with me to the spawn area for this, so i had him gravity it and we pulled it to the zoned and i kited w/ carbuncle, pretty easy fight, no tungi, but darksteel ores, iron ores, and pauldrons :)

i was helpin friend with centurio X I when the ??? popped so i hit it and i brought him with me to the spawn area for this, so i had him gravity it and we pulled it to the zoned and i kited w/ carbuncle, pretty easy fight, no tungi, but darksteel ores, iron ores, and pauldrons :)

Fought five times yesterday trying to get Tungi.

Fight 1-3 setup: 57 nin/war (me), 62 drg/rdm, 62 brd/whm.

Fight 4 setup: Duo'd with 57 nin and 62 brd.

Fight 5 we had a 58 thf come, got Tungi drop.

Overall a simple fight, I only dropped passed yellow on one fight. Also got two adaman ores in the five fights. Mighty Strikes never touched anyone.

Not BLM solo material, haha x_X;

Resists Sleep thorougly, not to mention a 1243 Thunder IV only knocked out 8% of his HP, and it broke through Stoneskin/Phalanx at capped enhancing skill with one hit.

I just soloed this guy as 74 brd/nin. Some people say hes SO EASY. Well he is but he isnt. I mean I took a few hits. Nothing paeon IV and V couldnt handle between blinks. With carnage elegy, hes slow enough that you can cas utsusemi ichi in between his attacks with time to spare. Unfortunately hes not sleepable. Usually I can solo anything I can lullaby. He didnt do jamming wave until he was at 1% but beware. Bring drops just incase. No tungi. Darksteel ore, mythril ore, 2x iron ore, dark cystal, and Antican pauldron.

I duo'd this a few times.

First setup was 60 Nin/War and 60 Smn/Whm. Smn just used Ecliptic Howl and then let carby go at it, while I tanked / slowly beat him up.

Second setup was with 61 Nin/War and 40 Pld/Whm. We pulled the NM back to the zone so we didn't have to worry about the princeps repop, and then proceeded to whoop on it. Pld acted as a whm and flash whore, while I just tanked and hit the mob. Any Ninja 60+ could tank this guys easily. Only thing you need is a healer for its Magnetite attack and any stray hits between utsusemi.

I never got hit by Mighty Strikes, but his normal attacks did 150-250 on me, so hes pretty tough. Just don't get hit and you're good :D.