Vana'diel Bestiary: Zuug the Shoreleaper  

Doesn't drop sirens hair anymore. Really easy to pop if for some reason you want a Narval.

Solo this guy quite often on DRG75/RDM37. I have a wyrm armet so I get a 361 HP heal from my wyvern for 5-6 MP. I usually eat a tavnazian taco to soften his hits, with protect and phalanx, which usually lowers them from 100-110 dmg to 50-80 dmg. The real key to surviving him in my case is keeping hate on myself and not my wyvern as much as possible. Even with all of my buffs, his weapon skills Hydro Shot and Jumping Thrust hurt like hell. I usually save TP around 75% HP for his wyvern when it pops. A well placed Penta Thrust can nearly one shot the wyvern. This guy has a crapload of HP, at least 10k, so I usually have to switch to staff and use Spirit Taker to get my MP back in the middle of the fight. In my experience the hair drops about 1/4 of the time, very fun fight lol.

So uh, does this guy wander over near Charybdis' spawn?

I was logged out at the door waiting to catch a Chary ToD in my log, and uh...

I turn the TV on this morning to find myself in Lag-Gate.

Scroll up through the log, and all I can figure is someone kited him in there, got killed by a manta (I did see one person die to a manta before I bit the dust), then Zuug turned and killed me and the other Charyb camper there.

Time to get another mother ******* gold coin, and go wait another god knows how many hours to get a ToD, I have never seen this NM, and already I despise him.

Can Rdm/blm solo this, or is it impossible.. rdm75/blm37 of course :)

I just failed to solo this NM as a SMN75/WHM37. The problem I ran into was that he had a wyvern up which I needed to kill so that the battle would be easier. The Wyvern ended up taking an 1800 Predator Claws and that was that. However, when I did a 1500~ damage Predator Claws to the Zuug, it only took off 7-10% off its HP.

I didn't have the MP to continue BPing while keeping Garuda out so I decided to Carby kite him, which didn't work because I ended up not having enough room to kite him. I also ran into hate problems even with a YY Robe equipped the whole time. I needed to fall off the ledge near the NM pop area to claim the NM so I couldn't kite it around the ramp where Charyb pops ><

This guy cannot be slept.
So Sleep > Nuke won't work here.

K i went and camped Zuug...and...
i killed the 2 delta first like i always do, then killed the others.
got agro from manta that popped outside of the room ~_~. Killed it. Some ninja, assuming RMT but who knows. comes and stands staring out into my Zuug domain, so i'm like hell no u don't =D.
i go rest beside him waiting for the other delta to pop while he fights the other Delta in the area.
He runs back into the room once the delta is dead.
i wait until the second delta pops and start fighting it. here's where things change a little.

Then he comes back out and starts fighting the other delta and thats fine and dandy, but then Zuug pops! and i'm like WTFZ!¿ so the ninja vokes him and proceeds to train every sahagin and crab in the place around the circle like 8 times, (his nin boots kept him alive, stuff was despawning he was so fast). so eventually i figure out wut he's doing and i follow and he goes unclaimed and i steal for the claim (no coin) 3200gil xD.

Pull him back to the door where its safe and also where about 3 people are watching me hoping I die.

Although i've failed to solo Zuug many times before, i really impressed myself this time, lol. with no blind bolts i start just shooting him with bloody bolts and not engaging as to not give him enough tp to use the mean dive of death (which does like 450dmg if it hits) i engage and continue fighting once i`m healed and use WS cause i had 300tp. All pretty much went perfect, then when the Wyvern popped i thought i was done for because i didnt bring my sleep bolts...so i continue to fight and let the wyvern hit me, then i figure might as well suck up some of the wyverns hp xD he gave me tons more HP from bloody bolts than Zuug was and it eventually killed him and assured my win.
Btw i`m THF75 NIN37

Moral of the story is ...... the 2 delta Sahagins are no longer the only placeholders. thats all i know for now..... i`m guessing they made all the sahagin in that area PHers because it popped at the exact time the Marsh i killed would have spawned. but i could be wrong.

Enjoy.

So I was just cruising around in SSG and happened to see him up unclaimed. So I said sure, I'll solo this guy. Cast ThunderIV, immediately tried sleeping him and wyvern. His wyvern went to sleep, but this bastard NM sure didn't. I got rocked. Lesson learned...not sleepable by 75BLM with enfeeb capped with +37 enfeeb EQ.

Hmmmm. Think a 67 DRG/WHM (or 75) could duo this with a similar lvl RDM or 73+BLM?

This one is much longer than a two hour spawn. It took me around six hours to spawn him.

I was fortunate enough to see him as I entered the area and kill him. No drop. Then I stuck around thinking I had a good shot at seeing him again since it was supposed to be a 2 hour spawn.

6 hours later and 3 different sets of LS people helping me kill PHs while timing them every 15 minutes, he finally spawned again.

Worst part is I'm 0/4 on siren's hair mobs, while gilsellers have had the last 6 entries in jeuno AH in the past 2 days. What a load of crap.

Killed as a 75thf with the help from a 70rdm and 65thf that were after Charby ToD. Wasn't that hard, just have rdm to de-buff and thf74-75 can handle him easily. I think i'll camp him solo more, with alittle better eva gear he could be soloed as thf easily.

He drops a Pamtam kelp also... just killed him a few hrs ago

if you are going to solo as nin go as NIN/whm. if oyur a rdm soloing this guy subbing nin is good. he will summon a Wyvern around 3/4 HP to 1/4. Easy to kill Wyvern and jumps dont hit that hard.

Gil sellers got this owned now... ; ;

haha he raped me ; ; /blush /blush /cry /cry

From my own experience, this guy is on a 10Hr spawn time.

I have hunted him several times, always waited 6+ Hrs and he never poppped.

Yesterday we got lucky and he popped @2:54 PM EST, we killed him, no drop.. came back at 7:00 PM EST... waited til almost 1:00 AM.. he spawned at 12:54 on the dot.. 10 Hrs even.

He is not that easy to beat if you have only a few people.. Me 70 DRG, 75 MNK, and 75 WHM took him out, but it was difficult.

If we didnt have Hundred Fists we would have died.

Narval finally dropped... now I never have to hunt this bastard again.

Edited, Wed Feb 23 11:12:17 2005

Edited, Sun Feb 13 14:15:24 2005

i really wanna know how much it is? could you guys tell me please?

From what I hear, Zuug is a 2-hour lottery, meaning he CAN spawn at any time after the 2 hours is up. Here's my experience, though.

First time we camped him for 7 hours and he never showed up. Started thinking we might have the wrong place, or if not, I wondered if he was a 21-24 hour pop. Anyway after 7 hours we left emptyhanded. Next time I went down with a 69 pld, we kill the 4 sahagin placeholders outside charybdis's room and Zuug pops next round. Let me also say he is a nasty SOB, killed the 2 of us fairly easily. We both ate hps and gathered reinforcements, then went back and had our revenge. Our pty was 69 pld/war, 70 drg/whm, 66 whm/blm, 65 pld/war and 64 rdm/whm. The fight took about 10 minutes, and he didn't summon his wyvern since I had killed it the first time. Zuug has a ton of hp and hits very hard. both plds used invincible during the fight and it was still a close thing. Siren's hair dropped, no narval.

We went back later with a full skillup pty and camped him for a solid 8 hours before he popped. Another hard fight, had his wyvern this time which further complicated things since it kept hitting our blm when it woke. Anyway long story short the narval dropped and I'm psyched as hell. Thanks to all those who helped ^^

Killed this guy for fun and for siren's hair one day when we were bored. Was me (73 RDM), 72 DRG, 60+ BLM, and THF and a NIN, tough little guy, dropped the polearm for drg but no hair and it spawns past the gold beastcoin door near charybdis not mythril door because we went to fight him right after we killed Novv the Whitehearted which is behind the gold door. anyways good luck to whoever encounters him or camps him hes not a really easy guy without blink tank.

I'm a 66 drg on the verge of getting 67. Would anyone be able to say specifically through which doors/which grid he pops in? And what mobs he pops off of? I'm trying to find some info on him before pestering my LS about fighting him. If it's true that the lance he drops ignores Skeleton resistance VS. polearms, then this could be very close to my end-game weapon until I save up enough to buy the Colossal. I heard that until I gain Sky access, Skele's will become one of the #1 things I'll have to level off of very soon.

he spawns near charby..killed him with 60 whm 60 sam 74 nin.. wasn't too hard except for when he summoned his wyvern which wanted me dead.. dropped the narval which we gave to a random drg in the area