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Vana'diel Bestiary: Earth Elemental  

Family:Elemental
Found in:Konschtat Highlands
Tahrongi Canyon
Level:18 - 20
Flags:
  • Not Aggro
  • Linking
  • Appears during Dust Storms / Sand Storms
  • Detects by Magic
Drops:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

Earth Elemental Picture

Defeating the elementals of the current elemental day of the week spawns the final chest.

Elementals only link with the same element.

This page last modified 2007-09-25 13:50:58.

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ouch
# Feb 04 2007 at 6:33 PM Rating: Decent
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When I was a lvl 10 WHM no sub I was in the highlands fighting wasps for exp. I had just beaten a wasp and was healing when a sandstorm came up. I spotted another wasp, a bit tougher than the first but beatable, I hit yellow and started to cast cure on myself which turned out to be a very bad move as just a second later I was hit for 80 damage by the earth elemental which had decided to attack me because of my cure.
melee vs theese things???
# Jun 17 2005 at 10:19 AM Rating: Decent
im thf/rng and farm elementals like a nut and yes you can SATA these and any other elemental.

u may do a "0" damage hit with sata due to the earth elemental putting on stoneskin b4 you engage him.

but yes you can do SATA and deal damage if you can engage em b4 they throw up stone skin.

and as a 49 thf/rng i kill them in tahrongi canyon with 3-4 hits. < thats including a TP move shining blade >
need aero
# May 02 2005 at 6:53 AM Rating: Decent
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I've had luck taking these on in both Konschtat Highlands and Tahrongi Canyon. I'm not exactly positive of our stats the first time but I was in a party of 3 around lvl 13-14 and fought one that checked as EM (i think) in Konschtat Highlands. The party consisted of a WHM(me) a RDM and a WAR. We just took it on as normal with Barstonra and lots of Aero thrown in. Semmed to work pretty well. An interesting distraction from the dunes maybe...

The second one I fought with the same RDM lvl 20 and my WHM/BLM at lvl 19 in Tahrongi Canyon it stretched us a fair bit and as someone else has said probably not worth the risk for a single cluster. Maybe 2 or 3 woud make it worthwhile...
coffer key?
# Feb 20 2005 at 7:52 AM Rating: Decent
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so can i actually kill one of these things to get the eldieme coffer key? cuz that would make my life alot easier!
man i hate these
# Nov 12 2004 at 4:05 AM Rating: Decent
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just fought one of these at 32 rng, decked out in all my gear, utsusemi food the works, i was thinkin how i could do it, shoot it, barrage shoot again, if i get tin trouble 2 hr, ok i hit it once, did 6 dam with all bow and arrow upgraded, barrage did a wopping 26 my 300 tp did 26 and my 2 hr did 87.. i mean wtf if a 32 mnk could do it why cant an uber dd do it ><
RE: man i hate these
# Jan 11 2005 at 8:04 PM Rating: Decent
If you were reading the post just after the MNK posted, you'd notice that the extremely high defense of an elemental (rather, any elemental) will make it extremely difficult to kill one solo if you're not in a party.

On top of that, while your power shots, such as Barrage, Eagle Eye, etc, were reduced to 50-80 for a one time shot, the MNK's Hundred Fists was a continuous attack for 8-20 or so for one minute... considering how many times they can strike during their two hour, thats almost triple the damage you caused with all of your abilities combined.

Believe it or not, MNK does hold the line for best DD, on par with RNG and DRK if they can do their job properly, and/or have the right equipment. If they have the best equip, I would risk saying they are better than RNG. But let's not get off topic.

Long story short, elemental = EP, just run. Unless you're a defense-toting BLM, lol.

Edited, Tue Jan 11 20:05:32 2005
Eldieme Coffer Key
# Oct 11 2004 at 7:31 AM Rating: Decent
Wierd question but...
Ok the elementals drop the Eldieme Coffer Key right? It has to be the elementals in Batalia Downs I would assume, since apparently these guys don't spawn in Eldieme itself. Anyone ever gotten an Eldieme Coffer key of an Earth elemental before? Please let me know, and thank you.
RE: Eldieme Coffer Key
# Feb 12 2005 at 1:43 PM Rating: Good
actually they do spawn in the necropolis one area i know for sure is near the "Hume Bones"
Keys
# Sep 12 2004 at 12:35 AM Rating: Decent
this also drops the chest key for Eldieme, not just the coffer
Vs. Earth Elemental
# Aug 24 2004 at 11:00 PM Rating: Decent
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I was farming lizards in the dunes and I see an earth elemental which checks as easy prey. I decide to fight it as a 32mkn/15thf and as soon as I hit this thing I knew I was in trouble. The only reason they're so tough is because of their incredible defence, which reduced my attacks to 8-20 on this. Oh well, I fired off Hundred fists, used a 300% combo, then hacked away at it for awhile after and still barely survived. I received 3 earth clusters, which isn't worth the risk.
RE: Vs. Earth Elemental
# Sep 29 2004 at 12:09 AM Rating: Decent
You had such a hard time with the elementals because the have HIGH defense, HIGH attack, but they have very LOW magical defense. I believe that they should check to you as TOO WEAK TO BE WORTHWHILE for a mildly easy kill.
Skill-ups
# Aug 15 2004 at 9:38 AM Rating: Decent
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I've heard these are pretty good for melee skill-ups actually due to their high def.
#REDACTED, Posted: Aug 03 2004 at 6:46 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) ummm for the stupid ones...read the frickin level range...level 18 though lvl 77 so that means it can pwn u if u solo it at lvl 75
RE: ...
# Aug 03 2004 at 7:46 PM Rating: Excellent
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The level 18 earth elementals spawn in the lowbie zones such as konschtat. Level 77 earth elementals spawn in higher level zones like valley of sorrows and quicksand caves. You will not find a level 70+ elemental outside of a zone not meant for level 65+ characters.

Before you start calling people stupid make sure you aren't abbreviating your words to single vowels and using non-words like 'pwn' like a jackass.
Coffer??
# Jul 18 2004 at 9:33 PM Rating: Decent
those this thing actually drop coffer keys??/ i dont believe it...
elem
# Jun 21 2004 at 9:17 AM Rating: Decent
Could a 28 BLM/12 RDM solo the Earth Elementals in Tahrongi?
RE: elem
# Jun 28 2004 at 9:33 AM Rating: Decent
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I think you can solo this element, as long you use correct nuking on him. I believe that if you use Aero (Aero II if you already have) could do serious damage to this mob, or try water.

Just remember that all elements got 2 times defense than other mobs at their level.

So just prepare yourself with curing, protect and shell (shell is the most important things, since he can cast stone or poison you.)

I solo this when I was only lvl 30 whm/15 blm, and he still can make my hp red, but since I'm whm, I can cast silence, so I can do some nuking to him.
Use shield to be safer, or if you got high evasion skill that might help too.
Good luck!

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Pos
# Jun 16 2004 at 12:51 PM Rating: Decent
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Where does he spawn in the [color=green]([/color]Konschtat Highlands[color=red])[/color]?
Melee vs. these things.
# May 19 2004 at 5:45 PM Rating: Decent
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Me and my buddy Sanjiro are constantly farming anything we can get money from, which includes Rams skins/horns and Dhalmel Hides/Giant femurs.

However, Sanjiro's favorite phrase is "We can take it."

So, we come across one of these one day in Tahrongi. I telled him we'd have trouble, as we were 2 Melee (30THF/10WAR and 22WAR/11MNK were ours stats in the last Elemental fights) with no mage, but he didn't listen and engaged.

Couple lessons learned - You cannot Sneak Attack these things -- END OF STORY.

+I hit for 3-5 with Dagger, and skill capped, Attack at 112.

+Trick attack only does about 20 dmg. ; ;

+Weapon Skills are very little help.

+Hit me for about 15 dmg, even though it was TWTBWW.

We have never died from these things yet, and we have killed MANY.
RE: Melee vs. these things.
# Jun 19 2005 at 10:01 PM Rating: Good
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Yes, elementals can be SAed. 36DRK/THF, needed a stack of Water Crystals for juices during a party, so I camped one of the lakes in La Theine... Water Elemental spawned, I pulled with Sleep so it was facing me and couldn't turn. Walked behind, activated SA, then engaged. Sneak Attack doubled my regular damage, no problem.
RE: Melee vs. these things.
# Jan 13 2005 at 2:42 PM Rating: Decent
actually sneak attack on these things IS possible. I was farming, so had thf subbed, and so did my friend, so we took turns SA'ing it. it's not really helpful though because of the uber high def to melee.
RE: Melee vs. these things.
# Sep 18 2004 at 2:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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Weapon Skills work wonders against elementals. Seraph Strike as a lvl 40 whm can exceed 230 damage, while normal melee can't reach 1/10 that.
RE: Melee vs. these things.
# Aug 09 2004 at 1:17 PM Rating: Decent
woah you said you cannot use Sneak Attack on them? pff i think not when i was farming Air Elementals in La thaine i went RDM/THF for the TH and i saw which way it was moving and then it stop got behind him (what i thought was his backside because theres no way to tell except by which way he moves( Used SA and hit him for a critical of 25+10 with Enblizzard) and proced to kill him with Water II > Thunder now unless it was some strange coincindence that i had a critical hit and not from SA...i highley doubt that and i agree they are very hard to SA but i have done it
RE: Melee vs. these things.
# Oct 21 2004 at 9:53 PM Rating: Decent
I've successfully Sneak Attacked Elementals too. You just need to follow behind them and when they stop, use Sneak Attack. It doesn't do much since these have high defense, but it's better than nothing :)
RE: Melee vs. these things.
# May 04 2006 at 11:50 PM Rating: Decent
Old post but oh well, Ele's can be SA'd. I have done this loads of times and there's 2 ways I do it.

1: Follow the ele so you know which way it is facing.

2: Sneak Attack + Hide, if you use this together it doesn't matter which way the mob is facing SA will still hit.

I hope this helps :)
dropped item
# May 12 2004 at 3:14 PM Rating: Decent
i was fighting an earth elemental in the courtyard for mee in castle otroza, when the elemtental dropped a white rock. do the earth elementals drop all of the types of rocks?
Bad ass low level mob
# Mar 18 2004 at 3:13 PM Rating: Decent
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well...im level 25 whm/11 blm soloing this element, still got hard times fighting this mob. Two times soloing, he made my hp turned red, even tho I conned him before attacking as an easy challenge. My physical attack didn't do much to him, Aero and water did.


Edited, Thu Mar 18 15:15:35 2004
#Anonymous, Posted: Dec 30 2003 at 1:05 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) go to hell and die
chased
# Dec 09 2003 at 12:24 PM Rating: Default
got chased out of the zone twice by one of these... had to bind it tho! was killing my party...
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