Vana'diel Bestiary: Sabotender Bailarina  

This mob appears to have about 30,000 HP as I've seen black mages 1400+ damage nukes take about 4% of it's full hp. Has very strong kick attacks, did about 430 damage to a 68 lvl monk.

This is definitely duoable by 2 RDM/NINs (isnt everything?) with very little difficulty, this is how I got my Dune Boots. It used 1000 needles maybe 3 or 4 times during whole fight, not sure about the other TP move but I didn't see it use much TP moves at all. But of course, no one melee'd it. But I'm still a bit skeptical about if this can be soloed or not. Both of the RDMs were well geared and merited but the mob still managed to get through their protections quite fast and this really can't be kited either unless you have someone take care of the adds that spawn in the tunnel, and then it would not count as soloing.

Also DoTs seem to wear away quite fast, so DoT > zone soloing tactic might not be viable on this one.

Camped this NM for not quite 2 hrs and he popped. I saw no 4th cactuar PH, just the 1 before the NM room and the 2 after.

Had WHM/SMN, NIN/DNC, NIN/WAR, BLU/NIN, RDM/BLM AND BRD/WHM. BRD kept ballad and march and helped curaga, WHM hasted and curaga'd and RDM healed and also nuked and spammed stun w/ the BLU once the NM began spamming 1k needles. 1k needles did between 120ish and 160ish dmg to us. It was a pretty easy fight but fun nonetheless. Oh, having NIN as /DNC really helped keep HP up...

Triod with nin/thf, thf/nin (me) whm/smn. Whm kept carby out most of the time to eath 1000 needles. Whne whm would run out of mp, we'd turn and back tank. Missed my thf a LOT with eva gear on - easily held it with just ni while the whm healed up. Had to back tank more below 20% obviously, but overall was a relatively smooth fight. Took about 25 minutes. Nin had good sky/hnm gear, whm was very pro, I have good thf AH or ToAU gear (no sky or sea stuff) and full thf merits

Edited, Jun 1st 2008 2:49pm by iheartninja

Ok just killed this nm 2 times in 2 days. The 2nd fight was surprisingly harder even though we had more ppl.

1st fight.
75 Nin, 75 smn, 75 war, 70 mnk (me), 70 whm
This fight lasted nearly an entire game day... Got a little hairy at times but we pulled it off in the end. War the only fatality

2nd fight.
75 nin, 75 Drg, 75 War, 75 Brd, 70 Mnk, 70 Whm, 64 Whm
This fight was faster,, thank goodness.. Except im assuming the extra DD was feeding the mob too much tp. Right around 20% the nm started spamming 1000 needles. And i mean SPAMMING. Drg dropped 1st. War was 2nd. Mnk 3rd. 1st Whm 2hr'd before the war dropped and the 2nd 2 hr'd attempting to do it before the mnk went down but didn't work. All in all we won the whm's and brd moved in to take some of the needle dmg off of the Nin. Had to do it because noone had mp to keep the nin healed. Finally won all of us in the red.

My personal opinion on this nm, Less is better. We only had 1 more DD the 2nd time around but we almost lost. More ppl = less needle dmg, but also ='s a higher spam rate. I seriously belive if we woulda had just the whm with no extra dd we would have been an easier fight. 3 75 dd and at least 2 healers is probably ideal.
Just my opinion. GL on your fights. I'm gonna go play with my new boots ^^ !!

Edited, Feb 12th 2008 8:22am by Deminious

does anybody know the pop time on this NM, my Ls have been camping this nearly 5hours with no sucess

So funny how many ppl think they duoed/soloed this guy. Bailarina's strenght has no comparison with the other crappy cactuar named Bailarin.

- Sabotender Bailarin: Drop mainly Bailathorn x ? (ammo nin with 3 acc)
- Sabotender Bailarina: Drop mainly 100% Dune Boots

If those who were sure to soloe/duo Bailarina (only skilled rdm/nin can solo it like Avesta), then go kill him again, the one in the room close to Proconsul NM, not the one which pop in the ??? antican tag room. I can tell, u'll bit the dust within a few sec against Bailarina.
I needed those Dunes Boots for my mnk 75 so i managed to grab 5 people 75:

war/nin 75
nin/war 75 (tank with full eva set)
whm/blm 70
thf/nin 75
rdm/whm 75 (me)

We came to the spot and began to fight; debuff but we lost closely the fight due to the spam of 1k needle(9% HP left). Reraised, rest then called two others ls members for help (blm and another rdm 75). With 7 ppl after, the second fight was by far more easier (1k shared didnt break 150+). Ended him during daytime (used a lot of Photosyntesis) and got my pair of Dune Boots. Good luck for everyone who need those boots.



Edited, Jun 5th 2007 10:03pm by nekonokuni

Edited, Jun 5th 2007 10:09pm by nekonokuni

trying to nab an antican tag a lvl 60 war/nin and i 73bst/nin decided to give him a go. calling my npc and CC we drag this nm to the zone and start pounding on his prickly ass. 3 1000 needles later and with only 538 HP ( pld @ 157HP ) we get the drop. two bailathorn ( 1 each ) wasn't too shabby for a luck claim.

just killed these with 9ppl little to no effort, but camping was a pain. Day1 , eight hour of camping. Poped after 4hr i arrive the rest i try to get ppl in ls to fight it but no luck. So log off. Day 2 NM was gone(someone must have kill it), after 4hr pop ,waited 1hr for helpers to get here ... kill ... drop. So yeah is it possible it's 4hr pop? Well however am pretty sure if you kill 3-4PH(which are the cautuar that spawn in the small room) then 4th or 5th the NM. They also seem to respawn different everytime, sometime 20min , sometime 30min. but when PH respawn interval was at 10min you know the next ones gonna be NM. At least that's what it seems to me.

Just solod this bad boy for Vanddego in Kujata. (rdm/nin)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/spysking/DuneB.jpg

Edited, Dec 10th 2006 3:07pm by spysking

Trioable by NIN BRD and a Mage if you are good. After 1000 needles NIN turns around while everyone heals and rests up. We did w/ NIN BRD MNK/WHM and nearly had it but got bad agro from a spider and it decided to 1000 needles at the worst time. Will use 1000needles or Photosynthesis 2x in a row from 30ish%-10ish% and 3x in a row till death so this is a problem. This can be dealt with 3 people and stoneskin/phalanx but you just need to be catious/good. Fun fight thought, definately want to try again.

Edit: Win with BLM BRD MNK NIN. Easy win too but fun NM longer fight due to his HP

meow~! i just got my o hat for mnk now these are next im looking at juu bailarina :3

Just got my Dune Boots last night. Took him down with 8 people, but I suppose we could have done it with 1-2 less.

Jobs were:

71 MNK (me)
74 SAM
75 WAR
75 DRK
75 PLD
75 WHM
75 RDM
75 BLM

Now I am a very happy monk.

PS: Thanks Rebirth linkshell!

My group of friends just took this NM down with 5 people, which I thought was a pretty nice accomplishment. Jobs were:

NIN/WAR
RDM/BLM
WHM/SMN (me)
MNK/WAR
MNK/NIN

All 75. We had been hunting this NM for quite some time after other people have told us that it was rarely camped. (Apparently every LS on the server decided to go for it at the same time.)
First run at it was a little sloppy and we ended up dying because the MNK's pulled too much hate and the NIN couldn't get it back before the healers had to dump a lot of MP on them. We both ran out of MP and we ended up wiping. We managed to get it down to 12%.

After resting weakness we came up with a couple ideas to mitigate damage and MP use. I brought Carby out to soak up some of the damage from 1000 Needles, and the Monks would take turns zoning to clear hate. It just happened to be daytime too when we pulled for the second time.
Second run goes much better. Level 37 Carby can soak a LOT of damage and has regen, which I totally didn't notice before. Zoning to clear hate helped the NIN hold hate much better, and since it was daytime the NM didn't spam 1000 needles as much because it was also doing Photosynthesis. Sometimes it would do that twice in a row, and we had more than enough damage to overcome the regen. It took a while but we eventually killed it with no deaths, and got our first pair of dune boots! Two more pairs to go!

Hints for small groups:
If you can get away with it, sub a pet job to take away some damage, preferably a fully leveled pet job.
Fight during the day. The lack of 1000 needles spam really helped us out. That's not to say we didn't get a few nasty times where it spammed it three times in a row, but it really seemed to help as compared to the first time.
Heavy damage dealers should zone to reset hate when they pull it, especially those who take a lot of damage when hit. Not sure if this would be needed for PLD tank.
Slow is very important. Stacking as much slow on it as possible makes it attack very very slowly. Considering it's a monk mob with multiple attacks, this helps quite a bit.

Good luck everyone who tries this with a small group. It was really fun and an exhilirating fight for a "traditional" group.

This NM also drops Cactuar Roots, used to make 75 BST Jug, Sun Water.

About 30 minutes ago, I was running around in quicksand caves as a way to relieve my boredom when i saw this thing. I had never heard of it before, so I decided to kill it. Note; I am currently a Tarutaru 72rdm/blm. Well, I buff up and pull with slow. The start of the fight was pretty frantic, because it hit alot harder than I thought it would, but I managed to do ok. Stoneskin was always up for 1000 Needles, so it wasn't that big of a problem. He did start spamming 1000 Needles towards then end of the fight, so I chainspelled and Finished him off with Fire III. No drop, so I came here to find out what it was. Thats my story, the real trick is as far as I can tell was to keep it debuffed at all times. I had no problems with spell or melee accuracy on him. Really, compared to the Maat fight, this guy was easy.

Ok, ive been reading some posts about how its impossible to trio this NM, so i will tell you all the strategy of how to do it;
I had to post this over 3 posts, as it wouldn't let me do it in one single post.

3 Man strategy for this NM is as follows:

Tank: either mnk/nin, ninja or theif. I tanked this as Mnk/Nin when we were getting the boots for my friend. I have maxed merits on my monk, and pretty decent gear, so dont expect to be able to tank this as a freshly leveled 75 mnk. You wont be able to. Theif tank may be a bit tricky, you need to be able to deal large amounts of damage as its nearing Low HP (due to 1000 needles spam), theif cant do this where as mnk and nin can.

Mages: Any combo of Bard, Red Mage or White mage. Im going to say bard is a must, this thing attacks really really slowly with elegy and slow on, making it so easy to tank. When i went as a trio, the Bard landed all debuffs, the white mage had alot of trouble sticking anything. Red mage can definelty stick slow/para/blind, they have all been able to in the numerous other times i have killed this NM.

The fight itself: When you get to the area bailarina spawns in, head to near the back of the tunnel, where the zone to altepa desert is. Have one person zone out, then back in, so you can see exactly where the zone is. This part is very important. If you fight right next to the zone, you will not agro the spider and cactuar spawns in the tunnel. As a trio, the fight itself will be quite long, so things will start repoping when the NM is still on 40% hp, so if you agro them you are sure to wipe.

Which is cheating, because us players can only kick once in an attack round; Counter your hits, wiping shadows in the process :( .
It does however hit like a bit of a pansy, even with counterstance up it was never hitting for more than about 150 dmg.



So, its normal hits are very very easy to tank, but its TP moves make the fight a little more challenging :)

I have heard alot of rumours about its 1000 needles move, and i will tell you the real truth about it.

During the day, Bailarina can use either 1000 Needles, OR Photosynthesis.

During the night , it only uses 1000 Needles. (plants can't carry out Photosynthesis during the night, can they?)

So basically, you want to fight it during the day, so it will use the crappy photosynthesis sometimes instead of the damaging 1000 needles.

In the first 80% of the fight, it will just use 1000 needles OR Photosynthesis, like a regular normal mob. As a monk with subtle blow, it was using TP moves about 1/2 as often as i was. It does in no way shape or form spam 1000 needles through the whole fight. Sure, if you have 10 people meleeing it of course its going to spam it, but if you have just one person hitting it, then it will hardly use it at all. Go and have 10 people melee any mob and tell me how often it uses its TP move. Bailarina is no different.

We had 13 people, mostly in the 70s. 2 MNK, a NIN, a DRK, a PLD, three WHM, a RDM, a BRD, two WARs, and a THF. And we wiped horribly.

I can't believe any story of three or less people killing it straight-up. He SPAMS 1,000 Needles as he gets lower in health. If you don't have 8 or more people at LEAST, you probably won't fare very well facing him.

So, yea. We wiped once, but one WHM was able to zone and stay alive. We got everyone up and un-weakened, and did it again with a little more planning time. Pulled the mob to the tunnel zone, fought it, got the drop! My first piece of Rare/Ex dream gear. ^^

Thanks to everyone who helped! Sorry about the mass death. =X

If this is Gravity-able or Sleep-able
it could be solo- able

75RDM/nin and 75RDM/blm, we got him to 60% with a spider add on us, which we kept slept, had to zone because stonskin got low and he used 1000needles, need to remember to reuse stoneskin next time x.x I dont think "We" couldve won on that run, But it could be "Possible" If somehow could avoid spider at zone, he builds resistance to gravity quick, and hits for about 30-60 with 150-200 kicks, With 327 enfeebling magic he resisted bind every few casts, and grav began to wear instantly after 15min of fighting, He doesent appear to build resistance to bind duration so I guess, with 2 amazing rdm he could be killed, but the spider makes it a coin toss, He can definitly be killed by 3, All in all it was a very good learning expirence, and /nin (for running past him when bound, and recasting bind,) Is definitly the way to go, He has, Very roughly, 25000HP, Kick attacks every, or almost every time, He builds tp rather quick, so, if your high on numbers its prolly not too wise to fill your group with monks, nins, or...anyone with a kraken club :p It may sound somwhat bizzare, but with a full group its far wiser to keep very close to him, where as with 2 people in range of 1000 needles, 500 dmg to each could be hard to recover from, with 5 people in range, only 200 dmg a peice, eaisly recovered from by curaga 2. He poped the first round of cactuars we killed, around the room he pops, 2 in one stone hallway, and 1 in a tunnel, in place of one in the stonehallway he appear in the room, So hes definitly lottery, any job with stonskin or a lot of HP can solo PH, (Although they are hard to pull) And are EP-DC to 75, fairly weak hits. The boots are so worth it and I am looking forward to getting them someday, Best of luck to anyone who tries this NM! ^^

Edited, Tue Mar 14 20:31:19 2006

Wow so many people on this forum posting that they killed it with 1-3 people. Apparently they didn't read all the posts like i just did, or else they would realize that this mob has a few things make it very different than Sabotender Bailarin. 1. IT ALWAYS DROPS DUNE BOOTS 2. ITS F@#$ING TALLER THAN A HUME. 3. its level 80-82 and 4. in my experience gravity paralyze slow sleep do not stick at all. I had a pty of 12 people camping this for me and after about 3 hours ppl got bored and left/went to bed. Of course about 20 mins later here comes a giant cactuar. Well its not giant to a tall elvaan but it was to the mages. Ended up fighting it with 6 ppl i think. 73mnk/war(me) 73blm/whm 75whm/blm 65-70rdm/blm 67mnk/war 73rng/nin. Pld and 3 others left before it popped. Well we decided to give it a try since hell at this level 2hrs do pretty good damage.

OK THIS IS THE PART NEW POSTERS MUST READ.

73mnk/war Hundred Fists
+
73Rng/nin EES
+
73BLM/whm Manafont
+
65-70rdm/blm Chainspell
+
67mnk/war Hundred Fists
+
75whm/blm Benediction
=
5 deaths one whm running like a bitch to the zone and a mad ass cactuar with 90% hp chasing him out.

In short, read the other posts before you call someone stupid or whatever because YOU are on the wrong forum. You nor anyone else have ever duo'd solo'd or even trio'd this mob and nobody will believe otherwise until you give them a video.

Oh and one more thing even if gravity stuck it is in such an inconvenient place that you couldn't kite it to death because there are 3 other cactuars in the lil HALLWAY that it pops in and anywhere else there are ants scorps and spiders just waiting to take a bite out of your ass. Plus its regen is much MUCH more than any nin or thf/nin can inflict so there is no way you evaded it to death either.

EDIT: My bad, i suppose a very well trained pty of 75 maybe 5-6 ppl would possibly have a chance other than that just read up in my thing.

Edited, Sun Feb 26 10:15:14 2006

Yeah i was reading those duoed post , i am sorry but ill need proof of that , that nm is 82 and very strong with alot of def!!! plus he hits hard and fast , for me duoed=freaking bullsh*t , we took him last nite with 12ppl very skilled lvl75(some of them lower then 70) first we had a ninja tanking lol he pwned his shadows fast, then we all died, but then came a pld , was much easier with him , a nice mix of blm and dd and a good pld will do the trick !!! enjoy the boots ppl , i got mine last nite i know i will

First of You are Retarted if you think this.. And if you did, Id like to see a vid.. First off this is MNK type Mob with Kick Attacks thatare X2 the reg. dmg. Shadows would not stay up for long.. Also his AOE divided by 2 ppl is 500 dmg each. Shadows do not stop this! Also he has a moderate regen. So even if you Could fight this NM you woulnt kill him. You need to be putting alot of dmg out to even take his Massive HP down. 12 PPL would be nice for this fight. I think 8 75's can handle this with a mixed set up and a atleast 2 blm's. Overall prepare for a long fight. Took 8 ppl 15mins to get him to half health. End of storie!

Yes, most posts of solo/duo in this thread are BS, because they are confusing it with another NM.

But this CAN BE DUOED, by two blm/rdm binding and graving. Extremely easy, nobody got hit, no 1000 needles.

The end.

if you go fight this and you are 70 or less, you'll find this has pretty high evasion. bring your sushi if you melee. even if you're 70+, i'd recommend sushi.

when i did this, i went with 12, most 70+, some 60+. we wiped first time b/c we only had 1 support job (brd). 2nd time we did this, i bought 12 yagudo drinks and a bunch of au laits for the people who were helping me. we were also more organized using SC's instead of just spamming WS. this has a lot of HP and is just plain annoying. by the end of the fight, we were doing ok HP wise, but everyone was MP drained.

don't forget this is a monk-type. so it can and WILL counter your attacks. so if you melee, stand to the side or the back of the enemy unless you are tanking. thank god this doesn't use hundred fists. it did 1k needles about 15-20x, doing about 83 dmg each time. won't be able to solo or duo this thing. if you use nin-tank, MAYBE you could DoT it to death (without attacking) since it won't gain TP. but god that would take forever.

btw, thank you to all of you who helped me. i really do appreciate it, especially those of you who i never did a favor for. look me up when you need a favor, i have your names all written down.

dune boots are really ugly, but have to love the hidden kick attack bonus. really useless for other jobs that can equip. also has another great hidden latent effect: returns 2 mil to wallet for selling wulong shoes.