Vana'diel Bestiary: Zo'Khu Blackcloud  

Very easy NM to claim now if you're hunting it.

Killing it once as a lvl 40 bst. No drop.

I was in beadeaux just farming quad helms when i happen by the area this NM spawns. I didnt know what spawned here but every time i come through i see at least one person camping here. This time, as i was running through, i noticed there was noone around so i logged off quickly and checked the NM's in this area. Sure enough there were two NM's spawnable in the general vacinity i was in. Judging by the drops i was hoping for the other NM but the this one would do just fine. I start off by exterminating the life around the area and start my long wait...

I started by standing on top of one of the chambers where i thought the blm NM spawned. Sure enough, the first time i fall down to check if the other NM was up someone was killing it -.-

Frustrated I went back up to where i was and guess what.... someone was killing the blm NM >.<

Just my luck.

Even more frustrated, I took out my rage on the wildlife again and decided to try to camp them to see the respawn times and to try again. About an hour of killing the Zinc and Bronze quads on top as soon as they popped i proceeded to kill some fish to pass the time. Just after i killed the second one i looked up on the ledge to see Mr. Zo'Khu staring down at me. Heart pounding I hit the Flash macro and claimed him ^^ After a short battle where he posed no challenge i got a shield drop ^^

I then proceeded to continute my camping in hope of a claim of the other NM.

During the next hour i decided to just stay on the bottom level as to claim the whm NM when he popped. Yet another hour later of just killing wildlife I ran back ontop of the chamber to see if the blm NM had popped again... as usual, just a Zinc quad. After killing that quad i decided to take a short break for bathroom and food. Once i got back to my computer not 2 minutes later i ran down to the lower level and guess what.... the whm NM was claimed -.- figures.

After congratulating but secretly despising the person who claimed it i ran back on top of the chamber and saw good ol' Zo'Khu again. Heart pounding again I hit my Flash macro and claimed him a second time. This time i wasnt so lucky and only got a hat.

In conclusion, I believe the repop time of Zo'Khu is from 1-2 hours and the whm NM is somwhere around 3 hours. (i believe you need to kill Old quads to spawn the whm NM but that is just a guess)

I hope this story has been somewhat helpful to you and i wish you good luck on your NM hunting! ^^

This NM spawn every 2 hrs. But u have to kill the zinc quadav to make it spawn after the 2 hrs regulation waiting time.

Happy hunting ^^

I was going through Beadeaux to do G3, just came through mute mind you. Then I happen to come across Blackcloud, I quickly check here and see that he is 38, no mach for my red mage, but i was silenced so i start to fight him and he was half dead then he used manafront hit me with thundaga for 200, now i have 200 hp left and thought i was gonna die. I used convert and went back up to 800hp. killed him and got the hat. Next time i come through here im bringing echo drops

was walking around in Beaduxe and saw him, 1 shot thunder 3, down he went no hat tho.

heh, after a RNG stole Ga'Bhu, I went hunting for this guy and Ge'Dha at the same time...Ge'Dha spawned before Zo'Khu (I was only one in the area, killing all quadav's). Real easy fight as a 57smn/thf, no shield though...only Marine Hat. Ah well, will try again sometime...

Ummm...this guy can be silenced by a RDM, I didn't even have all of my mind gear on. Elemental Seal ---> Silence with capped enfeebling at level 54 worked for me.
BTW BLM's have C+ enfeebling so you will have a hard time. He maybe got off one firaga, before another RDM and I shut him up.

OHHHH! I want this Shield so MUCH! I fought him w/ a lvl 60 RNG and I got only a Marine Hat too...grrrrrrr!

maybe i missed it while i was reading, but is this guy a placeholder for any particular quadavs?

Drops: Level doesn't matter. A friend and I camped the 2 NMs here and we got the Phial 3 Consecutive times, yet no Shield from this guy despite him being a higher level.

Silence: He CAN be silenced as I've done it. He just has a relatively high resistance to it.

Camped this guy yesterday with my 50 BLM. Killed 3 times, dropped shield on third try. I'm a taru and it was a tough fight. He likes to spam Firega but he does use Manafont early in the fight, so usually that's not an issue. For mages, I'd say 50 is the minimun to solo him, he took me down to around 50 HP each time, from 518. Also he won't engage you in melee until you do a bunch of damage, so i recommend enfeebling him as much as you can (skip silence, he's immune) the use a big attack, i used Freeze -> Manafont -> AerogaII-> CureIII-> AerogaII. That will kill him. I watched a 52 bard get slaughtered when i first got there by him, so classes that don't have big attacks be careful, he can do a lot of damage and has quite a bit of HP. Also try and pull him away from other quadovs, i had a Garnet Quadov use CureIII on him for one of the fights, I kill blackcloud but got owned by the garnet afterwards, so be careful.

So is the hat worth anything?

got this first try, someone told me will spawn in 30 mins and then he left, waiting 30 mins, it spawned i killed it and dropped the shield

Ok luigi, i wont take him, if you dont steal my Evileye, deal ;)

Deitrich - Midgardsormr

I have fought ol' Zo'Khu a total of 11 times, and each time I've gotten the Marine Hat... (3.5k*11hats=38.5k gil) but I will not be discouraged!!

I've camped this NM on 3 separate nights, keeping track of the times that he spawns and such. He will pop one to two hours after the previous pop. i.e. if he spawns at 4:00pm, then the next time he will spawn is somewhere between 5:00pm and 6:00pm. So after you kill him, you have an hour before he'll respawn (which you can use to go back to Jeuno and sell junk, or to camp the WHM nm, Ge'Dha, right next to him)

His place holders are Zircon Quadavs (BLM Quadavs), and there is only one in the area for it to spawn. They respawn about 5hours and a few minutes after the last one is killed (Vana'diel time), so I use this time to kill off the other Quadavs in the spawn area (Bronze, Silver, and Garnet). There are only one of each in that area, so if you keep the cycle going every 5 Vana'diel hours, then you should be able to prevent some links during the Zo'Khu fight.

What I have noticed though, that on occasion he will completely skip a spawn time... for instance last night I killed him at 4:25pm, and he didn't respawn until 7:45pm... as if he skipped a spawn time. I had a tight-watch on the area, so I know that nobody else killed him, but it's just something that happens sometimes (the first two nights I've camped there, I gave up after he didn't spawn for two hours (I should've waited that next hour!)). So just be patient. The most number of times I've killed him on a regular spawn schedule is 5 times... and then the 6th time got skipped. >.<

The spawn area is a bit wider than is shown on the map. It reaches as far east as the third barrier to the east of the house-type-thing, and as far north as those couple of rocks north of the house. There is another set of Quadav's to the east of the barriers, and north of the rocks, but they will not come over into the spawn area, unless they link to another Quad you're fighting near by, so don't bother killing those Zircons. The spawn area is above ground, and not in the little room below ground, so don't worry about that Zircon down there.

When you're actually fighting Zo'Khu, he likes to cast spells a bunch, and he'll use Manafont when he's at about half life. The Manafont visual event will look like a big whirlwind which goes out pretty far from his feet (you'll hear it too). What I usually do to prevent his big spell onslaught is just putting him to sleep (so I don't use debuff's like Bio, Poison, and Shock on him before he does this, all which would prevent him from being able to sleep). Sleep II works fine, I'm sure an Elemental Seal > Sleep would work cool too. I'm not too sure how well Silence works on him (as I fight as BLM/THF) so maybe an ElemSeal > Silence would work, but I wouldn't know.

One last note... if you are on Midgardsormr server, and you see a Tarutaru named Waluigi sitting around the area... please don't camp Zo'Khu, because I was so kind to tell everybody everything I know about this guy... and I need that shield... Thanks! ^.~*

[Update: I killed him a total of 17 times, and I finally got the Faerie Shield. I started keeping track of weather, and he spawned regardless of the weather (rain, clear, lightning). I was pt'ed with a 60DRG/30SAM (where I was 57BLM/20THF) and the 3rd Zo'Khu we fought together dropped the shield. I don't know if our teamwork had anything to do with it, but it was cool nonetheless. Happy hunting!]

Edited, Sat Apr 17 15:53:21 2004

This guy definitly sucks i killed him three times a total of 6 hours and only marine hats! Is there any trick to getting this shield please help!

Okay, I've gotten about 5 Marine Hat's now.

No Shield.

How often does the shield drop????

-p

how often does this guy spawn!!? and is it triggerd by anything??

how can you get up to the top part where he spawns...im stuck at the bottom