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Vana'diel Bestiary: Tiamat  

Family:Wyrm
Found in:Attohwa Chasm
Job:Warrior
Secondary Job:Black Mage
Level:95
Grants Title:Tiamat Trouncer
Flags:
  • High Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Truesight
  • Based on Fire
  • Strong against Fire
Drops:
Involved in Quests:
Updated: Thu Sep 6 20:38:54 2012

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General Information

Tiamat's Spawn Location
Tiamat's Spawn Location

    • Respawn time is approximately 72-120 hours after the last Time of Death, or 36-72 hours after a server maintenance when the servers are offline.

      • Thirty minute intervals between each window.

  • Susceptible to Sleep, Stun, Slow, and Elegy. Immune to Lullaby. Resistant to Silence and Paralyze.

  • Every two minutes, Tiamat will fly into the air, where she'll stay for two minutes before coming to the ground again. During this time, melee attacks will have no effect on her (magic and ranged attacks can still affect her though). While she's in the air, her normal attacks are magical, fire based attacks that cannot be absorbed by shadows, but can be reduced by damage reduction, magic defense, magic reduction, and fire resist effects (through gear, spells, job abilities, etc). While she is in the air, she cannot be slept (Sleep will land on her, but it will wear off immediately)

  • At approximately 25% hp, Tiamat receives a large attack boost that cannot be dispelled. This effect will remain until Tiamat is killed (it won't wear off even if Tiamat's hp regenerates higher than 25%). Denoted by Tiamat holding her wings upright.

  • Has a draw-in effect

  • Has an auto-regen effect that cannot be dispelled.

  • Grants title: Tiamat Trouncer

Tiamat's Special Abilities

  • Firaga III: AoE Fire based magic spell (Circle of effect originates from spell target).

  • Blaze Spikes: Inflicts Fire based magical damage against all that melee Tiamat. Effect can be dispelled.

  • Horrid Roar: Single target full Dispel and Enmity reset effects.

  • Absolute Terror: Single target Terror effect. Target is unable to perform any action until effect wears off.

  • Tebbad Wing: AoE magical damage with an additional Plague effect.

  • Fiery Breath: Frontal cone AoE Fire based magic damage. Damage is the strongest on anyone directly in front of Tiamat. Recommended for all tanks to stand on Tiamat's front legs to reduce damage taken.

    • Tiamat will only perform Fiery Breath while on the ground.

  • Touchdown: AoE damage. Wipes shadows. Tp move is performed when Tiamat lands on the ground after being in the air.

  • Inferno Blast: Strong AoE Fire based magic damage.

    • Tiamat will only perform Inferno Blast while in the air.

  • Spike Flail: Massive AoE physical damage. Absorbed by three shadows. Will only occur when a character has drawn hate from behind it.

    • Tiamat cannot perform Spike Flail while in flight.

  • Mighty Strikes: All melee physical attacks performed by Tiamat will now be critical hits. At approximately 85% hp, Tiamat will begin to use this ability, and will often use it once after each time in the air. Denoted by the characteristic mob two-hour animation.

    • Tiamat will not perform Mighty Strikes while in flight.

Note: All AoE moves will hit anyone within range, regardless if they or their alliance has hate on Tiamat or not.

Tiamat in Riverne - Site #B01

  • Tiamat possesses the same abilities as her full strength counterpart in Attohwa Chasm, though has a decidedly lower amount of HP.

Historical Background

In Mesopotamian mythology, Tiamat (Tamtu in Sumerian) is a giant female dragon which was the primordial creatrix of all existence said to have created the world and the gods, though this world had no land and was a vast water-world, filled with the waters of chaos. Tiamat personified the saltwater (ocean) while her consort Apsu (Abzu in Sumerian) personified the 'sweetwater' (freshwater).

It was the amalgamation and intermingling of these waters that created the gods. In the Enuma Elish (Mesopotamian creation epic), the gods were a persistent annoyance to Tiamat & Apsu, so the two decide to kill all their children. The god Ea discovers their plan and pre-emptively slew Apsu or, in some myths, casts a spell that puts him in a death-like sleep (since the waters of Apsu still exist even after his 'death'). Seeking vengeance for Apsu's death, Tiamat bore an army of monsters and assigned her consort, Kingu, to be their general.

Tiamat was slain by Marduk (see Marduk's Armor), who held her in place using a net of pure wind before releasing a flurry of arrows down her throat and then cleaving her body in two. The upper half created the heavens and the lower half created the Earth.

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O_o
# Sep 27 2005 at 5:29 PM Rating: Decent
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In CoP mission for Riverne - Site # B01 with Ouryu, use a mist melt on him and he'll land. Does that work on all dragons who fly? O_o
^^
# Aug 30 2005 at 8:45 PM Rating: Default
NA's beat Tiamat for the first time on Ramuh, thanks to the LS: Darksoul, recorded over 150k damage. 5 DRKs dished out a astounding 10k in the first couple minutes, Two PLDs with excalibers also did their part while the others (mostly BLMs and WHMs) fullfilled their role. That was the funnest battle Ive ever been in ^^


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DRK(75) PLD(75) WAR(69)
Valor Gear: O
Excaliber: X (working on it, have the 4th stage)
RE: ^^
# Jan 10 2006 at 9:24 PM Rating: Decent
First of all I'd like to state that this post is a complete fallacy. DarkSoul is a social LS owned by my father. I know for a fact that there aren't enough people over 70 in that LS to take him down, because most of the people that were over 70 are now in my LS. >.>;
RE: ^^
# Nov 25 2005 at 4:47 AM Rating: Decent
This is a load of crap, there are no excalibers on Ramuh firstly, and I have never heard of Darksoul, only Darkhearts.
Lived to tell the tell
# Aug 28 2005 at 9:49 PM Rating: Decent
I was doin the map quest for the chasm plce -.- and who would guess i almost ran into Tiamat herself turn around w8ed like an hour b4 i could run past her to finish the map quest. I wish some1 just come by and kick her butt -.- so wrong u want to finish something but can't cause a huge a@@ is in ur way from ur goal....I took pic's of her tho.......from like 80 miles -.- me not that high of a paladin yet.............paladin only lvl 67
Great Screenshot
# Aug 18 2005 at 9:11 PM Rating: Decent
Great Screenshot!!!
hot DAMN
# Aug 08 2005 at 1:19 PM Rating: Decent
Tiamat
# Aug 01 2005 at 4:58 AM Rating: Decent
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Video: http://files.filefront.com/Reflect_Tiamat/;3915203;;/fileinfo.html

0/3 on Herald Gaiters. Estimated HP is 125,000 based on percentage of HP taken off and recorded damage during one round of it being on the ground.

parsed
# Jul 11 2005 at 11:30 AM Rating: Decent
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ran a log parser on him last night (nightbane LS on gilgamesh) and I recorded around 100k dmg to tiamat. This is skewed by a few things:
-me not being in range of hits going off
-auto-regen like crazy
-temp logging

I'd guess tiamat has right around 100,000HP, but with the auto-regen, you have to take out so much more :P
Drops
# Jul 11 2005 at 12:11 AM Rating: Decent
Dropped Wyrm Horn and Noritsune Kotes today. Nightbane became first NA LS on Gilgamesh to take Tiamat down.
Woohoo
# Jul 01 2005 at 11:01 AM Rating: Good
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Yay~ NA's beat him for the first time last night on Siren. Fight took a long time since we were short on a couple key jobs and had to play defensive (which is rough when he can double-attack during Mighty Strikes to one-shot a full Koenig PLD)

Drops were Gaiters and Kote, woohoo!
ev
# Jun 24 2005 at 9:22 PM Rating: Decent
wtf is with thes posts
Joji's pld
# Jun 22 2005 at 5:22 PM Rating: Decent
yeah that was fun ^^ Ti took me from 850 > 58 in one hit, and then an element came and finished me off.

defiantly a good way to have a mass suicide party. and im proud to say that banish II at level 100 skill does a total of 4 damage >>.>>
LS fun
# Jun 14 2005 at 3:52 PM Rating: Decent
i went on a LS exploration run 2day, we visited this guy, Lv45 PLD died in 2hits, it did 656dmg 2 me >.< (ok i was a Lv31 WAR/NIN w/ Lv1 RSE) it killed r RDM and other RDM in 1 hit...and the other 2 never even saw it lol
1 hour, 4 minutes
# Jun 05 2005 at 3:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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Alliance of BSTs and SMNs dropped this thing in just over one hour on Fairy.

http://www.people.iup.edu/wjgl/Tiamat%208.JPG
RE: 1 hour, 4 minutes
# Jun 23 2005 at 5:23 PM Rating: Default
I'll believe it when I see some real proof.

How bout a picture of a dead dragon and not a bunch of people just saying "Congratulations!" Don't even see any titles or anything in that picture. Just a bunch of slightly roughed up beastmasters.
RE: 1 hour, 4 minutes
# Jul 17 2005 at 9:35 PM Rating: Decent
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lol i know some of the guys who did it. and they did do it in little over 1hr. just cos you didnt do it in that time doesnt mean they couldnt ;)
#REDACTED, Posted: Aug 08 2005 at 11:16 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Once again, show me a dead dragon, and I'll believe it. The "I know some guys who saw them talk about doing it" crap isn't proof.
RE: 1 hour, 4 minutes
# Jul 26 2005 at 4:34 PM Rating: Default
Yea...i don't believe that for a second, Tiamat has well over 100k HP and auto regen like a ****. Fighting him right now on valefor. He hit me as a 75 rdm for 330 dmg a shot, and he's not exactly a pushover when it comes to dealing dmg to him. Can't be meleed easily especially since he's in flight almost the whole time.
RE: 1 hour, 4 minutes
# Aug 01 2005 at 5:18 AM Rating: Decent
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And alliance of BST and SMNs regularly farm Tiamat on Alexander. They kill it fast and efficiently and then bazaar the drops for huge amounts of money. Tiamat has become almost like Fafnir/Nidhogg... as soon as it pops, we rush over there and try to kill it before the BST/SMN LS can kill it.
Vrtra Vs Tiamat
# May 22 2005 at 8:26 PM Rating: Decent
Who do you think would be harder to fight?

Vrtra (without summoning mobs) or Tiamat.

I, personally, think Vrtra would pwn his *ss. Not because he has more HP, but because his attacks do more DMG, and his Auto-Regen heals like no other.
RE: Vrtra Vs Tiamat
# Jul 11 2005 at 1:55 PM Rating: Decent
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Tiamat would win. Tiamat flies for more than 1/2 the time you fight it, whereas vrtra does rarely. during this time no physical attacks from the ground can be done to tiamat unless they are ranged, this gives timat an opportunity to take out a ton of vrtra's hp. Not even summons would hit it, and tiamat would take them out with firaga III anyway.

Fight these mobs before you say which ones will kill eachother please.

Edited, Mon Jul 11 14:57:02 2005
RE: Vrtra Vs Tiamat
# Jul 25 2005 at 10:27 AM Rating: Decent
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Hehe. seriously.

I fought Tiamat for the first time this week. Very long fight, as we were really inexperienced. But yeah, Tiamat is ****, considering you can't really hurt him a good portion of the fight. Havin a few BST helps, as the Antlion pets do some decent dmg. Make sure you have a good bunch of people ready on the sidelines to take adds... these include earth ele's and Arch Corse (>.<)

Took us about 2hrs, was my first Grand Dragon fight, but was a hell of a good time, and something i wanted to do since lvl 1 :D

Tiamat would wipe ulegaurd range with Jormy and mop the floor of vrtra's little closet, from what friends who have fought all 3 dragons have told me, lol. what makes Tiamat more "do-able" is the reduced outside aggro-factor.

What a great fight...moments like that are what this game is all about for some people like myself. If you're into killing BIG stuff, and someone from another LS offers an opportunity to come along, by all means don't hesitate ~ great times to be had. Thank you, queen Tiamat.

oh yeah, dropped heart, kote.. and something else. i wasn't really too concerned with the drops at the time lol.
RE: Vrtra Vs Tiamat
# Jul 09 2005 at 1:30 AM Rating: Default
I geuss Vrtra to. I think Vrtra is alot and then I mean alot harder than Tiamat
RE: Vrtra Vs Tiamat
# Sep 21 2005 at 2:31 PM Rating: Decent
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More difficult to fight because of abilities -> Vrtra.

More powerful -> Tiamat

Vrtra's summons are the most difficult part about the fight, if you can control the summons, you can control Vrtra. Don't give me any crap about "omg Vrtra is in a spot with undead that aggro to 75!!11111" A single mnk party can control just about all those mobs easily. Usually in a wyrm fight you'll have more than enough melees anyway. Controlling the summons because they pop so fast and have hate linked to Vrtra, (so if you nuke crap out of them they will still run after your plds) is more important.

Tiamat has better item drops than both wyrms combined as well, so that is why most people farm tiamat as opposed to vrtra/jormungand.
Mighty Strikes
# May 21 2005 at 12:42 AM Rating: Decent
He also uses Mighty Strikes.
RE: Mighty Strikes and Drops
# May 22 2005 at 1:56 AM Rating: Decent
He also drops:

Beetle Blood
Behemoth Hide
Damascene Cloth
Damascus Ingot
Divine Log
Dragon Blood
Dragon Heart
Dragon Talon
Oxblood
weak
# May 17 2005 at 7:12 PM Rating: Default
Considering he's one of the 3 highest mobs in the game it's disappointing he doesn't drop any abjurations.
Titan V Tiamat
# May 14 2005 at 2:59 AM Rating: Decent
Amazingly this fight doesn't take very long. Today members of Age of Victory took him down in 2hr 4 Minutes. First time killing and we got 0 drops, not an ore not even a frikken fire crystal. Guess next week we try again
RE: Titan V Tiamat
# May 18 2005 at 3:27 AM Rating: Decent
Hehe replying to my own post. Try two gave us a Horn and a log....
DAMAGE
# May 07 2005 at 10:24 AM Rating: Decent
Fun fight, gonna take a while, a LONG while!
lol
# Apr 16 2005 at 10:07 AM Rating: Decent
i wonder how much dmg this would hitt a lvl 1 n00b 4 :D
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Defiance
# Apr 04 2005 at 12:07 PM Rating: Decent
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Also drops Damascus Ingot.


Defiance LS on Alexander defeated her for their first time at 330am est on 4/4/05.


First NA LS on Alex, and one of the few LS's to challenge her on the server.


CANT WAIT TO TRY OUT MY NEW HARNESS!
Defiance vs tiamat
# Apr 04 2005 at 2:37 AM Rating: Decent
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Try #16, we won!
O.o
# Apr 02 2005 at 11:30 AM Rating: Excellent
Dream number 34949 : use my gungir to kill that guy ( see dream number 2424 )
Dream number 2424 : get gungir ( see dream number number 2130 )
Dream number 2130 : get drg to 75 ( see dream number 1 )
Dream number 1 : get party .

O.o
RE: O.o
# Jul 25 2005 at 10:30 AM Rating: Decent
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Rofl, /salute. I love you guys (drg's). Great rdm/nin partners :D Keep at it.
Almost...
# Mar 30 2005 at 2:13 PM Rating: Default
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Almost had him... Heres how the "battle" went.

Tiamat hits Faffy for 629 dammage.
Faffy Hits Tiamat for 0 dammage. (yup, I HIT him! :D)
Tiamat's Blaze Spikes do 9 dammage to Faffy.
Tiamat hits Faffy for 588 dammage.

So as you can see, just a few more swings and I had him. Maybe if I had used Ancient Circle...
whose harder Vrtra or Timmy
# Mar 30 2005 at 9:28 AM Rating: Default
for the person that want the answer to that is Vrtra. he summons undead and fiends to the field to help him. on top of that other spawns including the mobs that u level with to 75 in KRT.

it was 54 of us last time maybe more i was preoocupied killing outside mobs and keeping mages alive.

we got Vrtra down to 20% then boom summons its minnion paladin's die Vrtra starts running around minnions killing tarus 2 mins later we are all dead and Vrtra full heals withing 30 secs >.<

we fought Vrtra 3 times already no luck yet.
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