Vana'diel Bestiary: Tres Duendes  

Congratulations, got to try it^^

Killed this and the blm it spawns with as nin/war nin/dnc and whm/nin.
I solo tanked tres as nin/dnc while my friends killed the blm.
I did notice at one stage tres went off to hit the other nin even though he should not have had any hate at all on tres.
Once the blm was dead it was pretty easy to kill tres.
No drop at all.

I have killed it 5 times now and its only dropped items twice. Dagger and claws one time and katana and claws the other.

Edit*
Killed it afew more times now, full drops one time and dagger/katana another.
Yet to see only 1 item drop.

Edited, Jan 8th 2008 10:24am by sixoh

I just thought I'd put this up to give some background and maybe a little insight. The Tres Duendes comes from an old Grimm Brother's story. There are three very short tails about elves. The first is "The Elves and the Shoemaker." The third part, however, tells of the elves replacing a child with a changeling. The changeling is described as having a large head, like a taru. Seeing as how the elves appear to swap the child for a changeling, it makes since that this spawn comes from the BLM fomor being left alone. It also explains why the bats have a pet, instead of the other way around.

I got some info from a few places, but this is a good link to the story (as translated from Spanish):
http://www.grimmstories.com/language.php?grimm=039&l=en&r=es

Happy hunting.

Tres Duendes and Duendes Amoroso pop at the same time next to each other, their PH is the Fomor Black Mage in the room. In order to pop, the Fomor Black Mage must not be killed for 21-24 hours.

I've camped this guy for a week straight, his pop times were like this:

spawn 1: Spotted Tres Duendes without Duendes Amoroso and zone was empty...called bst duo and we killed it, dropped claws.

spawn 2: about 26 hours later after killing mahisha we spot tres on widescan floating around, zone empty. Kill, claws again.

spawn 3: 23 hours 20 minutes later tres pops with fomor, drops everything.

spawn 4: 23 hours 50 minutes later tres pops with fomor, drops nothing.

spawn 5: 22 hours 30 minutes later tres pops with fomor, drops everything.

2 BST with VT/IT Oil Spills can duo this pretty easily, I would read up on his TP moves on ffxiclopedia before you attempt this though.

Everything after spawn 1 our setup was like this: BST/THF - BST/WHM

Is this guy Occasional Lottery Spawn? If so, how occcasional?

Well...I was bored, and no one would offer help to kill Tres Duendes. So I figured I'd try to solo for fun knowing I'd die...well I did die...about 4 times give or take...but Tres died also...Basically this is what I did:
Charmed a Gloop (Yes a Gloop the "Decent Challenge" ones)
Ran to Tres' spawn location
When at Tres I used my Powder boots then cast silence on Tres' Amoroso (Tres Duenes' pet Taru) Then I had my Gloop fight the Pet taru fomor. while I ran Tres to zone (I had to cast silence on him a total of two times, second time was because I lost hate.) By the time my gloop killed the Taru I was at where the Oil Spills were. So I released my Gloop and Charmed an Oil spill (Luckily I got it first try) Then from here on it was pretty easy. Had Oil Spill fight Tres (I almost died while the Oil Spill took hate) Once oil spill had Hate I rested and let the two fight
When my oil spill got to about 20% HP I used "Heel " and ran to Zone near the Gloops. So once my Oil spill died all my Bat links would go away >_> by the time I got to the Gloops. Tres was about 70% Hp kinda alot for just gloops to take care of but with time, they killed Tres. Also the Pugs there work great too. If you do this dont melee Tres. Youll get too much hate and during a pet switch youll likely die (did that twice) I died for verious reasons also...faled charms so on...but I finally killed him and here are some pics...Happy hunting ^^

http://onehundredmonkeys.net/v-web/gallery/albums/Blackmateria/img_0143.sized.png

http://onehundredmonkeys.net/v-web/gallery/albums/Blackmateria/img_0144.sized.png

http://onehundredmonkeys.net/v-web/gallery/albums/Blackmateria/img_0145.sized.png

Forgive the Profanity in the last pic --; I was a little frustrated...

Anyone tried soloing this with a 2hr'd IT Oil Spill?

Information welcome, thanks in advance.

MJ

Would a Rdm/nin be able to solo it? I saw that the bats are sleepable and could start out chainspell nuke on the pet while the bats are asleep. Then have potions icarus wing and whatever else to melee/nuke the bats.

Just wondering, seems like it would be fun if it was possible.

We have had weekly sub runs in my Clan/LS for a few weeks now (not sure how much longer we will be doing it though, the people who have been showing are getting all their subs :-) and we have now added this guy to our rotation (since we need the single MNK that spawns near him). Anyway, I just wanted to share some general comments on him.

First, his BLM pet is seriously weak, but has some horrible AoE spells. I'd recommend killing the BLM first just to get him out of the way. He will go down pretty quickly.

The bats themselves seem to start out missing a lot and not doing much damage when they hit. However, once the BLM dies, they get much meaner. This is another reason I suggest just killing the BLM to get him out of the way, because while the BLM is alive you can safely ignore the bats.

There is a solo Fomor MNK in the hall near these bats. I suggest fighting them in the hall because it's safer, but be sure to clear the Fomor MNK and fight them between the MNK spawns.

During the course of the battle with the bats, they tend to get stronger and stronger. Their attacks get meaner and meaner. Also, they have these nasty EVA boost and ACC down moves that they will do. All told, the battle can be lengthy, so be sure you have enough main and backup healing to stay alive for the fight.

Ultimately, neither of them are very hard if you keep your wits about you. I bet a well balanced party of 4 or 5 could do it if everyone knew their job. That being said, I'd suggest a minimum of 6 or 7 your first time fighting them simply because you will likely be surprised by how long it can take to kill the bats once they start spamming EVA boost and ACC down :-)

we killed this NM duo last night while hunting for subligaria.
party set up was RDM(me), NIN,SAM,WHM,NIN and DRG.
RDM gravity on bats, while NIN vokes and kites it around. WHM silences Taru BLM...rest of the party attacks at pulverizes BLM pet. The bats take a long time to kill...so have RDM or BLM ES sleep it to get breaks in between to heal and regain MP. fight went ok we got into yellow HP never to red...we didn't get any drops >.<

PS...make sure you clear the room of any fomors 1st...there is a party of fomors so i suggest a some one take it for the team and kite the other fomors while you take out at least one of the fomors in part...doing so makes other fomor members dissappear..hope this help^^

ne one got a pos or respawn on this guy?

"tres duendes" is spanish for "3 goblings"
if not mistaken

Took it out just now.
WHM WHM SAM/RNG THF WAR BLM BRD

THF pulled easy because he didn't have Fomor hate. Used Flee to outrun the stupid lil Taru's Sleepga. ES+Sleep the bats, ES+Silence the Taru. Kill taru fast, then focus on the bats.

Now because we had no idea what it did, the bat then killed us... it had maybe 1% life left =/ But we got up then killed it ^^b

Drops: All 3

Note: This is my first post ever of having a successful NM drop, and I've been playing for a year and a half O_x

Killed by 3 people RNG RNG RDM pretty hard fight needed some potions but we got the dagger drop only

Edited, Sat Jun 4 05:50:05 2005

Our party of 6 killed this tonight. NIN, DRG, RNG, RDM, BLM, WHM (All Lvl 40, of course). We used Shadowbind on the bats, then killed the fomor first -- very smooth fight. Unfortunately, absolutely nothing dropped, not even a single bat wing.

pt of 9 killed it - bst - mnk - nin - brd - thf - rng - whm - rdm

kill the pet formor first. he's a blm job. he's much weaker than the bat, he's around level 45 because he used stun. use bst jugs and smn avatars to hold off the bat while you beat the formor up. the formor will die quickly.

once the blm pet is down, the hard part of the battle is done. the bat is around level 48-50 and has a lot of evasion. he spams sonic boom, got jetstream, and has another ability that is AOE accuracy down. being whm i ended up just making them live with the attack down effect due to the long cooldown timer of erase and i had to keep the focus on ninja tank.

the nm is not partied with any formor. just wait til its near the hallway (where its safe), and the other formors are away. the chances of unpartied formors of linking is not as high as the partied ones.

the nm dropped the nin katana, which in my opinion is highly overrated. the dagger is the much better drop but he did not drop that.

Tres Duendes...
This is a strange NM. It's a BST -BUT- The Tri-Bat is the NM and the Fomor is the Pet! This thing has the potential of killing an entire alliance, if you dont know how to kill it!
SpawnPoint: (D-4) - Second map
STRATEGY:
When you pull it, watch out for the 5 other Fomor in the Spawn room. They are in a party and will wipe you out, I dont care if you have a 18 person alliance or not, there's always a @#%^tard in the PT, and that will screw it all up. The NM itself and the Black Mage placeholder are not part of the 5-Fomor party. Beware when pulling, again. When you manage to pull the duo, have everyone target the fomor, or have 1 person distract the bat while everyone else targets the fomor. The faster this fomor is dead, the better. It spams AoE's that get rid of anyone's blink really quick.
I was in an alliance when I wasn't too experienced on this NM, we all targeted the bat, thinking it was the pet, the AoE's tore us apart. Later, about a week after this, my awesome LS and I went to kill it, 5 people. I shadowbound the Bat, and we proceded to kill off the fomor. our Monk Hundred Fists, that made it drop fast, just in time for my shadowbind to wear off. After this, we were safe to Utsusemi up and just had a long battle killing off the bat, trading hate. We didnt even have a tank for this, just a bunch of DD w/ NIN subbed. I think that was best so one person didnt have all the hate. When it died, I got my treasure - Chiroptera Dagger. Lv. 38 Rng Acc. +12. Just like a Hawker's +1 w/out the AGI and CHR buffs. It also drops Drain Claws (HP Regen) and the Niokiyotsuna katana (Triple Attack %+). This is an easy NM if you know what your doing, but it's funny that it was so hard for us before my LS's trip.
The spawntime I'm not sure of though, it seemed to be up every other day, since I spent a week going down there every night. I've never actually camped it, but it's placeholder when not up is a "Fomor Black Mage". Maybe killing this a few times provokes it's spawn? It's possible since the BLM is never there when the NM spawns.
Good Luck!
-Asuran Wiseman-
~Myst (Misuto)

Edited, Sun Mar 13 20:08:50 2005

is this thing a random spawn or a timed spawn? and can 1 pt of 6 people kill it ? cuz i could really use those claws for my monk, it would really help me in farming, cuz monks don't have drain, bloody bolts like the other jobs so this thing would be USEFUL, would be greatful for the info, thanx

We tried to attack this NM, with a SMN, RNG, WHM, PAL, and it was very difficult. Three tries all fails. Due to this area being level capped, you can't just walk in with a high level friend and 0wnzor this NM. This NM does have a Taru-blmage pet that will chain cast all over the place. (it particularly likes -ga spells) Thankfully the Taru-pet can be silenced. I would not suggest trying this NM unless you had a full party or 8-10 person alliance (just to be certain)

Bueno Suerte con los Tres Duendes!

it's a triple bat btw, meaning it has jet stream which hurts. Alot.

The direct spanish translation for "Tres Duendes" is Three Dwarves. Just thougt I'd point it out O_O :D