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Vana'diel Bestiary: Blackbeard  

Family:Skeleton
Found in:Ship from Mhaura to Selbina
Level:0
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Based on Earth
  • Weak against Fire
  • Weak against Light
  • Strong against Darkness
  • Strong against Ice
Drops:
Stolen Items:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

Blackbeard Picture

Casts these spells on us: Stun, Aspir, Flood, Burst, Thundaga II, Water III, Ice Spikes, Sleep II and Sleepga II. He cast the Sleep spells very often. He also has the regular Skeleton Specials, Blood Saber and Black Cloud.

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Blackbeard <Found it!>
# Jan 16 2006 at 11:02 PM Rating: Decent
I Recently met with Blackbeard while fishing and trying to get me a Sand Charm. (67 RDM/BLM)
I saw the ship coming and though "Kool, maybe I'll get my charm this time". About the same time, all the other fishermen cleared the main deck. I thought to myself, "Where's everyone going?". So I started killing the bones, then I targeted Blackbeard (or he agro'd, don't remember).
"Kool! a NM!" ouch, ouch...WTH!?.. All I had on was AF hat, AF body and fishing gear, yea.. I took a beating. Lucky for me I forgot to sub Thief, so I Chainspelled --> Warped out of there.
I guess I'll be paying attention nextime I ride the ship.
Manafont?
# Jan 04 2006 at 2:12 AM Rating: Decent
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Just fought this thing with my girlfriend for the second time, and interestingly enough, he did a two-hour. He did the whole swirly animation, but I had my chat filters on and couldn't tell which it was that he did. x.x My guess is Manafont though. He managed to get a Burst off immediately after without being interrupted, and I didn't notice anything special going on. He did spam a few weapon skills, but nothing like a normal SAM mob that does them three times in a row almost immediately. Fun fight though.
i wounder....
# Dec 20 2005 at 7:57 PM Rating: Default
its probly answered by other ppl (didn't c it though) whats the chances of this thing dropping spells and or spells being stolen by a thf?
RE: i wounder....
# Dec 24 2005 at 1:20 AM Rating: Good
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0%. It doesn't drop any spells, and you can't steal anything from it as far as I know (if you can, probably only a Bone Chip). All it drops is Sea Robber Cudgel.
Spawn patterns?
# Dec 17 2005 at 5:55 PM Rating: Decent
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I'm' curious, since there are people who've been tracking the pirates carefully for a long period of time. A friend told me he thought it was common knowledge now that the pirates have a 24-78 respawn time after their last death, but I can't find that info anywhere online and not sure where he got it... another fishing friend told me he thought it was completely random, he's seen Blackbeard get killed and respawn again the same day...

What I do know is that I've seen silverhook pop twice in a row (both pirate ships in a row, not counting one non-pirate ship in between) and Blackbeard pop twice in a row (again, counting pirate ships only) ... which would lend credence to my first friend, but ... my fishing friend rides the boat almost 24/7 so I have to think he'd be more familiar with their spawn pattern. Does anyone know anything more about it?

blackbeard
# Dec 15 2005 at 8:06 PM Rating: Good
Today I see him for the first time. Yes I was afk on the phone. Level 70 whm Galka does last quite some time. Problem is i had no protector on ect and death was within 5 mins. Im on Ramuh server and enjoyed the following. I ask people to help me out and they just stand and watch me die. When im dead all three of them start to fight. Obviously I was overjoyed to see them die before my eyes. I mean they want to watch a lev 70 whm die instead of have my cure thats up to them. Well I get dumped in selbinia with the lev 12 whm i was escorting and the 3 other dead people. To my suprise Claudia is waiting at the dock and raises the 3x dead and ignores my pleas for help. It is a real shame that people like that lose the spirit of the game and feel it is too much bother helping others out.
Starlet (who has no idea how much I am gratefull to her) did a raise III on me when I had 10 mins on clock. Claudia just ignored me and travelled back and forth on boat. Come on people dont be like that. Lets make game fun
what is the name and stats of the weapon?
# Dec 10 2005 at 2:00 AM Rating: Decent
hello!
what is the name and stats of the weapon?
Spawn demystified
# Dec 08 2005 at 7:20 PM Rating: Decent
for those that are searching for pirates to obtain the sand charm, the pirates appear moreso when it is a new moon; give it a try... and good luck.
My experience~
# Nov 27 2005 at 1:44 AM Rating: Good
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After a full month camping these two NMs (Silverhook and Blackbeard) I finally have both my clubs! It only took hundreds of boat rides, 19 Pirate runs, 3 Silverhooks, and 1 Blackbeard. I made a log of EVERY boat ride with pirates on it... there is no predicting it. Wrote down day, moon phase, time of day (24 -> 6:30, 8 -> 14:30, 16 -> 22:30 ferries), who the captain was, moon phase, whether pirates were on left/right side of boat, and finally exactly what time they popped. TOTALLY RANDOM. Well ~

It's extremely helpful to know at the beginning of a run whether or not there will be pirates. You can tell this when you first zone in to the ship from Selbina/Mhaura... if the chat box appears BEFORE the ship, then yay! Pirates! (note: Chat box appears before viewscreen when zoning in everywhere else, except town and mog.) So all you have to do is watch this.. if you see the ship before your chat log, then go AFK for 15 minutes, come back and hop on the next boat going the other direction. Or fish to your heart's content...or camp sea horror (I killed him at least 20 times.. somehow, last kill, I got drop, right before Silverhook...yay 10k!)

Pirates have two pop times, one 1:30 (Vana d'iel time) after departure, one 2:20 after departure. (I.E. for the boat that leaves at 8:00, pirates can pop at 9:30 or 10:20). This is the time the pirates POP on the boat, not when you first see their ship. As posted before mine, if the middle guy on the pirate ship is wearing Vermillion Cloak, the NM will pop...I always saw him pop immediately, never had to kill placeholder Ship Wight. (This just goes to prove that Vermillion Cloak is inherently evil...)

As for the NMs ~ they can be soloed by 75WHM/NIN! While most of the time I had another with me, or someone on the ship who wanted revenge for a previous death, the one (and only!) time I fought Blackbeard was solo (with about 4 other WHMs watching me, easily the busiest ship ride I'd had to date O.o). He popped on the earlier pop time, I pulled to the back of the boat right away and started wailing away. Bat earrings helped a lot... no fuss with blindna, and since he basically keeps you blind every other WS, eva+30 helps a LOT. Dual wielding Martial Wand and Darksteel Maul (Martial wand was a mistake... 2 darksteels probably better) brought him down about 10 seconds after the message "We are now approaching Selbina" appeared. 47 limit points and a sexy Sea Robber Cudgel! Silverhook came a week later... went fishing with a friend, first run Pirates... no NM. Back to selbina with nothing. Ship to Mhaura.. Pirates again! No NM. Back to selbina with nothing. Ship to Mhaura... Pirates AGAIN!! Third time's a charm, Silverhook pops... dead in mere minutes with 68MNK, 75SMN, and me pounding on it. Thus concludes my month long binge of this ship!

Slow works WONDERS on these guys.. make sure to keep them slowed at all times!! Paralyze helped, but resisted a lot, and didn't last long. Ice spikes seemed to be their most dangerous spell.. Barparalyzra at the start and you should be good for the entirety of the fight. All AM was a welcome relief (hit shadows =]), blizzaga hardly hurt at all with barblizzard up (Plus neither NM seemed to use much when I fought..)

Camping these NMs was a welcome relief from the usual NMs...in that 9/10 runs I know they won't spawn, and don't even need to check. Can AFK for 15 minutes without fearing losing a pull. And whoever is there at the start of the boat ride are the ONLY ones that have access to them. Since nobody really wants the drop (and nobody can really solo), no competition on pull. However... don't camp unless you are willing to invest a HUGE amount of time. I was on those boats on average 5 hours a day, for a full month (30 days)... so that's what, 150 hours? before I got them. Hardly did anything else that whole time...

Any questions let me know^^ Long, long long post... O_O (posting in both Silverhook and Blackbeard)
My experience~
# Jul 11 2006 at 1:35 AM Rating: Decent
Win

your post is awesome, I'll have these for my whm friend soon, got her reverend mail tonight, these are next.
RE: My experience~
# Dec 04 2005 at 12:11 AM Rating: Good
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Thanks for the info on how to tell if pirates are gonna attack right when you zone in. I'm 1/1 on Silverhook and 0/3 on Blackbeard. Since Blackbeard only spawns on the Mhaura-Selby route, I start that ride, and if no pirates, I Teleport-Mea, run back to Mhaura, and hop on the other boat, so I'm catching twice as many Mhaura-Selby rides as I would be if I just stayed on the boat both ways.. Blackbeard still doesn't like to show himself though. I camped 11 hours straight with no spawn once. ; ;

Just a note on which side of the boat they attack.. It's easily predictable. The pirates come from Norg. Norg is south of the ferry route, and they always attack from the south side. Left on the Mhaura-Selby route and right on the Selby-Mhaura route.
True Sight?
# Nov 25 2005 at 3:59 AM Rating: Good
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I know that Silverhook has true sight, according to somepage. Anyone know about Blackbeard?

I ran into Blackbeard tonight on the boat and he smashed me. I was standing on an upper step and casting Stoneskin on myself at the time, so I was really surprised. I assume I was standing just a bit too close to the edge of his area...but wondered if there was any possibility that he may magic aggro? I know it's unlikely, and really tough to test since he'd likely aggro most everyone anyway.

I guess it was just my stupidity. :D

I seem to have a pirate jinx of me since I'm leveling fishing there atm. Blackbeard on one trip, Silverhook on the trip immediately after that and then just regular pirates after that. I should start inviting some high level people to come with me, just to cover my butt. LOL
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# Nov 23 2005 at 2:27 PM Rating: Decent
I posted on silverhooks page that me (73mnk/war) and a 75 whm/blm friend downed him with no deaths. This guy is the same with the small addition of a 54 mnk we pwned this guy with no problem at all. I can say from my experience that he is easier than silverhook in some ways. Silverhook took one light skillchain(dragon kick > hexa strike) and 3 asuran fists, during his battle before he died and had me as i was tanking down into the red. Blackbeard barely got me into the yellow and because the whm was casting para slow and whatnot we only got off the light sc. After that i only got 81% tp and he fell. The whm did say tho that he had to DS Silence for it to stick. As far as i can see that is the only thing about him that is harder. Unfortunately for us unlike Silverhook he didn't drop his club. But you heard it from me... could be EASILY duo'd.
Blackbeard >:D
# Nov 20 2005 at 1:06 PM Rating: Good
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Now, I decided yesterday to ride the ship to Selbina. I hop on, notice it's just me and 3 others. A JP RDM 75, Taru anon, and another anon.

We get on and I start killing the mobs that spawn at the begining. I just engage the crab(haven't attacke dyet) and that means one thing.

"{Pirates}!" I say. The boat pulls alongside us and a caster in Vermy and two others run alongside the other ship and cast.

Someone in my LS says "Hope Blackbeard or Silverhook doesn't show up."

The casters finish and guess who pops? Blackbeard.I say "{Team up?}" and the JP RDM says "OK". I invite and we go at him.

I had just gotten Mistral Axe that day so I get 120% TP, Mistral Axe. The RDM waits then Savage Blades for Light SC. We redo this a few times with minimal casting a few cures here and there, no links from the Crossbones.

We finally drop him, I take a few screenies to show my LS and boom.

Blagoce deafest Blackbeard.
You find Sea Robber Cudgel.

I'm like ":O" and the RDM says "{You can have this}. I not need." So, I cast lots, profusly thank him even though I can't use it, and we disband.

Props to Ryofirst for being an awesome player and RDM^^/
A Blackbeard Surprise!
# Nov 12 2005 at 12:14 AM Rating: Excellent
Tonight 2 friends/ls members and I were out fishing on this boat. As we get on the Blm(63) say "Ihope the pirates shows up". He and the Pld (67) were talking a bout the times they had been killed on the ship.and the Blm claims for "payback". so here we are fishing and here comes the ship... I (Whm 61) tells them "Pirates" and /shout "piriates". All these sneaks were going up all over the place. OOOOOO yeah boyz! It's pirate killing time! the pld steps up on of them and I run between him and the blm and cast buffs. suddenly the Pld has about 80hp! WTF!!! I heal him. I Didn't know the dmg he took cuz of watching his hp then I see he was defeated by Blackbeard. I was wondering what was wrong with the pally. Then he hit me! 169,183,185, 148 I am trying to run to cast reraise 2, but accidently lock on... I was heading strait for him. I got unlocked and hit for another 174 dmg. ~.~ Now I am really wondering what was going on. Meanwhile the BLM is trying to come rescue me... OMG! it was like so funny cuz he went down just as quik. We did not get a raise til the ride was over, but it was kool. I told them I was gonna check this Newcomer out on this site cuz we were clueless about him. I laughed about how it wasa happening when I died.


If you have not met this guy... he's really no joke when he catches you by surprise. Keep your sneak up and lay low when you see those pirates approaching. As for me.. I don't ever wanna run into him again.

Thanks for all of the info you all have posted about this guy.

Edited, Sat Nov 12 00:49:49 2005
Got it !
# Oct 27 2005 at 1:00 PM Rating: Good
Hi my name is Kyrene from Phoenix Server, I was camping these NMs today as a taru 75whm/37nin with my friend MagicMidget who was a taru 75brd/37whm

The pirates finaly decided to attack for the 1st time after about 2 hours of back and forth on the boats... It was clear weather, day time, no fog, no rain, and 86% moon. The middle summoner was wearing a verm cloak and Blackbeard spawned in the middle of the deck, I ran on the side stairs and claimed him. (I wanted him away from others who were fishing so that he doesn't aoe drain everyone)

I casted slow on him and paralyze, hasted myself and began to deal dmg with dual wielded darksteel mauls + 1. He didnt do much at first he kept trying to cast Acient Magic and I was interupting him. At some point he casted burst on me which was absorbed by a shadow lol.. Brd casted 2 attack songs and they lasted for the entire fight. Blackbeared was very slow and missed me a couple times. I screwed up at some point when he blinded me because my eyedrops macro was buzzed.. I had to find them in items list so i lost count of my shadows and got hit, but I had stoneskin up so he hit me 0 the 1st shot and killed stoneskin + 68 the 2nd. I got utsu: Ni back up right away and continued to pawn him. At this point I noticed I had forgotten to eat atk food lol (nervousness). My best hexa strike hit him for 1274 dammage :) and he droped dead about 4~5 minuets after claim.

He was very easy, mainly because slow if amazingly affective against him. I didnt have to cure myself once and neither did the brd . it was my 2nd attempt fighting BB and this time he droped the club :D

Best tip I can give you is to go as whm/nin, well equiped with eyedrops(saved 40mp and long casting time of blindna) and yag drinks in case of emergencies. This guy is deffinatly soloable, you just need to be prepared. You could buy an Icarus wing to solo a lvl 3 Light skillchain + holy magic burst, it would be a nice way to take off 30% if not more of his HP.

Well good luck to everyone who attempts to fight him and don't give up, these clubs are pretty nasty !!

Kyrene


Edited, Thu Oct 27 14:12:23 2005
RE: Got it !
# Oct 27 2005 at 10:07 PM Rating: Decent
i got this guy today omw to selbina as 14 smn...i noticed the middle smn on pirate ship had vermillion cloak...so i asked my friend who was 73 rdm hutning sand charm...he didnt kno unti lhe saw blackbeard...we didnt fight him cus...he's big and my friend knew he was likehigh lvl NM...at least i didnt die :)
i noticed when i got of ship it was wanning gibbous (88%) that might affect it.

Edited, Thu Oct 27 23:17:47 2005
Just got pwned
# Oct 25 2005 at 2:56 PM Rating: Decent
going back and forth to do chef quests and a bunch of undead show up i check blackbeard, NM okay let him be. check the smaller fellows DC ok pvk one and start to fight kill him, fight two more and decide to let it be but my hp is low and i get aggroed by another, there sits a JP whm fishing and i am getting the **** kicked out of me and the whm just sits there i call for help nothing........homepoint back to jeuno. thanks alot to that whm.
Got Pwned!!!
# Oct 20 2005 at 1:48 AM Rating: Decent
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So after doing 2 Avatar Prime fights we go and turn in whispers to get Garuta and decide to ride the boat to see if pirates would show up.. Well OMG they did, on the 1st ride. We were all happy. I say we because there was a 60 RDM (me), a 61 Drg (Darrick) and a 58 PLD (Kittypryde). So we start fighting pirates to get sand charm and all of a sudden PLD dies!!! I'm like whats going on!!! So the Drg (my roomate) tells me its a NM. I had not heard about any NM on the boat all of a sudden. i get pwned quikly and then the drg right after me. A 60ish Japanse WHM gets dies as well and gives us a Raise 2 after she uses Reraise 2. But I got the Sand Charm form a couple of the undead we killed. So wow, be ready for this thing and becareful before engaging the Pirates for now on!!! Look before you fight Pirates!!! Thats all I have.
no drop ;;
# Oct 12 2005 at 3:05 PM Rating: Decent
just solo'd him as a 75 smn, no drop only 47 exp
Club...
# Oct 09 2005 at 12:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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I saw this for the first time today, stunned it and it hit really hard so I allianced with the rdm and nin on the ship to fight it, we lost terribly, we only hurt it about 4%. This was with 50nin, 72rdm, 75blm, 68thf. It was a random encounter of a rather uneventful day, we all died but I managed to cast reraise before I died so I raised the rdm before we docked and he raised the rest.

by the way, the stats on the club are:

Sea Robber Cudgel
DMG:42 Delay:340
68WHM only
MND+5 ACC-5
ATT+15

It looks exactly like the one blackbeard is holding in the picture.
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# Oct 06 2005 at 4:48 PM Rating: Decent
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what are the stats on the wpn he drops?
PISSED
# Oct 03 2005 at 11:11 PM Rating: Decent
I sat here all night and watched my hubby go back and forth on the ship trying to get this guy to spawn......this group comes along first ride.....claims him.....PISSED HIM OFF.....then of course he blamed it on me lol but w/e that was really crappy.
Poor poor War
# Sep 22 2005 at 5:08 PM Rating: Decent
Well I was riding the boat minding my own business, when the pirates attacked, being a 56 DRK i wasn't too frightened. Right next to me spawned Blackbeard, "hmmm," i say to myself. i try to attack him but a 72+ WAR/NIN (had his info hidden) got him first (luckily). This guy was very persistent, he only stayed alive because of the mages onboard, the poor fool. well blackbeard gets down to a sliver and the other mages run out of MP, so in about 10 seconds the WAR drops and the NM comes after the mages, 1/2 second later it falls to the ground. All and all i must say this guy is my new hero for getting into the fight before i would attempt to and get slaughtered. The moral of this story, "don't try to fight things taller than you unless ur sure u can kill it." ^^
club?
# Sep 20 2005 at 4:35 PM Rating: Default
What club?? everyone says o we missed the club, but what club?
/sigh
# Sep 19 2005 at 12:10 PM Rating: Decent
this guy is weak, we had 75 thf, 72-73 blm, 60ish whm, and 60ish sam (can't remember offhand)
the sam died off the bat from voke and when i went to SA i lost it to para (lol)
but when a thf is the main DD (kept hate against blm..because she knew overnuking would be bad) against a bones mob..you know theres something up, i wont say it didn't get close.. the blackcloud/bloodtrain got us low a few times and blm 2hr'd to speed up kill as we neared selbina..all in all though.. we lost the club to zoning ... /sigh
Oddly..
# Sep 15 2005 at 1:37 PM Rating: Decent
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He uses Meikyo Shisui -> Black Cloud (usually does ~700)
I've heard he can use Meikyo Shisui -> Blood Saber, but in the five times I've fought him he's always used Black Cloud in conjunction with his 2h.
He IS silenceable, I've done it twice (both times it lasted a good 15 seconds).

That's about all the info I have to give. ^^; 1/5, dropped fourth kill. (fifth time was while trying to get a friend the club as well)
#REDACTED, Posted: Sep 07 2005 at 11:11 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) this is a whms dream weapon with the attack bonus plus hexa strike at 75 u can solo alot of things and become a dd when needed think if u were a whm and u had this weapon plus kraken with nin sub awww droullll, that would be pimp u wouldnt need anyone to take down most things
pop time
# Aug 30 2005 at 1:12 AM Rating: Good
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Not sure what the requisites are for him to pop, but I saw him today at 1p.m. (logged off for a few hours) and again at 11p.m., exactly 10 hours later. Not sure if he popped any time in between, but I know I've been on the boat for 4 straight hours without a pop before...

Somebody else killed him the first time. We had TH2 on the second fight, no drop. Not the best way to spend the day... :p
RE: pop time
# Oct 07 2005 at 11:32 PM Rating: Decent
just so you know its not a pop time or anything, its kinda random on ship, the only ay you can tell is if the main summoner in teh attacking pirate ship (middle one) is wearing a vermillion cloak, if he is you got one of the NMs, also the stats on the black beard club are, MND +5 ATK +15 ACC - 5 DMG 42, and i think Delay 340, name Sea Robber Cudgral. the silverhook one is kinda the oppisite, STR+5 ACC +15 ATK-5 DMG 40 Delay 340 Sea Wolf Crudgal. there is my 2 cents
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