Vana'diel Bestiary: Yara Ma Yha Who  

Took him down as 21whm/10blm. Kept dia and paralyze on him and used the rest of my MP for heals and bludgeoned him with a warhammer. No two hour or potions were needed. Finished with near full HP and somewhere around 70 MP left. Only took me 4 distilled waters to pop him which wasn't bad. Got my ring and 55 exp!

Edited, Jul 6th 2009 8:27pm by Tzinn

I've kept this ring in my collection since I got it more then 2 years ago. It's great for certain low level jobs. I don't think I'll throw it away, ever. It's also bragging rights because you can't buy it in the auction house (but then again so is ever rare/ex ^^) I wish everyone luck on this ring. The NM should be short work for adventurers like yourselves.

could this be good for an elvaan DRK? mp+ and STR+ is nice and as elvaan i have enough HP i should think

Got this on my third distilled water; traded it at 23:00 on Lightningday. This will make a great Scholar ring for me... I'm assuming.

my boyfriend and i just duo'd it as taru 15blm/whm and galka 15war/mnk. popped it at ~23:00 and was over by 00:00. blind stuck first time, and fire was doing 64 damage. after a hit or two from it i was about to die, so i backed up and cured myself and stuck to curing the war with the occational fire. he hit mighty strikes whenever he got tp and i used manafont when i got down to 23mp to finish it off with fire. the AoE move it does seems to have a wide range.

wasn't too hard of a fight, and now he has a pretty new ring to sport! ^.^

Finally got him to pop after about a dozen or so trades.

Darksday
2300(ish)
full moon (100%)
wind weather

and to repond to the post below. No. you cannot have 2 of the same "rare" item. Thus you will not get another one unless you drop your first one.

bought a stack of distilled water, expecting to be there all day... remeber reading that going after 22:00 was a good idea, gt there at 22:50 by chance, popped this nm first trade, didnt hit me once, down in a few hits as 57 drk.

Traded one every 50 mins last night 6 times, no spawn. Then I logged in before work this morning and got him to pop on first spawn.

I think the Fasting Ring is 100% drop if you get him to spawn.

21SAM/WAR. Solo-ed with Meikyo Shisui. Easy. Didn't even need to use on of the 3 potions I brought. Got the ring, grain, and herb seeds. +29 Exp and a Earth Crystal.

Popped at 2:10 Windsday, 3rd try. Woot?

I decided to camp this today, and it took a total of 9 hours! i was on my 10th trade when i popped and it was the weakest nm i have ever fought BLU 26/WHM 13, i killed it without getting hit once. All i have to say is have patience, and GOOD LUCK!

Solo'd this just now as 18WHM/7BLM, used 2 hipotions, Divine Seal, and Benediction. Landed slow, blind, and paralyze on him, and was eating Ginger Cookies for plantoid killer. He had me down to about 130hp at the end of the fight. Dropped ring, which is nice because I am too poor for astral.

killed it with one hit >.>.....DRK/THF 75 got it on first spawn, SA + Spiral HEll....boom dead

I decided to help a friend get this ring 2 weeks ago since he has had rotten luck on the astral. 14BLU/7SMN (me) and 12 BLU/6 war, first trade we spawn it. Pretty decent battle, we were both below 40 HP by the end of the battle and he got his ring. I may just try to get it just to add another item to my NM collection.

Mycophile Cuffs, Nikkariaoe, Gassan, Bee stinger, Katayama Ichimonji, Bomb Ring, Rogetsurin, Tortoise Shield, Shamans Belt, Bloodbead Amulet, Gelong Staff, Clipeus, Mist Silk Cape, Entrancing Ribbon, and the Dodo Skin.
Soon to be the Carect Ring, Rabbit Charm, Bounding boots, Empress Hairpin, and the Fasting Ring.

Edited, Fri May 12 18:49:16 2006

just walloped this guy. traded waters for the past few real days, never getting to wait for him to pop.
today, traded one water, he pops. 36bst/17whm, he was too easy.

Wow, that is one sweet picture, nice timing on it.

If you get a pop could you post what time? I want to know if there's a certain day I need to trade or something cause this has taken >7 waters and still no pop.

this guy is annoying lol, traded 5 so far no pop, also each time i trade and it says looks a little better then i examine it it says its withered does that ever change when trade or does it always stay witherd

I have been looking for this guy ever since they put him in the game; not actively but whenever I passed by I traded a flask of water.
I would have been owned if he poped one of those first times since I was BLM 18; but I thought that maybe, maybe with the right buffs and combination of spells...
At BLM level 25 (sub RDM 12) I absentmindedly dropped a flask here on my way north and he poped.
I was so surprised that I totally forgot "my plan", I didn't even have protect on, and just blasted away.
It wasn't going to good and I got interrupted to many times so in the end I just whacked him desperately with my "Gelong Staff".
Lucky for me that staff is quite effective for whacking and since I had used it a lot at lower levels (before my spells started to do some good damage) my staff skill was good.
I beat him with 15 HP left...

Got this guy last night after camping for four hours. Competition came and went, but I just hung there for four hours trying to trade water till it popped. I was able to feed about every 50-60 minutes. It took me five distilled waters before it popped.

I killed it as a 24WAR/12MNK. I opened with Sturmwind at 300TP then used Mighty Strikes. I may have been able to take it without all that, but figured better safe than sorry. It hit me four times: 9, 10, Sprout Spin for 20, and one last time for 4. So I took 43 damage total. I hit it for a combined 1015. I got 15 exp for the kill, as well as the Fasting Ring and an earth crystal.

I would say there's no set spawn time for this. The feeding time's beginning seems to be a cycle dependent on the last time it was spawned (much like doing gardening in your MH, in which case it will ask you for the next crystal depending on when you fed it the last one), so it's going to vary, and the number of distilled waters it accepts before it spawns seems to be quite random. To spawn this thing, you pretty much have to hang around for hours feeding it waters hoping the next one does the trick. On the plus side, the drop seems to be 100%, so at least you're getting something for your efforts.

West Ronafare: Goliath Beetle
East Ronafare: Swamfisk
West Sarabaruta: Nunyenunc
East Sarabaruta: Sharp-Eared Ropipi
North Gusta: Maighdean Uaine
South Gusta: Carnero
LaThiene: Nihniknoovi
Konschtat: Haty and Bendigeit Vran
Tahrongi: Yara Ma Yha Who
Dangruf Wadi Chocobleech
Ghelsba Fort: Chariotbuster Byakzak

Phew! some list, eh? Sorry, I don't know of a dungeon one for Windy-side.. I would say the NM ooze in IHR, Maltha. but she IS NOT 100% (I am 1/6 on her) I will give a give low-down on the items dropped. Since their names are very unique and I dont want to type them out again, I will just say the zone (sorry no dmg or delay specs.. this post is long enough)

NG lvl 10 earring +1 def +1 acc -2 atck
SG lvl 10 GK sam only +1 str/dex
ER lvl 10 stf +4 hp regen when medding
WR lvl 9 shield drk/pld/war only +5def +1 eva
WS lvl 10 wand blm/whm/smn/rdm +2 mp regen when medding
ES lvl 11 ribbon non tanks only +5 def +2cha
TC lvl 15 ring +10mp -20hp +1 str (ghetto astral ^^)
LP lvl 14 neck 3def, -1% to enemy crit rate
KH lvl 15 throw nin/thf only +1 agi
DW lvl 15 katana nin only +1 agi
GF lvl 19 sword war/rdm/pld/drk only +2acc
IHR lvl 16 tunic rng only def 14 +1 agi

Happy Hunting everyone <(^^)>

Edited, Sat Nov 5 02:44:41 2005

Could a 61war/nin solo this thing? Might be a stupid question but im not framilliar with the stuff in the Windy area

Ya I finally killed it took me 10 waters before it popped. These times aren't accurate but they are a bit rounded out.

7:00
4:00
1:00
22:00
19:00
16:00
13:00
10:00
9:30 (was trying to get Dash Sash so late)
6:25 w00t! Finally got it!

On the last try a Rdm showed up and was constantly trying to trade to the ???. I wasn't gonna lose this after 9 previous consecutive attempts. I had the time advantage, but took it a step further making a [/item "Distilled Water"] macro and spammed that at about the time I knew it was due. Thank god I got it I never want to do this again. ><

Also was darksday when it popped, earth element I think... moon cycle was at 36-37%. I don't know if that effects it but keep in mind.

The picture is hot ^^

The Yaramayawho is an Australian vampire that hides in fig trees, dropping down to attack passersby, making the victim more and more like a yaramayawho each time they're fed upon. It's described as being a little pot-bellied, red skinned man, but I guess I can see why they chose a sapling model for it.

I'm not sure what the trick is to spawning this, but I traded 15 distilled waters over the course of a couple days and got a whole lotta nothin' to show for it. Is there a certain day/time to trade it? My last 5 trades were done consecutively, and I never left the zone, never logged off during those 5 trades.