Vana'diel Bestiary: Tabar Beak  

Its hard to even find them in Sauromugue Champaign, is there any other area they are easier to find?

I was fighting those at level 41... and THEY LINK... almost died... so beware...

This is one bad arse bird, even at lvl 51 whmI have to buff up and debuff the bird before I can go in there fighting.
And It cost me a lot of mp just to bring this bird down fast.

On the upside to this, I am skilling up very fast on my staff with it.

ok i havent always subbed thf for these but even when i do i have not gotten one drop off these not one O.O im gonna try again with TH but i can understand how u can get 2 stacks of meat in a few hours lol u lucky bug**er

I use the meat for making Meat Mithkabobs, but i've never been able to farm these guys. Now that I'm level 50 WHM I'm wondering if I will be able to solo these. I'm either going to sub THF for TH1 which would help with the drops or SMN to have Auto-Refresh to go along with the juices i use. I guess i'm going to have to experiment with this a little to see if i can pull it off. The one thing i hate about mage jobs is the difficulty involved with soloing (other than RDM).

These have feathers?? Looks more like lizard skin to me. Wonder where the feathers are?

im 60 DRK and these thing die with like 3-5 hits and are easy pickins though i mainly farm goobbue's ne ways i can guillotine one to death i one hit but ur best bet is to grab a scroll of instant reraise from ur local jueno gate guard u gettem from common of all rank conquest point it cost 500 points use the scroll of reraise and she how hard these cockatrice are to you but i sub thf and with TH1 they drop about 70-90% of time so with TH2 they will probably drop all the time and a stack sells for about 15k on quesiqoatl so its easy gil while i look for a pt so try that out with the reraise and good luck to you

I was going through mer mountains the other day and i came across this mob and it came up as impossible to gauge. is this a NM? anyhow no one else was around so i decided to recover to try it. i was a lvl 41 whm/blm. i was healing in what i thought was a safe distance and i got about 1/2 my mp back when he walks over and sees me. aggro attack hits me for like 75% of my health. attempted to cure and 2nd hit sent me home =(
this description here says there are in saur cham however i encountered this one in southern merp mountains.

It is nearly impossible for me to obtain the meat for these anymore besides purchasing them from the AH. I swear, it's like hunting the most heavily camped NM getting to the cockatrices anymore ><

I generally farm these because they are a good money maker. i can solo about 4 of them before i have rest or run back to jeuno to heal. If i want to make a good run i get one of my ls members who is a 46 whm and have him sub rng for widescan. on a full moon in about 2 hours we get aprox. 3-4 stacks of meat and 2 stacks bird feathers. feathers sell for about 18k and meats sell for about 20k dependng on the market. but over all good mob to farm.

Edited, Wed Oct 20 13:42:42 2004

I am in the same boat except I usually go to the Sauromugue Champaign to Chocobo Dig. I was a 31 Drg / 15 War and lost. I did not get smoked checked but the fight could have gone better. I /asked one of my LS buddies and they said go back to Jungle and level to 32-33 then you can go to the Citadel in the Sauromugue Champaign area and level from 33-35ish. While doing this go back and forth from Citadel to Sauromugue and kill the Beaks. He is a level 50 cook and this is the advise he gave me on killing those, just thought it would help, no matter he said a level 33 Decent Challenge- level 34 Easy for you and start rolling in the gil.

steal => Giant Bird Feather.. wee!

haha

Holy cow. I'm sort of multi-tasking here. Anyway. I found a tabar beak in Sauromuge Champaign and decided now would be a good time to farm them, since I'm in need of money for Cure IV (my Red Mage recently hit level 48 and I only had enough to buy either Haste or Cure IV. I chose Haste).

These things definitely hit hard. It took down my blink and stoneskin before I even got it down to half health and ended up draining me of most of the rest of my MP when I frantically hit my Cure III macro after taking my attention away from FFXI for a splitsecond. Then I saw I still got experience from it.

So in short, Too Weak Tabar Beaks = good. Easy Prey Tabar Beaks = bad.

I went out to farm cockatrice meats and found the Tabar Beak at G-6 by the tower in Sauromugue Champaign.

Not sure if he's the only one, but he's the only one I've found so far. (; ;)

~*Nissa*~
Tarutaru WhiteMage
Priestess of Altana

Edited, Fri May 21 15:05:25 2004

These tend not to live long after they spawn but watch it if you want to hunt them for their drops, as they are not an undercon -- they have Petrify and hit pretty hard.