Vana'diel Bestiary: Lesser Colibri  

i am soloing these now as 60DRG/30WHM quick easy but can get risky

if u can solo these as your 60DRG/30WHM

I going to right a guide up on the fourms for it ne way so keep an eye out :>

after partying here a while, i noticed that ice based spells did the most to them, so i believe theyre weak to ice.

ok i got extremely lucky wiht my 30ks in two days. After more time farming these i realized that the drop rate i would say is the same as robber crabs.

I was trying to farm these while exping to get Kindred's Seals and they aren't droping. This is as THF too. Do they even drop them? I'm starting to wonder if they do.

Been invited to PTs over by the Leypoint area twice this weekend. Setup was 3 DD, NIN, BRD, RDM in both PTs. The PT I just left was NIN BRD RDM WAR THF SAM(me).

One word: Awsome. Like the person below said, way better than Crabs, but only if you have ToAU. No aggro, and they don't link. Max PTs I think that could fit in the Leypoint Tele area I think can be two. One PT seemed to always have lessers around.

Some tips to setting up: BRD and RDM stand on the Leypoint area (G-8 on the Map). Only thing RDM should do is Cure, Buff, and Haste, since these like to bounce stuff back, or your spells don't do much damage at all. BRD can then easily buff RDM, and the buff melee. BRD should buff melee or RDM while DD and NIN are fighting so that Ballad doesn't overlap on a melee, or Minuet on a RDM. NIN and the DD run in a circle around the leypoint; don't bother staying in one area since they don't link or agrro, you can chain faster running around. If you run this 'circut', continue either going clockwise or counter-clockwise around your BRD and RDM. Should be about 6-8 Lessers that spawn in this area, and pop very quickly. Tank should only worry about brining Shihei (if it's a NIN), although it's move "Pecking Fury" will eat up shadows quickly. Tank with food = waste of money, since it does like to steal your food alot.

With the above in mind, I got about 7300 in 1 hour and 15 minutes. :)

The only thing my party did is buff, melee and mages healing, pure melee on this guy...

I heard from some people say that when these bird use Snatch Morsel that they seem to gain the stats of whatever food they have taken, has anyone tried -stat foods to make them weaker?

me nadmy party was exping on them and at lvl 60 there con as VT to tough.
Only resion we where exping on them was because we only had on most part of the time 4 members due to the lack of ppl seeking.

Anyway there tend to use "feather tickler" which resets TP to 0 and another move which removes status effect like food item.
One of our members went though a lot of sush because of this bird kept removing the food stusts effect.

Also drops Colibri Beak and colibri feather.
The beak been the most populor drop.

Was XPing lvs 57-58 on these and our tank just stopped bothering to use food. He would lose it every fight. Stunning them when they try to snatch morsel might work, but food is a waste. If you pay 70k+ for a stack of your food, you'll use that up in no time. Really sucked because we were alternating between them and the Attercops which have Sickle Slash... which was pretty bad with no tank food.

We managed ok, but snatch morsel is one of the most annoying debuffs I've ever seen. And feather tickle isn't much fun either. Tank should use TP at 100 every time, or risk losing it all.

I was trying to get a few extra IP by sleepnuking these birds, as BLM73.

After about 7 birds, they were immune to gravity and bind only stuck for a few seconds, and my tier IV spells were doing 200-600 damage.

I believe these are not meant to be nuked ^___^;

Our tank lost his taco right away last night not realizing the these parrots steal it. Anyways, after that, there was a move that would reset tp to zero. I'm guessing that would have been snatch morsel without food effects on. anybody confirm this?

I'm assuming the level range of these is 63-65. I soloed these as a 65SMN for a while, and there were EM and DC Colibri. The DCs would either give me 81 or 97 exp (with sanction), and never any different number. So I guessed that there were two levels of DC Colibri. I only see DC now at level 66.

I have been skillchain with Carby. My experience is - of the Summoner Skillchains with Carby generally - they weakest against Transfixition (Starbust->Poison Nails).

Not sure about the lessers, but as noted the Colibri's mimic. Now here's what I've seen them mimic basically every spell cast on it apart from Cure etc. But here's where the fun starts, they store the spells. Try Silencing them then cast a few spells. Once unsilenced it will start spitting them back at you. Last night my friends were trying to kill me (NIN), by casting Diaga then other stuff onto it while I had hate. They were rather fun to try and tank, cause you couldn't Ninjutsu them without shadows or you would cop it back. It only landed paralyze once (/huzzah).

I think they also drop an Egg...

Not that it matter but, hey lol

So is this thing in the "Colibri" family?

Can a Lv60 Drg solo!? ^^ WIth blu sub mayyybe hitting a half hp tirgger with +50% def?

Hey, these con DC++ to me, a lvl 69 rdm. Ive been able to solo these with little to no difficulty. They Are aspirable and are susceptable to drain ^^ Paralyze works wonders too. Dont bother Blinding these guys, they have some rather high accuracy. Ive been getting Feathers, Beaks, Wind crystals, and kindred seals and Beastmen seals.
One more thing, they dont like lightning, Enthunder was my best additional affect damage.

These guys checked T to T++ at lvl 62. Don't try to solo these, Red Mages, until about 63 or 64. They're too damn quick to hit at a steady rate before they start checking EM, even with Gravity.

Makes me wish for crabs in the area.