Vana'diel Bestiary: King Arthro  

Since the speed belt is replaced by a Rare/Ex Version, Does he still go in rage mode?

Since the whole point for SE adding rage mode was to make it harder for gil sellers to claim, which is out the window now.

This NM now drops Avalon Breastplate btw, Rare
Vit, Mnd, Chr, +7
Acc. +13
Enm.+3
Magical damage taken -5%
But it's the NM that's found inside of The sandworm that drops it, not the normal one found in jugner.

Edited, Jun 13th 2008 6:31pm by BenBroChill

this guy's total jew for the belt drop. 0/20 (about 1/3 ratio on claims it's highly camped)

Drops Velocious Belt now. A rare/ex item.
Replaced speed belt.

Edited, Mar 7th 2007 11:43pm by KelmLionai

I'm on Midgardsomber server, name is Barron 61 galka pld, i'm going to try it. If you are on the server and you see me as level 60 you'll know why XD Promised a friend i'd help her get a vermy, and i fish at that lake alot, never see anyone there. So wish me luck ^.^

Besides its been a long time since i have had a hard fight, i haven't been hit for over 200 in a long time, i'm getting withdrawls @_@;;

by looking at the other nms that drop the Damascene Cloth,
im guessing that king arthro is the easiest hnm to get Damascene Cloth right? if theres an easier way to get it tell me

I want to make a vermillion cloak, but the cloth is to hard, a high lvl clother shouldn't have to have an alliance to get this cloth or millions of gils..... : ( ..... ohhh wellllllllll.........

Avesta can't solo this NM, I don't think anyone can. In case you haven't noticed, Avesta takes like 3 hours to kill a NM like Genbu or Bune. Most RDM can solo it using similar techniques, like low dmg Daggers that do 0 damag but 24 additional with en-thunder etc. not giving the mob TP but hurting it, stuff like that. It's not that Avesta is bad ***, it's just most people don't really ponder over different strategies to spend 3-5 hours killing something. I don't think Avesta could solo Genbu, if Genbu went into rage mode.

ok, my HNMLS gets claim, we go into fighting it, it gets into rage mode after 15 MINS we had 10ppl, WHM & BLMs needed rest, we ELEMENTAL SEAL + SLEEPGA II him, everyone goes for a rest, out of nowhere, nogood UAF (UnitedAsiaForce Gilseller LS) jumps up and Provokes him @15 Percent. they left with over 200-300mil on asura server.


75WHM 74BLM 71SMN 69NIN 56MNK

i have a belt >_>...anyone want to buy it on bismarck 75 mil....you might be able to talk me down ^.~

Does king have a 2hr, and can a 61 rdm and a 75 rdm duo???

Ok guys, i just wanted to clear a few things up.When the KnightRobber crabs pop, do they pop near the water? or can they pop anywhere on that trail leading to the water.

Also, when KA pops, does he also pop right next to the water or out on the grass opening too?

And if anyone has the ToD on this for Slyph, please post it here or send tell to my friend Thiefz in game ^^(even tho you prolly wont hehe).

ok thank you guys

This NM is no longer soloable. The recent update from SE made sure of that. Went to camp this evening... THF75 and WHM75 duo, thinking we'd give it a shot. 2 JP LS's there, each about a full alliance. Another NA duo(NIN BLM).

So King Arthro pops, the other duo get claim. NIN doing an excellent job... Arthro so weak, MAYBE 1/20 hits landing. WatergaIV, w/ BLM's barwatera, doing 74 damage. Never even has to use ichi, even with instacast -ga spells. BLM free to use majority of MP for TierIV nukes, doing 700~1100 damage a pop. This goes on for a long time.. everyone watching.

King Arthro 2hrs around 30%... still no problem, everything going fine, NIN so damn evasive hardly any hits land. This is, mind you, after about 45 mins of NIN + BLM duo.

Then things start to go sour. NM @15% HP, starts missing a LOT less. Perhaps 1/2 hits is a miss. WatergaIV coming far more often -- still in and of itself not dangerous, but removing blinks -- Blinks are down, NIN taking ~100 a hit. Finally gets shadows up.. removed by -ga. Still only ~100 a hit... BLM just switched to cure mode, everything is fine. Now hits doing 200 a piece. Ninja falls. Black mage follows. I get claim, somehow (as THF). WHM doesn't even have time to react. Full evasion gear on 75THF, capped evasion... 3 hits for 350 damage a piece. Didn't even try to miss. So one JP LS gets claim. Damage goes up to hitting PLD for ~600 a hit. Bodies starting to pile. 2hrs popping off left and right, whenever Invincible/Perfect Dodge is up, that player is dead and another takes his place. RDMs chainspelling nukes, BLMs going berserko, even WHMs coming in to melee to deal as much damage as possible, since cures no longer matter. Finally he falls, with about 6/18 of one JP LS remaining, the other mostly dead.

SE's recent patch is, I assume, the culprit. The part that you can't kite an HNM to change ToD to something more convenient...I've seen the same thing with Roc. Of course, this could be attributed to SE sticking it to gilsellers in a far different way than simply making the item rare/ex. I like the second possibility a lot more^^

Either way, no way you can solo, or even duo, this NM any more. *cry*

i love how most pictures of HNM are taken with no one claiming them...wish it was like that on Valefor...theres always someone camping some any of the HNM

110 mil on my server ><