Vana'diel Bestiary: Ruby Quadav  

Yes ruby pops in new area killed many times no drops th3 not nm for area will keep trying to see 0/6 so far.

Just fought this guy for my rdm testimony. Easily pulled him out and got him slept and dispelled. Tried thunder II and stone III only did between 250 and 290 respectively. Figured I'd try aero III. hit for around 350 with wind staff and elemental reasonably close to capping. kept him slept and silenced, and kept myself refreshed and stoneskined. It had a little over half HP left so decided to chainspell aero III. was dead on the 6th cast. it got lucky and slept me once and at the end it hit me for a critical of about 256. but otherwise very easily soloable. got my rdm test and a ruby off it. was hoping for water IV as well but oh well

Just to claify, This mob does have True Sight, and yes Sneak has nothing to do with it, but thats because the Mob AGGROS to Sight, so yeah sneak wouldnt stop it seeing through invis, there are some True Sound Mobs, which are impossible to get by almost, because even running behind them doesnt help ;) happy huntin everyone :D

me BLM61/WHM30, and a friend RDM70/BLM35, were fightin this guy a bunch today, trying to get RDM test so friend could fight Maat again(like the 20'th test he has gone through -.-;) fairly easy fight, like said previously, Blink and Stoneskin are a must, RDM just kept it asleep, and i used Burst everytime it was ready and i had mp. Fights were about 5 minutes long apiece, all we got was exp, and a beastman's seal i think, no test ;-;. but the fight was easy and fun.

soloed as a lvl 66rdm/blm. he really isn't that hard...Was actually pretty good pratice for me. Now i kinda know how maat will act. Hopefully i will have flawless sleeping on maat like i did this guy. Dropped Shell IV (don't have to buy it now :D) My stone III dmg was doing about 292 solid hits, 174 resisted (only twice) and two criticals for 329. gotta love being an elvaan. Wish me luck on maat guys...if the maat fight goes the same way this fight went, it will be a race against time.

i swear this bastard double attacked me. i was like "WTF o.O, RDMs dont have that." but he only did it to me once >.>; maybe i was seeing things.

do u think a 65-70 drg/whm or drg/rdm could take this guy?

Beastcoin can be stolen from him.
That's right, not Gold, but regular Beastcoins. -.-;

-Bel

these are easy beat them easily at lvl 67 rdm they are even 30X more easy at 70. use stone III untill 70 when u can use aero on it because water III will do bad damage considered hes based on water. if stone III starts getting resisted a lot just switch to thunder II tho it will take a lot longer to kill him with thunder II. after every nuke you should aspir if your subbing blm it speeds the kill VERY quickly and u pretty much dont have to rest. people who say this is good practice for maat are actually kind of wrong maat is totally different from ruby u have to be quick with maat with ruby u have all the time in the world.

Did Genkai 3 as a LV56 THF with a LV60 BLM friend of mine today. When we first zoned into Qulun, he was on the far side of the room, but we didn't take the chance offered - neither of us had Echo Drops, so we just got cursed by the afflictor, and the curse dropped right after zoned. Red HP and MP = BAD. So we healed, and he moved around. And we waited.

And waited.

And waited.

If you haven't figured it out now, waiting for Ruby to go the hell away is the biggest challenge of the Beadeaux section of Genkai 3. After a while, Ruby went up against the wall to the left of the north tunnel (the one you need to reach to get to the ??? room) facing the wall and nestled into a little corner, and I got ballsy. Remember, sound detection range is a lot shorter than sight. Anyway, I snuck past him without any problems at all, as did my BLM partner, and we both got our crests. My BLM started casting Escape rather than Warp 2, however, so my sneak dropped in the middle of the room and I ended up bloodporting back. ;p

I find it ironic that I dashed past a LV70 True Sight NM and didn't get detected, only to die at the hands of a mundane mob.....

Edited, Sat Mar 5 22:47:44 2005

this isn't hard for a near 70 rdm at all.... prolly not get damaged at all if your good

I just finished soloing this thing as 66RDM/33BLM sometime last night, and figured I'd give a few quick points of advice about the fight for any RDM that wants to do this (along with a few details about my experience).

Basically, the whole fight took me about 30 minutes, but that's including the fact that I had a bunch of mishaps as I learned what to and not to do along the way. Do keep in mind, though, that if you're intending to win, this fight will take a decent amount of time.

Anyway, down to the meat: When I killed Ruby, it was by a pretty significant margin (though i had a few close calls) as a 66RDM/33BLM Taru. All of my skills, with the exception of healing, were capped. When nuking, i had 72+23 INT, and +25 elemental skill. When silencing, i had a Wind Staff, along with +23 Enf. Skill, and when sleeping, i had the same with a Dark Staff.

My strategy:
Start with Blink, Phalanx, Stoneskin, Prot. 4 on. Keeping Refresh up at all times is a given. Go to the edge of the first hallway, and pull with Stonega (to get rid of the shadows). If you see Ruby beginning to cast, just run straight to the zone- its not worth trying to silence him so he chases you. Zone, come back in, and with any luck, all the mobs should be back in place, and Ruby wont have his Blink up anymore. Pull him with Silence this time, and all of the Quadavs in the room (him included) will chase you to the zone. Before you actually scamper back out to Beadeaux, Sleep Ruby. After sleeping him, zone, and wait about 30 seconds or so. When you zone back in, all the others should be back in the room with The Mute, and Ruby should be waiting for you at the zone, sound asleep. Cast Sleep II on him to extend his period of slumber, and proceed to cast Blink and Stoneskin on yourself... don't worry about Phalanx this battle, it's a waste of time and MP, seeing as if you're doing it right, Blink should be taking care of everything. Cast Dispel on him until he has no buffs left. Silence him, and start casting Stone III (if you have it, use either Water or Aero III, Stone III was just the best I had). When your bar is about 80% full, start spamming your sleep macro. With any luck, he should be sound asleep before his Silence wears, and before he can break through more than 2 of your shadows. Once sleeping, use Aspir, renew your Blink, if he hit your stoneskin, renew that, re-silence, lather, rinse, repeat. When you run out of MP the first time around, layer on an extra Sleep II to make sure he doesn't wake up at an inconvenient time, and Convert. From that point forward, if you run out of MP, you can actually heal about 300-400 MP while resting after Sleep II'ing him... he'll stay out cold for quite a while. Just always remember to keep renewing Blink and Stoneskin when they get damaged, keep Refresh up, keep him Silenced when waking him with a nuke, and don't get careless.

A few warnings: Ruby, at around 1/2 HP, will use Chainspell. This, as you already well know, is extremely dangerous if left unchecked. Fortunately, unlike Maat, this guy will actually sleep while his Chainspell is up. So, if you're following the pattern, you should be sleeping him when he Chainspells without even paying attention to it. Another warning is in regard to the whole silencing dealy... because he'll often wake up and decide to start casting a Tier 3 spell, ppl begin to feel comfortable with not using silence, because Sleep hits him before he can cast anyway. Don't fall into that trap. He also has Bio III and Cure IV, which are major pains in the rear (especially Cure IV), and are too fast to be stopped by sleeping him.

All in all, despite the lengthy nature of this post, it was a pretty smooth battle, and shouldn't be too tough for any RDM 65 and above if they play it right. I got a nice 240 exp from the battle, which was a pretty satisfying reward for all of my time spent there.

Hope this helped... Good luck!

maybe they should put True sight as one of its flags..heh..next time i guess ill read the description >.<

for those who do genkai 3 , he does aggro on sight, i just did mine with a buddy, so make sure u have his back to u when running thru the room ^^

I got my testimony yesterday from this NM, i got it on my 6th kill(i shell4 and rubies from previous fight). I Soloed him with the silence > nuke > sleep > aspir strategy, just keep blink and stoneskin up all the time. Just pull him next to the zone, to avoid link to other quadavs and just in case you get into trouble you can ran away easily and zone back in.

Edited, Tue Oct 26 09:56:34 2004

me and a few buddies of mine were doing the 60cap and the blm had sneak up and got argo from this bad boy, my ls told me that they argo through sneak/invis so dont try to get by them unless they are far away :P. and in the room where the ??? was, there was another ruby quadav and a adaman quadav! lucky they didnt argo :)

i'd love to see you SOLO him close to his mob level before you all go blab about how easy he is

PT Of LV60 and we Raped it.
WHM/BLM/BRD/DRK/WAR/MNK(me)
Only Dropped Water Crystal.
We Seriously killed it in 1-2 minutes or less.
For being a lv69-70 NM we were fairly dissapointed.
Clearing the room was a bigger Challenge :P

We killed him last night with 12 members, all 59-61 with one at 65. We completely destroyed him. The hardest part is pulling, as he's surrounded by other quadav. Forunately we had a summoner, and with carbuncle pull it wasn't an issue at all. Dropped a Ruby and a Kindred Seal. He's a red mage type, with tons of buffs, and loves to dispel, but a balanced team should rip right through him.

whoever finds one of these will have quite the battle on his hands even at level 75 im sure