First ran into this guy doing my LB3. I was pretty cautious since I was soloing this quest and I had heard it has True Sight. Luckily a NIN got aggroed by this NM not knowing about it so I was able to get my crest without much trouble.
Now I'm back to Castle Oztroja to get my AF body for RDM. I was getting help from 75MNK and a BLM. BLM was /anon so I dont know what lvl he was but he had the Igqira Weskit so he had to be at least 73 (I know. Wow an Igqira Weskit?). We started farming on top floor with no success and later got competition so we decided to drop down to where the NM spawns. Anyways MNK was killing everything really easy. To my surprise he even decides to attack the NM. However, it was really easy fight. NM used benediction but nothing the MNK could'nt handle. We killed both NMs and if I remember right they both dropped Reraise III and Raise II. I was lucky enough to get one of the drops. MNK d/c a while later and I was not able to get my hands on a coffer key. I warp and decide to log off and try again later (I guess I'll never get my AF).
Later I check price on AH and see R2 is 200k, not bad. I ask 75THF/NIN friend if he can help me with coffer key and also tell him about the price that I got from NM (THF friend needs money for Dragon Harness). We arrive at the castle and another friend 75SAM joins to help us. I get my Key on second Mob and we had found chest on our way to top (My luck is starting to change). So the THF is all excited about it and we decide to try the NMs. We get aggro opening the Brass Door and we get killed by AoE spells (Our luck ended). We decide to wait for raise and ask a WHM that we saw on our way to help. We get Raised but then the SAM has to log out.
Well my THF friend still wants to try it even though now we are unsure if we will succeed. We drop down and start killing the sorrounding yagudos. We rest and he pulls the NM and also gets a link (Oh no we're going to die). I sleep the link and we start the long process of beating on the NM. I try to keep my enfeebles as best I can while trying to keep the other mob asleep. The High Priest resisted many of my enfeebles and I found myself casting Silence many times over. Aside from his benediction, which he decided to use near the end of the fight, it was an easy but long fight. My THF friend actually found it harder to fight againts the Yagudo MNK types then this NM. We fought this guy three times with no drops except Reraise III (I guess I got lucky the last time). He did get us down into red HP one time after I took hate with Cure IV and the THF was silenced. I was able to keep us alive using Cure II (I didnt want to take hate, I had 17 HP). We kept our cool and by the end of the fight I was had rested for half MP and we had half HP on us (Not bad considering he almost killed us). The fourth time I got aggro while pulling the NM and had to Chainspell Escape (I prepared a Macro just for this situation). Well I had to log out and the people near Brass Door did not want to help me open door. I told my friend we can try it again sometimes just for the fun of it and he did get his Kurayami:NI for his NIN (He has better luck farming Fomor Codex anyways).
Well altogether I think the drop was harder then it seemed while the NM was relatively easy. I would probally not want to camp this NM again since the drop is rare and its a pain to get to the spot and even bigger pain clearing out the area (Probally why not many people camp this NM, if any). Well good luck to any of you who are looking to fight this NM for R2 or maybe LB3 (Oh god, did I write a book?).
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Edited, Oct 13th 2006 at 4:48am PDT by lGreyFoxxl
Edited, Oct 13th 2006 at 4:50am PDT by lGreyFoxxl