Vana'diel Bestiary: Guardian Treant  

I just soloed this guy as a MNK30/WAR15. Equips are: Cougar Baghnakhs, Attar of Roses, Compound Eye Circlet, Reraise Earring (Not used), Mercenary's Gi, Battle Gloves, Windurstian Ring, Emperor Band, Purple Belt, Mercenary's Sitabaki, Mercenary's Kyahan. I brought along a Hi-Potion +1. I Boosted 6 times, used Dodge, and Focus. Spawned Guardian Treant and began the fight. At about 2/3 HP I used the Potion for safety. Hit Hundred Fists, then Comboed it. Fought for a bit, Comboed again, and just fought till it died. Had 290/613HP at the end of the fight.

I was wondering if a 30MNK/14WAR galkah could solo this thing with hundred fists.

I just soloed him as WHM59/BLM29 w/o any problem. It was a pretty simple fight. He had abt 2000 HP. I just killed Ancient Bats near the ??? to build TP to 300%. Then did normal buffs of Protect III, Shell III, Blink, & Stoneskin, then spawned the NM. I hit him with some simple enfeebs, and swung away w/ my Blessed Hammer opening w/ a Seraph Strike WS for 355 dmg and then spamming Fire (82~83 dmg) and Firaga (177 dmg). When Stoneskin did go down, he did hit pretty hard with some critical hits in the 60's and 70's.

I think it's kinda funny no one ever solos anything as a bard and posts about it. BUT, I'm going to try and solo this bad boy. I was able to solo DRG flag NM and lived to post about it at... I think @ 48, but you can check my post on it to be sure. The other NM for sam flag seems easy enough as it's a 33 mob. I'll keep you posted. (No pun intended)

Edited, Feb 12th 2007 12:49pm by Thomm

I just did this for two people as SMN49/WHM24.
Ifrit: Crimson Howl, then Double Punch (did around 619).

After Double Punch, he just smacked the mob around a few more times and it was over.

I buffed the party of 3 with Stoneskin, Hastega, Aerial Armor, Protect 1, Shell 1, and Barfira. All of it was up at the end of the fight, nothing had dropped or been used up. Nobody got hit. No cures were needed. Was at half mp at the end of the fight due to using the two Bloodpacts and about 15 seconds of keeping Ifrit out. Cake. I think the damage done by the two level 30 friends in the party was negligable compared to Ifrit, so i count this as being solo.

Have fun! (Imagine doing this with a Yagudo Drink at level 30SMN...solo. I bet it can be done!)

Pretty easy. First built up to 300% tp by killing weak mobs, then attacked it and used berserk warcry mighty strikes and rampage. Still, this can do some damage, hits hard and quick, and extremely difficult to keep utsu: ichi up. It only took abt 8 melee rounds before it died, and it had shaved off 300 hp out of 1200 in the process.

Hi everyone,
I was wonderin if i can do it like this, use the hatchet to cut the branch then the Guardian Treant comes out. Can i maybe cut the branch hurry up and trade the item with the ??? and die will that work because i cant get anyone to help me out with my samurai quest and the first time we tried we all got murked. We brought it down 75% and then we all died so i was wonderin if i can just trade it really quick and then fight i dont kno if it will work

PLD/WAR 50 Soled it, so easy^^

I used a Tavnazian Taco, Yagudo Drink and 2 X-Potion, but I wasted the potions^^U (whit Cure III or Cure II you have enough).

Whit Protect III and Defender, it hit me in range of 7-20 dmg (I had 482 Def).

Really easy^^

I keep hearing how everyone is soloing it. That's nice and all, but I'm in Hydra server (360 beta). If all the lv 50's are greedy jp. players who charge you 50,000G for help, how is anyone supposed to do it? The only samurai in our server right now are jp. Is it possible to do it as a party?

As the title indicated, I just soloed this as a Tarutaru RDM50/BLM25 in order to complete the SAM Quest, and it was exceedingly easy. Here's a rundown of my strategy:

Buffs: Protect III, Shell II, Refresh, Blink, Stoneskin, Phalanx, Ice Spikes, Enfire, Haste.
Debuffs: Blind, Slow, Paralyze, Rasp, Bio II.
Items: Tavnazian Taco, Yagudo Drink
Skills: Sword 112, Evasion 107, Parrying 71, Shield 83, Enhancing 143, Enfeebling 151, Elemental 136.

Ate the Taco and cast Protect & Shell, then recovered to full MP. After that, began casting remaining buffs and used the Yagudo Drink to avoid spending any more MP before the fight.

After spawning the Treant, just pasted it with all the debuffs then slogged away at it. Proved to be very very easy - although the attack speed was high, the low accuracy (both natural and from debuffs) combined with high trigger rate of Paralyze caused it to do very little damage. It caused so little damage in fact, that Stoneskin did not drop until it was down to around 5% HP. Could have easily wasted it with Fire II but opted to not use any elemental magic for the entire fight, and simply recaste stoneskin and finished it off. I'd estimate that the entire fight lasted around 3-3.5 minutes (judging by wearoff of timed buffs).

Think that pretty much sums it up - if anyone has any further questions, please post a reply. ^^

i solod this guy as a 59blm/29whm with stoneskin and blink up using an ivory sickle i started off using just melee and trying to recast stoneskin and blink but he has like a natural hundred fists so everything was interupted and my melees were only doing around 80-90 dmg each so im like screw this so i used bind then nuked did this like 3 times with freeze tho i had to use manafont so he had me down to like 1/3 health so if your a blm going to fight him use bind then nuke cuz sleep wont work on him

I jist soloed him as a 54Rdm/26Blm with out really ne problems. jus cast aquaveil andyou should have no problem rebuffing and healing during thefight. note: i dont have phalanx and i still didjust fine wit protect 3 stone skin and blink. took meto cure 4s and 1 cure3 to stay aout of yellow. never hit red life. iused enfire and ice spike to increase dambage and burning blade seems to be the best weapon skill to use on it. hope this helps ne rdms planning on soloing this fight.

52 Paladin/26 Warrior

First of all, make sure you choco there unless you're level 60 or above. The leeches and funguars checked to EP, and the one Golem I saw was DC.

There are two targets on the huge tree at the right spot. One is unlabeled, and the other is ???. Use the hatchet on the ??? while standing on the rock below it to spawn the treant.

Food was Tavnazian Taco, and I used a Yagudo Drink when I hit 90 MP, just to be on the safe side.

He hit me for 10-20 per, but there were a lot of criticals for 40-50. Just buff with Protect/Shell and use your best offensive gear. I had a Tactician Magician's Espadon +1 (which is cheaper than the normal one for some reason) and I would recommend this over the Honor Sword. Just Flash and Cure III like you normally would and remember to trade the Sacred Sprig to the ??? after he's dead.

As 43 BST/21 BLM.. thats right.. subbing BLM.. I was xping in Zi Tah, and someone in his 30's came in asking for help to fight this mob. No one responded so I decided I would take a crack at it. I grabbed an EM shroom pet for a tank and we popped the mob. This thing was a pushover.. even easier than a goblin trader. Poison, bio, and shock all stuck, and after that we just pounded it into the ground without taking any hits. I am confident I could have soloed it with no problems. Too bad I didnt have the sam quest activated for myself.

I want SAM to sub for my DRG can I take him at 51WHM/25SMN I have Garuda for Aerial Armor as well & Shiva and Titan. I really want SAM for DRG sub

haha a joke hit me a 58 blm for 40- but took long b/c i like to melee lol

could a 50 rng beat this guy while a 30 whm heals?

Me and my buddy tried this guy last night. I'm a lvl 45 smn he's a lvl 46 whm. After summoning Ifrit 3 times and kiting this mob it was to easy. My whm buddy had his Carby help helping, but Ifrit did most of the work. The mob didn't even touch us (thanks to Garuda's Aerial Armor).

I soloed this a couple of weeks ago as 50RDM/BLM.

At first, I was a little hestitant to try it, since I had little more trouble than expected soloing Forger. But I decided to go for it ( while preparing my {Chainspell} + {Warp} macro :p ) anyways.

The hardest part of soloing this guy was figuring out how to reach the damn ??? -_-. I had found it and was about 2 steps too far from being able to use a Hatchet on it. I ended up running around the zone for about 20 minutes until I realized you could simple step up to the ??? by stepping on the root right in front of it >.>

But on to the fight... this guy was ridiculously easy. The usual RDM solo strategies worked here ( Aquaveil, Blink, Stoneskin, Refresh ). Paralyze was *very* effective on this mob, although it wore off fairly quickly.

This mob is also very sleepable, if anyone was wondering. ^^

just did this quest the other day, should have did it sooner but playing as a samurai isn’t my forte. i was bored, there was no parties at the time, so i said what the hell. but took this thing on and forger as my thf and worked there asses *pause*, i mean it was total rape city.

thanks dude I'm a 46rdm I'll try this thing later ^^

I'm a 42 RDM/BLM Tarutaru do you think I could solo this thing, I have all spells and great gear.
plz reply and thx ahead of time.^^

*sorry double post*

Edited, Sat Dec 4 20:26:12 2004

Errrr... Think a lvl 45war/22pld could solo this beast??


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Soloed him a week ago 51drg/war. Penta Thrusted him to death basically. Funny part was everyone said I should wait till I have a full party to beat him because he was so hard.

that guy in there hitokirin he help me with my sam quest lol