Swan Bilbo  

Speculated to be owned by the same minstrel buried in the tomb.

Duo'd it as 67 NIN/WAR and 75 RDM/WHM. Really easy! A bit slow since my sword is not capped -.-, but if you keep Silence and Paralyze up it's no problem at all to kill.
1/3 :)

Decided to camp this NM last night just for kicks(and it dropped, yay!). Since it is relatively untouched, it spawned almost immediately, so I know nothing about its spawn window.

Its spawn point is from the entrance to Eldieme accessible only from the Glacier side of Batallia (same side where Lumberjack NM spawns, as well as BRD AF2 etc.), i.e. Batallia F-5.

The NM's placeholders are among the 4 Tomb Wolves found at the northern half of E-6. It is a lottery spawn, and mob respawns there are 16 minutes.

The NM itself is pretty tough. It uses all normal wolf WS (Howling Paralyze AOE, Rot Gas Virus AOE, Methane Breath, Poison Breath etc.) and also casted Blindga(AOE, fairly fast cast) and Curse(single-target, very nasty HP-down). It will also use Blood Weapon as its 2hr.

I fought it as SMN75/WHM with my THF75/NIN friend. Eclipse Bites did anywhere from 987-1367 damage, normal hits ~80-90. When Fenrir got himself Cursed, his HP went from 60% to 100%, so that is a pretty nasty HP-down effect(assumably MP-down too) It didn't cast Curse on my THF friend, so I don't know whether it is blocked by Utsusemi. Even with evasion gear, my THF friend was having trouble evading hits(no thanks to Blindga spam), so I assume the NM has pretty good accuracy.

It also has quite an HP pool. Each Eclipse Bite took off ~8%hp.

With 2 people at level 75, we got 21xp, which puts it the NM at level 69.

I've camped Cwn Cyrff for the passed week killed him with ls buddies every time he pops which is 8-10 hours more on the 10 side, and after killing him 6 times and no drop i'm about to head out and start slapping the people at SE for making this drop so retardedly hard. ; ; this is no longer about the sword for me. it's the principle of it all. That damn puppy owes me a drop and he's gonna give it sooner or later

I got this after killing the 4 place holder Tomb Wolfs twice each. The NM, Cwn Cyrff, popped and myself (75brd/whm) a 75rdm/nin and a 71drg/war took it on. After a long battle, about 6-8 mins as judged by recasting song buffs, we finally took it down. Got the drop, didn't know it wasn't 100%, guess I'm lucky. Props to BRD + RDM duo team!

And since I have it already...it spawns at the D-6 to E-5 area of the northern entrance of Eldieme Necropolis. Where you see the 4 Tomb Wolves is where it pops once they are killed.

I noticed the NM used blind, paralyze and curse. I evaded a lot of the status effects at 75 so there might of been more. I think blind and paralyze are AoE but curse is targeted. Nothing a BRD/WHM + RDM/NIN can't handle, DRG just made the fight go faster.

I'm 0/2 on this.

As cool as this would be just on rarity factor, the effort to get is a tad extreme. Mob that drops this is on the FAR side of EN, it's somewhere from a 8-24 lottery, Bard can't solo it even though it's Bard only sword, it's not 100% drop.

I'll stick with Joyeuse.

this sword is also handy for those that are in sky that sub sam because almost everth thing up there argoes magic and when fighting a god you want every one to try to start off with 300 tp spirits within here is a nice sword for brd to use for sprits within and depending on job hello 400-600 damage with sw

Finally, a weapon for the bard other than monster signa.... And this one might actually be worth it to melee. I mean, with double madrigal or madigral and mineut, I bet a brd could do some decent damage and still handle the worries of keeping mages with their ballads.