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Did this easy as PLD(me) MNK and WHM. We didnt really need the WHM as we did it the first time with just PLD and MNK but it was alot easier with WHM as well lol

Beat this with Pld Rdm and Pup.

Did this last night and won every attempt.

PT setup is: PLD/WAR MNK/THF BLM/WHM

Every battle was fairly smooth, although we would win with only 1> minute on the clock left.

PLD used Tavnazian tacos, yagudo drinks, pamama au laits, and eye drops

MNK used sole sushi, pamama au leits, and eye drops

BLM used melon pies, yagudo drinks

PLD self protects and shells, BLM protectra/shellra the remaining members, and casts blink

While waiting for MP to regen MNK boosts and uses Sneak attack

BLM begins by silencing th mob, afterward PLD gets aggro and pulls away from BLM

MNK lines up behind and should land SA, at this time the timer for SA should be up again so the MNK can SA once more.

MNK uses Focus at beginning of battle so it can be used again later on

PLD uses Holy Circle in beginning battle so it can be used again

Skillchain used was Burning Blade > Combo

MAKE SURE to always use SA when doing combo for maximum damage

If monk gets too much aggro allow the PLD to cover him

BLM never MBs, only debuffs the boss and cures PT members



Edit:
We won total: Utsusemi Ni, Erase, Phalanx, Refresh, Jennet Shield X4, Tourney Patas, Mutilator X2, Kagehide, Platinum Ingot, Mithril Ingot, Mithril Beastcoin, Fire Spirit Pact, Raifu, Demon Horn, Petrified Log, Elegant Shield and numerous bone chips.

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I think this would go more smoothly if the BLM was switched out for a RDM because convert adds a second mana pool, and RDM are less prone to debuff resists (although our BLM rarely got resisted).

Edited, Wed Jun 7 18:25:17 2006

This BCNM drops a shiled that's concidered... pretty good i must say... to a brd that can't afford that damned signa... so i was wondering, is there any room in this BCNM for a bard? or should a bard just stick with trying to find ppl wou'll do the Mandy's /sigh to make the money for the shield... my only problem is i'm on the 360 server so i can't buy one (no1 selling) and it'll prolly be even harder finding ppl capable of the mandys. so any room for a brd in this one?

Iv'e done this one about 10 times and have only lost once.
Setup goes PLD/WAR, MNK/WAR, RDM/BLM.

RDM buffs everyone and rests up for mp while MNK boosts. Everyone run in and MNK chi bombs, PLD vokes. Put MNK behind the PLD for cover and RDM behind the mob.
Beat the hell out of it using as little mp as possible. After you kill the third dark, RDM silences the 4th mob and PLD uses holy circle.
This is when it starts to get hairy. RDM runs out of the way of AoE and uses convert. From there just WS when tp is up everyone is fine. Fusion works well on this mob, but im assuming impaction is way better.
Eye drops for the MNK, yag drinks and a rolanberry for the RDM, and an x-potion for the PLD. Probably wont need it but better to just have it.

Did this BC twice last night. Won the first, Lost the second, although we gave it a great effort.

Party

PLD/WAR
MNK/WAR
WHM/BLM



1)first round went pretty smooth. PLD voked and kept aggro well. WHM buffed and kept silence on Ghul-I-Bean, or whatever. MNK pounded him flat with H2H.

2)second round we underestimated our food and potion supply...just not quite enuff to last , got to last incarnation...GA spells slammed PLD and after he fell, the dominoes kept falling.

Got a platinum ingot=400k on shiva...and a rare NIN katana, goes for 1.2m on shiva. Had a good time and learned a little about the importance of "Loading UP!!" on supplies. I think MNK/NIN would have been a little better, because when he grabbed aggro after WS it wouldn't have been so devastating, and WHM could have conserved a lil more MP for last incarnation.

Edited, Wed Jan 11 11:39:10 2006

First time I tried this we went as whm (me), blm and pld. Tried it 3 times with set-up, got wiped out twice I think and then ran out of time on one attempt. Blm just had to keep stopping to heal and we weren't killing the forms quick enough. So, once my boyfriend got his nin to 41, we went back and tried again, and instead of him being blm, he was nin/rdm. So set-up was whm/smn, pld/war, nin/rdm. We kicked ass ^^. Basically we enter the arena, I buff, and we run straight up to the mob. I regen pld and haste nin, DiaII the skele and then pop a wizard cookie and heal back my mp. Pld tries to tank it, but he was competing with a spam of Ni spells, and the added damage of en-spells from the nin rdm sub^^ So he would only voke if nin was dropping low on health or struggling with shadows. For the first 2 forms, I keep spell casting to a bare minimum, and before the second form is dead I'll use a yag drink. On the final 2 forms, if I have mp to spare, I'll silence the mob first, then use Banish II to help finish him off^^ Silencing the last 2 forms is pretty important because his -ga spells arent too nice. When we did this we didnt get anny major drops like utsusemi:Ni or Erase, but we made almost 200k each from 3 or 4 runs, so it wasnt a total loss^^ And we had fun, which is the important part :P Good luck to anyone else who trys ^^
(I hope this post gives hope to anyone who thought you *needed* a monk for this bcnm... clearly you dont^^)

Ok, here's the deal.

This...guy...is....easy.

My party setup was as follows:
WAR/NIN
MNK/NIN
RDM/BLM

Our strategy was to run and and pound this beanbag back into the grave. I'd provoke and whack it with my axes, MNK would donkey punch it good, and RDM would enfeeb/heal. We went 4/5, and the oly reason for that was we got lazy and wiped out of compalcency.

Once we entered the area, we used food(sushi for meele, pie for RDM), buffed, and ran in. I would hold hate while blinking as best I could. When I couldn't get a recast off, I would let the MNK grab hate, and he did, and then recast.

The RDM healed when needed, cast slow and paralyze, and in the first fight cast silence. Since he's the ebst RDM ever, it stuck each time, but then we learned something nasty; Beanbag loves Blood Saber. So for the next fights we nixed silence as he casts mostly worthless spells, and just hammered him down.

We only used out two hours on the last fight to have fun, other than that they weren't needed. I used eye drops to cure blind, there was nothing we could do about slow, and the RDM used a yag drink. Cost to earning ration was awesome.

Our times were under 8 minutes each time, and we did all five in the stretch of two hours. He dropped decently and overall we made about a mil each.

Easy, no? Even you can do it.

where exactly in fei'yin do u go to zone into the burning circle for this BCNM.
i kno its a stupid question but i cant seem to be able to find out lol..

Hello, this is Spartan on Bismarck, not Aphrasia. He lent me his account to post this. I just did this a few weeks ago with:
61/30 NIN/WAR
40/19 MNK/WAR (me)
56/28 RDM/BLM

First off: You do NOT need Hi-Potions. You do NOT need Pear au-Laits. You do NOT need Hi-Ethers. Monks do NOT need Ochiudo's Kote. I have incredibly crappy gear, yet we beat this BCNM in 12 minutes every time, and no 2-hours were used. Me and the Ninja only used cheap Meat Mithkabobs. RDM used Apple Pie (I think). Please stop posting that you absolutely need all this stuff. We got it 3/3 with time to spare each time. And we do NOT have a WHM/SMN. I got a Gold Ingot, Jennet Shield, Ohaguro, and a Scroll: Ice Spikes, totalling to 310k in drops.

Spartan, 42/21 MNK/WAR.

Easy BCNM...here was my setup:

PLD/WAR (me)
BST/NIN
RDM/WHM

I stocked up on +emnity and +vit gear such as grudge sword, I.M. Amemet, eisen gloves, legs, and feet. I also quested a Memento Muffler that has 20 charges for +7 VIT. Combined with boiled crab I had +24 VIT, and the mob was only doing around 24-45 damage, easily curable with cure I and II. I bought a few Yagudo Drinks for refresh effect (5k each). PLD worked particularly well because I was intimidating the mob throughout the fight.

BST/NIN used jug pets (funguar on this one). He was our main damage dealer. We used Red Lotus Blade ====> Rampaging Axe.

RDM/WHM didn't even need armor for this. He just stood off to the side and healed us. He brought juices, but if his MP ever got low he just used Convert.

We went 2/3 on this (ran out of time on the first run because the BST dc'd immediately after we zoned into the BCNM) ... another 30 seconds and we would have won.

We made about 200k each. The BST/NIN was a good addition, and an acceptable replacement to MNK. Next time instead of Funguar he's thinking of bringing a jug Mandy, who is a monk.

A few LS members and I are thinking about this one soon. Setup will be WHM/BLM, PLD/WAR, and DRK/WAR (me). I've read the posts here and they all say have a MNK in the pt. Will this setup work very well? We're planning on this strategy:

Fish Mithkabobs and Yag Drinks for the PLD
Meat Mithkabobs and Yag Drinks for the DRK
Apple Pies and Yag Drinks for the WHM

Buff up before the fight (obviously) and run in. Let the PLD build hate while the WHM gets MP back up. DRK uses LR + SE to start off the fight and alternates that with berserk when each is ready and nukes between hits. WHM debuffs the mob whenever necessary and the PLD focuses on healing himself. If the DRK draws too much hate use drain/blood weapon to get HP back up.

What I'm wondering about (I had originally thought this would be fine until I started hearing the words 'bone chip') is if this mob is UNDEAD because in that case drain/aspir would be useless meaning DRK wouldn't be able to pseudo-self heal. Advice would be awesome for this because we're going to be doing a bunch of these next week and I'd rather not find out that I'm practically useless >< in which case we'll find another BCNM that'll be more suited to our party setup. Thanks ahead of time for any responses.

Ok, so far I've done this 3 times. The party configuration was as follows: WHM/SMN (me), PLD/WAR and MNK/WAR. This is no surprise to everyone if you've read any of the previous threads.

Now the first time we did it, we got killed because we weren't properly prepared. Second time we won no problem and third time we ran out of time at the end even tho he was virtually dead anyway. Do not attempt to do this without the basics. Here's what you should all at least bring:

WHM- 1.Hi-ethers, I have used anywheres from 3-5 hi-ethers in the fight.
2. Yagudo drinks. I personally used 3-4 per fight. This helps a lot especially around the last couple of forms when MP starts to run low.
3. Food. I like rice cakes cause it gives me an extra 17mp. only need one of these
4. Hi-potions. These are optional and only for emergency purposes really. I haven't used any in the last 2 fights. You shouldn't have to worry about hate if you use this strategy.

PLD- 1.Hi-Potions. 3-4 will do per fight
2.Hi-Ethers, 3 is enough here
3.Yagudo drink. Bring at least 2
4.Fish Mithkabob. for obvious DEF purposes

MNK 1. Hi-potions. 3-4. You will only really need 1-2 in fight but bring an extra few to make sure you're safe
2. Meat mithkabob or whatever makes you stronger. You're the main DD here.

Both PLD and MNK should have good equip. WHM should have +MP equip.

Now as far as the fight, when you first enter the arena, the first thing you do is buff up. Once that's done, Start attacking right away, do not wait for WHM to heal to full. Everyone run up. PLD 'vokes, WHM, keep the bugger SILENCED at all times. This is key for a lot less headaches. Once you've started to fight and you've silenced him, WHM rest. You won't need to do much healing at the beginning of the fight, so use the opportunity. having the rice cakes (+3 MP regeneration i think) and the Yagudo drink will bring you back to full mp or close enough. Let the PLD cure himself most of the time. Throw in a cure 3 every once and a while. You're main job here will be to keep him silenced and remove statuses (erase is a nice bonus here I found but not necessary). You're big debuff will be Blindna since he loves to do this a lot. I found that Haste-ing both of the melee is no real biggie and you want to save that 80 MP. One more thing about the WHM, stay out of range of AoE stuff.

MNK and PLD,
PLD should heal himself as much as possible. Do not let him wander around because the WHM took hate from healing too much.
MNK. You your Chakra whenever it becomes avail. Otherwise wail on him.
MNK and PLD discuss when to use WS. We found near the end of a form is when to use it.

On the odd chance MNK gets hate, your WHM should have lots of MP to pop a cure 3.

Ok, so you've survived thru the first 3 forms (most do). Next comes the BLM forms. SURVIVE THE FORTH FORM AND YOU'VE PRETTY MUCH GUARANTEED YOURSELF A VICTORY. Do the obvious. Silence him at all times. His AoE are much nastier than the previous forms. Usually at this time the PLD and MNK will pop a hi-potion or 2. Ok..you've survived the 4th form...Break out the 2hr's now

On the 5th and final form, RIGHT off the bat, have your MNK pop 100 fists. This will obviously take some hate. give the bones a few hits on the MNK and then have PLD hit 'invincible'. Hate goes right back to PLD. Now, a side note here. If for some chance your HP is running low, have WHM activate Bene...THEN have PLD activate Invincible. Once he hits invincible..hit him to death. One more note here...WHM: CURE 3 the bones to death. use up the rest of your MP.

On our 3rd try at this (having won the second no problem) he had (no exaggeration) MAYBE 1 or 2 hits left in him (i am sure 1 cure 3 would have killed him off) when we get the message: you're time has expired, now exiting etc.. suffice to say, we we're PRETTY pissed. Our fatal mistake was to let me rest to full MP at the beginning after buffs (that and me waiting too long on the last form to pop cure 3's)

So to avoid the time expiring, do NOT let your WHM rest to full UNTIL you've engaged (and Silenced) the bones at the beginning of the fight. You've got plenty of time to do so on the first form anyway. AND once you've reached the 5th form, SPAM cure 3's on the BONES

I'm sure people have other ways of doing this fight but this is the way I found works best. Hope it helps.

Note: Being an Elvaan WHM, I have the MP-disability. I'm sure being a Taru would make life a lot easier. This means you would need less hi-ethers.






Edited, Fri Nov 12 11:17:56 2004

so far the only person who's actually given a POS for this is CaraZeltina (thankyou!)

"Qu'Bia is at K-8 in Fei'Yin, first floor"

now, i'm a 39whm (blm or smn sub) who's done her very best at avoiding Fei'Yin because it scares me. so i know nothing about it, but i'm looking forward to hitting 40 so i can try this BCNM

my question is, how the hell do you find it?? Is it the same BC that Shiva is found at, and if so can i re-use my Tuning Fork from the Shiva fight to warp my party straight to this BC (i've already beat shiva...stupid avatar killed me 6 times).

If anyone could answer this, i'd be bloody grateful!

I do this BCNM everytime I get low on cash with a (capped atm) 40 mnk/war (Mardock) and a 40 nin/war (Marek).

We have more problems getting to Fei'yin and resisting the urge to farm the whole area than doing the BCNM. We usually bring an orb each and go away with at least 200k each. As rdm all i do is enfeeble Ghul and heal the mnk (and the nin when utsumi:ni gets disrupted).

I do have to state we have got top notch equip for level 40, and bring several chief mithkabobs, melon pies and yag drinks each time. Since i can craft these we just put away money for my crafting costs and go to Qu'bia to make $$.

Tactic is easy RDM (me) keep Ghul silenced and para all the time and Gravity during DRK form.
MNK and NIN switch hatred and kick undead butt...

We even got away with an erase scroll when the NIN dc during battling 3rd form. MNK used 2H, kicked 4th form @$$, i 2H 5th form after convert/blink/stoneskin.

Great way of getting cash.

Finally got this guy in 11 min 31 sec after two failed attempts before. Almost the same setup each time: WAR/NIN, RDM/DRK(Me), and WHM/SMN(BLM first two times). First time, bugger had 1/5 of his life left on the final form when we ran out of time.

Second try, we're a little pressed for time IRL, so we try to get there and kill him asap. SCs were agreed on and we were doing well into the final form. Everything hits the fan then: a bunch of close calls on the WAR's life and mine, followed by the WAR not using 2hr right away on the last form because she was waiting for my WS which wasn't coming, and we just couldn't deal enough damage in the end. It had half life when the last of us went down.

Third try, plenty of time to prepare. New gear all around. I make a macro set solely for this fight, finally. Everything goes right: I open with Silence and shut him up whenever he starts casting, WHM keeps the WAR's life around 3/4 most of the time, WAR uses WS's whenever she can and uses three X-Potions during the fight. WHM stops to heal during the 3rd form, and I 2hr/Convert after the 3rd dies. All three of us used 2hr, and keeping him Silenced at the end was keeping my MP at nothing, but we made it.

Got Mutilator, Kagehide, Utsusemi: Ni, Coral Fragment, and 2x Bone Chip.

Now, I have a question. When we finished the fight and ported back to Jeuno my friend told me I can't use the orb again for the same BCNM, but it can be used on the other Star Orb BCNMs, one time each. He also told me that the orb is supposed to get a crack each time it's used and when it's used a third time it shatters. The thing is, my orb still says it's "a very solid-looking" orb. No mention of cracks anywhere, though he says that his Star Orb has cracks in it (his was the first used when we ran out of time). So, what's going on? Is my friend thinking wrong and it isn't supposed to get cracks, it's just can't be used again? Or should there actually be cracks in my orb?

Cya.

Here are my results from 10 successful runs along with my strategy. All our runs were under 10 minutes.

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Tried with DRK/nin, MNK/war, WHM/blm.

3 games 3 wins

DRK use swords with Red Lotus and MNK tank pretty well.
WHM popped 4 Hi-Ether + Non-stop Yagudo Drink.

MNK used 3 Hi-Potion.

DRK used 1 Hi-Potion.

Got Erase x 2 ^^
pretty well drop.

This mob also drops Darksteel Ingots. Beat him 3 times last night. Party makeup was Whm\Blm, Blm\Whm, and Mnk\War. Not a problem, keep up the silence and paralyze enfeebling. Keep monk free of blind and slow. And have the mages rotate duties, one working while the other resting. Works great, 3 for 3. Unstoppable. No Phalanx, Erase, or Utsusemi though damn it.

I did 7 times so far and GTK never dropped

did 5 times again tonight continuely, our setting is PLD/war, MNK/war, and WHM/blm

now we can completed this BCNM without using 2 hrs. But some items and Equipement is required.
MNK must need Ochuido Kote, WHM must need to boost as many Mana as possible, best is 2 Astral Rings, Electrum Hairpin, 2 Electrum Rings work good too. RSE for WHM is a must for Non Taru to Boost MP. PLD best to have 2 Electrum Rings too.

so here is the list of items we used to lower the cost for this BCNM.

PLD - 6 melon Juices, 2 Hi-Potion, 1 Boiled Crab, 4 eye drops.
MNK - 1 Meat Mithkabob, 2 Hi-Potion, 4 eye drops, 1 Pear au lait.
WHM - 5-8 Hi-Ether, 7 Melon Juice, 1 Roast Mushroom, 1 Hi-Potion.

Drop not too good, no Erase, Phalanx and Utsusemi : Ni. Got 2 x Multilator, 2 x Elegrand shield, 1 x Jongleur's Dagger, 2 x Jennet Shield, 2 x Fire Spirit Pact, 2 x Refresh, 2 x absort-Str, 1 x Calveley's dagger, 1 x Ohagoru, 1 x Tourney Patas, Gold beastcoin x 2, 1 x Vile Elixir, Mythril Beastcoin x 1, 1 x Mahogany Log. T_T

Hope can have better drop tonight.

Did this with friends today twice, our setting is (PLD/war Elvaan, MNK/war Galka, WHM/blm<me> Taru)
very easy one. Got Erase, Jennet shield, Mutilator, Gold beastcoin in first fight.
Got Elegant Shield, Jennet Shield, Absort-Str, Mythril Beastcoin from 2nd fight.

we used totally 7 yagudo drinks (PLD used 4, and I used 3) 3 Hi-Ether(PLD used 1, and I used 2), 1 Meat Mithkabob(MNK), 1 Steamed Crab(PLD), and 1 Boiled Crab(WHM).(au lait is optional, if WHM isnt taru maybe melee need it, Eye drop might required if whm wanna save mana on Erase or Blindna.)

PLD got around 770 HP with 150 MP after deleveled.
MNK got around 900 HP after deleveled.
WHM got around 420 HP and 550 MP after deleveled.

so, once we got into the BC, i used Protectra II and Shellra II, and one yagudo drink right after buff. First and second form is pretty easy, I just keep doing Haste, Regen, and Erase maybe throw some cure II too on both melees and staying away from the battle becoz of blood saber. I even got time to sit and heal mana from both first and second form.

At the third form, I was sitting from beginning to heal for mana until PLD mana down to 50ish and HP become red, then I stood up and get back my healing and buffing job. PLD popped one Hi-Ether at that period of time. Both Melee saved thier TP at that round. This round Skeleton did a lot more dmg and absort spell then the first two forms.

At forth form, PLD and MNK used Fusion at the beginning and NM HP went to half right away, I used Banishga II MB to get Skeleton's HP down to 1/4. But after that, it became high evasion, both PLD and MNK keep missing their hit, so I keep using Cure II to nuke it death. I popped 2nd Hi-Ether at that period of time.

Last form, MNK used his 2hrs ability right away, I went forward and buffed Barfira, Barwatera, Barthundera, and Barblizzagra asap, and let PLD to heal our MNK. After MNK's 2hrs gone, both melee did one more time Fusion and I used my last mana to do Banishga II, the NM hp down to 2%, I used 2hrs and MNK PLD finished the fight with 80%+ HP.

This BCNM 40 is unexpect easy. just need to make sure MNK have good gears to deal more dmg. PLD should use some of RSE gears if they are elvaan, hume and mithra for Mana Boost.

so far, we got 430k from the first fight and 140k from the 2nd fight. Not too bad. And we will do it again tonight and see how's work. ^^

Enjoy and have fun.

Edited, Thu Sep 30 23:00:12 2004

The problem with this fight is that once he gets to the blm levels, he starts dropping second tier spells, both normal, and -ga spells. While the first can be cured, the second hit the party over and over again. AoE blindness is also painful, as is Bloodsaber. This is not an easy fight. It took us a couple tries, but at this time my static party for this guy are 7/10. There was a point though that were were 3/6, and it was depressing.

Basicly, silence it, constantly. Every time it tries to cast a spell, put silence on it again. Keep your life up, and try to remove blindness as often as possible.

Incidently, with maxed healing skill for that level, cure nukes are quite effective. He is VERY resistant to blm spells, as far as I know.

Edit: Just a little edit, my static consists of me, whm/blm, pld/war, and sam/mnk. Maybe not the best party, but it does work for us. The sam skillchains with both the paladin, AND me. I melee with a holy maul, and do fairly serious damange. Everyone needs to have thier skills up, and everyone needs to help damage him.

Edited, Wed Sep 22 12:57:19 2004