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but yeah just like the "Subject" says WARNING to all who are doing this nin af3 solo, sneak popping this does not work anymore. I tried this with my 55 nin and oh man was i a dead hume. :-| but yeah only way is pop the 3 nm's and run for your life to ifrits cauldron area dodging goblins etc. I was able to outrun the other 2 sahagins while it was night time and avoid goblin aggro and the luckily the WHM Sahagin was the only one that still followed me. I fought the whm till it was 70% hp and then oh man i didnt look behind me, a goblin shot an arrow at me ahahh. I ran for ifrits cauldron and zoned back out only to see the WHM sahagin curing himself back to 94% -_-;) At the time i had 62 hp and popped my Hi-pots to get some HP back and luckily a SMN who was doing the same quest saved my *** hahaha. we took it down and we both ran to the ??? and got our prize. Good luck to you all and once again the sneak > pop 3 nm's dont work anymore, i think SE fixed it so WATCH OUT

to anyone wanting to do this quest, do the following,

pop nms make a dash to Den of Rancor, when you come back try to keep 1 of the nms busy, wait for the others to despawn and kill the remaining one,

I recomend you kill the Bard, as a 75 BST CC will owning that bard fishy, i actually had help during the fight, we were planning on killing all three,

Gracias locos, Chango & Raptoream of Titan.

First off i did not get this till i was already 75 nin didnt care for it much. I soloed all 3 mobs as nin/rdm. First i Sneak poped steped back, then sneak pulled one by one pullint the one nearest to me facing me didnt aggro anytime but i did have to kill fast so they did not despawn. It works you can sneak pull/pop and it can be soloed

Just to add I tried this twice last night, once with Silent Oil sneak up, and once with Mage sneak up. The Sahagins aggrod both times.

GG SE <_<

This fight is hard solo and only for one reason. I put my sneak oil on, and everytime all 3 would aggro uppon spawning them. So if there is a difference between mage sneak and oil sneak, i dont know. But what I did to win was put on all my defense gear, vitality. and physical damage down gear, was on 75War/37Nin btw. Then I popped them and ran my butt over to Den of Rancor and zoned. Made the zone wit 1003/1347 HP. Waited a sec, recasted Utsusemi and rezoned. I shot at Biwa who was walking in the tunnel back to the spawn point to pull him back. However he linked with Bonze. Ok. np. i just rezoned. at least i seperated the 2 from the evil Akuso who hits HARD. So I recasted Utsusemi again and rezoned. This time Bonze aggroed me right at the zone. I figured what the hell, i had a single NM on me and it wasnt Akuso. So I started fighting with m 1003 HP and just kept shooting it with bloody bolts to rebuild my HP. I kept shadows up easy. He has bad accuracy and doesnt hit that hard. About 60-80 dmg when he connects but not often. After about 2-3 mins and at about 30% HP it used benediction. So i started working it down again which was no problem because I hit Mighty Strikes
and rampaged it which took it down quite a bit. it casted Dia II, flash, Curaga III at 20% HP after benediction but it didn't recover much HP, and slow. All of these where absorbed by the shadows. Easy fight just took about 5-6 mins. Like I said the hardest part is getting one by himself. After I killed Bonze though the other ones had long since despawned and I got my key item. Hope this helps.

Just soloed this today as a 75RNG/37NIN.. i perasonaly call ******* on all 50ish nin's who say they can solo this. it took every thing i had to take this down and i have more evasion then a level 57 nin. i also had to pop 3 hi-pots to survive. i sneaked and pulled the brd. took him down survived with 30/1150 hp. so ya it's posible but i don't see any level 50's soloing this thing.

ok how r sum lvl 50 nin soloing then lvl 75mnk 66 brd andd lvl 75 drk get wiped and then a 75 whm solo are any of these story true or do their lvl change??

Solo the Kappa Biwa today with 57NIN/THF for 250 XP. I stacked lots of evasion gear, ate Jack-o-lantern, cast Jubaku and Kurayami and the Sahagin hardly hit me at all. It has 1 WS which goes through shadows though, so take note.

Another point to note, the sahagins don't link, but you have to be at maximum distance when pulling (I used Jubaku pull). Just try to stand far away and inch forward after each cast till the spell went off. If you are too close, all 3 will aggro when sneak wears off during pull. Thats what happened the first time round for me. Oh, and take note of the goblins roaming around the ??? point.

75 WHM/NIN

RR3, SS, Haste, Protect.
Sneak.

Pop the NM's and pulled the Bard from distance.
Was so easy, utsusemi is a god send.

I did have a kraken club tho, but i dont see why 2 darksteel's wouldnt do.

I just kept on hitting, didnt use a WS, waited for the other 2 to despawn, then went all out.

Didnt even touch my SS.

Well I lvled up nin to 50 a decided to do all my AF in one day(or constantly untill complete). Got my weapons thanks to the help from Linkk(75pld). Got my pants thanks to a comple random people on the ship. Got my feet from some help by my buddy Bigl(75nin). And had a leftover key for head in storage.

Now it's time for this fight, reading somewhere that a 69rdm/nin solo'd it i figured that i could do the same(65rdm). Instead of flying solo i brought my buddy Alill(62mnk) along for the ride. We OP warped to the jungle and ran towards the ??? and there was some fishes there, i thought they were normal mobs but... I was wrong, very wrong! They were the NM's for the fight already there and going crazy. They tore threw all my buffs in seconds and dropped me in under 30. I HP'd and went back, there was alittle taru DRG(lvl75) dead on the ground near the ???. Raised him up and threw English ~ *** anese translation, learned that he was also doing this fight. So we (| Team up? |) and got ready for, my first, his second try.

It's real easy, with sneak on you won't get aggro from any of the others so don't worry. Sneak'd up and pulled the brd(the one on the right), well we murdered it and i went back up to the ??? and nothing. I was terribly confused and saw that there was still 2 of the NM's there. Figuring that the one on the left this time is easier then the middle one I pulled that one, MUCH harder then the brd(had to convert), finished him up, last one had despawned, went up and got my key item.

Note: It's not that terribly hard, i used most my magic on elemental and really didn't use it as if i would for a long term battle, but none the less if you don't have the fire power i had just conserve and you will be fine. Another thing, to avoid having to fight 2 of them take you time on the first one(which will give the others time to despawn).

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Edited, Tue Jan 31 03:03:03 2006

i just duo'd the 1st part of this quest as a 57nin/28war and a whm friend (he's 60whm/30blm). i had just logged on, and had planned to go try this fight solo. i was on my way to the auction house to pick up a few potions, just in case i might need them, when i ran into my friend and asked him if he wanted to tag along. i warned him things could get ugly, but he thought i'd be fun to come anyway. we teleport yhoat and got to the ??? on the way there, as you could imagine, we got a little bit of aggro from gobs and coerls in the area. but they checked as easy prey, and of course we took them out with ease. we cleared the area around the ??? and talked about our strategy before i popped them. we sneaked up, and i told him we would be going after Kappa Biwa (bard). my friends job was basicly to keep me hasted, try to paralize and slow it, and obviously heal when needed. well lets just say things didnt go as planned. when i examined the ???, sure enough the 3 nm's spawned. i noticed they spawned on top of the little hill next to the rocks. i ran back to the tunnel where i had planned to pull the bard back and watched them for a bit. i was waiting for them to move around so i could maybe provoke or cast a spell on the brd. but they just sat there and didnt even flinch. after waiting for a little while and wondering if they'd ever move, being the curious and nosy whm my little taru friend is, he wanders over and stands right next to them. i guess his sneak wore off or something, but next thing i know all 3 of them jump off the hill and come after him. he turned around and came running back saying "oh s**t!!" =P. at this point i knew he was doomed so i quickly voked the bard off him, and ran the opposite direction heading towards the opposite tunnel. i ran a little way down, all along the nm was eating through my shadows (w/out me realizing it). when i finally turned and faced him, i recasted ni, and begun to battle it out with him. at this point im already at around 350hp or so, and my whm friend is laying face down somewhere. i was still worried if the other 2 sahagin would come after, but they never did. i'd say the bard hit me for about 130-150 per hit when he landed them. as i begun to fight the him, and already in red hp, i realized i had to stick with the battle plan to even have a chance to beat him. i casted jubaku, hojo, and kurayami on it, then continued to swing away. i couldnt believe how rediculously effective those enfeebs worked. he landed and elegy on me, and that kinda sucked. but next thing you know, my friend is back up. i didnt know he had reraise II up, and he rushed over to me and gave me cure IV right away. and of course, the mob turned and came straight at him while he was weakened. luckily he missed, and i regained hate. it was an exhilirating battle that lasted around 8 min or so (didnt time it, so im not sure). my friend didnt really get to enfeeb the fish, but he did a good job keeping me hasted. aside from the initial hits the brd landed, i dont think he hit me much. i got my key item, and now i have to go coffer hunting once again in good ol kuftal /sigh... special thanks to Jraja for being that whm

a friend of mine and myself (now a 74DRG) duoed all 3 NMs....she didnt sneak so we had to take all three.....exhilarating fight though...lol