Vana'diel Bestiary: Centurio X-I  

75 Whm and I (70 Sam) camped this yesterday. Took about 2 hours to pop, killed the place holder 8 times. We had just finished killing a Hastatus when it popped.

I just about died, only because protect and shell wore just as I pulled it. It casted Burst right from the start. I Tachi : Gekko to try and silence it but I think it's immune. I was better off using Tachi : Hobaku for stun. Oh well, without shell it brought me down from 1266 HP to about 120 o.o Third eye saved my hide when he swung his staff. Which gave my friend just enough time to cast Cure V and then IV to top me off.

Needless to say he pulled hate but as all that was happening I used meditate. So when it turned, I used Tachi : Gekko >> 2Hr >> Yaku for Induration followed by another Gekko for Fragmentation. Meanwhile my friend buffs us. That combo took him down to 1/4 HP and I still had 100% TP.

Even with all the damage it took. The quake it was casting didn't get interupted but with shell on I only took about 500 dmg. It started to cast burst right after so I used my TP to try and finish it off but it wasn't enough. Luckily my friend had built up enough TP to finish it with Hexa Strike :D

Dropped the Cloak and Stonega II (200k in Fairy) that my friend needed for his blm sub. No Quake though :/ Oh, well I got my cloak and it was well worth his time to have helped me. It was a good day. The fight only lasted about 2 minutes.

FYI to all the rangers out there...sleep bolts do not work on this guy. I was trying to kill him for my blm. I had planned on sleep bolting him to death then slug shot when TP was high enough. Boy was I in for a rude awakening when sleep bolts didn't work. Of course I had already used my 2 hour the PH spawn before when I got some linkage. Well, I got him to 10% before he killed me. I tried to shadowbind/log, and shadowbind stuck really well, but at the 5 second warning he hit me with drown, which was what actually killed me. And on another note bloody bolts get you 12 HP back, so might as well stick to real ammo. I'm gonna come back and kill him again, but this time I'm gonna bring some HP potions and he'll be cake. FYI, I attempted to solo as 70RNG/35NIN. If I was 74 he woulda been cake with utsu Ni, and yes this took place after the rng nerf.

Edit: Finally got robe on 14th kill. 1/14. Just keep at it if you don't get it. Camping it sucks, but it well worth it.

Edited, Fri Jul 29 15:07:12 2005

I went 1/3 on the cloak with this guy, got a stonega 2 and 3 in the process. First pop was 5 hours after the last kill. Second pop was 12 hours later; nobody had camped him after me and he popped after the first round of PH. Third was 5.5 hours later, with me killing PH mobs for about 1.5 hours total. I think the simplest way to do this is to get a pop once, the just log off or come back later - he's just not camped that often.

I camped him [Blm 70/Whm 35] for about an hour each time over a period of 3 days. Yesterday I arrived, killed the Signifer, and started panicking as 3 other people arrived and started standing near me. False alarm though. Another placeholder popped, and the people cleared out. 15 minutes after I killed the placeholder, Centurio pops right in front of me. I stun, and try to silence 3 times, getting resisted each time. Also tried Sleep 2, he shrugged it off every time. This freak is highly succeptible to Bind, and that's what saved my taru tail.

I mainly used tier-3 nukes, used firaga 3 when area was clear. Blink was a necessity; while he doesn't cast very quickly, he does cast some serious firepower. I gladly sacrificed a single shadow to his AM on 2 or 3 occasions.

If I had brought some Yag/Melon drinks I could have conceivably taken him with no deus ex machina [Manafont]. He got loose from bind when I was in the middle of Fire 3, it went off and he was down to 1/5. I only had around 80 mp left, so I Bound him, Manafonted, and chain-nuked.

He died most honorably, and dropped a Shaman's Cloak, Quake, antican robe, and iron ore.

About this time I noticed that some people had shown up and were standing around. "Did he drop?" they were asking.

I used the Quake scroll, put on the cloak, and desynthed 2 cotton cloths from the antican robe. They congratulated me and I thanked them.

It was a good day.

Ok. :D Just spent 12 hours or so with my good friend Centurio X-I, so I'll try and sum up everything about him.

-GETTING THERE-
Grab a Tele-port Altep and head to the mid-J-7/K-7 border position. This is the enterence to the correct quicksands. Once inside, you will see spiders and maybe beetles. Walking forward, you'll come to a left turn. After turning, continue walking straight and you will eventually reach a large room with Anticans, Helm Beetles, and two large pillars to your right as soon as you enter. I suggest sneak at this point, although if you *do* get aggro, you'll prolly have troubles with the NM if you're soloing him. ^^; But anyway, as soon as you enter this room, hug the *left* wall... hugging the right one will result in a detour. Hugging the left wall, you will soon come to a ledge. Fall off, and begin walking down the tunnel you'll see before you. Anticans and worms populate this tunnel. Worms do not aggro, Anticans will on sound. Again, do not waste MP/items on invisable. You will soon reach a room with a few large rocks in the ground. This room is populated with spiders (non-aggro), worms (non-aggro), and Anticans (sound aggro). If you walk to the western end of this room, you will eventually see a tunnel to your left. Ok, now this is gonna sound stupid, but... imagine laser beams or something are coming out of the tunnel. If you look a bit more to the west, you'll see another tunnel. Call the very beginning of the tunnel... point A. Centurio X-I will spawn anywhere between the 'laser beams' and point A. Congratulations; you are now at the Centurio X-I spawn!

-POPING AND CLAIMING YOUR NM-
Alright... for this step, a timer or stopwatch is very useful, especially if there is competition. This is because Antican Signifiers are on a 15-16 minute (real life) repop time, so you can just relax until you hit the 15 minute point. The Anticans in this room are called (please excuse my spelling ><) Antican Signifier (BLM), Antican Hastatecus (WAR), and Antican Prelaetus (PLD). They are all in the mid-high fifties. Now... Signifiers are your only concern. Unlike the NM, they will pop anywhere in the room you are in (There are other Signifiers in the tunnels leading off from this room; they do not matter). Only one Signifier in this room will be spawned at any given time; there is only one placeholder. Now your stopwatch comes in. The second you kill the Signifier, start your timer. Until it reaches 15 minutes, you can just ***** around; look for coffers, kill anything that moves, explore. Doesn't matter. However, if you don't have a ToD (time of death), you will want to be spamming for every second the Signifiers' window is up; do not miss a spawn no matter what, or it could mean your cloak! Now, I am a 69 Monk posting. I stood right in the 'laser beams' and spammed Chi Blast. The first spawn was just a bit out of range of my Chi Blast, and he went unclaimed for a few seconds, with 3 other campers there o.o... But I didn't panic, and dove into range and blasted his face full of Chi, just as "XXX starts casting Stun on Centurio X-I" went off. o.o (I'm the best, I know <_< *joking*). He is on a 2+ hour repop.

-THE FIGHT-
This guy is no joke. On my first fight (1/3 ^_^ too bad I passed on it for my RDM friend who now realizes his AF is better -_-;;;), he instantly began casting Aeroga II. Fighting Signifiers, Aeroga II didn't break 100 damage, so I just /laughed him. "Slayor takes 513 points of damage." o.o;;; At the time, I had a RDM (63)for cures, and to actually get the cloak. Not wanting another Aeroga incident to happen, he tried Silence. Didn't stick. Tried again. Didn't stick. Tried *again*. Didn't stick. He has high resistance to silence, so you might not want to bother wasting your MP. Well things are going fairly well; he used sleepga in every battle I had with him, so bring poison potions!! "Centurio X-I uses Manafont." "Centuio X-I starts casting Freeze." o.o; Ok, umm.... {Run away!}. I ran quickly out of range, but not wanting to get links or lose claim, I rushed back in. Well all of a sudden I see a Tornado around me... it didn't even say he was casting! So now I'm down to 125 HP, and I think I ruined my Sitabaki (MNK pants... <_<;;). It hit for 700 damage... not *that* bad... but I was low as it was, so if you do not have near-full HP, just run away from AM. A Divine Seal Cure IV fixed me right up, however. Well I think it's payback time now... "Slayor uses Hundred fists." Now, about a minute or so has passed up to the point where I 2 hour, and we've gotten him to 3/4. But 20 seconds after Hundred Fists... "Slayor defeats Centurio X-I." He tried many nukes, every spell was interrupted. Best. 2-Hour. Ever. <_< So the main point of that is low HP/DEf as a BLM should have. No cloak. T_T Now... on my second fight with him, he only enfeebled me. -.-; So your fight can go either way. Also, even if you don't need it, use your 2 hour. It can serve as a timer for it's window to re-open. Get a Cloak? Congratulations! Stonega II is fairly common, 100k on my server. Who says you can't get money from a R/EX item dropping NM? ^_^ Well, now you have 2 hours to waste if you didn't get it. If you did, but forgot Warp Scroll?...

-FORGET WARP? DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOUR LEVEL DEATH WARPING?-
Well, it's happened to the best of us. You're done somewhere, and you go to items... and forgot warp! Well, here's a guide out of your NM's area.
-Go to the previously mentioned 'Point A'.
-Enter the tunnel; you will reach a room with many Anticans in it very shortly.
-Go directly south, and you will see two drops, one East, one West. West is the Cloister of Tremors, where you fight Titan. West is a long route that I took each time to get out.
-Now, I'm honestly not sure if the way from Cloister of Tremors is faster. I never went that way. You can try if you'd like, but it's fairly risky because I can't garuntee where you'll end up. There are two tunnels in the Cloister. One is the enterence, but you fall of a ledge to get there, so you can't go back that way. The other tunnel may be quicker to the Desert. I really don't know.
-The Eastern route I can lead you through. Fall off the Eastern ledge, and you will see Cactuars(sound aggro).
-This is a tunnel with no other paths to go down, so it's hard to get lost. After a bit of walking, you'll reach a large room with Anticans. Keep walking to the tunnel oppisite the tunnel you came from.
-Now the Anticans are gone again, but not for long. Keep walking and you'll reach a four-way intersection with Anticans all over.
-Go to your left, aka east.
-Keep walking and The tunnel will narrow for just a second, then open into a large room with a pillar in the middle.
-Hug the left wall, and you will soon be out of this room.
-Now you're at a tunnel sloping up. It will soon turn left.
-Continue walking and you're finally out!


Sorry for it to be so long, but there are all the facts. ^_^

~Slayor, Odin. Monk 4 life. =O~

Edited, Tue Jun 28 23:21:08 2005

Centurio pops within 2 Signifer spawns once a Signifer pops on the left side of the room, from my experience.

Camped this guy the other day with a PLD, RDM, BLM, WHM (Me). Thought we'd be fine since I brought echo drops and BLM could stun him, but the ******* decided to do a Sleepga immediately followed by Quake which one shotted the PLD and no one could do anything about it. Fortunately after he went after me, curaga'd to wake everyone else up and then owned him. He doesn't hit too hard IMO other than the AM. No drop though, but I know when I go back to camp him I'm bringing a poison potion with.

BTW, it didn't take too long for him to pop first time (less than an hour) but then we hung around for probably 3 or 4 more and no pop. Camp in the south tunnel like what that guide below says, there is nothing that will aggro you there to heal and you get a better view of the room than the north one. Signifier seemed to pop more frequently near the SW, but it did move around quite a bit.

funny how things go. i honestly didnt want the cloak. i wanted stonega 2.

so guess what i got...



(cloak)

0/8 and counting....

I'll just sit here till it drops, wonder how long it's gonna take <.<

Yeah i just hunted this thing all night i havent slept in 24 hours and he only popped once. I got Stonaga 3 wich is nice since i am a 61 blm and i get in 2 lvl. but I WANT MY CLOAK thats all

He also drops scroll stone IV, got that along with the cloak on the first attempt. too bad the scroll isn't worth anything.

Well, just yesterday my LS went for this guy to hopefully get 2 shaman's cloaks for two of our blms, and damn were we on fire! First of all, I'd like to support swamps post on his theory of the spawning pattern. I came into camping this NM trying to prove that theory right or wrong, and it turns out the thing did exactly what swamps said.

1hr into killing placeholders, we notice the signifier changed his popping position. Previously he was popping in the right side of the room(positioned at H-10 tunnel), then it changed to the left side of the room. I alerted everyone it might pop soon, we killed another cycle of ants, and BAM out came Centurio right in front of us(H-10 tunnel). We rest, start fight, sucker started casting quake, stunned, we go on, he started castin flood, stunned, we go on, started casting flood again, no one saw it but me(PLD) and drk, her stun wasnt rdy yet, we both bashed to try and stop the castin w/o success! Neither of the 2 blms saw the casting, so few seconds later, BAM "Centurio X-I casts Flood" "Cloudstrif takes 1441 damage" "Cloudstrif was defeated by Centurio X-I" "Cloudstrif falls to level 65" (Got 66 back with R2) lol!

Since it was almost dead, everyone else managed to kill it easily and BAM "You find a Shaman's Cloak on the Centurio X-I" lol!

We decided to stay for a second pop, so we begin killing stuff for skill ups. 2hrs into killing stuff, we noticed again the Signifier changed pos, and this time instead of 4 ants spawning, only 3 came out (same thing happened 1st time). We were like "Its coming". So starting the next wave of ants a princeps popped, we killed, and right after that Centurio X-I came out again! we had competition this time, but it popped again right in front of our camp, and I managd to voke it! This time we had more DD's and killed it faster, and it only tried to cast flood once, was stunned!

Results? "You find a Shaman's Cloak on Centurio X-I" plus other stuff, including Stonega II (100k in Garuda), which I won lotting 748, but later on gave it to one of the blms since he didnt have it! (/sigh lvl 57 blm w/o a 40ish spell)!

So there u go, 2 pops, 2 cloaks! Easy NM, just watch for those ancients, seems like a 2hr spawn, and watch for those signifiers! We were feeling lucky so we also went for a Obow later on for one of our RNGs and also got the drop, lmao! Then we went for Tavnazian Bell for one of our WHMs, and got bell in 6th kill!!!! Very good day for all of us! lol