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Vana'diel Bestiary: Alkyoneus  

Family:Gigas
Found in:Upper Delkfutt's Tower
Found at Location:H - 8
Spawntime:15 Minutes
Spawned using:Moldy Buckler
Job:Warrior
Level:75
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Linking
  • Detects by Sight
  • Based on Ice
  • Strong against Ice
  • Strong against Lightning
Drops:
Updated: Wed Jun 3 22:26:12 2009

Alkyoneus Picture

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General Information

    • Will spawned claimed to whoever trades the Moldy Buckler.

    • The ??? will respawn 15 minutes after Alkyoneus is defeated or despawns.

Alkyoneus Special Attacks

  • Grand Slam: AoE physical damage.

  • Lightning Roar: Frontal cone AoE Thunder based magic damage.

  • Power Attack: Single target physical damage.

  • Impact Roar: Frontal cone AoE physical damage.

  • Mighty Strikes: Physical attacks performed by Alkyoneus will deal critical damage for the duration of the effect.

    • Denoted by the characteristic mob two-hour animation.

Historical Information

In Greek Mythology, Alkyoneus was a member of a race of giants known as the Gigantes, created from the blood spilled after the god Chronos castrated his father Uranus. While within the lands of Pallene, which was his homeland, he was immortal, which is why, during the great battle known as the Gigantomachy, he was forced across its borders and slain by Heracles.

Alkyoneus is one of the royal Uranos, who are worshiped amongst the Gigas. Out of all the Uranos brothers, he is the largest and the toughest. The Gigas boast that not even god can kill him.

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# Apr 06 2006 at 4:38 PM Rating: Decent
48 posts
The bracelets this guy drops are really nice, except for the -dex. Other then things like rampage, they are really useful.
Price
# Mar 27 2006 at 3:32 PM Rating: Decent
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Its been ridiculous since the inflation, its one of the few peices of armor that keeps rising instead of dropping. Currently one sold on Shiva server for 50mil and was bought from a gilbuyer...the character used to be in an LS I was in when I started but she quit and sold her character. -_-;
99mil Garuda AH
# Mar 26 2006 at 3:48 PM Rating: Decent
I couldnt believe that four of these sold at ah for 99mil in past 4months... I read someone said they where 15mil lol which server and can i have a world pass lol
How stupid were you to spend 15+ mil on Ankys'?
# Feb 24 2006 at 3:45 AM Rating: Decent
Lol, any one that would be stupid enough to pay 15+ mil for anky bracelets during the post xmas inflation.. I hope you enjoyed wasting your money!
Price
# Dec 18 2005 at 11:29 PM Rating: Default
30+ million on Fairy
RE: Price
# Feb 07 2006 at 6:06 PM Rating: Decent
Very lucky, thats the price of Peacock charm on Cerberus. Alkyoneous's Bracelets are 80-100mil.
RE: Price
# Jun 08 2006 at 5:21 PM Rating: Decent
alky braclets never sold for 80+ mil on cerberus, the highest sales were around 60m during x-mass inflation period, and maybe half a dozen sold at that price at if not less. they go for 35m now.
trio
# Dec 07 2005 at 5:24 PM Rating: Decent
Think a 70 pld 70 thf and 75 rdm/nin can trio him?
RE: trio
# Dec 30 2005 at 10:58 PM Rating: Decent
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The RDM/NIN could solo it.
RE: trio
# Oct 24 2006 at 7:29 AM Rating: Decent
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Quote:
The RDM/NIN could solo it.


For about 1 minute until all the dolls magic aggro and destroy the RDM.
RE: trio
# Nov 19 2006 at 9:56 AM Rating: Decent
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. . .or the rdm could show some intelligence and plainly pull Alky to the stairs down. . . .
RE: trio
# Feb 13 2007 at 2:28 AM Rating: Decent
An intelligent RDM? It exists? :O
Hate mpk's
# Dec 02 2005 at 11:09 AM Rating: Decent
I can't believe all the horror stories about MPK's! Takes all the fun out of hunting and having a good time. Hope it's not like that on Gilga...I guess I'll see soon...
RMT and mpk
# Nov 21 2005 at 2:55 PM Rating: Excellent
i've claimed this guy ever day i've camped him for the past 6 days. RMT on my server are really starting to hate me lol. they have even gone far as to tell the that they are going to mpk me ever time i claim. does this scare me lol not in the least. me and my buddy rdm duo this guy easy. i solo alky while he handles the mpk.

these guys even tried 5 different times to mpk my tail when i was fighting serket the other night. killed everyone on my team save me a fellow nin and one of our whm's. it was kinda nice to see the GM make it to see the end of the fight but by that time all the RMT were dead and could not mpk us any longer. even the other links that where there began to help the three of us that were still alive cause it had gotten to the point that all of GC was in that area and it was either kill or be killed. and we worked our tails off to keep from getting mpk'd to death. always nice to see players help each other out even if it does cost them gil.

my experience
# Sep 08 2005 at 9:11 AM Rating: Decent
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I have killed Alkyoneus 70 times

Out of 70 kills I got the bracelets 5 times.

The exact window is 20:45 >>> 24:15.

There is ->no<- "mini windows" within this time.

Ihave seen him drop at 100% moon twice, also at 0% moon once.

I have gone 38 straight kills before with no drop.

There is no placeholders.

He can easily be solo'd by 75 NIN BST SMN RDM THF MNK or WHM (all need /NIN besides bst NIN and SMN)

2/3 of my last kills dropped (Woot!)

Last sale was for 25 Mil on fenrir.

RE: my experience
# Mar 21 2006 at 12:16 PM Rating: Default
lol.....Alky does not have an exact pop window. As a matter of fact...everytime I've seen him pop it was NOT in between 20:45-24:15.
RE: my experience
# May 04 2006 at 6:55 AM Rating: Decent


Edited, Thu May 4 07:57:46 2006
Easily duo'd by level 64 BSTs
# Sep 06 2005 at 1:47 PM Rating: Decent
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My duo partner and I were in the area for some exp today and as we get to the top I did a widescan like I usually do and expecting to find nothing like I usually do I scroll through the list and see a name that I hadn't seen up there before. Alkyoneus was on my widescan. So my duo partner and I sneaked and invis'd up and went to the other side of the zone (where the entrance to stellar fulcrum is) and got pets. I sent my pet at Alkyoneus and we started fighting. The entire fight lasted about 15 minutes and there was a THF there that was killing our pets once we released (I think he was trying to steal the NM or mpk us) but we managed to take care of the NM with a lot of running around to find new pets and we had called for backup who arrived just as the NM died. Sadly all we got was a Mahogany shield, an Ice crystal, and a pair of gigas socks. Better luck next time I suppose, and there will have to be a next time because I forgot to take screenshots in the panic of trying to make sure we didn't get killed due to lack of pets.
hmmm
# Jul 22 2005 at 4:59 PM Rating: Decent
18 posts
I haven't seen him yet . I have been farming gigas lately in the tower and havent run across him.
solo
# Jul 19 2005 at 11:01 AM Rating: Decent
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Does anyone who has solo'd that isnt a bst, think a drk/nin could solo with: capped marksmenship, axe, sword(use sword for Spirits within, axe= fransisca) and various haste/darkmagic/ranged attk+Acc armor and items. and no aggro lol

Edited, Tue Jul 19 12:01:41 2005
solo
# Jul 19 2005 at 11:01 AM Rating: Decent
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Does anyone who has solo'd that isnt a bst, think a drk/nin could solo with: capped marksmenship, axe, sword(use sword for Spirits within, axe= fransisca) and various haste/darkmagic/ranged attk+Acc armor and items
Stop spreading BS
# Jun 16 2005 at 7:24 PM Rating: Default


Edited, Tue Nov 15 20:20:04 2005
RE: Stop spreading BS
# Jun 17 2005 at 8:44 PM Rating: Decent
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ONLY 3 HNM (Fafnir/Behemoth and Adamantoise) and their HQ (Nidhogg/King Behemoth and Aspi) have 30 mins windows pop. Alkyoneus is a 21-24H (no lotery) and it can pop anytime around 3H like Serket, Sigmurd, Bune Roc. His drop rate for Alkyoneus's Bracelets is like Lord of Onzozo for Kraken Club.
RE: Stop spreading BS
# Jul 02 2005 at 6:22 PM Rating: Decent


Edited, Tue Nov 15 20:20:25 2005
RE: Stop spreading BS
# Jun 27 2005 at 3:46 PM Rating: Decent
Those are not the ONLY NM's that pop in intervals... sorry.
RE: Stop spreading BS
# Jun 30 2005 at 2:35 PM Rating: Decent
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THen can you tell me other NM that have 30 mins intervals?
RE: Stop spreading BS
# Jul 03 2005 at 7:04 PM Rating: Decent
Sent you a PM... I like secrets.
RE: Stop spreading BS
# Aug 18 2005 at 4:21 PM Rating: Default
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Just some observations from your every day BST. i have been lvling there for the past couple of weeks and i have never seen this nm pop. which this leads me to believe that he is not in fact a 21-24 hr pop. i know for a fact that pallas is but not this guy. i figure that at some point i should have seen this guy considering that i have seen pallas many times as well as intaxb, but i should have seen him considering the the amount of time is have spent up there lvling as well as farming, if in fact he was a 21-24 hr pop. which leads me to believe that he has a ph, i am thinking that it is one of the hallkeepers on the lvl below but i am not sure of it as of now. i dont think it could be on the same lvl because i have watched pt's lvl off all gigas on the tops floor and never seen him spawn. i am pretty sure he doesnt spawn off of wildkeepers on the floor below because i have spent hrs killing them with no pop, and also i realized that this nm is not a bst, he is a mnk or a war. i will try to just kill everything on the 11th floor to see if i can get him to spawn one day, but i will report back if that works or not.
Bracelets
# Jun 15 2005 at 9:49 PM Rating: Decent
20 posts
Killed this guy last night. Heard the bracelets are a rare drop but we got them. Found a buyer within 30 minutes of getting back from the tower. Sold for 18mil and didn't even need to use AH :D.

The night before Suzaku was nice enough to drop Shining Cloth.. I've been having a good week lol
Connected to Enkelados...
# Jun 15 2005 at 2:47 PM Rating: Decent
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I posted the same thing on the Enkelado's page...immediately following the death of Pallas, Enkelado's spawned at the time of his next placeholder pop. I think all three of the Gigas in Upper Delk. Tower are connected in that only one can be up at a time...
Connected to Pallas?
# May 30 2005 at 6:22 PM Rating: Decent
Here is my story,
I was in Upper Dekfult Tower(UDT) killing Johtun Wildkeeper(JW) to pop Pallas. I thought one of 2 JWs on the second highest level of UDT is the PH. After like 1.5hour killing those, one of the JWs didnt pop.
So i checked upstair, and there he was, Alkyoneus.

I never thought Alkyoneus's PH is not on the same floor as Alkyoneus itself. So I was wondering maybe Alkyoneus shares the same PH with Pallas (just like Argus and Leech King in Maze of Shakrami).
All i know they both are 24Hour lottery pop.
Any clue?
alkyoneus
# May 10 2005 at 1:35 AM Rating: Decent
whats his pos on upperdelkfut? what map?
Duoed?
# Mar 15 2005 at 10:19 PM Rating: Decent
Can it be duoed by a 70+DRG and 74RDM?
RE: Duoed?
# Apr 02 2006 at 11:20 AM Rating: Decent
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RDM could solo it.
woah
# Mar 12 2005 at 5:59 AM Rating: Decent
This NM is definately doable at 61+. We were leveling in the area at 60-61. The setup was like this 61PLD 61RNG 60SAM 61RDM 61BRD and 60BLM. The BLM ended up ditching us a good while before the fight so it was only us 5 there. We all used 2hrs and suffered only one death from a pot linking and using ancient magic.
Word Of a Bst
# Feb 09 2005 at 8:48 AM Rating: Decent
Just a short word from a Bst who recently killed him (not solo though)

Me and a fellow Bst (Leandro Bst 68)killed him a few days ago without to much problems. If you do it right you are ok with just the 4 bats that are flying between Floor 11 & 12 we got some problems as my friend started on him solo and wasted some pets but as a duo we managed to kill him fast.

Sad thing is we didnt get drop but like always it was an adventure to do this with my friend :)
mpk
# Feb 08 2005 at 8:41 AM Rating: Decent
if u find that ppl are MPK-ing just to be @$$. u should call for hlp. then nobody gets it. thats what i do anyways.

Edited, Tue Feb 8 08:42:43 2005
RE: mpk
# Mar 01 2005 at 9:44 PM Rating: Decent
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good idea... but really won't work... all they have to do is wait for the mob to turn back white
Level
# Feb 07 2005 at 10:39 PM Rating: Good
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Alky should be marked as lvl 75 I believe. As a BST, killing solo at 75 with pet alive, I get 70 Exp, thats an Even match after 30% exp penatly.
hmm~
# Jan 24 2005 at 5:35 PM Rating: Decent
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I wanna get these when i lvl SAM after i get THF to 75. Seeing as NIN can prolly solo it think 75THF/37NIN can solo it with sleep and bloody bolts? Wanna get an idea of how tough this thing is.
answer
# Jan 12 2005 at 4:27 AM Rating: Excellent
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to youre Q about group of 60s. Id say no, no chance, even if played perfect. To a group of 65s, yes, if played right you could do it, But 2 tanks would be necassary. A bst takes about 35+ mins to kill it, and thats alot of pet swapping doing lots of damage so lemme tell you firsthand, hes rough.

Worst part of this NM? Drop rate
Ive killed him almost 20 times, seen him killed over 30.
Seen him drop 1 time out of all.
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