Vana'diel Bestiary: Cactrot Rapido  

I saw him once while looking for a place to ghetto warp. He didnt aggro me but I wish it did, it would be a kewl thing to die from.

ok here my story with this ******* *** cactar----


im not going to read all the post but i do know a little about him
_______APPERNTLY________ he uses a ability called 10,000 Needles witch is 10x worse than their familys normal ability, also a speculation that he takes a intire alliance of 75 to kill, i dont know if this is true , all i know for a FACT is.... he hits hard T_T

A few LS friends were in Eastern altepa for some reason and started to try and catch him. Nothing worked. They told me the name, so I instantly came on this site and researched.

First off, our party consisted of 4 members, a high 30's DRK, almost 60 WHM, and a mid 50's PLD, and me lvl 45 WHM.

I told them the few strategies I saw. So, the WHM switched jobs to RNG, and uses Eagle Eye Shot on it before I get there. It hit him for only 25 hp, and keeps on running and doesnt hesitate.

Once I got there, I saw him run by once. I set macro for Bind, but it doesn't cast fast enough (and probably wouldn't stick). So, we decide to go with the linking sstrategy. We grab a few sabotenders and run towards his path. I aggro an Antican that chases us, and I'm more worried about that. The party stops running, and I turn around, and there is Rapido in Kung Fu stance. The Paladin hits it for 6 hp with Holy, then dies after 2 consecutive hits from Rapido. Then he suddenly takes off. I die from the Antican, while other 2 members run to Western zone. I deleveled in the process, but i couldn't stop laughing.

Also, earlier in the night, a taru fell down the trap door at Castle Oztraja. We were doing mission to get me rank 5, and I warned the taru not to stand there. We pull lever, and he falls in. It was beautiful.

Best night ever on FFXI :-D

This is another method to fight this NM, but I'm not sure how effective it will be.

Get a party or alliance of high lvl RNG/THFs & THF/RNGs. Either all of you spread out, or go to a place that the NM usually runs by (I've seen him run near (H-8) often). Have everyone watch the NM on Widescan, and /shoot <t> whenever he runs by. As long as you start the shot within range, unlike spells, the arrow/bullet WILL connect. Also, you can Eagle Eye Shot the NM. (I know this from personal experience.) Keep doing this until the NM dies :-D

Because of this strategy, no one will take any damage, so it's perfectly safe. Tell me if this works for you: Good Luck!

I saw him 3 weeks ago chasing a Thief with Flee down. The Thf was lvl 62 and got schooled. I feared it would aggro n hid.

I have a slight recommendation. This is alittle expensive, but from what I have seen all good strategies tend to be. When you go into this fight have 6 rangers and/or thfs (has to be mains) and use Spartan bullets. These, though doing almost 0 dmg will stun. And as everyone knows, stun stops ALL attacks. This is a neat trick if you ever want to make short work of IT gobs, the only problem is, you have to have enough ppl in the pt so that you are having a gun fire every second, but the ppl shooting are still able to do their melee attacks so they can help deal dmg. There are of course other ways to stun, e.g. have all your warriors get 100 tp before going into battle, and setup a TP chain, each person pays attention to the person who last used their TP attack, and then follow with theirs when they see the cactar ready 10k needles. This obviously being a recipe for disaster. I don't know about you, but every time I have been in a pt of more then 3 ppl, you always have one person who thinks they know better, or forget. And one more side point on this issue, The guns can miss, and the bullet can fail to stun, so there no sure thing there either.

Anyways, I am not even lvl 40, so I can't speak from any lvl of experience against this thing, but I do know alittle about a: his spawn habits (I lvl in altepa), b: using status effects (at lvl 32 I could fight evens in Yuthunga Jungle and altepa and kill them at about a 90% rate as a thf/nin:).

P.S. He spawns in Earth Elemental effect... don't know if that is only when he spawns, but that accounts for every time I have seen him.

And I haven't seen it here, but he links and does not aggro. He moves too fast to be in the range of attack by anyone (I heard rumor of a thf/wave doing a flee provoke, but that was a rumor). And unlike the goby bomb (which apparently a few poor ppl here have experienced) it's TP attack will hit everyone in range. The reason it does this is to prevent ppl from getting smart and not having the mages in the pt. If the attack was like the goby bomb, the logical thing then would be to have the mages not in the pt... heck you could even fill their places if you wanted to further split the winnings. But, since they made it evil, then this is a moot point isn't it?

Just seen this running around when I was on my way back from levelling to 34. I was just out of its sight when I saw it pop right in front of me.

It's extremely fast. I'd say 2 - 3 times faster than a running Chocobo. I went back to Rabao, changed sub to Ranger and went looking for it, as I always take screenshots of the NMs I see. It was running away from me and I couldn't keep up at all. I eventually managed to head it off and got a great picture of it speeding towards me, while I sit there waiting.

At the time, I didn't know it was harmless, and I warned people in the area about it. Better to be aware than sneaked up on and your whole party battered to pieces...

You need a full alliance of 75 to beat him, 6 whm, 4 blm, 4 pld, 4 dd (rng) usually go good. The whm and blm stay way back as the pld's chain voke him, blm nuke like a bunch of freaks, whm spam curaga after 10,000 needles, hell hit a 75 pld fo like 30 dmg maybe more, rng spam sidewinder, keep blink and stoneskin up.

Just had the funniest fight with him. We had a full alliance and decided why not give it a shot. We were various lvls ranging from 60-75. Anyways, our rdm buffs up and links them and gets very excited. He runs towards us and dies in three hits. I used assault and we tried voking and it still ran. We tried once more. Our blm pulled a sabotender to camp and put it to sleep. Out of nowhere (and I swear it was literally out of nowhere) Cactrot Rapido is in the middle of our camp beating us up. Our tank vokes and dies in about three hits. At this point, I am keeping away for fear of his dreaded special. She dies in about 3 hits and all of the sudden I saw the entires alliance's hp bars go from full to 0 or in the red. So, at this point we were running. Cactrot Rapido was finding random ppl to murder as we tried to zone. I turned around to look behind me and out of nowhere there he was smacking me. It was a pretty bad massacre. All of us were laughing so hard we were in tears. I got an R3 though from a really nice whm, so I can live with a good laugh. ^^

We tried to fight it today with 12 people and 4 carbies and.... it was ugly, lol. 10,000/16 divided among a bunch of taru is a bad, bad time. It led to one of the funniest things I've seen in this game, so horrible I had to laugh. Some poor guy decided to watch us on chocobo. Well, he got divided into the 10,000 needles too and died.

We reraised, raised him though, tried again with 14 people and 300tp. He has not nearly enough HP to make him tough if you just deal an insane amount of damage to him ast. Even our whms and blms and brds started off with 300tp and our 2 mnks 2hr'ed. He's just a fun fight, and the title is worth gold.

I didnt read all the posts but In Case you were wondering, you can Stun Him to stop him and attack you. I voked him but he keeps on runin.

Cactrot Deascelerador =D