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Vana'diel Bestiary: Altedour I Tavnazia  

Family:Shadow
Found in:Fei'Yin
Found at Location:G - 8
Job:Black Mage
Level:65
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  • Quest Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Linking
  • Detects by Sound
  • Detects by Low HP
  • Based on Dark
  • Weak against Fire
  • Weak against Light
  • Strong against Darkness
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Updated: Sun Aug 7 09:42:18 2011

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Umm....
# Feb 21 2006 at 5:40 PM Rating: Default
Duoable?
# Feb 08 2006 at 3:36 PM Rating: Decent
A person in my ls says they can solo this mob with a 75 brd. He is 75 mnk/75nin. Think he can?
Elemental Seal
# Jan 29 2006 at 4:18 AM Rating: Decent
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Good point. Thanks for the tip~Rate up.
A total Garbageface.
# Jan 23 2006 at 3:27 AM Rating: Good
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This guy strikes terror into the hearts of White Mages everywhere. Two white mages from our ls,(One being me) CrusadersOfLostTime, get a party togehtor and decide we'll show him whose boss. So we go, a 58 WHM (Yours truly), a 55 WHM, a 68 MNK, a 61 DRG, a 73 PLD, and a 74 THF. First time-My bell, my mask. We start off thinking it'll be a piece of cake, until we realize we're doing jack damage. That, and he starts using Dimensional Death like its going out of style. So, I'm too busy keeping everyone in one piece to get off more than two silences, both of which are resisted, letting him torture us even more with spells like Thundaga II, Firaga II, and, my personal favorite, Ha-ha-you-all-totally-suck-aga XI. The real killer is Sleepga II, because he'll then pick you apart one by one. Luckily, when we were hit by it, hate was on the PLD, who managed to wake the rest of us up. Unfortunately, people dropped when Altedour decided to use Chainspell. MIGHT have been Manafont, but still, whatever he did, spells were flung, and the PLD and MNK died. But we did manage to kill him by using our 2 hours. So, now, because we're suicidal, we decide to do round 2, without our ace-in-the-hole. We decide I'll divine seal silence him, and that'll take care of that annoying sleepga. So we start, and I do my thing, and, wouldn't you know it? It was resisted. It went like last match, only much closer, with him offing the PLD, the THF, and the MNK, leaving a lone 61 DRG to keep him from the party's creamy center of WHMs. He did manage to kill him, with red health, no mp for either of us WHMs, we do our raise thing, get our sexy new briaults, happy ending, fin.

The moral of the story? Don't let undeadified leaders of long destroyed nations cast Sleepga 2 on you.
RE: A total Garbageface.
# Jan 26 2006 at 5:29 PM Rating: Excellent
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instead of divine seal you might want to try elemental seal since silence is wind based.
We o.ded on Em
# Dec 08 2005 at 2:46 PM Rating: Decent
this guy was supppeeerr easy..maybe cause i had 2 ppl that was lvl 75..and 7 others that was 58-68 including me..lol
here are some pics
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/stealthninja/Dem051207033454a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/stealthninja/Dem051207030751a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/stealthninja/Dem051207030809a.jpg

Edited, Mon Jan 2 02:40:57 2006
A good lvl 75 Bst can solo it
# Nov 20 2005 at 8:01 AM Rating: Decent
Just got mine, and my lvl 75 Bst friend soloed him. But it wasn't easy. He used like 5-6 Carries., and.. well.. the bottom level almost got wiped out of underworld bats while he was waiting for his pet timer to come back up. Used pet food Zeta.. still..
Really impressive that he did it. Thanks Snoochie!.
Only real scare came when he got a sleepga on both of us. (for the most part, i stood to the side and watched., i casted a cure III and cure IV on my friend like twice.). But it did take him a while. Had to recast protect during the fight.
Just did this
# Oct 14 2005 at 8:12 PM Rating: Decent
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I just did this with me (59 hume WHM), a guy in my LS (70 hume RNG) and some very nice guy whom I had just met (morrissey on the caitsith server.. 75 Elvaan ninja).

This started out fairly easily. I kept both of the melees hasted and with regen II on them. Putting stoneskin on myself was pretty much pointless because any spell he did went right through it. Because of this, I stayed in the back, very far away from his casting range.

He didn't spam dimensional death. He only used it maybe 6 times during battle, and it never went through the ninjas shadows. However, the other spells he used did occassionally catch us off guard. I had to use Benediction when I ran out of mp and the ninja was in the red and the ranger was in the yellow. Fortunately, he died right after that.

I'm not sure if he was designed to be easy the first half of the battle and then extremely wicked the second half, but he was.

But no one died and I got my briault. I now look like a pinata, but a very happy pinata.
; ;
# Oct 03 2005 at 11:24 AM Rating: Decent
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I went there with:
70PLD
70RNG
70BLM
65RDM
61MNK
57WHM(me)

To make a long story short...He handed us our ****** The MNK did WS for first hit so in return he used DD and MNK was dead. Then RNG unloaded on him with all the he had...RNG died. Then the RDM went then PLD and so on... Urg, now I have to get another darned bell.

If you can help with bell/fight please do so. I'd love you forever.

Kingofhearts: Seraph
RE: ; ;
# Oct 04 2005 at 11:47 AM Rating: Decent
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Update: I went back and got another bell then started looking for help with this guy. I got a 75RDM/NIN and a 66DRK/THF to come along. There was a 60's WHM already there when we got there so the WHM joined up as well... Owned him! Things looked shady at first, but we got on top of things around the middle of the fight... The RDM scared the mess out of me by doing: Stoneskin >> Utsusemi: Ni >> Convert... I saw his HP at 15 and I nearly fainted. Lol. The DRK took hate close to the end of the fight and went down to around 14 HP then used his WS, thus...ending the fight!:D

I'd like to thank "Pimp","Assassin Pimp" and Yuba.

To those who wish to do this soon... Grab an great blink tank and a solid DD and you should be fine. PM me if you have any questions.
this thing is uncool
# Sep 20 2005 at 11:55 AM Rating: Default
this thing killed a lvl 75 Elvaan MNK in 3 hits
RE: this thing is uncool
# Oct 14 2005 at 1:25 AM Rating: Default
The NM you see in the picture did Dimensional Death 3x for 2000 damage to the 75 Elvaan MNK, thus he died fast. this thing has a tendency to spam dimensional death, not to mention hes got very nasty Ancient magic and sometimes spams Sleepga II.

Edited, Fri Oct 14 02:36:23 2005
RE: this thing is uncool
# Sep 24 2005 at 4:07 PM Rating: Decent
That's BS. I just this as a 75 MNK/37 WAR NP. Only hit for 120 per. -.-;
RE: this thing is uncool
# Sep 22 2005 at 1:58 PM Rating: Decent
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O.o

Well there went the thought of me tanking it for my WHM LS mate. LoL. The Dark Stalkers that drop the bell can usually only hit me once per fight at best, and that's at 72. Even then they only hit for 100 or so (counterstance on).
ouch
# Sep 17 2005 at 8:34 PM Rating: Decent
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Used Dimensional Death 42 times in one fight.
Feel bad for you whms.
Whm artifact Body
# Sep 17 2005 at 6:01 PM Rating: Decent
I had this done with the following combination and all Lv75/37: Whm/Nin, Thf/Nin and Blm/Whm then me @ 58whm. I later had helped a whm with this fight also in the same setup as above with the addition of a Mnk61 however this time the thf and I (again 75) traded off hate. The fight went rather smooooothly and took about 8minutes give or take some.

In my opinion the less ppl there the better off the fight will be simply because you have less ppl feeding him TP, right?

Who says whm's are weak? Pffft.. I PWNZ j00!!!
Dispel
# Aug 22 2005 at 5:05 PM Rating: Decent
Heads up: This NM will Dispel Reraise off you -- it happened to me, thus causing me to lose the mask when no one left alive could raise me to get it. (Total suck.)

Any WHM doing this as sole healer in a party should bring along a scroll of Instant Reraise in case he dispels it off you and you don't have the MP or time to recast.
Re: Dispel
# Sep 18 2006 at 10:07 PM Rating: Default
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If everyone else passes this or leaves the area AND YOUR INVENTORY ISN'T FULL, you can still get the bell even though the groundhogs are bringing your mail.
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Oogie Boogie
# Aug 19 2005 at 4:01 AM Rating: Decent
I was on my way to Fei'yin to fight this NM with :
71 PLD
72 SMN
60 BLM
58 WHM
57 WHM (myself)

We had to fight the NM 2 times because me and the other WHM both needed it. At the entrance we ran into a coupe Japanese players, a 74 NIN and a 60+ RDM. They were going to fight Miser for RDM AF, and we started an alliance. We got the RDM AF then headed to J-10. There are 2 shadow spawns in that room, so it is best to kill those off first before you trade bell to ???s. I still don't know if the original set-up we had would've done the job, but the japanese NIN helped out A LOT! I am very gracious to him. A SMN with avatars is nice too ^^ Dimensional Death sounds a lot worse in this forum than it actually was. The NIN went into yellow once on first fight, and PLD once on second fight. Other than that, there were no death scares. I got the mask and already turned it in and got my AF body piece ^^

Now all I need is 7.5k exp to actually use the damn thing. XD
it's true, can probably be soloed
# Aug 11 2005 at 8:00 PM Rating: Decent
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I just tanked this guy as 75RDM/37NIN. It was a bit of long fight (less than 10 minutes I'd say) but wasn't all that difficult. For the most part I virtually soloed it, but I had the help of a 74BRD (who primarily used Ballad and Mambo) and the WHM who needed this AF (unsure of level, probably mid-50s). So beyond the bard's songs and the occassional cures from the WHM, I would have been soloing this guy. He spammed Dimensional Death like crazy toward the end of the fight but my HP never reached red, so I think purely soloing him might take a bit of kiting at times (aka cast Gravity/Bind to recast Utsusemi) but doable.

I used a Tavnazian Taco, and DD was still hitting me for 250-300dmg unbuffed. But as mentioned already, he hits slow and hard, which is perfect for Utsusemi.

It's funny, I remember fighting this NM a long time ago in a 3 party alliance and having multiple deaths.
RE: it's true, can probably be soloed
# Aug 12 2005 at 1:24 PM Rating: Decent
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is it possible to stun dimensional death?
RE: it's true, can probably be soloed
# Sep 15 2005 at 8:18 PM Rating: Default
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Only if you stun him before he even uses it. There's no charge time on Dimensional Death; it's an instant attack, just like a super-powerful physical attack. I suppose you could have a 74+ RDM/DRK do Chainspell/Stun near the end of the fight, a la Dynamis Lord, but that'd be kinda going overboard. :P
RE: it's true, can probably be soloed
# Aug 13 2005 at 5:23 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm not sure if you can stun Dimensional Death but the real question is why would you even want to try? Sometimes this guy literally uses DD every 3 seconds. Even if you had an army of stunners it wouldn't stop most attacks from getting through.
Can be soloed/duoed
# Aug 10 2005 at 8:28 AM Rating: Excellent
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Successfully tanked and pretty much soloed this as a 74RDM/37NIN. I was the only one fighting for most of the battle, but I brought along a few LS members:

WHM57
BLM62
RDM50
DRK61

Had RDM build TP as well as White Mage. Did Burning Blade >>> Seraph Strike to create Fusion, then did Savage Blade to create a Light Skillchain. Didn't do too much damage simply because this guy has a huge HP pool. After that I had all LS members stand back and let me solo fight him. Sometimes he will cast spells, usually can be absorbed by shadows but will sometimes cast a ga spell, usually elemenetal, sometimes a sleepga. Due to Fast Cast and Haste, didn't have much trouble recasting Utsusemi.

He did get me a few times, and yes, he does spam Dimensional Death, and will hurt a lot if you don't have shadows up. I think an unbuffed Dim Death hit me for a little over 500 damage. Fight lasted about 30-40 minutes, burnt about 80 Shihei on the fight. Also had a Shadow link on one of my lower level LS members, but a high level PLD was nice enough to clear the room again. Also, be warned this guy resists Stun, though, I am not 100% sure, but it was resisting the DRK and the BLM, both 60+.

So if you're an RDM/NIN 74+ who is going to try to solo this for a WHM friend, bring lots of Shihei because this guy is a Shihei sink, have the WHM be sure to stand back, and have sneak up at all times to avoid Shadow repop aggro. Have them also be ready to toss you an Erase if it lands Bio III on you, and a quick cure if you get slept via Sleepga. One good thing about fighting this guy is he has reaaaally slow attack speed, especially with slow, so recasting Utsusemi each time shouldn't be much of a problem. Good luck. ^^



Got it Done!
# Jul 06 2005 at 2:35 AM Rating: Decent
I went today with 1 pt. One death, and he does spam DD as much as everybody says.

75 WHM
75 BRD
75 RDM
75 PLD
73 SAM
And me 58 WHM.
It was fun Sam died then we killed it. Cover timer wasn't up cause pld had to use it earlier. Went smooth other than that... Sam god a raise III tho ^^
Did this fight...wow
# Jul 04 2005 at 12:23 AM Rating: Decent
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Whoot! Me and Elathia got this done! Thanks for those 4 who helped <<; We didn't have that many volunteers, but we pulled it off anyway, for all those intrested, this was the set-up.

75 THF/37 NIN
62 THF/31 NIN
57 WHM/28 BLM
57 RDM/28 BLM
61 RDM/30 WHM
60 WHM/30 BLM

I know, not traditional at all, but we certainly kicked his ***...on the second battle. The first, we were alittle cocky and DD almost go the best of us a few times but there were no deaths at all. The second battle went MUCH smoother. Again, I thank all those who helped!! You know who you are ;) and you know who you aren't <_< On a side not, we did part 1 of the RDM hat AF for her and Miser Murphy is a pushover compared to our NM ._. though I think the guardian statue makes up for it.

And by the way...they aren't kidding when people say he spams Dimensional Death ._. He used this about every 15 seconds or so. IMHO, I don't think a PLD would have survivied. I think the THF/NINs were actually perfect for this role. Their blinks were able to absorb the DD, and i was very impressed by their performace.
Pretty easy
# Jun 18 2005 at 3:37 PM Rating: Decent
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Last night we took him out twice, with no problem except our 67 RNG dying twice, and yes we had a 72PLD tank and he never got under 700 of his 1300+ HP. Setup was 75BLM 74BLM 60WHM 57WHM 65 RNG(me) 67RNG 72PLD 66 BRD. He spams -gas with a quick casting time so be careful. He did Dimensional Death to me but my Shadows absorbed it XD.
Killed this guy yesterday
# Jun 10 2005 at 12:54 PM Rating: Good
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Somehow I got a lucky chance to fight this guy yesterday. A member of my LS, another Whm was doing it earlier and happened to mention it as I logged in. Anyways, our 75 Bard ls member volunteered to help. By the time we got there (I had the bell and activated the quest) most of the people left, but I had two other LS members farming in Beaucedine Glacier. Anyways, we got there and had an 8 member alliance.

74 or something Nin/war with optical hat and scorpion harness. Good gear overall too, Taru though, when he was between utsusemi one of the Dimensional deaths almost got him but more on that later
75 Brd
60 Rng
57 Whm x 3
56 Thf
55 Mnk

Anyways, we have the Nin Brd Ranger and other 2 whms in one, and me and the mnk and thf in the other. We buff up with Shell/Protect/Stoneskin/Blink/Haste etc. Pop the NM, the monk vokes and the thief SATAs onto the ninja. Altedour opens with a Thundaga II, so that kinda hurt but we passed some cure IIIs around. The fight went pretty straightforward for like 3 minutes until the nin got interrupted and hit with Dimensional Death. The guy had about 950 hp and he got dropped to like 250 instantly. Cure IV and IIIs rained down and we managed to restabilize and eventually just beat him down.

However, I don't think 3 whms with a paladin would be enough unless you had a LOT of dd to make this battle shorter. Our damage output without the ninja tank certainly wouldn't have sufficed without a few deaths (or total wipe).

Anyways, witha good ninja about 70+ and a few 60ish people he's not too hard. I'd imagine a party of 70s would steamroll this guy.

Not that paladin's aren't good here, but Dimensional Death is very damaging and without MAJOR healing, even the most stalwart paladins will drop in 3 hits. And yes, like all other shadows this guy spams Dimensional Death like it was a regular sword swing.

I forsee myself doing this for 2 more Whms in my LS, so if we go with a paladin tank next time I'll fill in the details on that.
pwned
# May 16 2005 at 10:26 PM Rating: Good
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Just pwned a BCNM20 and got warped back to Jeuno. I was going to go camp Lizzy, as I still needed to raise about 2.5 mil more for my Vermillion Cloak, but I decided I wanted to do something else. Shouted in Jeuno, asking if a 70+ tank wanted to make some money. Got a couple responses and found a NIN74/WAR37 willing to do this fight for 100K. Spent about 20 minutes gathering all the friends I could and ended up with..

NIN74/WAR37 (mercenary)
WHM58/SMN29 (me)
RNG52/NIN26
RDM53/WHM26
WAR60/NIN30
MNK61/??
DRK56/??
THF60/NIN30
BLM53/WHM26

We owned the thing, though the RDM and WAR both died very quickly. 1-2 hits each, both early in the fight. The merc was a real good tank though, and we didn't really have a problem at all. Got my briault. Omg, I feel like a real WHM. ;D
One hard bastard
# May 12 2005 at 10:48 AM Rating: Decent
Just tried to have a 75 NIN/WAR Solo this for me. Ninja was hanging in there pretty good, but between the -ga spells, Dispel and Sleepga the ninja was having trouble keeping utsusemi up & dealing enough damage to kill the guy. A Sleepga caught me so I couldn't cure the ninja.. A couple of nukes on the Ninja and a lucky hit by the mob with Dimentional Death when the Ninjas Blink was down and it was over.

75 Nin could probably solo this guy, but its going to be a tough fight. Ninja did like 3 or 4 WS doing 400-500 dmg per WS and when we died this guy still had 3/4 of his life left.

Silence doesn't work on him I'm pretty sure. I used Elemental Seal + Silence on him and he resisted. Tried to nuke him with Holy, only did like 10 damage. Didn't try any Banish Spells, I just buffed/hasted/cured the Ninja and then tried to regain as much MP before the Ninja needed curing again.

I'm thinking if you bring poison potions, stay out of AOE range and let the ninja do his job, just keep him at full health, Hasted and Buffed and this guy would eventually go down.
RE: One hard bastard
# May 16 2005 at 10:39 AM Rating: Decent
Just tried this again. This time went with a full party. Party members included 72 nin, 60 rng, 60 drg, 60 drg, 58 rdm, 57 whm (me) and a 50 whm.

I would have though this would be sufficient enough to take this guy down.. but it wasn't. I think we got this guy down to about 1/2 life before he wiped the floor with us.

Next time I go out there it will be with a full alliance. I'm tired of losing to this punk.
RE: One hard bastard
# May 20 2005 at 6:50 PM Rating: Decent
Finally kicked this guys ***!

Found a 75 Nin/War to tank. Had a total of four members.

75 Nin/war
57 Whm/blm
60 Rdm/whm
54 Whm/blm

Very easy... Mainly cause the Ninja was good at his job. Only had to heal him a couple of times. He kept utsusemi up and saved his WS until the mob started casting a -ga spell and then he unleashed a WS that stunned him or something.

Anyways, I finally got it. ^.^
Too Weak
# May 04 2005 at 1:32 AM Rating: Decent
i Tanked him as RDM/NIN

we were
RDM
RDM
BLM
SMN

and he wasn't easy \=
Ugh
# May 03 2005 at 6:30 PM Rating: Default
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o_o

Edited, Sat Jul 16 06:59:42 2005
bell
# Apr 29 2005 at 12:55 AM Rating: Default
do i need for every fight a new bell? i died the first time and dont have my bell :(
RE: bell
# Apr 29 2005 at 9:50 AM Rating: Decent
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Yes, I have heard that you have to go and get another bell if you die fighting Shadow Lord
/comfort!

I still have to do the fight! I have the bell....*sigh*....
Femwhispers
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