Vana'diel Bestiary: Altedour I Tavnazia  

I just got my af3 completed on Thursday. Our setup included the following:

PLD 75
PLD 70
DRK 75
MNK 58
WHM 59
WHM 53
WHM 56
THF 62
BLM 58
THF 51
DRG 53
RDM 75
and a few others in that level range. We killed him very easily. 1 person died each time, because of mistakes, but other than that it went very smoothly. o.< I think a high level tank, plenty of healing, and a good mix of DD can take this guy out quick. Have fun. :P

I setup an alliance recently to give this bad boy a try, and of course we failed the first time around. The dimensional death spams were too much to handle.

Anyways, i got a new bell, and i'm preparing to go back to this NM for my AF3.

I was wandering if there was any Paladins on the KUJATA server who would be nice enuff to accompany me and my alliance on this battle. I am lookin for a level 60 or higher PLD.

We have 4 WHMs, 1 BLM, 2 BRDs, 2 DRKs, 2 MNKs, 1 RDM, 1 SAM/WAR, and 1 RNG. Levels ranging from 55-75.

I would like to do this asap, but without a good PLD it's gonna be hard. If you would like to help me and my alliance please contact me either on here, or at my LS's website on our forums, or just /tell me on KUJATA. My WHM's name is Rend of course ^ ^

Thanks for your time.

I just beat this with a full alliance 5 minutes ago twice for 2 whm's. This party consisted of members from lvs 56-74 with a whole lot of mages I ended the first fight with a Skewer for 543 damage at 300 % tp. (due to the fact we saved our ws tell very end so he wouldnt spam dimensional death spam). This was my second af3 fight, first one was my own for drg :oP. I will try and have some pictures tomorrow to show everyone thank you ^^

This one wasent hard at all I asked my linkshell to help(linkshell=Friendslist) 58Whm(me),
75 Pld, 75 DRk, 75 RNG, 75 Whm and another 75 Rng beat this evil guy in less then 30 seconds Pretty easy have both the RNGs use Barrage sharp shot and there 2 hours Pld uses 2 hour and Provoke= massive hate then well by this time he sould be dead if not just keep hitting away whms Cure and buff. Done very easy u can do this with just 3 or 4 Rngs. lol The only reason I asked so many Friends well once i asked for help everyone offerd there help and lots of these posts say this is very hard!

Edited, Sat Sep 11 19:32:26 2004

When he dies, he has diologue. He says:

"It is finally over... ahh!
I can... I can see... Tavnazia!
The land of wind... and light.
My... my home..."

...kind of made me feel sad about killing him...

I've killed this badboy 4 times for 4 WHMs in 2 complete alliances. He is not hard if the alliance plans it out before the fight.

First off, I HIGHLY recommend getting a lvl 70+ PLD to tank this thing. My first alliance had a lvl 72 NIN tank and he died both fights we had to do for our WHMs (Reraise 2 + Raise 2 is a must if you have a NIN tank or an alliance below 12 people and lower than lvl 60). This guy will spam Dimentional Death as some have previously mentioned. I almost died in less than 5 seconds (lvl 61 THF/NIN at the time), going from 1000+ HP to red, because I was Trick Buddy for a higher lvl THF after our NIN died. The second alliance I had, the WHMs hired a lvl 75 JP PLD to tank. This time, no deaths occured and the PLD didn't go down below 500 HP and kept hate almost the whole time.

Here's what I recommend you do for this fight. Build up TP so a THF can Trick onto the main tank. Try to have 1 healer in each party of the alliance. Have each healer focus on the main tank but also watch the HP of other damage dealers. From here on, have enough MP to keep the tank alive while the damage dealers hack away at his HP. He has quite a bit of HP but it shouldn't take longer than 3 minutes to kill him with the right alliance setup. Watch for his DD because HP goes down VERY fast if not careful.

Good luck to all you WHMs. Oh yeah, I believe if the alliance is doing multiple AFs for WHMs, the WHMs going after the first one will have to zone or wait a while before you can fight him again. At least that was what we had to do all 4 times.

Well i know i hate these posts but Just be forewarned when i went i was going to go with a party of 58 pld 60 pld 61 nin 61 rdm 60 sam 58 thief 59 thief 75 monk 58 bst 60 drk and luckily when we went some lvl 70+ that i knew were fighting capricious cassie ( well waiting for hte spawn and offered to help) The lvl 70+ party was 75 blm 75 rdm 73 whm 75 blm

It wasnt a real problem but hte 75 monk grabbed hate and almost went down and I a 58 whitemage threw all my mp solely into the monk (if they 75s wouldnt have came we were goign to trick onto the 61 ninja and have the pld use cover on the monk and it may have went well) but i believe the 3 taru whm sharing healing duty is possibly low if you dont have enough damage dealers.

Ownij

We fought this guy with 16 ppl just because I read on here thet it was so hard. Truthfully if you have the brains to outsmart him he is a big sissy.
All you have to do once the tank has hate is run around the room. The whole time hes following he cant use WS, and Dimentional Death only happens once in a while. We faught him twice and could have easily done it with 6-8 ppl.

Recommended PT set up: 55-60 lvl 60 tank perferably.
2 whm, 2 mnk, 2 thf, drk, pld no blm cuz frankly your magic is useless against him. Freeze took 13 dmg :) Oh by the way bring refresh drinks if ya got no rdm. Melon will do fine!
Hope this helps Good luck!

Edited, Fri Jun 4 07:48:04 2004

This battle is a riot and a half. I got to do it 8 times in a row and about a dozen people died. Our (full) alliance was 60+ melee with a lv75 paly tank and 8 white mages. Melee all went out and got 300 tp and unloaded at start of battle (before paly had built up hate..). I'm not sure if a tank CAN controle hate in this fight, our paly used invincible the first time and the nm STILL killed off a few drk's and sams. After that we had a lv71 thf sneak/trick shark bite onto the paly and melee waited a few vokes before unloading their 300 tp. Didn't work, another dead drk. Rinse repeat, 8 times. I ended up making a row cureIV macro's with the drk's and sam's names hardcoded in them after the third fight.

Spawns by trading a Tavnazian bell to the ??? in the J-10 area of Fei'yin.

First off, this sucker hits HARD. He constantly spams Dimensional Death (hit me for about 350-400 each at lvl 55 paladin)

My strong recommendation for a safe trip is an alliance at 58-60.

HOWEVER, it is possible (just very difficult) to take it out with an alliance of 55's if your main tank is at least 60.

here's how it worked: White mages (need 3 at least) spam cure III on the main tank. If you let up for even a second, he'll get overwhelmed by DD.

main tank let loose with everything you have to keep aggro, have a thf sneak/trick it onto you if you can, you'll need all the help you can get. Full AF paladin REALLY helps here due to all the +enmity. Blinktanking would be nice, absorbing DD's, but there's no way a ninja could keep hate in this battle, you need to do too much damage to kill the sucker.

Everyone else, kill it as fast as possible. The longer it stays alive, the more chance the mages will run out of mp. Aggro control is gonna be REALLY tough, because your mages are going to be spamming cures so much, so in my personal opinion damage > hate control


If you do go in with an alliance at 55, prepare to die, we had one melee and our mages standing at the end, everyone else was the victim of dimensional death spam.

He drops the rare/ex head armor "Tavnazian mask" that is used in the whm AF3 quest.

I was in Fei-Yin the other day trying to finish teleport-vahzl quest and saw a /anon party of JP in AF armor kill this without much problem.

No other info =(