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Vana'diel Bestiary: Spotter  

Family:Ahriman
Found in:Horlais Peak
Level:23
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Linking
  • Detects by Sight
  • Detects by Sound
  • Based on Dark
Drops:
Involved in Quests:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

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party of 2
# Feb 26 2009 at 4:22 PM Rating: Decent
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whm/smn
mnk/war <-- me

smn buffs then just kept me healed (ready for paralyna cause of spotter)
when spotter is 3/4 dead, I pop on 2hr, and its cake from there.

I had a grilled hare, he had yagudo drink; just in case
easy
# Jan 26 2005 at 8:57 AM Rating: Decent
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mnk/war
rdm/whm
war/mnk

so easy..sleep dragon normal attacks to seeker.when hes dead..both mnk and war 2hr dragons dead bout 10 secs later.
cake
# Nov 02 2004 at 3:52 PM Rating: Decent
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whm/blm
rdm/war... no armor crappy sword
war/mnk

such an easy fight

strat: rdm sleeps dragon, war tanks, whm cures... cake
Easy
# Oct 07 2004 at 5:06 PM Rating: Default
I had so much fun with this battle. The party was just five of us.

25 Monk <-- me as Vykk
25 Warrior <--Neverborn
25 White mage <--Kiar
25 Warrior
25 can't remember what

the plan was for me to use my 2 hr on the spotter, one warrior provoke the dragon, but still fight the Spotter instead (seeing as we had no blm for sleep) then 2 hour the dragon after spotter is dead. We showed up in the room and I immediately rushed in and started attacking the spotter while everyone else went in the room. In about three hits I already knocked the thing down to a quarter health.

I would have turned around to continue hundred fisting the dragon but the spotter made my feet stick to the floor so I couldn't turn around. However the rest 2 houred the dragon and knocked it out pretty easily, didn't get the record by like 15 seconds. But anyways, way too easy a fight whm barely had to cure the warrior.
good tip for pt to get a good record
# Oct 06 2004 at 2:02 PM Rating: Default
I say have a pt consist of the following:
Level doesn't matter as long as you are all 25!

Whm/blm!
War/mnk or nin!
Drg>>>>>Obvious
Sam
Sam
and lastly any job prefrably another whm or rdm

Ok heres the plan! WHM heals the ppl attacking the dragon <DON"T SLEEP IT>
Drg grabs aggro from Dragon
War provokes if Drg is getting hit too much

The two Sams go after the eye! Eyes are considered Demons so lol and the 2nd mage heals them as they share aggro from the eye. with this done you should beat them in record time!
monk 2hr yay
# Oct 06 2004 at 1:11 PM Rating: Decent
if ur monk just hundread fist eye then drg ^^
can you...
# Jul 08 2004 at 9:49 PM Rating: Decent
Can you charm spotters as a bst?

Edited, Thu Jul 8 22:50:29 2004
RE: can you...
# Oct 06 2004 at 12:29 AM Rating: Decent
nope, he's considered a beastman, which you also cant charm.
#Anonymous, Posted: Feb 13 2004 at 7:52 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) um.....DUH
strategies against Spotter
# Feb 08 2004 at 3:12 PM Rating: Decent
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Between the two (Spotter and the Dread Dragon), Spotter is definitely the more annoying due its AOE spells. Although Spotter is highly resistant to magic, silence has seemingly a 50/50 chance of success against it (I've done the dread dragon mission 3 times, and if Silence didn't work the first time, it worked the second time when I recast it...by then it was a moot point since it was already just about dead with lvl 25 tanks hitting it :P). Casting silence will eliminate the annoying AOE spells, thus keeping the fighters relatively healthy for when they turn their attention to the Dread Dragon. Any other good strategies out there?
RE: strategies against Spotter
# Jul 24 2004 at 6:02 PM Rating: Decent
ok.. this fight is uber easy.

Party setup

25 SAM
20 MNK
25 DRG <~me
24 WHM

Before the cap we all ate food. Mithkabobs for the SAM and MNK, Boiled Crab for me.

I was wearing a friends +1 Beetle armor, for evasion. Also had evasion + earings.

SAM meditated to 300% tp. We went at the dragon.

SAM and MNK took the eye. I used Ancient Circle, and voked the dragon.

I didnt have a problem keeping hate from the dragon. And about every other hit it was intimidated by me. And most of the time it missed.

Both the eye and the dragon went down at about the same time. Took us about 2 1/2 minutes. We just barely missed the record - 5-10 seconds slow. ><

Point of this post? BLM sleeping the dragon is over rated. Same as a full party. Dont need to stress over finding the perfect party to kill this dragon.

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RE: strategies against Spotter
# May 22 2004 at 4:09 PM Rating: Decent
Best results I've ever gotten are to sleep the dragon first. ;)

Sleep the dragon, smash the eye.

It's all very simple that way. I've done the 2/3 Mission with only three people before using this method (War, Thf, and myself as Blm/Whm).
RE: strategies against Spotter
# Jul 16 2004 at 3:37 AM Rating: Decent
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I agree on this Sleep the dragon then kill the Eye.

As RDM I am often asked for this quest and i have done it about 16 times now (7 times one one day).

Last time was with a 3 man party.
Pal24/War12
Sam24/Nin12
Rdm25/Blm12 <me>

I slept the dragon, cast regen on both and the sam and pal killed the Eye VERY quick without actually taking lethal damage. They had each eaten a Chief Mithkabob. I was healing my MP meanwhile and keeping an eye on the dragon which slept soundly.
I healed & buffed up everyone after the Eye was dead and we took down the Dragon. Sam used 2H, we killed the eye and dragon in 3:55 which also registered as the new record.

Yours truly, Xora
Bismarck server
Fights with the Dread Dragon
# Dec 02 2003 at 1:58 PM Rating: Decent
The "Spotter" summons the Dread Dragon at the Burning Circle of Horlais Peak.
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