Vana'diel Bestiary: Ubume  

Just soloed as 75DRG/NIN. Easy solo with no items. I didnt use pots or food and basically wyvern did most of the work she resisted every lullaby. For the first 3/4 hp I basically was awake long enough for maybe one hit casting utsusemi and maybe a jump or spirit link about half way through. Had enough for Penta Thrust to finish it off in the end but all in all just sitting back watching the show XD too weak birdie or impossible to gauge wyvern you pick, I'll take it either way. Had over half my hp at end majority lost to spirit link.

Just soloed it on WHM75/NIN37 (Capped club + 1 merit).

I did it without poison potions. I prepared with the normal spells...stoneskin aquaveil utsusemi haste reraise III. Killed a Goblin Bouncer for 300% TP first, then rested up and casted the spells then popped Ubume.

(I just realized I didn't even have Protect up...wow, that was dumb xD)

At the beginning, the fight wasn't going so well. It got Lullaby off before I could initially silence it, which completely eliminates your shadows of course. So it swings away at me a few times...it only took it 3 hits to break my stoneskin...without protect up (since I was stupid) I was taking about 110-160 dmg a hit...ouch. So it wakes me up and I recast ni, stoneskin, then I pin silence, slow, and paralyze on it. I had no problem getting any enfeebs to stick (skill is 220 for reference purposes). Basically, silence just buys you more time until it recasts Lullaby. It seems to cast it whenever it can, but since it pretty much always hits, it really is best for it to be casting it less often.

After a while, I realized that the only thing Stoneskin was doing was preventing me from waking up faster after Lullaby was cast...so I stopped casting it. Yes, Not only did I not have protect up but I was not using Stoneskin anymore...completely Haste+shadow tanking it. (Suicidal, yaaay!)

The only big thing to worry about on this mob if you try to solo it on whm/nin is when it uses Triple Attack. I took 400+ dmg from this move when I only had 1 shadow left...not pretty.

It has pretty high defense...I ate attack food and still could only manage to do about 25-35 dmg a hit with a Darksteel Maul, with Hexa Strikes for 300-500 dmg. Haste, Silence, Paralyze, and Slow are the most important spells for this fight as whm/nin since you will need to be recasting Utsusemi as fast as possible, and trying to avoid losing your shadows until Lullaby inevitably removes them all. When you get slept, spam your Ni macro to try to get it recast as soon as you wake up from getting hit, then recast Silence immediately. Shadow tank it and poke it down...it has quite a bit of HP when you're doing so little damage so the fight took me about 10 minutes. Having a juice or a Body piece that grants refresh will help...I don't own one unfortunately and I was down to 80 MP at the end of the fight, and I'm a taru...so it's not easy. Good luck to all that attempt to solo it in this manner :)

Edit: I did use Benediction somewhere in the fight....I think it was after I took a Triple Attack for about 300 dmg and was down to red. I wanted to conserve my MP because it was down under 200 at that point. Nothing else important to mention now ^^;

Edited, Aug 13th 2007 5:28pm by Rensu

My LS and I were able to do this at a comparatively lower level.

54 sam/war
54 nin/war
54 whm/sum

It took two tries but we would have had it the first time had an elemental not popped up and attacked the whm. Our plan went like this, we used invis to get into the closed off cavern to the left of the hut, cleared out all the gobs, then waited for the first two gobs to spawn again so that they couldn't respawn during the NM fight and aggro. It was a pretty straight forward fight. The Whm, who stayed behind the NM to evade horde lullaby, kept constantly silencing it to reduce the lullabys effect. Sam and Nin heavily relied upon shadows and third eye to escape attacks and whm kept our HP relatively up. Took a while but didn't even need to two hour. Finished it fast enough to give time to buff up before we had to refight the gobs.

this stupid NM has a lot of defence/HP that as a nin i could solo him except he spams horde and i didnt have poison potions on me

poison potions od make a difference. its likely to go the whole fight without getting hit.

Edited, Dec 25th 2006 2:32pm by kisami

Just did this fight a few mins ago unsuccessfully, we got our asses handed to us, me and a 75 sam/nin..... a real big fan of horde lullaby, so friend called in another Sam and a rdm.....killed it in under a min. Defintaely something to silence the *******, and just be careful of elementals roaming around if you have magic users.

Lol, I saw someone drag this guy to zone, and I figured what the hell, I'll try it. Only after claim did I look up what it's was. (and the guy who pop'd it didn't come back). I solo'd to 3/4 hp and decided to zone and move on. I could have easily solo'd it as 75Brd/37Whm (woulda just taken a while).

Did this part last night for a friend.

60 PLD
74 RNG
61 THF
5x SAM (i can't remember Tsudao, I'm sorry ; ;)

Cleared the gobs, popped it, the fight was over shortly after. It wasn't hitting me hard at all, I don't remember Triple Attack doing a spectacular amount of damage. Just used regular fighting tactics, tho I remember the THF doing a Hide SATA somewhere near the beginning. I don't think you'd need alot of people for it, we would have been okay without the RNG and just having a healer.

U don't need massive amounts of ppl for this fight, just a tank who can take some hits and a few friends to hurt it. Having said that, the higher lvls of the few I brought did help.

pt setup:
61 pld (me, my sam is 52, but its easier to find help if you have a tank)
61 rdm
61 blm
53 drk

He hit me for about 50-70, so nothing unusually hard. A disortion SC by the drk and i (both at 300 tp), followed by a burst from the blm took away 1/3 - 1/2 its life, just simple fighting tactics after that.

It should be noted that you will have to clear the area before the fight, in our case 4 goblins and an elemental.

Good luck!

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