Vana'diel Bestiary: Odqan  

Have to post this because it was very unusual. Was camping Odqan just now. Had killed him the day before with no drop so was standing around mostly afk waiting for the next day. I heard he does not like to pop the day after he was killed if you happen to get fog both days. Seems true to my experience but I was waiting anyway.

Next day we get heavy, unmistakable fog in the early morning about 3:00, and all the Atomic Clusters pop but no Odqan. I widescanned all over that place. Camping as 70THF/35RNG btw. No Odqan. So I figure he is done for that day. I go afk for about 2 minutes, came back and sat down and it was still heavy fog and getting close to 7:00. Was going to widescan once more for good measure and before I do I see him floating off just to my west...just abit over an hour since he was last killed. Busted his little butt and he dropped Bravo!

I promise you he did not pop when the other clusters did. All I can figure is either the fog died and then came back up while I was afk and that popped him, or, he just decided to pop because it was still foggy and his repawn was up. Personally I dont think the fog left the area. It was thick when I left and just as thick when I sat back down. If the latter is true that puts his respawn at about 1 hour. Of course, the chance of fog back to back like that is slim to none so it hardly matters.

Point being dont give up if he doesnt spawn right away with the other clusters. Remain vigilant until 7:00 or 8:00.

Soloed him as a 60 thf 30 nin. It took him about 2 min to get down each set of shadows. I put up 3 sets. It hit in between 37-57. took me 6 min. I didn't see any fog. Just kinda bumped into him.

Edited, Jan 6th 2009 2:09am by synasta

Well I killed this thing a dozen times, only got the drop once. Anyway just an advice to thfs that solo it : do *not* Hide during the fight. If you Hide just for 1/5 sec and foggy weather is gone, Odqan will depop. Learnt that the hard way; so yea forget about SA + Hide, it is *not* a good idea x.x

Well, I camp this NM often and recieved the drop 4 times. For all those with a moonphase fetish, 2 of those drops were on Windsday, Waxing Crescent Phase, around 30%

i am currently NIN55 could i solo this? please let me know.

You can npc the ring for a little more than 11K. Usually better than AH price. If you really want to hunt the subligar and follow the average luck, you might end up with some of those. Happy camping.

How often is it foggy in misaxure coast? i've never seen it so far :P

So i only just got access to Tavnazia Region. I camp this several hours for one day, log off. Get on the next day, wait an hour. No pop. Go out, come back, wait a few mins w/ RNG sub as 60 PLD. Widescan and he's moving about unclaimed :D. So i run toward him, finally after a few sec he falls into view. Claim with flash, start fighting it out. So all goes to plan, i get him down alot easy, he gets me down a bit, i heal up... Then, he blows up his first bomb. >< It hits me for 100-200-ish DMG, but i'm too busy, watching the drop rate slowly fall. He blows up his second bomb. Whack, 500hp down... Finally i cast cureIV with 24 HP left... Smack... Dead. I learned a valueable lesson from this >.>. I should have called out my NPC, buffed up, had WAR sub and hopefully "Accidentally" bumped into him. And last of all, i should've Invincibled before he did that last hit >.>. Lesson learned ><

This guy is like my Moby ****... There is some discussion about what the lowest lvl is that can solo him... I can at least tell you that a 50 rng/thf can NOT solo him, I got my *** handed to me twice... and it's that much more difficult due to the fact that almost everything in the area will agro you at 52. However, I'm creeping up on 60rng and I've read some stuff about 60thfs soloing him in straight forward fights. Does anyone with any first-hand knowledge think that I could solo Odqan as a 60rng/thf by spamming sleep bolts? The sleep bolt method is what I tried to use before but they would only proc about 2/3 of the time, and my accuracy was maybe 4/5 ; ;. I'm thinking at 60 nothing will agro (from what I've read) and higher stats should help proc rate, and acc boost + AF body will help incredibly with my accuracy. Anybody think this will/wont work? I dont really wnat to die again >.>

UPDATE: I did manage to more or less solo him as a 60rng/thf. I saw him on WS so I hit flee and ran over to shadowbind him. Called my NPC, hit him with an acid bolt, and the 300% slugshot I'd had saved up then went to work with sleep bolts. Occasionally he would wake up and hit me, it was pretty even for about 5 min until I shadowbound him again and spammed bloody bolts at him (During this time my NPC cast Protect2 and Cure3 on me... then other random buffs on himself -_-). slugshot again while he was bound then returned to sleep bolts. At the end he seemed to be resisting the bolts a little, not much, 1 or 2 hit without procing, so I EESed and engaged to finish him off thf style by spamming bloody bolts.... No drop >_< 0/1

Edited, Mon May 29 14:05:07 2006

Well I have been camping this NM or just reg clusters for 8 freaking hours now and have not seen one spawn despite having rng subbed and knowing all the spawn locations of these bombs. I need cluster cores for the snoll fight but 8 hours of camping isn't worth this. Can someone possibly shed some light on wether theirs a catalyst that launches this "Fog" effect that everyone speaks of or if it's so random that the area can go over a game week without fog.

Thank you

I have fought this guy many of times in the last 2 days. he is highly under campped which makes him a fun NM to farm.

his drop rate sucks *** on the subligar.

im 62thf/31RNG and he has dropped 2 rings and alot of cluster cores..

im still waiting on the pants since they r 4-5 mil on quetz, that should be enough for arrows till lvl 75.... HOPEFULLY.

He spawns every anywhere in between 2 am and 8 am game time.

usually every few hours.
foggy weather out here has many different lvl of fog.

some days it doesnt look like fog but he is still there.
he has 5-7 different spawns points depending o how many atomic clusters spawn per shot

Aaarrrghhhh! I was wandering around Misareaux coast and had like, 150ish MP. So I thought I'd rest up and try and fight him (as 68 RDM), and nobody else had come running towards him. So I started healing but an orc aggroed me, and by the time I finished the orc, Odqan was gone =( I broke various expensive things around my house.

I hate this NM so much... 0/3 so far, camped for about 4 days. I've seen fog 5 times out of around 30 mornings... weather ***** doesn't help either. Half the time it's foggy when she says there's no chance of sunshine. "wtfm8"

Fight is easy as a 62 Thf/Rng. Spam bloodies, lots of evasion, you're fine. It's good stuff. Just.. needs to drop the subligar now.

EDIT: 0/4 drops, 4/5 claims.

Edited, Sat Sep 17 21:09:42 2005