Vana'diel Bestiary: Demonic Tiphia  

General Information

• Lottery spawn of the Wespe at (G-6)/(G-7) on the second map of Crawler's Nest.

Demonic Tiphia's Spawn Location

• When using the ability Wide Scan, the placeholder Wespe for Demonic Tiphia is the 4th one on the list.

• Aggressive and links to other bees.

• Susceptible to Sleep, Silence, and Paralyze, but quickly builds a resistance to Silence.

Demonic Tiphia Special Attacks

• Cure V: Large hp recovery effect.

• Paralyga: AoE Paralyze effect. (Circle of effect originates from spell target).

• Sleepga II: AoE Sleep effect. (Circle of effect originates from spell target).

• Erase: Status removal effect. (Can remove a single status enfeeble that cannot be removed by the -na family of spells).

• Sharp Sting: Single target physical attack.

• Pollen: Self target hp recovery effect.

• Demonic Tiphia is capable of recovering large amounts of hp with this ability (up to 3,000-4,000 hp recovery).

• Final Sting: Strong single target physical damage. Damage is proportional to the remaining hp of the monster prior to Final Sting.

• Using Final Sting kills the bee following the damage being inflicted to the target.

Historical Information

The tiphiidae is a family of large, solitary wasps whose larvae act as ectoparasitoids to various beetle larvae.

The term demonic is in reference to a demon, or to mean something cruel, malicious, or having other qualities associated with demons or hell.