Vana'diel Bestiary: Glyryvilu  

Pretty easy for a 75BRD/37NIN. I kept shadows up and would sometimes Shadowstitch him to bind him and run away to keep fresh songs and shadows up. Took about 10 or 15 minutes. Not too bad. Didn't Requiem him just in case I needed to zone. He hit me once when shadows were down with Cross Counter for nearly 500 damage.

I was soloing on BST when I saw this guy. I sent a pet after it and when I realized I was gonna die I zoned. I ran to Norg and switched to my 75 THF. Everything was going well until his first Cross Counter did me 522 dmg killing me. Don't underestimate this guy because cross counter hurts especially if you a tarutaru. Good thing my LS buddy Departure came to raise me. He then proceeded to kite it to death naked on his rdm. Thanks buddy!

So im running thru SSG with wifey's char (mithra 75rdm/nin) doing sahagin key quest for her (she hates SSG) and i see the ????.

Me: *pokes the ????*
????: "INTENSZ DREADZ UPON jOO fOO!!11!"
Me: "Oh &%$#"
I hit it with sleep II and get my crap together. I had around 50% mp (270ish) so i rested a tick. Linkshell had no clue what lvl it was, but a 75 nin said he had solo'd easily. It woke up when I had ~350 MP, and I buffed and went to work.

1st off, Cross Reaper sux ***..It ate thru fresh stoneskin and piled on 150-300 xtra dmg with prot IV and phalanx. I was hitting around 75+ 18 addt. effect from enblizzard with each sword. I took maybe 4 cross reapers, one taking me down to 300 hp w/no shadows O.o

After ~5 min, i was almost dead, and i was outta MP...I was waiting for a few more clicks of refresh so I could convert+cure III at least, but it was so low i tried to just kill it off. I won with 400 hp and 51 MP. Waay too close considering there were two lvl 50ish bst watching, waitin to /lol @ a dead 75 rdm!

But i won, and got this halfway decent (although cheap) shield to show for it. If you plan to fight this, have a way to absorb 500-900dmg TP attacks or it could get ugly.

-peace

Soloed as SMN75 with one yagudo drink, a dark staff, a raven beret, and basically, nothing else (no SMN merits either).

Screenshot log of the fight.

I came prepared... i am a lvl 66 thf/nin... came with 3 X Potions, ate sole sushi, used a scroll or reraise, got Protect and Shell IV from a PLD fishing nearby wich helped alot... had sleep bolts but i only used bloody bolts... i didnt call my npc, and i built up full TP before the fight. I used Dancing Edge at the begining of fight and at about 86% TP it used Cross Attack for the first time, and i guess i only had one shadow up it did 700 damage, and was left with about 350hp... it has bad accuracy so keeping shadows up wasnt that hard, but i used a X potion then and kept spaming bloody bolts, Dancing Edge, and kept shadows up... i was around 700-900 HP the rest of the figth untill it was down to about 5%hp and went alittle nuts, and got me down to 400 HP by using Maelstrom followed by Cross Attack, at wich point i decided to use Perfect Dodge cuz losing at that point would just suck... killed it 15 seconds later... used all my X potions and about 40 bloody bolts. Just wanted to share incase anyone was thinking about soloing it. It was a fun fight.

I was in here killing Sahagin for Eastern Gems when I came across the ???. Being the dumbass that I am a gave it a little poke. I saw the message about a feeling of dread and remembered the quest. I knew there was no way in hell a 66drk/23thf could take it so I ran like a little girl for norg, almost made it too. Luckily a buddy was nearby and gave me a raise.

You'd think after incidents across Vanadiel I would have learned one thing during my game life.. Do.. Not.. Touch.. Random.. ???... I was 60BLU/WHM heading to the silver engraving room to try to learn Hydro Shot. Saw the ??? not to far from the zone. Ho-ho? What's this? The only ??? I know of is that Undying Pledge quest with that really scary NM, but that's further in right? I'll just poke it, prolly get Nothing out of the ordinary message. Instead: Your body goes numb with dread! (It really did too as I immediately realized what was about to happen!) It spawned in all its blue glory. I had just gotten through fighting Anemones nearby for Bad Breath, so I coincidentally had Prot 2 and a Tavnazian Taco up, and was wearing an Earth staff. I quickly cast Cocoon, and watched my pretty DEF soar to a respectable 536. Started running like crazy to the zone, then I realized he was only hitting me for 20 dmg. I figured 'This guy's a pushover, the malboros were hitting me harder'. Swapped out to Sword and shield (Varlet Targe, Blu gets the shaft on shields) and turned to engage in mortal struggle. Started chipping away for about 50 dmg a hit, preparing for my lovely Red Lotus Blade => Dimensional Death => Fusion. Got him to 90%, I had 60% TP. He chooses Cross Attack as his first TP move.. 807.. 60 Taru BLU/WHM 1 shot from 100%. Must.. Touch... ??? /cry /delevel

Update! A rdm/nin was strolling through the area, did same thing I did, touched for the hell of it. Barely won, and gave me a raise with 2 minutes left to spare! Got my lvl back! TY!

Edited, Jul 18th 2006 at 3:26am EDT by Chocotaku

Solo'd as 75DRG/WHM. Had Stoneskin, Blink, ProtectII, ShellII and Reraise (:p) up just in case. He hit me for a good 700-800 with his first Cross Attack then I used my wyvern to heal myself. After a couple hits, wyvern took hate then wyvern gets hit for about 700-800 cross attack and to my surprise is still alive. Desperately tried to get hate back but as /whm it's not easy. Finally after a few more hits I get hate back and wham another bloody cross attack. Took me down to about 100 or so hp but I didn't panic through the whole fight and I ended up taking him down. Don't underestimate this NM if you try to solo it. It's normal attacks and Whirlwind are not a huge problem but Cross Attack kills.

ok, so i get bored while waiting for my sam quests 1day passes, and i start askin around norg for a quest or 2, well here i go accepting this quest and running out, start searching ssg for a while looking for anything suspicious and i suddenly see a ???, so of course i click it as 62rdm/31blm and ther it is, a mf sea monk appears, of course i wasnt actually expecting it and i had no buffs up, so ther i go trying to cast buffs/refresh/regen/phalanx etc etc with him hacking away with 100dmg at a time, finally gget buffs up with about 200hpleft(by this time i had taken around 300 off him with sword attacks) so now i start a castin, t2 b2 etc taking him down to half life, and suddenly outa nowhere he AoE'd me......ther goes stoneskin/blink/phalanx with that one thing, mp reaches 80 so i convert/cureIV barely just before he hit me again and guess what, another Aoe! <me> takes 500 damage, so thers me healin again, castin t2/b2/s2 until mp reaches 123, by this time hes got little life but i dont hav anything else to do other than warp my butt outa ther, yea, i ran, but i lived ^^ just stay away from this thing unless ur reli sure u can take it, AND BE PREPARED!!!

Soloed as THF65 by the skin of my teeth. He was missing most of his attacks, but his AoE attacks would strip my shadows leaving me open for Cross Attack, which did 585 damage each hit. Thank god for Perfect Dodge, Utsusemi, Evasion, Bloody Bolts, and for eating sushi beforehand (HP boost). Finished fight with 5 HP left.

So I get bored right so I'm like in the LS and say who wants to kill an NM...my 52 BLM friend is like lets go...so off go the brothers grimm. 52 Blm and 67 Drk/war. We get him the quest and head off...300 tp to start and blam spinning slash + souleater an easy 1k down. Take a cross attack thingy....700 dmg....ouch....Heal up with drain and my bro helpin out....Last resort + spinning slash another 1k dmg. He's periodically nukin and curin. So blam another cross attack 500 somethin dmg ouch...I look up tp at 86 pop bloodweapon...cross attack I'm alive with 100 hp. Iggy manafont cures me I'm slappin him to get HP...look at tp 100% and BW still on....needed the HP so decided to hold off...blam cross attack dead drk....dead blm...back to 66 drk. Oh well...fun fight....probably coulda killed it with one more spinning slash...but lessons learned....he hurts a lot.

ROFL
ROFL
ROFL

...

One fine day, I was taking a little stroll through Sea Serpent's Grotto to get to Norg, took a little turn to check out the place a bit since I've never actually explored it before.

I see an innocent little ???, and think hmm, what could this be? I touch it, and to my surprise, a Sea Monk spawns!!!

I was all like O.O and he was all like <~~~~~(^_^)~~~~~>
with all of his tentacles and whatnot. Then he slaps me around for about 60 damage a hit! Well, I think, oh this guy should be a breeze, I'm subbing WHM so if things get rough, I'll just Divine Seal a cure on myself. So I start chippin' away at him for about 140 damage a whack. then.. out of nowhere..

WHACK!!!!

The Glyryvilu uses Cross Attack. Tiroth takes 952 damage.
Tiroth is defeated by the Glyryvilu.
Tiroth falls to level 59.

...
...
...

/l OMFG SONOFA WTF DAMN HOLY F*CKIN SH*T!!!!!!!!!!
*Numerous ?'s*
/l I HATE FISH!!!!!


Well, a kind WHM by the name of Kolaan strolls by and offers me a Raise 2 (Thanks again ^^), but I still delvl :'(

Moral of the story: DON'T TOUCH SH*T THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU!

i soloed it with a 72 pld/nin and didnt really have a hard time.

the ninjutsu debuffs seemd to stick first try and his acc is terrible.

he died and no xp gain, watched a pt of 4 lvl 55-60s kill him easily after with a sam tanking.