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Vana'diel Bestiary: Biast  

Family:Dragon
Found in:Xarcabard
Level:70
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Detects by Sound
  • Based on Dark
  • Weak against Light
Drops:
Updated: Sat Jul 5 04:09:39 2008

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General Information

Biast's Spawn Location
Biast's Spawn Location

  • Respawn window is approximately 21 hours after its last ToD, though it can take considerably longer before it actually spawns.

  • Has a potent intimidation effect.

  • Biast's physical attacks have an additional Terror effect that cannot be dispelled.

Biast Special Attacks

  • Petro Eyes: Frontal cone Gaze Petrification effect.

  • Voidsong: AoE Dispel and self target full status removal effects.

  • Chaos Blade: Frontal cone AoE physical damage with an additional Curse effect.

  • Lodesong: AoE Gravity effect.

  • Thornsong: Self target Blaze Spikes effect. (Effect can be dispelled).

  • Heavy Stomp: AoE physical damage with an additional Paralysis effect.

  • Body Slam: Massive AoE physical damage.

  • Wind Breath: Frontal cone AoE Wind based magic damage.

  • Poison Breath: Frontal cone AoE Water based magic damage with an additional Poison effect.

  • Flame Breath: Frontal cone AoE Fire based magic damage.

Historical Information

In Irish legend, the Biast is a giant serpent said to dwell in lakes.

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Holy crap..
# Oct 08 2005 at 11:49 PM Rating: Decent
Party setup: 75 DRG, 75 DRK, 75 SMN, 54 DRG, 54 WHM, 55 BLM. We were doin' the three NM's for G2 and were running across the snowy fields when we see a Shadow Dragon die. Someone in the party complains; "Man, we missed the Dragon." Biast pops and Aggros the DRK. Well, shut up, ****. X_X Whm dies. I (DRG54) am kiting this thing around; about a dozen people have made a circle around this little hole where we were fighting it, watching us suffer. The DRG started squawking to LS members who showed up immediately. I was subbing WHM, so I started raising people that died. It was a nightmare..all for 7 XP and 421 gil...and an hour of time wasted.

Add-on: Looks like this guy has a weird way of shifting his hate without really taking his attention from the tank. Standing there watching it, I noticed it's back leg kick someone standing behind it [ Wasn't my imagination because his head turned to look back each time he kicked ] then continued attacking the one infront of him with his foreclaws.

Edited, Fri Oct 21 01:14:58 2005
Holy crap..
# Oct 08 2005 at 11:43 PM Rating: Decent
Double Post.

Edited, Fri Oct 14 01:12:46 2005
Strike 4 ; ;
# Oct 07 2005 at 2:22 PM Rating: Decent
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Soooo I came this mother Monday and Tuesday for like 4-5hr made some money with the dark ele's around.... NO show bla bla.... I goto my Bro's B-day on WED and LS find and kill it... Just as i get home didnt get there in time to get to lot .... Oh well I have ToD... Camp it then >.>
This time while camping it LS are there with me helping out.. No Show... we wait 2 pops after the 24hr mark and left.
We started camping before the 21hr mark and he never showed past the 24hr mark ???
Anybody know the TRUE RESPAWN ??? I really really wish to get this helm...
Thanks
Surprising
# Oct 04 2005 at 10:52 AM Rating: Excellent
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So I'm in Xarc as a 75WHM, running to the outpost so I can get back to my starting town quickly. As I come over the hill I see a Shadow Dragon. "Hey, free money," I think; Stoneskin goes on, the club comes out, and I throw down a couple Hexa Strikes for the win.

I turn around and am walking away -- I see a Weapon I want to go pick on -- when all of a sudden something hits me from behind. wtf? I turn around and this bloody thing is standing there, gnawing happily on my shoulder.

I didn't last long; he had hit me 3x before the surprise factor wore off. Taru WHMs aren't made for that kind of fight. I put a call out to the LS; seven more people showed up.

PLD kited it around 'til everybody could assemble into teams, at which point they engaged and trashed the thing. It has a lot of HP, it has AOE Intimidation, it can paralyze and petrify. It also has a breath weapon attack that can sting if you aren't prepared to receive it (had it completely trash a low defense character).

Patroc. Helm dropped on our kill. Given that it's a rare/ex, the helm probably has a substantial drop rate.


The comment below about the spawn being 10 seconds after the Shadow Dragon kill is accurate. It may be slightly faster. Biast is aggressive and will gnaw upon ye at the first opportunity.


** One other consideration. Biast has some form of hate-reset that makes kiting difficult. A good PLD tanking straight up can deal with this, but he can definitely alter the target he's aimed at.

Edited, Tue Oct 4 12:01:37 2005
O.o Me wants
# Oct 03 2005 at 4:01 PM Rating: Default
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The Hq Sha'ir Head (+2%haste and other junk) for bard must be 100mil or so (none in AH history), cause the NQ head is 1mil. I really want this head piece to get my songs off faster. -5 enmity +2% haste is nice for bard.... Hope someday LS leave me some alone time to camp it ;p
1 day imma get either ToD or at least try to claim long enough for LS come and kill it ;p
Must have this ; ;

Edited, Mon Oct 3 17:18:28 2005
trio it
# Sep 19 2005 at 1:48 PM Rating: Decent
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WAR/NIN, BRD/WHM, WHM/BLM all 75

BRD was singing Mambox2 on me and even as WAR I was evading most of the hits, even with my hauby on.

The en-terror sucks big time as it also have hate reset when you get terrorized.

The "Intimate player" thing happens no matter what you are wearing, I have no cursed gear whatsoever on my WAR and still got intimidated a few times.

You also need a WHM for Stona and Haste.
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Biast
# Sep 14 2005 at 3:44 AM Rating: Decent
Was in Xarcabard on the way to Pso Xja, when i spot the Shadow Dragon. I'm there with a 75PLD/37WAR, WHM72/BLM36, NIN62/THF31, and myself RDM75/BLM37. We kill the dragon and we start walking off when i see the dragon pop behind me, i claimed it right away and died, then it almost killed the WHM, while the PLD took hate but had to zone as well due to the "Intimidate (paralyze effect)" he had kept him from curing his self. The nin took hate, and done well tanking it with haste and paralyna. It has bad accuracy, but its Intimidate effect is an AoE so mages with paralyne try to stay back. I am willing to bet a good duo could take it, not sure if any job could solo it, because of its paralyze effect.
RE: Biast
# Oct 07 2005 at 1:51 PM Rating: Decent
I wasnt wearing any crimson gear, the mob has a terrorize effect, so just fighting it makes you intimidated by its presence. Pops 10 secs after u kill the shadow dragon and its random, usually 21-24+hours.
RE: Biast
# Sep 16 2005 at 5:26 PM Rating: Decent
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When you wear Crimson armor it causes you to be intimidated by Dragon type mobs. Do you mean that, or actual paralyze?

Edited, Fri Sep 16 18:33:26 2005
RE: Biast
# Sep 18 2005 at 6:19 PM Rating: Good
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Actually, Crimson causes you to be Intimidated by Demons, It makes the person wearing it act as thought they were a Dragon, I think Biast might have the Innate ability to Intimidate Players a lot like Gration (Tatami Shield NM). Or he might have been wearing some other Type of Abjuration Gear that makes the User into a Demon
RE: Biast
# Sep 19 2005 at 7:59 PM Rating: Decent
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Ive fough this as BLM 75, it can intimidate you even if you are not wearing crimson. I want to say it intimidated my stun 2/3 tries. May have just been bad luck though.
RE: Biast
# Sep 19 2005 at 2:55 PM Rating: Good
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Actually, Crimson gear makes you intimidated by Dragons.
RE: Biast
# Nov 24 2006 at 11:22 PM Rating: Decent
kuronosan wrote:
Actually, Crimson gear makes you intimidated by Dragons.
No, Crimson makes you intimidated by Dragon Killer, a trait which all Demon-family mobs and Dragoons have.

An example would be a RDM, while wearing Crimson, trying to cure a DRG and being intimidated.
where is he?
# Sep 12 2005 at 6:30 AM Rating: Decent
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where in xarca is this located? <pos>
he does spawn after shadow dragon dies
# Sep 11 2005 at 12:06 AM Rating: Decent
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A few of my LS mates and me were taking some people to the batallia downs entrance to Eldeme for G1 lol... we see the shadow dragon .. like eh.. gil <all right> kill it then biast smacks our whm lol.... nin vokes we kill it, he has quite a bit of HP, probably around 20k+, if you want guaranteed win, extra tank, extra healer, but otherwise really easy lol. Good luck if you fight him :) Watch out for paralyze that + the terrorize thing can really kill a blink tank quick.
<Where>
# Aug 25 2005 at 5:38 PM Rating: Decent
Anyone know what this guys spawn patern is? like where and whats his pop time? any info would be great
RE: <Where>
# Aug 27 2005 at 3:19 PM Rating: Decent
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21-24 hour spawn. It spawns as lotto from Shadow Dragons. When you kill a Shadow Dragon, if Biast decides to spawn, he will spawn approximately 5-10 seconds after that one died around the spot it died at.
oops lol
# Aug 24 2005 at 3:50 AM Rating: Decent
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I got conned by my LS to take it down... actually one member... I was 54 at the time >.> didnt last long at all lol
oops lol
# Aug 24 2005 at 3:50 AM Rating: Decent
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I got conned by my LS to take it down... actually one member... I was 54 at the time >.> didnt last long at all lol
{Found it!}
# Aug 23 2005 at 6:55 AM Rating: Decent
My friend randomly found this guy running around. We quickly assembled like 10 people(didn't really need them all but asked in ls and they all wanted to try a new NM). 5 of us lotted for it and I got the helm ^^
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