Vana'diel Bestiary: Absolute Virtue  

go kill some more brass quadavs or something, they still give good xp at your level

Ok look at the AV dead picture, Now when a mob dies it creates tremendous lag due to all the lines of code that are made to run at that time, also a system cannot remember what just ahppenned unless made into the code considering that I never find my connection to FF11 fixing its own connection problems due to the amout of lag on my connection as its own im geussing the FF11 developement team dident program that in. Look at the top right of the picture.... The connection seems to be peeking, now i look in the picture itself, there are about id say 50-75 people there, Im thinking that connection is unrealistic and I find this picture doctured, although im sure when going into that kidn of fight a dedicated player would spend as much as nessasary to acheive a connection worthy of Zeus, Im sure this happenned useing a glicth, or not. (Although techniquely breaking the FF11 User Agreement). Im just saying I feel weird about the connection in the picture.

Time to update the drop list -.-

Congrats! Apathy! Well Done!

Wow, the demon is dead. The people who did it will become gods among men.

Apathy, HNMLS on Remora, winning pics. ^^

AV at 1% - http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/1170/av16ul.jpg

AV dead - http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1747/av03hz.jpg

Edit: Pics were eating up my site's bandswidth.. Switched to free hosting.

Edited, Thu Mar 23 22:38:29 2006

the linkshell "Apathy" on remora just defeated AV about 2 minutes ago. i'm sure you'll hear all about it shortly though.

Edited, Sat Mar 18 22:19:47 2006

This is from theorder forums. Everyone should give these dudes props that are on Odin Server. Limibreak is the LS name and they were up for almost 30 hours fighting/sac AV. Here is the summary of the fight from Auronku:

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Recap of the fight:

When we first popped AV, we held him with Shadowbinds as you guys know, this strat worked impeccable. During this time he did random 2 hours and summoned the wynavs. We kept working on killing wynavs and other aerns that linked while keeping him under control. At about the 3-4 hour mark, we noticed that he had not summoned wynavs, 2-houred, or cast magic in a long time. We were organizing a tank pt to try an assault on him and then we had the call for help. He got his magic back because of the regen from being unclaimed we're assuming. We attempted to run him out of mp again by shadowbinding for another 2-3 hours and aspiring him as much as we could but it seemed futile. This is when people needed sleep.

At this time 3-4 people went to change to low level jobs and a couple stayed to raise us, and we were able to hold him overnight like this. I slept at about 8am my time until about noon and came back to find us still fighting. We had moved him just west of the entrance to Al'Taieu into a north covey to try to avoid the linking aerns. He was just the same as the night before with the magic, but no 2-hour/wynavs. We resumed the shadwobind strat and tried to run him out of MP, still wasn't working. Then we tried to put a dent in him to see if it affected the regen and took him to 96% with blms going crazy on him. Then they wiped and he just regened. We had decided to call it quits at this point and he was damn near about to despawn when Orfeo asked us to try the wall thing so we had to sac him from K-12 to E-8.

He arrived at the wall and I was skeptical, until I saw his reaction at the first nuke that hit him, it was brilliant, he just stood there eating the damage with no means of fighting back. The linkshell was going crazy, people who had left rushed back out. From 100% to 60% there was nothing special about him, he was a huge pacifist and could do nothing against the blms. At 60% though he did some sort of animation that resembles the Aern cocoon motion only it was different colors and is hard to describe. This is when he 2 houred for the first time in well over 18 hours. He without a doubt entered a second form at this stage.

The BLMs continued to nuke him while he started spamming off 2 hours until the inevtiable 44,000 hp benediction at around 51%. A lot of people's hearts sank upon seeing that, but we were convinced we could just bring it down again and hopefully he would not benediction again. We learned that it's imperative noone on the South Side of Al'Taieu get hate from him because this gives him a target for meteor and it will hit the black mages on the other side. I don't think this is foolproof but he meteored far less when he was mad at someone on the north side than the south side, and I would guess cause he was out of range.

Some of the patters he exhibited:
1. Call Wyvern was alywas 6 wynavs and was always followed by familiar, and astral flow. This made the wynavs take around 20 or so -ga spells to dispatch of. We tried to time how long between when he summoned wynavs and we killed them and he summoned more. One estimate we got was 4 minutes and 30 seconds from the time he summons wynavs, not when the wynavs died.
2. Hundred Fists and Mighty Strikes were used together.
3. He used both Manafont+Perfect Dodge combo , and Manafont+Chainspell. Although throught the whole fight his spells had always been insta cast so wtf on Chainspell.
4. He always always always used Invincible right before benediction and the mijiin gakure right after, so if we had found a way to stun him, and it's possible to stun his 2 hours, we would have been golden.
5. He likes to do comet -> comet -> meteor. Figuring this out was big so BLMs could move out of range when we started to see comet.
6. He hardly ever used soul voice
7. He used a couple other melee 2 hours together that i can't recall; something like Meikyo Shisui to Blood Weapon or something of the sort, but always in the pattern.

We figured if we treated him like the other form that we could keep taking down the wynavs and eventually he would stop, but it didn't work out that way. We were able to avoid meteor for the most part, unless someone on the south side pulled hate, but occasionally he'd move into the wall like halfway across it and his meteor would be in range of the BLMs. Sometimes the Wynavs would get stuck in the wall too and were in casting range and did aga IIIs onto the BLMs. Aggroing the wynavs from the south side seemed to link hate with AV, but there were some instances where this didn't hold up. Pulling him back to wall was tough because in this form when you went to sac him he liked to do meteor, and if he had the wynavs it just made it harder. The Wynavs move as fast as flee.

After repeating the process of pulling him back to the wall and nuking him down as far as we could, and having him benedicton probably 10 times never letting us get him past 72% in the second form we were out of options. We tried one last thing which was to flat blade stun him with a justice sword but even with sneak attack the stun effect did not go off with the Weaponskill. We had foughten for 28 or so hours at that paint and were stumped so we let him go. Watching him depop was horrible, I felt a lot of hate towards SE at this time, because for all the lost exp and all the time we spent fighting him, we deserved to win, but SE is gonna tell me that a mob who benedictions at will and can't be stopped from doing it is killable.

One thing to keep in mind on the wall thing is how pacified this mob was. He and his wynavs might as well been a stationary group of mobs that blms could fire at will at and receive nothing in return. It would be absolutely impossible, I believe to deal with AV attacking you and the wynavs spawning. If we had had him in the old spot and somehow gotten him to that form, we would have died immediately. So essentially SE has created a mob that you can pacify to the point that he can't fight back, and you can nuke til your hearts content on, yet he will never die because of benediction. SE's given us a great game to play, but concerning this NM they can go **** themselves. There should not be mob in this game that is without a doubt unkillable, or have the capability of firing 2 hours at will.

this thing does benediction at 51% and recover 40k+ HP

So this guy is the top of the food chain eh?? Hopefully someday I'll have the honor of getting kicked around by him too.... Till then Quadav's will have to do.

Where does Alla get this info on drops? Av is undefeated. ???