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Vana'diel Bestiary: Serket  

Family:Scorpion
Found in:Garlaige Citadel
Level:70
Grants Title:Serket Breaker
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Detects by True Sound
  • Based on Earth
  • Weak against Ice
  • Weak against Light
  • Strong against Darkness
  • Strong against Water
Drops:
Updated: Mon Jul 13 05:37:26 2009

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Serket in Garlaige Citadel

  • Spawns in the basement level from areas (F-7) to (H-8) or from (H-6) to (I-7) of Garlaige Citadel.

Serket's Spawn Location
Serket's Spawn Location

  • Respawn is 21-24 hours after its last ToD.

  • Will "Rage" twenty minutes after it is first engaged unless it is killed first or all players with hate are killed or leave the zone and Serket's hp regenerates.

  • Grants title: Serket Breaker

Serket in Ghoyu's Reverie

  • Appears in Ghoyu's Reverie as a result of being warped there by the Sandworm ability, Doomvoid.

  • The Serket that appears in Ghoyu is a more powerful version of the one that appears in Garlaige Citadel, and this battle is on a 60 minute timer, after which you will be warped out.

  • As the battle continues, Poison effects on players consistently increases.

Serket Special Attacks

  • Earthbreaker: AoE Earth based magic damage with an additional Stun effect.

  • Venom Storm: AoE Poison effect. (Poison is extremely potent, doing roughly 20-30 hp/tic of damage)

  • Stasis: Single target Paralysis effect with an additional Enmity reset effect.

  • Venom Sting: Single target physical damage with an additional Poison effect.

  • Evasion: Self target Evasion boost. (Effect can be dispelled).

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

  • Critical Bite: Strong single target physical damage.

    • Only performed by the Serket that appears in Ghoyu's Reverie.

  • Bindga: AoE Bind effect (Circle of effect originates from spell target).

  • Graviga: AoE Gravity effect (Circle of effect originates from spell target).

    • Only performed by the Serket that appears in Ghoyu's Reverie.

Historical Information

In Egyptian mythology, Serket was the goddess of scorpions, often taking the form of one, or when it suited her, the form of a woman with a scorpion on her head. She was able to dissipate the effects of any poison, not limited to snake bites and scorpion stings, and was capable of protecting her kinsmen from the venomous excretions of mythical creatures. As such, she was often called upon to guard the serpent god Apophis whenever the great beast was captured.

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i hate this dude
# Jul 17 2005 at 5:41 AM Rating: Decent
well back when i was hunting my coffer i came down here as a pld / whm he poped right next to me. next thing i know i'm bombarded with /tells calling me a bot because i just happened to be right next to him <btw this is beranger's rl friend i helped him get his gallant coronet> i swear i almost cussed everyone out.
Haha
# Jul 15 2005 at 7:48 AM Rating: Decent
Yeah the same went for Remora, in a exp party like 5 in the morning 48 at the time so everything was fine and normal. Before you knew it, out of nowhere like 20 people show up, and I was wondering what the hell was going on, never heard of this NM (yeah, I know I'm a blonde).
So then we continued exping then before you know it after we kill a bat, everything goes quiet and dark, I got scared, looked over and there's this huge scorpion! I screamed for a second but everyone pull backed to the steps and being a curious kitty I head in a little to watch the fight. Right after I saw like 5 people dead figured it was a PT because Serket was taken but went back to being free.
Then I found out why everyone was watching from the stairs, his AoE hit me for 350+ -.- Nearly everyone died who was fighting him then the last party won. They got a ring I suppose because they all cheered and hurrayed. Now that I found out about him by site instead of this scorpion, can't to see how many times I'll die trying to get him. ^^
soloing
# Jul 05 2005 at 6:33 AM Rating: Decent
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This guy has tons of HP. As far as I'm concerned, the only jobs that could solo this guy are RDM/NIN, NIN/WHM or /RDM, and maybe NIN/WAR with lots of medicines.

It's possible for PLD to tank him if you're with a party/alliance, but prepare to cure a LOT. End.
soloing
# Jul 03 2006 at 12:24 AM Rating: Decent
THF can easily solo this, infact, its the only job ive ever seen it, someone on my server use to get the pull almost every day and solo it, as a THF
Good Fight
# Jul 01 2005 at 8:07 PM Rating: Decent
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Hehe, this 'fo popped as I (as 48PLD) was EXP partying. I would estimate a good 50-60 people were camping this thing, though I dont know how many were with others. When it popped, all I saw was this HUGE shadow appear across the screen.

I gotta admit, as soon as it popped and claimed I ran as close to it as possible (hell, I was gonna die anyway so I thought I'd get a good seat to watch the fight from). Quite suprisingly it took 3 "Jump" (dont know the name, but it jumped, landed and damged everything in it's path) AoE's to kill me (2 hurt me in the high 300s, the last one finished me off) but it was a great fight to watch. My entire party died who weren't even on my screen so the AoE's go quite far. After the fight (went on for nearly 10 mins. with about 4 people fighting it) the place went quiet, except for an iddle-biddy WHM taru who came 'round and raised all the innocents :-). Boy were there a lot of them...

Edited, Fri Jul 1 21:09:27 2005
my first meeting with Serket
# Jul 01 2005 at 6:38 PM Rating: Decent
Leveling there as RDM48 and it killed us more than once...
AOE is about 450-70HP and the poison is -10 per tick!

No fun, if you try to raise your BLM for a Escape twice and he dies immediately afterwards again. :(

BTW after whole party was killed because the LS with LVL75s had to kill it in front of us, the WHM75 wouldn´t even give us a R2, not speaking of R3 and kept telling us, Raise2 makes no difference for us, cause we are too low-level... :/

Edited, Fri Jul 1 19:38:58 2005
RE: my first meeting with Serket
# Aug 03 2005 at 12:09 PM Rating: Decent
Just to let you know, Raise 2 does not do any more that Raise until you are lvl 51 so the whm didnt do anything wrong.
RE: my first meeting with Serket
# Jul 03 2006 at 12:25 AM Rating: Decent
Raise 2 works under 51, ive tested it, raise 3 doesnt work under 51
RE: my first meeting with Serket
# Jul 10 2006 at 7:15 PM Rating: Decent
Yep, raise II does work below 51, it starts to work at lvl 50 o.o;. I have tested it out as well, and it does nothing with xp prior to lvl 50, though it may shorten weakness time(I didn't think to check the clock). Theres a nice xp/loss chart at http://www.iluvitar.com/sections/ffxi/exp/exp_chart.html
RE: my first meeting with Serket
# Feb 19 2006 at 5:09 PM Rating: Default
I have heard R2 shorten's Weakness time. But ive only heard it, havent actually spent my time, to die and time Weakness >_>.
RE: my first meeting with Serket
# Feb 09 2006 at 1:37 PM Rating: Decent
im not 100% sure i heard it goes by your tnl so yes it is possible that raise II would have made a slight difference not much but a slight one.
My experience with this HNM
# May 19 2005 at 10:10 PM Rating: Decent
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I was a level 48 WHM exping in the area off of Chamber Beetles at the time on Asura... I saw a lot of people on /anon (levels 70+) in the area. I figured they were camping Serket, waiting for it to spawn. I ended up noticing my pt's HP going down pretty quickly. Figuring it was poison (I didn't know it was Serket's AoE, as I didn't even know it spawned yet), I cured the problem with some Poisonas (I wasn't @ 50 yet, so Divine Seal wouldn't've helped). An accidental link by the puller kills me, and I get raised by our RDM. I use Reraise on myself, and then try following my pt to another part of the area. Seconds later, I'm dead AGAIN, losing around 700-800 EXP total (estimate). Surely enough, it was from Serket's AoE attack. This time around I just waited for Serket to die before I raised myself, which was much the wiser choice.

From my experience, it wasn't the best idea to EXP when this thing's being camped. The AoE is definitely wide in range, which isn't good at all for those EXPing around it.

I must admit, it was fun watching the 70s+ fight it, though. ^^
Sue SE >:D
# May 15 2005 at 10:13 PM Rating: Good
Yea, SE is gonna force me to Sue them...
Evereytime Serket pops its on top of me it happens sorta like this : "La da da da da ladda deda dada Come here Mr. Chamber Beetle ^.^ "Charm" than Serket pops in back of me "Hey @$^#^ you like messin' with poor lil beeltes and im like "No Sir ^^ we're just playing around.. he goes "OK you dont mind if i kill this lvl 50 pt?

Im like "No not at all go right ahead hehe ^^. so I send my Chamber beetle after the Hellmine and it blows them both up and Serket pops outta no where "You just killed the beetle. Now ill kill you." and than a lvl 75NIN comes outta no where.

"Ill save you" than that music comes doon doona doon doon doon dun doona doon "Utsusemi: Ichi, Can't touch this" doon doona doon doon doon dun doona doon "Utsusemi: Ni Really cant touch this." so he has about 1/4 hp left so i say Hey... Why not kill another Hellmine so.... "Charm" <Chamber Beetle> "Fight" <Hellmine> ok Hellmine didnt blow up this time... so i get another one and its fighting near Serket this time..

NOW it decides to blow up "BoooooooooooooooooooooooM^.^ LolZ >.>" and kills the NIN. I think i touched you >:D 1356DMG ><. (Hellmine had 3/4s of hp and NIN only had Ichi on I assume.)

So Serket comes after me and says "You fool now ill kill you. HAHA take this." <AOE Poison> than an HNM LS comes outta no where im like "WTF how do they do that????." So there all like "We'll save you." "Team Pattern Light GO!"

SAM: Tachi: Kasha (809 DMG) "Haha take that you crazy Scorpion."

THF: SATA: Shark Bite (1001 DMG) "BOOOM Light" (1001 DMG) "Heh TOO easy."

than RNG: Slug Shot(802), Barrage(626), Slug Shot(936).

So im like "Thanks Wonder PPL!" "RNG: HAHA thank my Ebow and Peacock Charm" Im like (Greedy $@$%in' thinks hes all that good for nothing &#^ch @$$ RNG) "Thanks Ebow and Peacock Charm".
Serket's like "Curses @^#%@^es ill get you next time and your RNG TOO! >:C"




(That was the most recent, Yesterday >.>)

Edited, Sun May 15 23:18:21 2005
RE: Sue SE >:D
# May 26 2006 at 2:43 PM Rating: Excellent
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rate up ! that made my day :D
#REDACTED, Posted: Mar 24 2006 at 2:29 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) This isn't funny at all. Why are people laughing at this? You would have to be 3 years old to find this amusing.
RE: Sue SE >:D
# Jun 19 2005 at 6:57 AM Rating: Excellent
LMao lol funny, i'm camping serket as we speak, first time. hope to not die, if i go under 100HP and dont get a cure i'm gunna pull a Hellmine and use mijin gakure
RE: Sue SE >:D
# May 29 2005 at 1:39 PM Rating: Default
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Hey, real nice work on MPKing the guy who saved you. Reaaaal nice of you. And you really show your gratitude to the people that save your *** afterwards.
RE: Sue SE >:D
# May 16 2005 at 7:41 PM Rating: Decent
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LMAO omg that was too funny XD

Quote:
"Ill save you" than that music comes doon doona doon doon doon dun doona doon "Utsusemi: Ichi, Can't touch this" doon doona doon doon doon dun doona doon "Utsusemi: Ni Really cant touch this."


LOL
XD
# May 15 2005 at 7:18 PM Rating: Decent
We camped serket again w/ LS.....
and this time we got ring XD
5 mil on kujata~~~~~~!!!!! w00t :P
Soloing..
# May 11 2005 at 3:46 PM Rating: Decent
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Has anyone ever attempted to/seen someone solo this as a 75DRG/WHM or /RDM?

Could be interesting. Another one to put on my list...
RE: Soloing..
# Jun 21 2005 at 5:40 PM Rating: Default
you can not solo any HNM ever
RE: Soloing..
# Feb 09 2006 at 1:40 PM Rating: Decent
Yes HMN's can be solo'd ive seen it done.. though its not the fastest battle ever ^^;

Edited, Thu Feb 9 12:40:28 2006
RE: Soloing..
# Jul 04 2005 at 11:19 AM Rating: Decent
rdm/nin or nin/rdm solo it all the time
RE: Soloing..
# Jun 17 2005 at 2:53 PM Rating: Decent
Impossible to solo its hardcore intense
Sylph solo
# May 10 2005 at 9:13 AM Rating: Decent
perfectly capable of being soloed, on sylph, the first time i saw serket was when someone named Shadowfury had claim, he was the only person i saw attacking it. he was using 75nin, also i've heard hes got 75war and 75 something else and ab unch of 50s-60s (leveled with the old exp/lvl not the new crap)
Can we duo this?
# May 09 2005 at 2:19 PM Rating: Decent
Hey i was wondering if 2 75blm/37rdm can duo this and if not 2 75blm, a 75pld and a healer kill this? let me know guys please ty
ToD
# May 09 2005 at 10:15 AM Rating: Default
Does anyone know the exact time of death on this thing?? Please let me know...
-.-
# May 09 2005 at 9:45 AM Rating: Decent
killed that w/ my LS yesterday..
the drops sucked though ; ; ......
just got a reraiser, a serket shield and a elixir.. ><;
@ least i got a cool title... :P ("serket breaker")
AoE
# May 08 2005 at 8:36 PM Rating: Decent
holy ****! his AoE is humongous dude. I mustve been a block away on the map and it still killed me in one hit @_@ and the poison he throws out is -20 HP per 3 ticks @_@
Serker fight
# May 05 2005 at 2:02 PM Rating: Decent
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Well last night during an attempted XP party We arrived only to see lot's of people gathered around Serket. Apparently there was an MPK attempt, so in return the people who were almost MPKed called for help to prevent the MPKers from getting the claim right away. I don't know if that's really what happened, as I got there and Serket was already orange, but that's what someone told me. Now I could hardly pass up an oppurtunity to get a SS of me fighting Serket so I jumped down and engaged. Of course I couldn't hit it for ****, but i got some nice screens. Anyway, the main thing I thought about Serket was how ver-rated he is. At level 53, his AoEs would do about 300 something damage to me. Mind you I am a Thief with very low defense, low mind, and low resistance to elementals and magic. So I was somewhat surprised to see him take only 300 of my 800+ hp, I was expecting 500 or 600. He also does them somewhat frequently, although not as often as I thought he would. There were lot's of people standing around waiting for him to go unclaimed but there was a group of 3 people who supposedly are gil sellers who must not have understood the concept of drops, because they kept fighting it. Their names were tgyo-something, Mulout and some other guy. Another known gil seller down there was Uglydimple but he was just standing there doing nothing.
AOEs
# Apr 26 2005 at 11:25 PM Rating: Decent
No, they don't exaggerate the AOEs. I mean sure the tarus and mages die in one hit, but the main problem is the frequency in which he uses them and also the range. If he has decent TP however, he should wipe out anybody lv 50-... haven't updated my siggy in ages. No time to start now XD
RE: AOEs
# Jun 03 2005 at 11:39 AM Rating: Decent
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I just fought this guy, AOEs don't kill tarus and mages in one hit, I absorbed three and I'm smn 70. They are fairly deadly if he spams and you don't have many cures, though, we happened to have like 50 rdms, though, so curing wasn't a problem :D Hit me for no more than 400, though I wasn't exactly watching, more worried about keeping stoneskin and evasion boost up.
spawn time
# Apr 11 2005 at 6:42 PM Rating: Decent
anyone no the spawn time of sekret is it 21-24 hours or like 24-36 i forget?
RE: spawn time
# Apr 27 2005 at 8:07 AM Rating: Decent
21-24 hours is correct.
ugh
# Apr 11 2005 at 1:51 PM Rating: Default
So many people say the AoE is much worse than it is. I was leveling in garlaige off of beetles and I see people camping it (I'm now in that LS) and wave to all of them. So, they drag it over to me to just be ******** I guess heh... It does the AoE, and I take like 200dmg, 6dmg/tick poison damage. "OZUMG IT WILL KILLAZOR J00!11" {lie}

Edited, Mon Apr 11 14:52:25 2005
RE: ugh
# May 15 2005 at 7:01 AM Rating: Decent
Earth Pounder & Wild Rage - the two scorpion AoEs with a significance in difference.

Wild Rage hits for less on TP and depending how far you are from it. And possibly if you aren't in the alliance or party. Anyone wants to confirm it, be my guest.
RE: ugh
# May 02 2005 at 12:13 PM Rating: Decent
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If i'm taking 400+ dmg from it's AoE as a level 65 pld i highly doubt your telling the truth. Also his poison is 20 per tick. Stop acting tough, lets see you fight this thing.
RE: ugh
# May 03 2005 at 1:56 PM Rating: Default
[Title][Please check it.]
I recorded a demo of it, and have some nice screenshots. It only dropped the elixer and hi-reraiser. Mug amount in sig. Think, THEN post. the AoE only did about 230 to me, used it like 3 times. owned a group of people running from a beetle link though... ran RIGHT into serket. [skill]
RE: ugh
# May 03 2005 at 3:16 PM Rating: Decent
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I have killed this thing aswell obviously, AoE damage does vary, at level 50 i highly doubt that it only did 230 to you. I was getting hit by serket last night, just normal hits would've killed me in about 4-6 hits. What am i to think about? I killed this thing too, there is no way level 50's can wistand serket Aoe. Maybe there are 2 AoE attacks, or maybe it was a fluke, but still the AoE i remember would wipe out people partying there. Also once again the poison is way more then 6 per tick.

Edited, Tue May 3 16:20:29 2005
RE: ugh
# May 13 2005 at 4:08 AM Rating: Default
I don't recall him saying anything about being level 50; I was there. And I've been hit by serket before, at 48. I didn't die. Hell, it didn't even interrupt the spell I was casting at the time.

He does have 2 AoEs, like all higher-level scorpions, as you should know, mister serket expert. A jumping AoE and a Seizure-looking AoE. The difference in damage between the two is very significant.

People talk about Serket like that, mostly, to scare other people away. I take that sort of thing as a challenge.
RE: ugh
# May 16 2005 at 7:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Quote:
I don't recall him saying anything about being level 50; I was there. And I've been hit by serket before, at 48. I didn't die.


Chakrila wrote: "I was leveling in garlaige off of beetles"

Most people level at garlaige at level 50 or around there. I also never once said anything about death in 1 hit.
RE: ugh
# May 04 2005 at 7:37 PM Rating: Decent
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's 2 AoEs. One of them, Serket just kinda jumps and makes a shockwave [the stronger one I think], and one where in which Serket sorta flails wildly in a circle. It doesn't do the jumping one very often, but that one does do a lot of damage.

[+edit:]Also Utsusemi coulda effected the damage.

Edited, Wed May 4 20:39:24 2005
RE: ugh
# May 05 2005 at 4:16 PM Rating: Decent
welll as a rdm i don't even take damage from his aoe till about the 3rd or 4th, and i saw a lot of ppl just looking around and in my alliance...who didn't have stoneskin...only taking between 100-300 dmg from it....we were mainly lvl 70+ though, but the poison is very bad more than 6/tick my galka friend went down the next day...not paying attention to his hp...and went from 1300 to 0 in about 3 mins

Edited, Thu May 5 17:20:37 2005
serket
# Mar 23 2005 at 8:47 AM Rating: Good
ok this is my story ok i camp this thing 2 nights get both claims but it dont stop there guess what... here comes the gil sellers pissed cus we got claim and guess what here comes one of them with about 30 mobs behind him mobs that aggro lvl 75 and the person died on us and we all died thay stole serket.
The day the world exploded.
# Mar 22 2005 at 10:02 PM Rating: Decent
Okay.. let me share a story about this dude here.

I'm in the Garlaige Citadel on my, then, 51 Dark Knight. I fall down the hole and go over to meet up with my party. So as we're standing there working out a battle plan, we see Serket in view and a large group going after him. So we're like, "That's awesome," and everything.

My roommate comes in and I show him, I said, "Check it out. They're taking out Serket." I look away from the screen for a second, look back, I see giant boulders and dust come shooting out from the ground. Serket did his AoE and I was dead instantly.

So I was like, "Whoa... not cool. Not cool at all." So, the WHM in my party raises me. I'm on the ground for all of .7 seconds when the same thing happens AGAIN. Only this time, it wasn't just me who died, but my entire party was wiped out. I died twice in a frame of thirty seconds.

Now, normally someone would be pissed at this if it were them, right? Me? All I could do was laugh. Seriously. The events that took place and how it all happend just had me in stitches laughing. Things couldn't have gotten any worse than that. Sure, I lost tons of EXP, but there wasn't anything I could do, so I just laughd the whole thing off.

So funny when I think back on that.
RE: The day the world exploded.
# Mar 28 2005 at 10:41 AM Rating: Decent
Serket has a few attacks - that ae stomp being one of the higher dd attacks he does ( beyond his sickle slash ) The psn isn't that bad if you have antidotes and a few whms ds + dv poisona towards the end. This stomp can literally shockwave up to the stairs that lead up to the exit if Serket is in the middle of the map. If you do claim this, I highly advise pulling him to the back where the weapons are to save the lowbeez that are exp'ing :)
RE: The day the world exploded.
# Mar 28 2005 at 10:34 AM Rating: Decent
Killing this...
# Mar 21 2005 at 12:10 AM Rating: Decent
I've seen a 75Rdm/37Nin solo this, but i've seen a full 75 Pt's try to fight this, and die...
Doesnt that make sence?
RE: Killing this...
# May 13 2005 at 4:12 AM Rating: Decent
Of course.....rdm>the world.

Sheer numbers doesn't accomplish anything. All serket has to do is jump a few times in a row and all the healers are dead, and the DD know they're boned.
RE: Killing this...
# May 11 2005 at 3:56 PM Rating: Decent
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Not really, I solo more efficiently as smn 67 than I can with someone helping me, for the most part. If the rdm in the full party you saw ran out of MP, or got aggro without stoneskin, blink, phalanx up then it wouldn't be too surprising if he died. But if a rdm/nin is expecting to tank a mob, and prepare for it, they can do it very efficiently.
RE: Killing this...
# Mar 21 2005 at 2:42 PM Rating: Decent
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What was the RDM wearing? : )
His aoe
# Mar 12 2005 at 11:01 PM Rating: Decent
Saw a hilarious scene in GC with him once:

Lvl50war: "Uh-oh look the campers are coming"
Me: "Serket?"
Lvl50war "Yeah, so lets hope they see sense and stay away"
10 minutes..
Me: "There he is"
The campers engage him.
Me: "That nin is backing toward us"
Randomleveller: /sh "Hey guys move away from us or you'll get us killed"
A very large group of people enter the room as we are running away.
Serket triggers his AoE.

It turns out we were the only party except the campers to survive that attack in the entire area. Between the rdm on the campers party and me and my parties whm we had to raise a total of 78 people.
Insane... Best bit was a new voice started shouting abuse everytime we raised someone
smn solo
# Mar 07 2005 at 9:57 PM Rating: Decent
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I've heard a 75 smn/whm with Godly equip (Alot of relic and what not) could solo this. Thought's or opinions?

Edit: Sorry for the double post, I hate this puter sometimes ; ;

Edited, Tue Mar 8 16:35:19 2005
RE: smn solo
# Jun 07 2005 at 8:53 PM Rating: Decent
um theres not much "godly" armor for SMN the best it gets is AF2 feet and AF2 hands other than that SMN. but my friend has camped him {75SMN} idk if he was with ls or not but he didnt look like it so might be able to but i doubt it. would run out of MP before it was 25%
smn solo
# Mar 07 2005 at 9:56 PM Rating: Decent
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I've heard a 75 smn/whm with Godly equip (Alot of relic and what not) could solo this. Thought's or opinions?
was wonderin...
# Feb 28 2005 at 9:58 PM Rating: Default
Do you think that a WAR75/NIN37, SAM71/THForWARorNIN, and a WHM63/SMN32 could win this?
Me and my friends were wondering cause we don't want to have to buy the Scorpion Harness or Serket ring...lol so we thaught we would try to kill it lol^^;
RE: was wonderin...
# Mar 28 2005 at 12:59 PM Rating: Decent
ima have to say no =/
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