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Vana'diel Bestiary: Fafnir  

Family:Wyrm
Found in:Dragon's Aery
Spawned using:Honey Wine
Job:Warrior
Level:88 - 90
Grants Title:Fafnir Slayer
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Truesight
  • Based on Fire
  • Strong against Fire
Drops:
Updated: Fri Jun 3 23:23:01 2011

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Fafnir in Dragon's Aery

    • Respawn time on the ??? is one minute after Fafnir is defeated or despawns.

  • If continually engaged for sixty minutes after being claimed, Fafnir will "rage", resulting in significantly increased attack power.

  • Has a draw-in effect.

  • Grants title: Fafnir Slayer

Fafnir Special Attacks

  • Absolute Terror: Single target Terror effect.

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

    • As with all breath attacks, damage is most potent when standing directly in front of Fafnir. Standing on either of its front feet will mitigate most, if not all, damage from Dragon Breath.

  • Horrid Roar: Single target Dispel effect.

  • Hurricane Wing: AoE magical damage with an additional Blind effect (Circle of effect originates from mob).

  • Spike Flail: Massive AoE physical damage (Circle of effect originates from mob).

    • Fafnir will only utilize this ability if its primary target is attacking from behind

Historical Information

Fafnir (in Norse mythology) was the son of the dwarf king Hriedmar, and the brother of Regin and Otr. Armed with the Aegis helmet, or Aegishjalmr, Fafnir served as a guard for his father's golden house. As penance for killing Otr, the trickster god Loki gave Hriedmar the cursed treasure of Andvari, which included the cursed ring Andvaranauts as well as the swords Hrotti and Ridill.

Fafnir and Regin, in wanting the treasures for themselves, killed their father, only for Fafnir to take all the treasure for himself. Upon doing so, he was transformed into a dragon (a symbol of greed in European mythology) and hid away with it. Regin, wanting the treasure for himself, tricked his foster son Sigurd (in some stories, named Siegfried) into killing Fafnir for him, using the sword Balmung to pierce the dragon's heart as he was walking towards the stream he used daily to drink.

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bigger than tiamat?
# Aug 14 2009 at 1:24 PM Rating: Decent
23 posts
woah that things huge but is it bigger and tougher than tiamat can't wait to fight these mobs
lol
# Jan 26 2008 at 5:10 PM Rating: Default
was killed by 4 people on kujata easily
lol
# Jan 30 2009 at 7:11 PM Rating: Good
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103 posts
Hahaha, such BS.
lol
# Mar 12 2008 at 10:30 AM Rating: Decent
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1,743 posts
Screenshot, cuz it didn't happen. Try fighting a mob before you make stuff up about it.
lol
# Mar 20 2009 at 2:03 PM Rating: Decent
Except he's easy to 4man...
woot
# May 27 2007 at 10:49 AM Rating: Decent
bad ***
Map
# Jul 15 2006 at 3:23 PM Rating: Decent
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/Spar13/Fafhogg.jpg
Mumu lmao
# Jul 13 2006 at 9:49 AM Rating: Decent
Mumu is (was....he quit) Gilgameshs BIGGEST gil buyer. His best friends where GSs and yes i can sadly agree he had every job lvled to 75. I asked him how much of his life he has wasted to get the NO LIFE HAT, his reply was 520+ days.
Oh and he was a major botter to. He would stand at alkyoneus then BHAM dissappear and have pallas claimed *cough* hax *cough*.
#REDACTED, Posted: Mar 14 2008 at 11:48 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Was he standing by a hole by Alky? Cause u do realize u can fall down the hole and ... BHAM claim a mob (or pop Pallas fast if u macroed the pop item). I did that twice to claim a reg gigas when alky bracelts were made force pop and everyone was going up there.... and got a GM called on me twice cause people thought i hack warped to the lower level LMAO!!! Btw... If i hadn't pissed them all off i coulda had GS friends too... and if i even cared I could've BEAT his record getting Maat's hat. Nothing you said proves a damn thing.
spawn times?
# Jun 05 2006 at 12:19 AM Rating: Decent
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hey everyone. could anyone tell me how long his spawn time and how long his window is open? ive been asking some of my friends in HNM lS, but they cant tell me b/c itd mess up their LS stuff or something ><. thing says spawn time is 21 hrs, but i know stuff has changed. ty
RE: spawn times?
# Jun 07 2006 at 12:05 AM Rating: Decent
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21-24 hour spawn time, windows are 30 seconds and there are 30 minute timespans between the windows for a total of 7. The chance of him popping increases with each window.
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# Apr 11 2006 at 11:16 PM Rating: Decent
30 posts
this is one sexy mob
#REDACTED, Posted: Feb 26 2006 at 1:21 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) looking at it right now lol
blocks
# Feb 07 2006 at 9:57 PM Rating: Decent
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question, i know stoneskin blocks fafnirs hurricane wing, but does ninja shadows also?
RE: blocks
# Feb 14 2006 at 6:18 PM Rating: Decent
No. Stoneskin is more or less a must outside of tanks, Shell IV also makes a drastic difference.
RE: blocks
# Apr 04 2006 at 7:54 AM Rating: Decent
Barearo also helps
fafnir story
# Jan 11 2006 at 8:25 PM Rating: Decent
wow they sure imported this dragon really well from the norse mythology. I remember first hearing about the gram mythology when I played dothack. The angel knight that appeared was called Balmung(Balmung was the sword forged which Siegfried used to kill Fafnir). Wow the Balmung would be a nice sword just to keep myself proud of even if I dont become dark knight. Anyway fafnir looks really intimidating. He is truly my greatest enemy(dragon fan). I'm excited to fight him even if I die.
fafnir story
# Nov 06 2006 at 9:51 AM Rating: Default
Well that was a complete waste of a comment lol
fafnir story
# May 01 2007 at 10:42 AM Rating: Default
i like the mythology behind this and other games, so i don't think that was a waisted comment at all, rate up.
fafnir story
# Nov 16 2006 at 1:51 PM Rating: Decent
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You know ShadowStrykerX, it's idiots like you that still astonish me. Don't knock someone's comment for being impressed by an aspect of this game. Keep your jackass comments to yourself, please.

Yeah, Fafnir is pretty amazing when you first see it. Fighting Fafnir/Nidhogg is even more amazing the first time around. Excelryu, you'll find plenty of mobs towards endgame that are a joy to fight, even if it spells wipe for you and your friends. Just pick yourself up, change your strategy, and have another go ^^

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RE: fafnir story
# Jan 16 2006 at 5:13 AM Rating: Decent
Fighting Fafnir isn't as grand as fighting the HQ version, Nidhogg.... and even Nidhogg isn't as challenging or intimidating as Tiamat, Jormungand or Vrtra. If you like dragons, go poke Vrtra :o
#Archimond, Posted: Jan 04 2006 at 12:43 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) honestly
RE: adsfds
# Jan 05 2006 at 4:36 PM Rating: Good
Way to be a **** for no reason. Rate down.
mpk's fun fun
# Nov 05 2005 at 6:23 PM Rating: Good
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i suppose and probably recommend taking an HNMLS, with all the people claiming about jp mpking na's and vise versa you need the others there just to have your back. I would love to get the chance to fight this guy, 61 drk on seraph and growing, lol
Someone soloed Fafnir
# Oct 07 2005 at 2:26 PM Rating: Decent
I've just seen a lvl 90 DRG known as Sigurd solo Fafnir, he was standing behind a certain rock and intimidated Fafnir 100 times and never got hit once. After Fafnir died, Sigurd said he got 999999999 Gil and also turned around and hit this guy Regin, his father, for 10000 damage, then he died. And so I ran the **** Away.

Edited, Fri Oct 7 15:46:02 2005
RE: Someone soloed Fafnir
# Mar 14 2006 at 6:56 PM Rating: Decent
xion lay of the drugs man :-/
RE: Someone soloed Fafnir
# Oct 16 2005 at 4:46 PM Rating: Decent
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/norse-mythology.php?deity=FAFNIR
RE: Someone soloed Fafnir
# Nov 19 2005 at 3:46 PM Rating: Decent
interesting OOT side note: Xenogears' Sigurd helps pt member bart get his gear Andvari. *cough*

and I was goofing around with sneak invis (pld/whm) in dragon's aery, tried to run by Fafnir, and um... he looked at me. that pretty much killed me, cuase I didn't see him do any spells or anything... O.o
RE: Someone soloed Fafnir
# Nov 19 2006 at 12:24 PM Rating: Decent
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After the fight with Bart u sink in the desert. In that cave u meet Melchior. He, Casper and Balthasar are the famous 3 wise men (the 3 holy kings that came to bring presents to Jesus of Nazareth). . . . .

Cloud's sword in FF7, Ragnarok, is also known as "Dawn of the gods" and means the norse "judgement day".

The jp, and seemingly especially Square, like to play with mythology using names, persons and/or places for and in their games.
RE: Someone soloed Fafnir
# Jan 18 2007 at 1:53 AM Rating: Decent
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Just a quick side note...the Bible never actually says that there were only three wise men. It says some wise men brought three gifts...leading us to assume that there were only three men.

Edited, Jan 30th 2007 3:26am by Duodenum
RE: Someone soloed Fafnir
# Oct 13 2005 at 5:14 PM Rating: Good
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He's referring to Norse Legend, in which Sigurd was the one to slay Fafnir.
RE: Someone soloed Fafnir
# Oct 09 2005 at 1:34 AM Rating: Default
im not sure if your some idiot noob or just being silly...but anyways thx for making me laugh lol
heh
# Aug 18 2005 at 10:50 PM Rating: Decent
Fafnir has around 60,000hp, he goes into crack mode after 1hr of claimed. Fafnir has extremely low resist for an HNM of his level.
Fafnir
# Aug 07 2005 at 4:30 PM Rating: Decent
Is it just me, or does Fafnir look UNLCLAIMED in that screenshot... /jealous
RE: Fafnir
# Oct 16 2005 at 7:56 PM Rating: Decent
seeing as how the name isn't visible... i can't tell
wow
# Aug 05 2005 at 11:27 PM Rating: Default
i just saw a party of 5 lvl75 drg and one lvl75 whm fight this hnm that made fafnir life to 30% be4 they died


Edited, Sat Aug 6 00:36:42 2005
w
# Jul 05 2005 at 4:04 PM Rating: Default
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delete your dater files,

Spam provoke,

good luck <3
RE: w
# Oct 16 2005 at 7:55 PM Rating: Default
yeah GMs can actaully tell if you deleted/mod'ed any .dat file for the game. so if they happen to be at a big HNM like this (which happens) you'll get so banned
RE: w
# Aug 09 2005 at 7:50 PM Rating: Decent
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and then get banned from the game! **** yea, you douche
Map
# Jun 28 2005 at 3:21 PM Rating: Decent
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Here is a map i made if you need it
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/Spar13/boyahdaedit.jpg

Edited, Tue Jun 28 16:22:21 2005
RE: Map
# Dec 10 2005 at 9:55 AM Rating: Decent
the link to yar map is :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/Spar13/boyahdaedit.jpg

now it's ok ^^
RE: Map
# Dec 10 2005 at 9:54 AM Rating: Decent
damn double post...

Edited, Sat Dec 10 10:00:58 2005
Saw it in person
# Jun 17 2005 at 6:07 PM Rating: Good
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Fought it today. My first HNM experience and I thoroughly enjoyed it (^^)

This pic is beautiful, though it doesn't really give any indication of its size. I was probably the size of one of its feet (taru)

Edited, Fri Jun 17 19:08:05 2005
nice pic
# Jun 05 2005 at 9:48 PM Rating: Decent
21 posts
thats an excellent picture.. wow
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MPK
# Jun 02 2005 at 2:08 PM Rating: Decent
Dragon's Aery is basically a MPK fest on Quezty when its time for Fafnir or Nidhogg to pop. JP MPK NA, NA MPK JP heh. Its gotten better lately I think. But yeah the day I went to see him, the Jps MPKed the NAs, and then got MPKed back. So I was standing just after the ledge thingy, and this guy sees me and aggroes me. XD Draw in a detah in 2 hits. Pretty weird to get -aggroed- by him since they usually pop claimed or get claimed right after. Then it proceeded to walk around on my body for about 20 mins before the NAs recovered and became the first NAs on our server to kill him...(Yep, our server NAs r pretty behind in end game stuff ;;)
Balmung
# May 31 2005 at 1:21 AM Rating: Decent
I was thinking of getting a pty together to fight this guy, i mean with the balmung prices the way they are on sylph theres notmuch other choice than that, but neways b4 i spend time on getting a pty put together, does anyone know the balmung drop rates on this? i dont need an actual percentage persay but a good estamate would be nice, if anyone could tell me it'd be much appreciated ^^;
RE: Balmung
# Jun 02 2005 at 2:09 PM Rating: Decent
I don't think its possible to just "get a pt together for him"... >.> It would be a lot better with a HNM ls to go after this guy.
RE: Balmung
# Jul 01 2005 at 12:48 PM Rating: Decent
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yeah i myself was thinking of getting a PT together for Nidhogg i wanna get my Adaman Huaberk



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Info
# May 22 2005 at 2:26 AM Rating: Decent
Fafnir is about level 88-90 and respawns every 21-24 hours. It does have True Sight. You obtain Fafnir Slayer for your title.
SC
# May 13 2005 at 9:48 PM Rating: Decent
....I just have to get out that -that- is a -great- screenshot.
Fafnir is Intimidated by Crosser
# May 11 2005 at 4:41 AM Rating: Decent
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Just out of Curiosity... Since he IS a Dragon... Does the Dragoon's intimidation trait take effect, or does his NM Status make him immune? I ask because if NMs are immune to this effect... Why even put it in the game? Unless I'm wrong, ALL Dragons are NM. Most are HNM.
RE: Fafnir is Intimidated by Crosser
# May 14 2005 at 4:25 PM Rating: Decent
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Actually, there is one known dragon (at least at allakhazam) that is not NM; Shadow Dragon in Xarcabard (I think it's shadow dragon...). Also, if wyverns are considered dragons, then there are a few non-NM of those, too.
RE: Fafnir is Intimidated by Crosser
# Mar 26 2006 at 3:16 PM Rating: Decent
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Don't forget the Dragon mobs in the bottom of Kuftal Tunnel (Behind the rock that disappears and reappears... seriously)
Anywho, no, nothing that I know of is immune to intimidation. Including us players. I've seen Seiryu be intimidated by DRG and I've personally intimidated Byakko.
The higher lvl the monster though, the lower the chance of intimidation.
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