Vana'diel Bestiary: Altedour I Tavnazia  

The ??? is at G-8 now, not J-10.

After the 10 May 2011 update when the new, higher-level mobs were added to the J-10 room, the ??? that you trade the Tav. Bell to was moved to G-8 on the same floor (the floor you zone into from Beaucedine. It's the same room as the Miser Murphy spawn.

=^.^=

Fairly easy but long-ish fight for lvl. 78 PLD/DNC with lvl. 78 RDM/WHM backup for curing and de-buffs.

I got some help yesterday in Pandemonium for my Whm AF3 and wow....

Ok, I had a 75 Nin/Sch and a 75 Drk/War help me out. I buffed us up with Protectra III and Shellra III (I'm a 60 Whm/Smn). Casted Stonekins and Blink on me and traded the bell and all hell broke loose. This thing took out the Drk in 10 seconds. I was shocked!!! The Nin held is own againts this guy and brought the thing down to 25%. Keep in mind that I was healing with Cure III and IV and keeping Haste Up, so my MP was going down fast.

Raised the Drk just in case Nin fell, but this Nin was able to bring him down to 10% health. Nin used a Reraise Ring in case he didn't make it, and I used Reraise II as well just in case. I cure th Drk back to full health, as well as the Nin, but this thing started going crazy at 5% health. I used benediction, but it didn't help the Drk much as he was Ko'd again. Next thing you know Nin goes down. Then finally, I get my butt whooped and at this point, this damn thing is at 1% health.

Well, since Nin had used reraise ring, he get's back up and at the right timing, he does a critical hit and the thing goes down, FINALLY. I get back up, raise Drk Knight, collect mask, and complete my AF3 quest.

I have got to say, that was the most fun and excitement I have had in this game for quite some time.

75/37 Smn/Whm.

Little problems to take this down, but did take around 30 minutes. Just the standard carby kite job. Since nothing agro's on a 75 on that level no problems. Hit him a few times with Metorite, but mainly let carby do his thing.

did it solo with my SAM/WHM lvl 62

Edited, Oct 24th 2007 9:36am by cooooool

Duo this with a friend and my npc, my friend and I gets to red every once a while since her stoneskin was down when he spams dimensional death, but overall it wasn't very hard.

Jobs were:
75 rdm/nin
75 whm/nin
lvl65 npc soothing healer

Npc was very helpful with his cure V =P, free mp.

i tried to solo this with my 75 bst after x2 75thf and 60+ whm failed (we got him to 35% and died, so maybe another dd or blm would of been good), well lets just say i would of died soloing it as bst, i brought 7 fish oil broth and 12 zeta biscuits thinking this would be enough, after reading previous posts, i was wrong... (also had dyna AF body, legs, and feet - x2 enhance reward, also used 52+ NPC but npc didn't really help much except for when i got poisoned, she would cast poisona but i had /whm) anyway 1 fish oil broth took about 10%hp off him and that was with 1 zeta biscuit used, and after that i had about 2min left on call beast timer, not sure if you can charm a bat and have it take hate cause after about the 2nd time (waiting until recast went to 0 so i had extra call rdy) i started fighting him cause i knew i wasn't going to win. So i had to kite him for the remainder of the timer, he's pretty ez to kite. i got my 3rd pet out and it was at about 70% when it died and then someone checked me and i was all /tell ????? (Help me out!) lol and thank god he say "ok!" he was a ninja and had a whm and another person with him probably all 3 75 and even the ninja had trouble with the constant -aga spells being casted on him but he had his whm so i think he wasn't scared... i got my item and i thanked him about 10times lol anyway if you want to solo this as bst -----(and you don't have to be whm to pop mob)----- i would bring like 30 fish oil broths and 30 zeta biscuts that should be good enough to kill him with some left over. he was spaming dimential death constantly (when i was fighting him, probably giving him more tp then i wanted to) which my pet didn't appreciate very much...

I also have 75 blm but didn't think to use it, as with blm you can only really solo if you can sleep the mob, cause you need to heal mp, so i was just wondering if anyone knew if it could be slept for future referance for up and comming whm's
Can it be slept?

Edited, Feb 3rd 2007 9:16am by DJDexter

Heh.. Interested in that enfeebling-and-running strategy, but I'm not sure if a 57WHM/28BLM with a level 93 enfeebling magic skill could stick anything. Of course I'm not fluent in the art of enfeebling, so could anyone tell me if I could stick some bio or poison or dia or something? I wanna try that strategy, but don't wanna lose my bell then not be able to do any damage to him.

So I have an idea, and being as I'm a crazy fool (and one of my LS mates needs this shirt) I'm a 75 drk, use war thf or nin sub dependin on the circumstance. I've soloed a few things most people would be like a Drk/Nin did what!? So I plan on fighting this thing with the whm, he's lvl 61. I was thinkin of using a scythe instead of dual axes. Keeps his tp gain from my attacks less, and gives me GUillotine. Guillotine should keep silence up fairly well as long as I get tp fast enough. Will need the whm for haste, regen, and cures from AOE spells. But I think it can be done, will post the results, lemme know what you think.

Soloed with MNK75/NIN37 (great eva equipment) and WHM58

This guy is not a pushover by any means. He's definitely on the hard end of the spectrum of AF3 mobs.

A couple of guys in my linkshell needed this fight, and so they went to fight it with a NIN from the linkshell that was helping out. They had a NIN75, a BRD75, and a 60-ish WHM. They ended up wiping due to his Tier III AoE spells taking out all shadows (and then spamming Dimensional Death afterwards.) After the fact, I (BLM75/WHM37) showed up for the second attempt -- the thought being that I could stun the AoEs and make the fight a lot easier. And it didn't take very long for one thing to become very clear:

Do not assume that you can stun this guy's spells.

My Dark Magic was capped and merited, and I was wearing various equipment to boost it (Dark Staff, Abyssal Earring, AF legs, etc.) and I got resisted every time. The fight was on Darksday, which almost certainly didn't help. The NIN tank ended up dying, at which point the rest of us kept it occupied for a while we he reraised. He then kited it, weakened, while we rested MP (because we were all out.) If there's anything to be said for this guy, it's that his affinity for long-delay spellcasting makes him pretty easy to kite. It also seems to be pretty easy to stick Paralyze and Slow on him.

Once the kiting NIN was unweakened and we had healed him up, we finished the NM off with our fresh mana pools. But this guy is no joke -- your best bet is probably to have as many melee DDs as you can round up. The notion that his Dimensional Death spamming is a function of TP is nonsense -- he was spamming it (or, at least, trying to) as he was being kited. Even as a BLM75, my elemental nukes were very heavily resisted. I ended up concentrating a lot of my MP on backup cures to keep people alive.

It was a fun and exciting fight, but I would have preferred it to be not quite that fun and exciting.

(Too Weak)

soloed as a 75 SMN, like 20-30 minutes of Carby kiting, with a couple of 70 pacts at the end, it never touched me. Did it twice actually, once for me and once for an LS mate.

Never saw it use Sleepga (2), but I was out of range of the battle for most of the fight.

This is fairly easy to solo as 75 smn/whm using all Carbuncle. Just keep up blink, stoneskin, protect, and shell. It takes a while though ^^

I'm in the process right now of trying to find people to help me with this, and there seems to be alot of mixed posts regarding this NM.

I've gathered that it becomes more lethal the more people you have in your party/alliance. It uses numerous -ga spells, and you can't seem to outweigh his power by number.

The best way I can think to take this guy down is by building a fairly small (3-4) party of 75s, with one being a NIN tank.

Any suggestions in beating this NM would be very helpful!