Vana'diel Bestiary: Boreal Hound  

I helped one of my LS members do G2 the other day and decided to test my damage capabilities on this with my DRK. I wore my STR gear and got to 300% subbed thf. Did SATA with souleater on it. unfortunately my connection here in Iraq is slow so I ended up hitting it with souleater like 3 times before I did SATA which brought me down to like 870 hp from my max of over 1400. As you may know the lower your hp the less damage souleater adds. In spite of that, I used Sata Spiral Hell on the hound and did 4551 damage to it lol. I was like damn! Certainly the most damage I've done to any mob in a single attack.

this is my ">< just had a bad party need a pick me up" NM seeing as its so freaky crap and makes a job feel good


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=) not awesome but 4626 will do for me ^_^

Weak to slash damage + basically negative defense = great fun. I just solo'd this thing last night as 75 War/Nin with only my NPC out for cure support (and minimal at that because after a few Cure V's she was out of MP).

First I opened the fight with Steel Cyclone for 4,083 damage then I switched over to using Axe to finish up. The fight took about 7 minutes and my Rampages varied from 1,678 (lowest) to 2,203 (highest) with a few 2,000's in between. It wasn't that bad, but Warrior's low evasion showed because it was hard to keep up shadows. I could blink away Freeze or just interrupt it, but paralyze from Howling and Ice Spikes made avoiding Blizzaga II a pain (that did between 100-200 damage to me and 250+ to my NPC). It doesn't hit very hard (though his weaponskills could pack a punch... 100-300 with the Breath attacks going through shadows), but it hits fast and fairly accurate for a mob that's "only level 58". I finished the fight with just under 300 HP and I began with 1297.

Pretty much any job that has a decent attack rate, a strong WS, and minor cure support can solo this thing.

Duoed this today.

RDM55/BLM27 (me)
WHM75/NIN37 (<3 Marren!)

This was the third mob of the series that we duoed. It was easily the longest fight, and probably the hardest as well, but we still came out victorious in the end. Marren did the grunt work - melee, buffs, etc. I did the backups - Refreshing, Hasting, debuffing, backup curing.

The Boreal Tiger *wishes* it had this kind of HP. Marren was Hexa Striking for 1300-1500 damage and each time the HP bar barely moved. On the Boreal Tiger, at least you could see a visible drop in the HP when she used it. So yeah, the Boreal Hound has crap-all for defense, but an ***-load of HP. that makes the fight super long.

The other problem? It can and will use Blood Weapon. This made life difficult even for us, as it not only did a lot of damage to Marren, but also regained a lot of the Hound's already-impressive HP. Thankfully it only uses it once, so as long as you can outlast that, you're good to go.

The Boreal Hound uses ice-based spells, namely Blizzaga II and Freeze, so you want to beware of those. As well, it can use an AoE Disease ability and an AoE paralyze ability. It is extremely resistant, and probably immune, to Silence, so don't even bother. I also found that it's much more resistant than the other two mobs to all debuffs. In fact, after a while I stopped trying to debuff it because nothing was sticking, even with Elemental Seal. I just saved my MP for curing Marren. She needed a lot more help there in this fight than the other two, because it was eating up her MP a lot more. I pretty much told her to focus on meleeing and Stoneskinning and using Utsusemi while I took over the main-healing. A little unorthodox, but it worked. ;)

In the end, though, we came out victorious as with the other two, and I got my triangular frigicite. Many thanks to Marren for the help!

Edited, Sun May 14 00:47:58 2006

PT setup: 74RDM/nin
59RDM/BLM
54WAR/NIN
55RDM/BLM <--only level 17 blm sub
52BLM/WHM <--Me
54BST/RDM
After killing the first two mobs for 55 cap, my pt went to the cave of the hound to rest before we killed it...It agroed, all mages low on mp, then it diseased us, so we were screwed from the start. At about 50% hp, it started spamming Blizzaga II like there was no tomorrow. We all used our 2hours, then died one by one. The war/nin and I deleveled from it. Someone called a whm from thier LS to help...but of course, the hound jumped out from a blind corner and agroed him. Luckly, the NM doesnt leave its cave, so he simply had to run out of it. We were raised, it ran over, drew me in, and killed me. Once again, I was raise, and those who were no longer weakened went to go fight it. The entire battle, the war/nin (who deleveled) sat in the cave, then decided to go fight EPs outside to get his level back. Then everyone started using thier "Fun vocabulary", considering we were fighting it for 10 minutes, and he didnt have a clue. After all that, it died, and I broke my 55 cap.

Bottom line: This thing has annoying-as-hell AoE's (paralyze, disease, and blizzaga II), and reisists silence and bind. Have fun.

did a 1634 rampage to this thing as a level 55 warrior, only took like 1/10 of its health though :/

Well we got a bunch of people to go out there and get G2 done with. Long story short people didn't get their crap in time and it respawned and killed us all. It really sucked, but as a level 53 thf I managed to about 1100 with SATA + VB. Was only able to do it once, but thats the most I've ever done. I don't care what's up with these mobs, but it was sure awesome to do that much damage.

73 drg did 2000+ dmg with penta,
and me (51 drk) did 600 with vorpal scythe.

yeah, this guy definately has the worst defense ever.

I quit thf, but I dragged my 60 thf out there and did a couple 2100-2200 Dancing Edges last time I was there. Not to bad considering only 60thf with subpar gear :p

Almost got 2 drk's killed though... >_>;

Also uses the ancient magic "Freeze", and the DRK 2-hour "Blood Weapon".

For those that dont know, Disease prevents types of regeneration (most importantly, mp) even when healing. Make SURE that when you alliance to fight these monsters for Genkai II that at least 2 of the WHM's have the "Viruna" spell to remove disease. It lasts for a LONG time :\

The spell is available in Jeuno in Weeg-Daag's Magic shop for 13-14k, or at AH for slightly more.

Also, in our experience, its nearly impossible to keep everyone unparalyzed in this battle. The hound seemed to use his Howling ability (Area of Effect paralyze) every 10 seconds.