Vana'diel Bestiary: Yagudo Conquistador  

Well im 75 thf with TH3, took me about an hour to get 4/6 scrolls so far. Moon is at 17% and I got here on Firesday. Now Earthsday is @ 20:00 as I write this. Well back to farming my scrolls for NIN.

To endorse the previous few messages: since I didn't feel like doing anything in particular, I spent much of the day as RDM75/BLM37 beating up these yagudo and their friends. I got one scroll each of Raiton: Ni and Katon: Ni, plus a Dragonfoe Mambo and a few Juji Shuriken in Castle Oztroja. I wondered whether the higher-level yagudo in Castle Zvahl might be more generous and spent a couple of hours there similarly. I got NO drops at all, which leaves me wondering whether these simply can't drop anything. I'm going to farm/mine/BCNM the cash and buy the rest of my scrolls on the AH!

In case it provides a useful data point for anyone (I'm not myself convinced that drops are influenced by moon phase), this was over a new moon period.

I spent a good three and a half hours killing these guys yesterday as I had 3/6 level 40 NIN scrolls (each 5k), but Hyoton, Doton, and Suiton were 70k. So, I go as SMN75/THF18 (go gimp sub!) to Castle Oztroja. There was an anon RDM killing them too, but I quickly found out the spawns and got 0 Ni scroll drops in three hours of constant killing.

I did get a Dragonfoe Mambo off one of the BRD Yags though.

Using this set of maps here:
http://www.ffxi.blueelephantbrigade.com/maps/Castle%20Oztroja.htm
Going from memory for the spawn locations...

Walk to transition 'A' on map #1. Now go to transition 'F' on map #2.

Which brings you to an outdoor area and map #5. There's a spawn in the NW and NE rooms on map #5. Repops are about 15mins.

Go back the way you came to map #2. Go to transition 'D'. (Head North, and then West, it's blocked the other way.) This brings you to map #6. There's a spawn in the SE room, and the NE room. Kill those, and walk to transition 'H' for the last set of spawns.

From 'H' you get to map #7. This is where you'll find the majority of the Conquistadors. There's quite a few spawns in this room. Make a right once you get through the long tunnel, and you'll see a Conq before the first left turn. As you get to the box-shaped area at (G-9) there's another on the outter square of the map. If you walk towards the water in the center there's one on the way there, and one in the room with the pool of water. Backtrack, and continue South to the one-way gate at (H-9). Pass through and continue to the SE corner for another spawn. Then go North, and you'll find the last one on the steps.

That's all the spawns I found yesterday.

The drop rate is awful, but if you can follow what I said it'll make finding them easier. You can also get lucky and get Hyoton: Ni on your first kill like a guy from my LS did. I certainly wasn't though.

I'm now 6/6 on them, having gotten them all from the AH for stupidly high prices. Try underbidding as it seems RMT sell most of them, and they tend to undercut each other quite a bit (61k for two scrolls that were 70-75k previously).

2 part post:
1)What are the drop rates on the scrolls with /thf?
2)At what level could someone safely solo these without getting dangerously close to death?

So hows the drop on these guys?

ITS ME! WOOOOO

I've been looking for these things in Oztroja for a while now, I can't find them. If anyone could put a location it'd help.

I've noticed that these bird creatures have an almost priestly semi south american theme going on in them. There is a melded themeatic going through the Yagudos and it's no surprize to see a Yagudo Conquistador walking around Castle Oztroja. I kind of wish the Conquistador had a cool Spanish sword... now that would be radical.

Of all the beastmen, I have the most empathy for the noble Yagudo. If they make a sequel in the next online installment, I would want to play as a Yagudo (because not all of them are bad, remember, Windurst made a truce pact with some of them).

also, "Dead Souls" is a cool song from Joy Division

These guys also drop Juji Shuriken.

LOL, funny eh?
i hunted this ******* for 7 hours strait looking for a coffer key, nothing he dont drop it
but he does drop Hyoton: Ni scroll, and its sells for 35k on my sever

Edited, Fri Jun 11 05:27:21 2004

was wandering around castle ostroja last night (at lvl 30 mnk) killing a few votaries when I saw the spam of one casting Utsusemi:_NI_ so one would assume it has the others...would hate to meet him in a dark alley hehe.