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Vana'diel Bestiary: Cactuar  

Family:Sabotender
Found in:Western Altepa Desert
Level:48 - 53
Flags:
  • Aggro
  • Based on Water
  • Weak against Darkness
  • Weak against Ice
  • Strong against Light
  • Strong against Water
Drops:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

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Um
# Aug 02 2006 at 2:04 AM Rating: Decent
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For the record...

Edited, Aug 2nd 2006 at 3:10am EDT by Daramane
Why change it?
# Feb 15 2006 at 6:45 AM Rating: Decent
Why do they have to change the Cactuar's look. I LIKE THE ORIGINAL LITTLE CACTUS MAN!!!!!!!
/sigh their's my hate for today.

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Why change it?
# Aug 17 2006 at 6:49 PM Rating: Decent
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i know man....the original cactus men pwned...these new ones look...out of shape at best...maybe Cactuars suddenly developed a junk food habit...anyway i miss the original cactuar model...was the best friggin model they could ever make for a cactus. rate up big time
Well...
# Jan 17 2006 at 8:36 AM Rating: Decent
[Didn't mean to press that button. My bad.]

Edited, Tue Jan 17 07:38:02 2006
Thought it would be a cool pet
# Aug 03 2005 at 8:14 AM Rating: Decent
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Came back to West altepa as a 49 bst in a TRIO. Figure we try to XP on Secutors. 2 of us snag a cactar with no problem and 1 beetle. With 1000 needle he went down fast. Recharming 1st cactar recharm no prob the 2nd 1 resisted like the jellies do. 2nd Secutor Died from 1000 needle soooo >.> we out some xp. After that point on cactars were sooooo hard to charm, we gave up on them ( 2 bst trying to charm 1 cactar and almost die'n <No Thanks>).
Reproduction
# Mar 22 2005 at 5:41 PM Rating: Decent
27 posts
SE gave the poor things some wicked child-bearing hips! T¸T Woe is the world when Cactuar come to this.
ghey
# Mar 22 2005 at 6:05 AM Rating: Decent
31 posts
this thing looks ********

bring back the original damn you SE why mess with stuff!?
...
# Mar 07 2005 at 3:37 PM Rating: Decent
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OH DEAR GOD.. what happened to the cute Cactuar? makes me want to stop playing..
RE: ...
# Feb 15 2006 at 6:47 AM Rating: Default
I feel your pain. Believe me.
Giant
# Feb 26 2005 at 6:35 PM Rating: Decent
16 posts
I want to see a giant one that does 10k needles like in FF8 :D That one was so awsome :D
Yay!
# Nov 14 2004 at 6:19 PM Rating: Decent
Yay! there are cactuar in this game!!!, i love seeing legendary ff fiends in new games ^^, my plan is to take screen shots of em all, so far : Malboro, Coeurl ^^
-_-
# Nov 07 2004 at 1:07 PM Rating: Default
they all look stupid to me but nothing beats the day where i saw a lv 75 with half hp die to 1k needls lmao i was like wtf wtf wtf LOL 75 pld/war DIED TO **** -_-
gasp
# Nov 07 2004 at 6:20 AM Rating: Decent
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Edited, Fri Apr 15 02:14:40 2005
1000 Needles
# Oct 23 2004 at 5:00 PM Rating: Decent
These do use 1000 Needles. It does exactly 1000 damage to the people around it, split evenly. The more people around it the better it is because less damage. A person alone, 1000 damage.
lol
# Sep 25 2004 at 10:50 AM Rating: Decent
OMG i saw one of these when i was omw to Quicksand caves.. and we fought it...lol, i ran to close and it aggored but it was fun to kill.
Thunder Thighs
# Sep 18 2004 at 9:22 PM Rating: Decent
Ugghhhhh.... Cactuars used to look cool. Like the Gingerbread man...
ew...
# Sep 13 2004 at 1:05 AM Rating: Decent
Scholar
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its those curvy thighs and that erotic dancing... so... Not right. :/ Why it has to have its arms out and waggle its way towards you in a dance of seduction is beyond me but *shrug* eh, at least they make great pets.
W
# Jul 14 2004 at 6:33 PM Rating: Decent
When I first saw this in person. I couldet stop laughing for 3 minutes.
RE: W
# Sep 12 2004 at 4:52 PM Rating: Decent
oh yeh but does this cast 1000 needles like in the old ff games?
RE: W
# Nov 15 2004 at 1:11 AM Rating: Decent
yes cactuars do cast 1000 needles in all the other ff's ^^
RE: W
# Sep 12 2004 at 4:51 PM Rating: Decent
...and then it owned you... rite?
Ugh!
# Jun 22 2004 at 1:37 PM Rating: Decent
27 posts
Not only are Cactaurs pure evil, now they look like...sucking...ness...ess.
I can't see how people find anything that hits for 999 or 9999 or even 99999 cute!
THREE dimensions?!?! WTF?!!
# Jun 21 2004 at 8:03 AM Rating: Decent
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ok the whole point of a cactuar is to be 2D in an otherwise 3D environment. Disappointing doesn't begin to describe it :/
RE: THREE dimensions?!?! WTF?!!
# Jun 21 2004 at 11:04 AM Rating: Decent
Yeh, they do look bad... E-mail SE and tell them to change the graphic in a patch!
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# Jun 17 2004 at 5:12 AM Rating: Default
I think the only cool cactuar is from FF XIII. I haven't seen the ones from FF X so those might be better. These ones look like fat chicks halfway through a weight-loss program.
RE: .
# Dec 18 2004 at 2:26 PM Rating: Decent
he probobly ment 8 hit x instead of v
RE: .
# Aug 20 2004 at 12:44 AM Rating: Good
Final fantasy 13?! What am I missing?!
cactuar
# Jun 13 2004 at 11:54 AM Rating: Decent
i wouldnt mind another 1 foot tall cactus which jumped around like a lunatic, be fun killing it
Ugly
# Jun 09 2004 at 6:30 PM Rating: Decent
46 posts
Man is this guy ugly... the ones from X2 looked cool when they did theyre attack dance
Wow
# Jun 08 2004 at 11:25 PM Rating: Decent
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That's some major thigh power.
Cactuar
# May 29 2004 at 2:13 PM Rating: Decent
I like the old Cactuar from FFX. These ones look weird.
RE: Cactuar
# Aug 29 2004 at 7:18 AM Rating: Decent
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Old? From FFX? I hate to call people n00bs, but damn, play some more FF games. Cactuars (or Cactrots originally) have been around since FF6.
RE: Cactuar
# Oct 05 2004 at 12:43 AM Rating: Default
n00bs huh? Try FFIII
RE: Cactuar
# Oct 15 2004 at 10:08 PM Rating: Decent
FF6 is FF3
RE: Cactuar
# Nov 04 2004 at 9:06 PM Rating: Decent
(Edit: See post below mine first)
Not to mention that our FFII was technically released in Japan as FF4-Easytype because FF4 was "too hard" for "inferior foreign gamers". In fact, the only reason FF5 never made it to our shores until years later was, again, because SE thought it was too hard. Furthermore, our FFIII was a slightly censored version of FF6j (note that some people like to tack a little "j" on the end of any FF game between 2 and 6 to avoid conclusion) because of that one boss that appeared out of a picture frame (16-bit sprite cleavage? The horror!), and IIRC, the famous "Spoony Bard" line from our FFII was put there to replace a swear word in the original Japanese.

Anyway, I suppose the real question is, were there Cactuars or Cactrots or whatever in FF3j? Additionally, where the Spoony did the word "Sabotender" come from?

-Althor Enchantor

Edited, Thu Nov 4 21:08:13 2004
RE: Cactuar
# Aug 31 2005 at 8:10 PM Rating: Decent
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Sabotender is what this guy is called in Japan.
RE: Cactuar
# Dec 15 2004 at 8:24 AM Rating: Decent
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Many of the names in the desert seem to have their roots in Spanish (or a similar language). It's entirely possible that Sabotender means something in the Spanish language, or it may be a new word made from Spanish prefixes or suffixes. Who knows? Example: Sabotender Bailaor seems to have some root in the word "bailar," which means to dance, however "Bailador" is the normal translation of "dancer." I'm not sure what the omission of the "D" means. It may mean something slightly different. Anyways, if anyone speaks Italian or something and knows what this means, drop a line :)
RE: Cactuar
# Jan 28 2005 at 2:41 PM Rating: Decent
"Bailaor" applies to the male dancers of an specific folk dance/music from the south of spain called "Flamenco". It's a language degeneration due to the strong and characteristic accent and slang of the area.
RE: Cactuar
# Jul 09 2005 at 12:36 PM Rating: Good
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"Saboten" is japanese for cactus. Thus a Sabotender is either a Cactus-er or my personal theory is they are tenders of the cactus (like Ents are the shephards of the trees).
RE: Cactuar
# Oct 31 2004 at 12:33 PM Rating: Decent
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Not exactly, there really was a Final Fantasy III for the NES in Japan. They just decided to confuse us Americans by never releasing II and III, so II = IV american, III = VI american...then they randomly decided to move back to the real convention for VII. Yes, your head should be hurting right now.
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