My friend had been borrowing my Walk mask for an age so i decided to rope him into helping us with this guy.
Was only going to hang around the spawn for about an hour, but he popped after about 30 minutes of just wiping out all of the Quadav on that shelf there. I'm aware that they're not all placeholders, but we needed something to do.
Got him with no competition around, and luckyily for me it dropped first time :)
i rate that as incredibly lucky given the drop rates i've been reading.
My friend is 67 PLD and i'm 60 DRG/23Thf(i'm working on it). but i think i could've duoed him pretty easily with my NPC and, if **** hit the fan, Spirit Surge was always an option.
I did 'waste' a TP wing too on him, even though we were in no danger of loosing, but it resulted in a nice 320 self skillchain. My one and only so far :) All and all a nice little outting.
Got my technique for hunting this guy down, usually i can get him to pop every hour on the hour. There are 3 Emeralds to keep an eye on, one to the left of spawn one to the right and one that can pop on either side. Only one of these is his place holder. One Emerald quadav will walk down to the lower lvl, he does not spawn there or atleast i havent seen it. Usually killing that one and that one only will get the NM popping pretty regular. Be patient sumtimes the Emerald that walks down to the lower lvl takes his sweet time. Also PH will pop in the area where the NM pops you can kill this Emerald and feel confident that it is his PH. One more thing, if his place holder isnt killed ina certain amount of time, i have seen it de-pop and reappear on the opposite side or in the NM's pop area. 1/45 on this ***** i could be rich on all the Duel rapiers ive tossed. Also... take note of the other 2 emeralds location becasue once you kill the PH 14 minutes later he will repop on either side and it can be easy to get them confused if you cant remember where the others were at.
I got him twice, 0/2 [Edit:(0/4)][Re-edit:{0/5}][Re-Re-edit:<0/7>][Re-Re-Re-Edit:[1/8]] valkyrie's mask, 2/2 [Edit:(4/4)][Re-edit:{5/5}][Re-Re-edit:<7/7>][Re-Re-Re-Edit:[7/8]] Duel rapier -.- he spawned way out of that circle on the peninsula the first time, the 2nd was in the corner on the top right, third in the top left corner happy hunting I also noticed (may just be random), but when i killed the PH on the top, he spawned right after, just thought maybe it would be something
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camped this guy with my 60DRK/WAR for 3 hours last night he finally spawned I claimed him I had him down to 1/4 life before my 60THF/NIN friend got there we killed him in like 2 more hits got Duel Rapier drop gonna continue to camp him until i get the mask lol.
Just killed him, only drop was Dual Rapier. Was killing all quadav in the area as NIN64/WAR32. He popped at (K-6) near a large rock with trees around it Here is a screenshot of it: {http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/42/img0002wg4.th.png} Which is not show on the map above, but he did pop here and almost killed me because I linked 3 mobs ~_~
Does anyone have a better idea on his spawn rate? I just killed him the first time 65NIN/32RDM and he bairly touched me. 1/1 on the mask! and its about 1.8M on garuda atm
So I camped this for about an hour. Got the claim, (whuch, btw, he can spawn a lil further out right than what the map says)and called out my NPC just in case since I was 60DRK/30THF. My NPC is set as a healer, but when he casted Chainspell, she Silenced him so he got no spells off!!! That of course made the figh easier. Two Guillotines later, it died and I got the mask. ^^ 1/1
I was getting a Red Mage testimonial one day when I saw this guy. I was in an NA party of four, and we teamed up with a JP party of 3 also in Beaudeux. The JP party leader was also the leader of the alliance.
So we were coming out and I was the first person to spot this guy. So I run over to him and I didn't recognize the name so I asked my LS what level he was and what he dropped. I guess everyone was sleeping cause no one said anything. So the JP WHM comes over and casts Silence on it and waits for the JP THF75 to come over and take it on with her, I'm guessing, for TH2. So I see the JP WHM start taking hits so I buff up and start it, seeing he couldn't have been too high of level. I kill it after awhile and see I got a Valkerie's Mask drop. I was excited then, I didn't know he dropped that, so I immediately lotted on it. Well, it took me a little while after the incident to realize this, but apparently the Silence that the JP WHM cast on the guy was a psuedo-claim. Well, the THF comes over a minute after I killed the NM and puts Quartermaster on him, so he gets the drop. So I start yelling at him. It was totally not fair. I didn't know what the NM was so I didn't cast on it, but I was still there first. The JP THF then reacts to my yelling by training a crapload of higher tier Quadav to me. It didn't kill me, I escaped, but this was definitely not a very good experience for me. I'm not the richest person in the world, so that 700k would have helped me quite a bit, while that THF probably had 100k stuffed in his mog couch.
Well second day in a row and second drop in a row, this time the moon is at 57% so i really think that doesn't make a difference with this drop. Poped about the same time as yesterday "9:30-9:45 cst". Well good luck to all and happy hunting
Camped him for about an hour and a half alone the whole time as a DRK68/WAR34, moon was at 5% new moon. Got the mask first try and used blind bolts so he only hit me once or twice. i would say if you have blind and bloody bolts use them cause when he uses Chainspell it don't feel to good XD but seeing as how guillotine silences he only got a couple spells off =P
I'm pretty sure you would have a good chance if you had sleep bolts you could use as well. I was killing the stuff around there easy as ranger 58/ nin 25. I only stopped camping it because a bunch of gilsellers showed up. >.<;; damn wst bunch
I see him here but i must have spent 8 hours total looking for this basterd, and i havent even seen him once. Bad drop rate? How about lame spawn rate ; ;
I took Brim's advice below, although I still need to test this theory more, looks as though this hold true. Kill the Emerald that runs down the lower level. Ga'bhu should spawn next.
0/9 on drop but I'm using my time farming coins, leveling NPC(31-39 from this zone) and getting skill ups on Markmenship.
Ok so here's my experience and thusly what I think (I could be wrong, if anyone has evidence to confirm or deny please post).
Anyways I believe there is 1 placeholder for this guy. To the region to the right and left of his spawn point are 2 other emerald Quadav spawns, I do not believe either of these are place holders, however the place holder might spawn in either area or anywhere inbetween. More notably the place holder will walk to the lower level (I've not seen it spawn there) I've killed the one on the lower level 2 or 3 times and Ga'Bhu showed up about 14 min. later
Here's a horrible pic, I circled the Emerald: http://www.thefinalverdict.net/Personal/FFXI/EmQuad.jpg
I've killed Ga'bhu 20 times, only got the mask the last time (95% moon), seen him show up as soon as an hr. and over 3 hrs. I killed him the other 19 times between 0%-93% moon, no drop. I did this as a 60 THF, many of the mobs check as EP, good for beastseals (I think I got 70 or so, about 15k exp. and probably stole over 15 stacks of mythril coins) Bloody bolts are your friend, what the Spinel they're BLM type and can tear you up more quickly than the others since Evasion won't help much.
Drop rate is terrible, waste of time to camp IMO for money (unless you're a thf and the beastseals and mythril coins ease the pain)
Other note: this is by far the friendliest NM camp I've seen I was by myself a lot but often times had other campers pull links off me and we'd chat in tells about how awful our luck was. Kinda funny.
Got the drop just now^^ Camped him twice, killed most quads, always the emeralds, not just in the circle above, but in the horseshoe pattern on the upper level. first, duel drop, after dispatching the ancient quad I was fighting with my wife, both went and smacked em gewd. No chainspell. 2nd time, almost an hour later to the T, found em chillin top left J-6, fought em alone as 60 DRG/RDM, he used chainspell and some useful spells that didnt do much to me ^^. Was at half mp, but still walked away strong. 1/2 on mask^^
Just killed him as BRD60/WHM30. I claimed him with Carnage Elegy and hit him with Spirits Within for 470 DMG. He was really easy and could barely even hit me, i guess it was the 183 +16 Evasion. When he was halfway dead he used Chainspell. Spammed Fire on me for some reason.. RDM dont have the highest INT i guess, Fire did 6-10 DMG each hit ; ;. Anyways i got a pretty new Duel Rapier....
Oh yeah and i camped for about an hour.. some people were mad at me for getting the claim.. said they had been there for 3+ hours killing Emerald Quadavs.
Was going for 350k two months ago on Bismarck. Now it's jumped to 800k.
Bad thing about my last attempt at camping him was that the Galka WAR I was competing for the drop with was headed back to Jeuno just when he spawned. And at the same time he pops, I aggro 4 Quadav and have to finish them off.
Oh, and Mr. Unvanquished is only slightly harder for me to solo as a 57 DRG/RDM than the surrounding mobs. Chainspell isn't that bad, but you'll need to Silence him just in case. I'm just guessing, but I say he has around 3000 to 3500 HP. He did take 5 Pentas before he died on one of my attempts.
has anyone gotten the Valk mask to drop off this guy? no one has even mentioned getting the drop on this thread, maybe it doesn't really drop it and could be a misprint.
Yes, I got him to drop it. The sad thing is, whenever I go to camp him, it never drops, but one time I ran into him while helping someone in my LS do GK3, and we killed it and got the drop @_@