Talk:Iratham

Historical Background Sources
http://books.google.com/books?id=u6YdKeY6JHcC&lpg=PA30&ots=HddEsUn3Gl&dq=iratham&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false In this English-Tamil paper dictionary, you can see Iratham means "coach" or "chariot" and also links to Irasam, which means "mercury" or "quicksilver." In close proximity is Irattam, which means "blood" and seemed relevant to include.

If you pop these into an online dictionary that translates Tamil, you can confirm that these words are correct. However, the general entry for Iratham (Chariot) appears as ரதம் in an online translator rather than இரதம் as the above dictionary shows. I included both for the sake of completeness. --Eremes 03:45, September 12, 2010 (UTC)

The other NMs
The other Caturae are in fairly hidden spots, so maybe he's fairly hidden? Just an idea --Sakuraryong 21:52, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

Spawn Possibility
Kill all 5 Wandering Bhumi simultaneously (Similar margin of error as "Same time" Lamps in Nyzul) on Lightsday or Darksday. Appears west of the Adamanoise Monsters.

I was fighting a Bhumi and saw him wander by, did not realize he was so rare, I tried finding him after but couldn't. This was on Lightningday Helldemon 06:31, October 27, 2010 (UTC)

I was running around farming Bhumis and only managed to kill two with a large "margin of error" and still found Iratham, so I doubt that's the spawn trigger. I also suspect that there is actually only 1 wandering Bhumi on a relative quick respawn timer. I was jetting around the zone via Confluxes and never found more than 1 Bhumi up within 5 minutes of its last ToD.

I was following Iratham around for a little while and it seems like he does not stop every so often like normal enemies. He managed to wander 2 map tiles in the time it took me to track him down and I wasn't very far from him when he popped up on Widescan. Additionally, I can't tell because it happened quickly, but he either agros by sound or turned very quickly and agro'd me by sight. If it was sound, his agro radius is absolutely tiny (about 5 yalms). If it was sight, then I can't really say. --Eremes 19:06, October 29, 2010 (UTC)

My LS and I found it up tonight roaming around near the mandragora. It was Lightsday, at night on a Wanin Gibbous (67%). --Prothescar 06:18, October 30, 2010 (UTC)

We were killing Chloris and he popped. Pld tanked him until Chloris was dead then we killed him. Dropped belt, no other armor. Popped on Ice or Thundersday (was 0:30 when i looked at time), Waxing Gibbeous 60% -Defiledsickness

Saw him roaming the Flux #07 hill around midnight on earthsday, waning crescent 33%. Cogg

Had a long exp pt at Mandies, and he did not wander by till just after Lighningsday, (was about waning crescent 17%) --Endlesspath 13:18, November 13, 2010 (UTC)

Testimonials
My LS fought and defeated it with 11 people. PLD/WAR, BLU/NIN, RDM/BLM, WHM/SCH, NIN/WAR, SAM/WAR, RNG/NIN, BLM/RDM, MNK/NIN, BST/NIN, BST/NIN. We kited it around two trees within the mandragoras, keeping up DoTs and enfeebles. It went well all through 20%, we noticed it shift from Fire element to Ice element at 50% and casted spells to match. After 20%, though, things got hairy. It started casting Comet which had a VERY fast casting speed, (with Addle), and did over 2k to anything that it hit, including our PLD who has a fairly robust MDT set. It even one shotted one of our beastmaster's lizard jug pets from full HP. We were able to scrape it together and get it dead, albeit by the skin of our teeth. Recommended to keep distance at all times if you have hate, if at all possible. Noticed no damage reductions, and as the blue mage I was able to land 1.5k+ spells rather readily. -Prothescar 06:35, October 30, 2010 (UTC)