Talk:Aquarius

Repop time

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• Note: So far I have waited 5 hours for Aqua to spawn with exp parties constantly killing all the Robber Crab's. A friend that use to camp Aqua back in the old days when it drop gil item (D.cloth if I remember correctly) said it is 2-6hr. Maybe saying 2hr only on front page is misleading? I won't edit it but it does say "lottery" but normally that means it can spawn back to back ^^ Bekisa

• • spawned 5:25 after I got there. 99.99% sure that it wasn't killed and I just missed it.

• I have been camping him for the past few days while picking coffers inbetween... and I can say that of 10 kills, he has always popped close to the 2 hour mark... I believe this 2-6 hours is off base. -Rath

• • • Someone was killing Aqua when I arrived, within 5 minutes repop and I killed him ;) - ryleb89

Fransisca drop rate

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Front page says Fransisca drops 80% of the time, I have always seemed to have 100% drop rate every time I have fought it. Has anyone not had the axe drop before? --Wayka 04:43, 8 April 2007 (EDT)

Due to the recent edits, I put the comment, drops nearly 100% of the time in the notes. As I mentioned before though I have never had it not drop, curious if anyone has had it not drop before to support the claim. --Wayka 05:30, 9 May 2007 (CDT)

I killed him earlier today and didn't get the axe drop. I do however have it in my MogLocker but if it did drop it should go into my Treasure Pool. Jan. 16, 2008 --Sephirothclone Diabolos

I'm almost certain that if you already have it in your possession and no one else is in your party, a 100% drop will not drop at all. --Suteru 15:30, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

this was fixed awhile ago. it was used to get a 100% drop of defending ring (and other items). it is NOT a 100% drop rate, and i've seen it not drop, even with someone in the party that didn't have it. --rOg \ TaLk 21:40, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I also killed it a few days ago and didn't get a drop. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BlackNINjasheep (talk • contribs).

Similarly, I've also been in a party (specifically to get the axe for someone) where it didn't drop. Granted, this was the only time I didn't see it drop, and it was about 2 years ago, but I still think that counts for a "non 100%" unless it was changed in an update.Demitel 22:12, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Someone please take a screenshot of the axe not dropping and of your mog house contents, so we have some proof to make an edit to the page. If you just consider the majority of user comments in a community based project like this, you're considered a 'vandal' nowadays, so we need some hard evidence. Zaphor 07:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

I've also been in a party of two people where neither of us had this axe (same as a poster above, we were specifically trying to get it) and it did not drop. It was so long ago that I can't accurately say when, perhaps two years ago. If I fight it again and do not get the drop, I will get a screenshot and post it - if that's needed for proof. But I don't know why people would lie... -- Orubicon 17:44, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

LV99 cap Testimonials

Defeated easily as PLD99/RDM49 with low (182+11) shield skill and creed/perle gear. the NM never broke stoneskin+phalanx unless it wore off due to time (ice spikes are a nice help). melee hits averaged about 10-20 damage with Sanus Ensis and 270 sword skill, but Enlight hit at full stretch. recasting it every 30 seconds or so will make the fight go much quicker, due to how the spell wears off gradually.Rhionhi 03:30, November 1, 2012 (UTC)

Tough solo for PLD95/RDM47 with low magic and combat skills and Perle set. I had to use all JA including Invincible. I also had 2 links. Ripped through my Stoneskin and was unable to get it back up due to the other 2 crabs interrupting my casting. Cecyl 14:45, May 10, 2013 (UTC)

Battle Strategies

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Solo Wins

• 25/08/2013 Soloed as BST61/DNC30. Started battle by going up to second level of Boyahda Tree and Familiar a Korrigan. After that just casually walked down and sent it at Aquarius. Used Reward on Cooldown to keep it healthy. Meleed alongside my Korrigan from the start since I was sure I wasn't going to pull hate. Fight took about 7 minutes and capped my axe skill. The hardest part is actually pulling of the Familiaring of the Korrigan. Took me 7 failed charms and kiting it around until I managed to charm it and hit Familiar. Well worth it though since I'll use the axe on my RNG in 3 levels.

• 11/15/2009 Soloed as SMN75/SCH37. Start battle with sublimation full, Addendum: Black activated and Elemental Siphon timer ready. Use Diabolos all the time: Nether Blast and Somnolence for gravity and extra damage. Then run away back to recast diabolos when Blood Pact: Rage is gonna get ready, release Diabolos, invoke Diabolos again and use their abilities. Keep this technique but just take care not to lose hate or it will regain HP.
  • After each round of Blood Pact: Rage and Blood Pact: Ward, use Alacrity and Aspir, plus Drain when you receive some squeezy hit. --Turbero

I used the same strategy but instead I used Ramuh and Thunderstorm with 5/5 merits was dealing around 1200 each time, fight took less than 8 minutes Kunimatsu1989 04:36, August 16, 2010 (UTC)

• 8/24/09 Soloed as Galka SAM75/DNC37, No Weapon Skill used, No food used, No 2 hour used. Relevant merits are full Meditate Recast (You will live and die by this timer, make sure to macro into AF1 head and AF2 hands) and full Great Katana. Fight lasted roughly 30 minutes. I got in trouble two or three times with him landing a few lucky crits, I'd say if I wasn't Galka I definitely would have gone down. During the fight retreated twice with Desperate Flourish to regain meditate timer.
  • Full gear list; Ushikirimaru, Pole Grip, Bibiki Seashell, Empress Hairpin, Evasion Torque, Bushinomimi, Fowling Earring, Scorpion Harness, Seiryu's Kote, Emerald Ring, Jelly Ring, Corse Cape, Scouter's Rope, Myochin Haidate, Myochin Sune-Ate. I don't have Sea unlocked, but if you do some easy improvements you could make to this gear setup are upgrading the Fowling Earring to Brutal Earring, Myochin Haidate to Myochin Haidate +1 and the Corse Cape to Boxer's Mantle.

• 7/14/09 Soloed as 72SAM/30DNC(yeah) with 55 soothing healer NPC using a GK and soboro, near best eva gear you can get at that level still had to kite a bit with desperate flourish fight took 38 min, 2 houred at 10% to not quite finish him off.

• L75 SCH/RDM opening with Gravity and then Tabula Rasa ganking the crab. Should go down in 4-5 tier IV nukes with Parsimony + Alacrity + Ebullience. Just make sure not to run into other Robber Crab while running away.

• Soloable by 75 PUP/NIN using Stormwaker with Soulsoother head. Capped evasion, capped evasion merits, wearing +13 evasion skill gear (Boxer's Mantle and Evasion Earring), +7 raw evasion (Hades Sainti), and +10 evasion from Jack-O-Lantern. Not a hard fight, but you do have to pay attention as the mob swings very fast. Due to the fast swings and high defense, keeping stable hate can be rather hard, it's recommended to build TP ahead of time and open with a weapon skill, or the automaton can easily pull hate with an enfeeble spell, because of this it's also not a bad idea to keep the automaton out of melee range entirely, and a very good idea to have the activate timer ready when starting the fight. Flashbulb is crucial for this fight, as it can save you when you need to cast Utsusemi: Ichi, and Blind, Slow, and Paralyze should be kept up constantly. Fight took a little under 15 minutes. KodoReturns 09:10, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

• A 75NIN/THF will cause Aquarius to miss 75% of all melee attacks, however 'Bubble Shower' will do between 90-120 points of damage depending on your Water Resistance gear. The massive majority of Ninjutsu debuff spells (Kurayami, Jubaku, Hojo) will stick if Ninjutsu skill is capped and/or merited. Aquarius has a very fast attack speed but it's attack accuracy is terribly low. When attacks do land they hit fairly hard; approx. 100-140 damage per hit to 75NIN/WAR.

• Soloable by 75 RDM using Gravity, Bio II/Bio III, and nukes. Chainspell with tier III nukes and an early Convert makes it easier to kill before Gravity gains too much resistance.
  • - If Chainspell is not available (i died on attempt where i used it: ran out of mp) and you have your full mage gear /NIN, you can kite around southeastern area of map where the map forms a square shape passage lined with spiders and mushrooms so you wont get aggro. Casting gravity only when needed, like at start, and running ahead of it casting Bio III on it only. Will take a while (took me about 20 min with only 1 convert needed), but it's relatively safe. Bio III duration may fluctuate at times so you must keep enough distance to be able to recast before he starts to regen. Keeping distance checked is a must. Anodrac 06:37, 27 March 2008 (UTC) Anodrac * Valefor *

• Soloable by PLD/RDM 75. Atonement for damage, Chivalry was also used. Use Tavnazian Taco as food and keep up Phalanx and an enspell at all times. It is very crucial you wear as much Shield gear as possible as well as -% DMG taken, so you can reduce the damage to negligable amounts when you shield block. Can be a challenging fight.

• Soloable by 75NIN/DNC, not 1 none AoE hit, used Blind, Slow, Para. tools, in combination with Kamu. Only 1 Curing W. II used whole fight. After kill noted it was half way in to water day, he was not harder to kill compared to kills on other days! Mix of haste and eva was used, fight lasted ~20min.

• Soloable by 75NIN/DNC, was hit about 5 times, which were intentional to get the added damage from Drain Samba II.

"Added damage from Drain Samba II" - I lol'd. "Windmills do not work that way!" --Kylep2 12:44, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

• Soloable by a 75DRG/RDM with great difficulty. Wyrm Armet, Ethereal Earring, and Drachen Brais +1 are a must. HP+ merits, enmity+ merits, Iron Ram Lance, and a strong HP+ food such as Carbonara are strongly recommended. --Almacien 01:47, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

• Soloable easy with DRK using Drain, Drain II and Aspir. Need movement+ unless you can stick gravity with /rdm. Kite/run in a circle till its far enough for you to cast spells on it (/nin excellent for this), it also tends to go unclaimed alot which gives you more time to cast.

• Soloable 75 RDM/BLM Chainspell at start, Gravity + Bio II nuke till you are out of mp convert, cure to full keep nuking, it was down to 22% before my Chainspell wore off and i still have 500+ mp, was easy from there.

• Challenging solo with 75 THF/NIN, and 56 NPC, with evasion gear, capped eva and ONE merit in evasion :P NPC was set to Soothing Healer and I TA+WS'ed on it when it ran out of mp. Killed my NPC twice with this method (had full Tactics Pearl) and on third NPC I couldn't pass hate to NPC long enough to get it killed. Managed to kill the crab when I was at red hp. FFXI-Taube 21:48, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

• Solo by 75PLD/37RDM used 1 yagudo drink also used chivalry had to rely on shield blocks a lot to get cure 4s off since it attacks so fast but beat it in 5 mins and kept my hp above 50% all time, Atonement helped a lot i think normal ws would be really bad damage on it. Also use shield skill gear and agi or you wont be able to block and get cures off unless you have Aegis.

• Soloable by a SMN/WHM 75 but this is a long fight (90 minutes). There is a circle in the map from (H-10) to (J-12) which is a very good place to kite as it has no aggro and is very close to his pop area.

• Killable by 75MNK/DNC w/ lvl 66 Soothing Healer npc. MNK was fully merited, used eva build, and had Counterstance up the whole fight. Ate sushi. Challenging fight but not too difficult.
• Different 75MNK/DNC with healer npc. Had eva build too, but didn't use counterstance, started at 300tp and pretty much kept it that way.

• Soloable by level 75 Black Mage or Red Mage through the use of the spell Gravity

• Soloable by 75 Summoner utilizing Carbuncle-kiting methods (possibly lower level depending on your skill in utilizing Carbuncle to kite Aquarius around the zone).

• Soloable by BLM/RDM 75 using Gravity and Ancient Magic II.

• Soloable by MNK/NIN 75 with evasion gear and normal MNK Soloing techniques.

• Soloable by 75 RDM/BLU meleeing using defense food. Dagger recommended for Energy Drain.

• Soloable by a 75THF/NIN with decent amount of evasion gear and capped and merited evasion skill.

• Soloable by 68 SMN, but it is long fight(90-100 min).

• Soloable by 75 DNC/NIN easy but takes ages :) [1]

• Soloable by a 75 SAM/DNC with Soboro Sukehiro

• Easy Solo by 75 BST/NIN or BST/WHM Use a pet to kite it upstairs and use Korrigans.

• Easy Solo by 75 COR/BLM using Hermes' Sandals or Crimson Cuisses & kiting it around using Thunder Shot with a macro piece to blink out the animation so u can use Quick Draw while running

• Soloable by RDM/PLD with Max merit Enhancing Magic & Dusk Armor And/or combo with AF/AFv2,Crimson & Caped shield skill with -%phy damage equipment (Jelly Ring, Cheviot Cape, Genbu's Shield). Having Joyeuse helps. - Mataniah

• I just solo him as a 75SMN/37WHM. I buffed up with blink and stoneskin along with protect II and shell II. I sent carbuncle in with meteorite and ran to the tunnel @ I-10 and ran to the room were there was some bark spiders and death caps. I waited till carby died, resummon and used meteorite on him to steal hate and then ran out of that tunnel to the other tunnel @ I-8, i ran a little in and waited for carby to die again, resummon and did meteorite again and ran to the first tunnel. I just kept doing this back and fourth till he died. I did have to use one elemental siphon but i ran deep into one of the tunnels to do it in. It took around 15-20 min and i had about 250 mp left out of 1310 and with one elemental siphon used. I never used Astral Flow durring the fight. --Kitsunewolf 05:27, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

• Solo'd as THF75/NIN37. Used a mithkabob, Evasion gear (Evasion Torque, Boxer's Mantle, Grand Temple Knight's Bangles for skill and stuff like Antares Harness, Emperor Hairpin, Ethereal Earring), along with capped Evasion Skill merits. Also used Haste/Fast Cast gear when casting Utsusemi (Homam, Rapparee Harness, Swift Belt, Loquacious Earring). The fight took a bit more than 10 minutes. Aquarius will miss you most of the time, but things can get ugly extremely fast. A few lucky shots in a row while your shadows aren't ready and you will go down fast. Make sure you recast Utsusemi when you have at least one shadow left (even Utsusemi: Ni). He hit me for 130-220 damage, plus the occasional water effect (10-30 damage). I used Perfect Dodge at 75% because my shadows were down, and then just near the end of the fight I got caught without shadows for the second time so I fled far away in order to recast Utsu. Because of Aquarius' very high defense (even with Acid Bolts), a large chunk of my damage came from the additional effects from Bloody Bolts (drained 35 HP when not resisted) - Soily 07:03, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

• NIN75/DNC37, used hairpin, nq SH and Yasha Tekko (+7 parrying skill) as well as Yonin and Blade: Kamu. also had 24% haste for utsu recast (Shinobi Ring). slow, para, and blind all stick well, no resists at all. this guy attacks fast but low accuracy.

• Solo'd by GIMP 75/37 NIN/DNC. Was on my way fishing, killed him in fishing gear. Stun Katanas +1 and nin debuffs helped a lot. Easy for a geared nin with dnc SJ.

• Solo'd as a PLD75/RDM37. Pretty easy and fun fight. Invincible used halfway through so I could cure up to 100% and use Chivalry without interruption. Used Salted Fish and Refresh from FoV book. Dropped 27,861 gil, which is considerably higher than what the page indicates. --InspectorGadget 12:19, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

Easy Solo by Pup75/Nin37 easy & fun

• Soloed easily by PUP90/WAR45 with Sharpshot automaton. Claimed him by accident while skilling up auto archery skill. Used Marotte Claws, Empyrean +1 head and hands, Aurore body, legs and feet. Didn't have any food on me. He missed me quite frequently, but when he does hit, it hurts. Nothing a little HP swap with the auto couldn't fix though. Whole fight lasted ten, maybe fifteen minutes. 1/1 on Fransisca, for those still looking into the drop rate. - HeyAFunkyFish 18:38, September 16, 2011 (UTC)

Duo & Trio Wins

• Trio'd by PLD75/DNC30, RDM75/BLM37, WHM75/RDM37. Paladin straight tanked with aspir samba up. Aquarius is EXTREMELY fast, nearly hundred fists speed. Due to multiple interruptions, self-magic curing is not advised. Sentinel brought damage from 80's down to about 15's. Reprisal helped too. Flash is good in case you need to cure, it brings his accuracy low enough so he can't really hit you... Red mage kept me refreshed the whole fight, still had to use Chivalry once. Spirits within did 770 damage after eating Spaghetti Carbonara. Took about 1/4 his hp. White mage dispelled its constant Metallic Body spam. It was an easy but fast paced 10 minute battle so be prepared. - --Stephanox 22:42, 22 August 2009 (UTC) / Bismarck serv.

• Duoed by 75 Drg/Rdm and 75 Pld/War. Fight was ridiculously easy. he hit kinda fast, but reprisal was really nice for tanking it. Battle was straightforward, but a little long.

• Duoed by 62 BST/WHM x2, XPing on crabs in Aquarius's spawn area popped him after approximately 45 minutes. We kept Blink and Stoneskin up and threw pet after pet after pet at him. The fight took approximately 25 minutes. PicanteV 20:13, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

• Duoable by 75 SAM/DNC, Fellow level 61 soothing healer and DRG/WHM with initial 300tp both of them and samurai with 5 steps ready. Everything will be go good until you're out of mp. At around 40% I used Meikyo Shisui to start healing myself. In that moment, samurai also start using Animated Flourish to gravity Aquarius. Heal yourself and dragoon rest mp. When you're ready, engage again and kill it definitely. If you need much time to rest repeat the gravity trick as long as you need. Turbero 17:30, 08 May 2009 (UTC)
• Duoable by 75 PLD/RDM and 75 DNC/NIN. Rest and keep MP full on PLD in between killing PH. Kill PH to keep TP and Finishing Moves capped. Stun with Violent Flourish once every 10 seconds and use Box Step and Quickstep to keep Finishing Moves capped. Use Aspir Samba II to help refill MP of PLD. Not a hard fight at all. Dreamin 13:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

• Duoed by a 72NIN/35DNC and a 75WHM/37NIN. WHM did not have Hexa Strike or Utsusemi: Ni, nor was using any actual melee gear. WHM used Darksteel Maul +1/Jadagna. The battle was long, and involved a LOT of spell-casting/shihei wasting. Full buffs, Haste at all times, and Regen for those in-between times were necessary. WHM did not have to 2-hour. --Ameliadycehart 09:10, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

• Duo'd by MNK/DNC & PLD/WAR, no 2hrs needed to take him down, the fight was rather smooth, Tavanzian Taco used, and Sole Sushi used, 300TP built before the fight, Atonement opened up with 750 damage, only Atonement used for damage, Monk assisted with curing when needed, repraisal was a great and easy way to spam atonement.--Inganarf 10:25, 10 April 2009 (UTC)--Lagato-Ragnarok 10:27, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

• Duoed as 75 THF/DNC and 75 PUP/WAR with no difficulties whatsoever. Kept Defense Down with Acid Bolts and Drain Samba up at all times. Puppetmaster had a healing automaton that made the fight go even more smoothly. TA on the Puppetmaster and then SA for high damage.

• Duoed as a 74PLD/37NIN and a 71BLU/35NIN. Slow stuck from sprout smack 100% of the time. BLU spammed headbutt so the PLD could keep up shadows. Invincible was used. Weaponskill only with Spirit's within at 300% TP.

• Duoable by a 75PLD/DNC and a 71 BLU/THF. Long fight. BLU resorted to Head Butt and Flat Blade while PLD used Aspir Samba and Waltzes for health. --Gojiso 03:28, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

• Duoable by a 75NIN/THF and a 75WHM/BLM Just a couple regular players with nothing capped or merited, no food and no special gear. Fight took 14 minutes. Dish 05:00, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

• Duoed as 75 THF/NIN and 75 BLM/RDM with no difficulty. Acid Bolts, Slow, Paralyze, and Blind kept its damage recieved up and damage dealt null.

• Duoable by a 73THF/NIN and 73BRD/WHM using dual Mambo and Barwatera, very little healing required. --Hitetsu

• Trio'd by 71PLD/WAR, 75DRK/SAM, 70DNC/SAM. DNC was main healer for the fight. DRK and DNC used Meditate twice each. Began the fight with no buffs, except food. Aquarius hit quite hard and fast, but was mildly innacurate on PLD(nearly capped eva). Buffs had to be cast between hits by the PLD so no interruptions. Drain Samba helped, along with Curing Waltz, to keep HP up until Meditate timer was up. DRK took hate due to DoT, but PLD held pretty well. Trance(DNC 2HR) had to be used towards the 2/3 point due to stress on TP, and health was back up. The end of the fight was the easiest, he didn't seem to hit as hard after all the DRK absorbs and use of Defender/Sentinel. Stun and Violent Flourish were lifesavers in this fight, just coordinate casting w/party members and Stun accordingly. Stun was never resisted and Violent Flourish stuck every time. Overall, mildly intense fight due to levels/jobs involved, but only close calls were due to recast timers.

• Trio-able by 75 PLD/RDM, 72 BLM/WHM & 70 RDM/WHM. PLD straight tanked casting phalanx, blaze spikes, and stoneskin as much as possible. RDM meleed and casted enfeebs, also DOT with BLM. BLM picked spots with nukes. --allstar877 06:10, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

• Easily trio'd by 73WAR/SAM, 75WHM/NIN, and a 75PLD/NIN. WAR had the Fortitude Axe, weaponskilled nonstop, whm enfeebled/healed, and PLD tried to keep hate off of WAR. Easy fight.

• Can be trio'd by a 75/37PLD/WAR, 75/37WHM/SMN, 75/25MNK/NIN.

Groups of 4+

• Easy kill for 75 WHM/BLM, 75 PUP/???, 75 NIN/WAR, 61 DNC/NIN, and 60 THF/NIN, with hardly any real damage done to party members. 60 DNC main healed, WHM took care of buffs and enfeebling, NIN tank of course. Video of the fight here

• Defeated by a skill-up party of 75RDM/WHM, 75MNK/WAR, 64WHM/NIN, 61DRK/WAR, and 60PUP/MNK (with Sharpshot automaton). No use of special kiting/gravity strategies or two-hours were needed, just the ol' 'hit-it-until-it-dies' method. I know other strategies show that 1-2 75's can take it down...but if you're ever there with a mish-mash party and wondering if you can take it down without too much stress, you can. The WHM (me) ran out of MP at the very end, but I was /NIN and geared for DEX, not MP. -Vyenpakakapaka 15:59, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

• Killable by: 6 characters level 69-70; 8 characters level 64-66; 2 Beastmasters level 62; Soloable by a level 63 Beastmaster but does take a long time 30 minutes + using Familiar on an incredibly tough korrigan to start.

July 2012 Update

Received the message: ->The Aquarius completely resists the spell. after my automaton cast Poison II on it. Adding immunity to the front page. Eezagi (talk) 20:44, July 29, 2012 (UTC)

Video

NIN/THF + level 70 NPC 1-18-10

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