I've been popping this recently. Can anyone else confirm that this only seems to pop at night time? And that the place holder is one of the 3 Grauberg Hippogryph on the East side of G-7? --Hitoma 04:31, November 14, 2009 (UTC)
Finally saw it after 3h of camping and yeah it seems that the placeholder is on East side of G-7. It popped at night time but it stood up even past 6a.m in game. Party setup was: Pld/ninX2, Thf/nin, Drk/nin, Whm/smn. It hits very hard and has high accurancy, mainly used Hoof Valley and Jettatura. Hoof Valley doesn't go through shadows so if your tank can keep shadows up, hate won't be reset. It only dropped a Light cristal. --Chinaflying
It does pop from one of the 3-4 Gryphs on the Eastern Side of E-7, I've confirmed this twice (fought 6 times now, still no drop :/), and it can pop at any time of the day, and in any weather condition, I'm still not certain on the respawn time. --Rufusruferson
Killed this today with RDM/NIN, BRD/NIN, SCH/RDM, 2xSMN/WHM, DRK/WAR while kiting it around the campaign tower. Hardest part was the hate reset from Hoof Volley, had some of the mages die. If possible /NIN is recommended. Very possible for a skilled and well geared/merited RDM/NIN to solo while kiting it around the tower.--edster1500 11:12, November 22, 2009 (UTC)
Just killed him today as RDM/NIN, RDM/NIN, SMN/WHM, BST/WHM. He is very easy to kite around the outer walls of the campaign tower. Bst wasn't really needed he just threw carries at it for a little bit of dmg. Strategy was pretty simple. One RDM/NIN holds hate with bio/psn/para, and nukes here or there. SMN comes in and uses nether blast, then lets the NM kill Diabolos. The other RDM/NIN is back up kiter/main dmg dealer outside of SMN. Seems to vary in magical resistance dmg wise, at one point my Blizzard III was doing 54 dmg, then later it consistently did 200-450dmg on him. So, overall using this strategy is easy took us about 30-45 minutes. No drop 0/1.
Easily soloed as COR/NIN kiting around the Grauberg (S) warp tower using Fire Shot. Got drop 1/1.
Killed him the other day with RDM/NIN, SMN/WHM, and SMN/SCH. Pulled the NM to Witchfire Glen. RDM proceeded to kite around one of the ponds while keeping Poison II and Bio II on it. SMNs used Blood Pacts for damage. Took about 30 minutes and got the drop. --Hoshi.Odin 11:27, January 9, 2010 (UTC)
Just killed easily, solo'ed as RDM/NIN. Make sure to have full buffs on then pull with Slow (preferably Slow II), kite him to the Fey Springs trying your best to run in a straight line. He has a silly kite pattern where he likes to sway from side to side he'll more than likely just start hitting you as you get to the first lake. Take him to the Northern most lake that has a tree to the East of it and start kiting around the lake. It's important to take him to this lake because he once again goes into a silly kite pattern where he likes to go around the tree when he gets near it, providing you to cast either Refresh or Blizzard III. During the time your not casting Blizzard III you'll be casting Poison II, Bio II or III and spaming Blizzard I when ever you have the chance, and using Chain Spell Blizzard III @10% HP. Fight took about 45~50 mins, 0/1 on the drop. I did not have Crimson Pants for kiting and managed to get to the lake fine and had no problem at all kiting around the lake, and only have a Vermy Cloak to help with Refresh. Hope this guide helps you all! --Hykaa.Siren 1:53, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
An odd method of solo but it works
He's not a hard solo on bst using a method I like to call pet kiting. Use a pet to pull him to Witchfire Glen, then find a large pond and put your pet back on it (if it's still alive) and get ready to kite. When it dies, spam charm while kiting for 2 minutes or so. Now call beast and contiune to kite until that pet dies. Rince repeat. Do NOT Snarl. Takes a while, but its quite interesting :D Lots of pet acc required, also /nin