Talk:Wyvernpoacher Drachlox

While the Shepherds might be placeholders, Wyvernpoacher can also spawn from Mercenaries. In fact, the times it was up, it popped instead of a Mercenary. This does not exclude Shepherds from being placeholders, but it's definitely not limited to Shepherds being the only placeholders. Sikbok - Kujata

Testimonials

• Soloable by well geared, merited 75 PLD/RDM with little difficulty. Keep Stoneskin and Phalanx up as much as you can; Reprise helps for some extra damage and shieldblocks. Chivalry is a good tool to use when MP gets low. EES hits for about 600 with Phalanx up, 400ish if you have some damage left in Stoneskin.
• 75 RDM/NIN or BLM/WHM with BRD/WHM can defeat NM with DoT method in around 30-45 minutes.
• 75 RDM/NIN can defeat this NM by meleeing, by making use of Haste, Haste+ gear, and Fast Cast gear in Utsusemi macros, so long as EES is blinked.
• BST with a Familiar'd Antares pet can kill Wyvernpoacher easily. Melee with pet.
• Well equipped 75 THF/NIN or NIN/MAGE can also solo this NM. For THF, it may be necessary to pull it closer to entrance and use bloody bolts on one of the lvl 30ish goblins.(They'll stick consistantly for 50-70 hp, compared to about 1/3 proc rate for 20-25 on Wyvernpoacher.)
• Killable by 69RDM/THF 69WHM/THF and 70PLD/WAR without much trouble.
• Soloable by 75NIN/THF with 65 Soothing Healer NPC Fellow with ease. Bomb Toss does 150+/- damage.
• Soloable by skilled 75SMN using Carbuncle kite method.
• Lv.75 Duo of PUP/WAR and PUP/PLD with standard Cure/Refresh Harlequin Head+Stormwaker Body Automatons. PUP/PLD was killed by Eagle Eye Shot but after that, PUP/WAR finished it off with ease. Recommend PUP/NIN for shadows.
• Killable with a highly skilled experience points party level 60-62. PLD/WAR RNG/NIN RNG/NIN WHM/BLM RDM/WHM BLM/WHM won without much difficulty.
• Soloable by a 75 PLD/NIN. If EES isn't blinked, simply zone rest up and pull again (2hr does not reset when aggro is lost).
• Duo by two 75 RNG/NIN with shadowbind and kiting technique utsusemi absorbed EES then have both RNG's use barrage to gain TP then Sidewinder to slugshot for reverberation and its dies.^^
• Solo by 75 MNK/DNC using 2HR + Focus and Dodge as soon as the fight starts. The goblin doesn't seem to miss much on range attack even with evasion equipments but they do help keeping it from hitting with melee attacks. EES have never missed and deals up to 700+ DMG; thus having 2HR to charge a 200%+ TP bar to keep HP high enough and reduces its HP will be extremely helpful. Also, before fighting, use Drain Samba II even when it only drains for 1Hp per punch with 2HR, it still helps keeping HP high enough to absorbs EES.
• Killable by 2 level 75RDM/BLM using bind and nuke strategy.
• Solod as 75 RDM/WHM in poor equip using Bio II and Poison II, kited on long path to Cape Terrigan. Avoided using Bind/Grav often, seemed to build resistance to both. 35 minute fight
• Killable by 1 level 75 NIN/WHM with Evasion Gear.
• Killable by 2 level 75 RNG/NIN with shadowbind and kiting technique.
• Killable by 1 level 75 RNG/NIN with assorted bloody bolts and sleep bolts with STR food.
• Killable by 1 level 75 MNK/DNC with Hundred Fists.
• Killable by 1 level 75 SMN with Carby kiteing method.
• Killable by a level 73 THF/NIN and a 75RDM/WHM.

Drop Rate

What are peoples drop rates?

• I killed Wyvernpoacher Drachlox four times and Othinus' Bow dropped three times. 75% in my case. --FurionQc 04:26, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

• I'm 0/25 on the Othinus' Bow :\ but i know most don't go that high. Snoxer 18:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

• I am now 4/5 on Othinus' Bow. You must have a curse on you Snoxer.--Furion 15:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

• 1/4. Othinus' Bow dropped for me just today. had 75 thf with me 2/4 times including on the drop. -- Ryeshinyih 09:52, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

• 1/6 finally on Othinus' Bow my friend is 0/29 I had a 75 THF with me the time it dropped and no THF all other times. --Kidmidnight 12:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

• 1/4 killed this guy once a day for 4 day in a row. soloed it as my 75 bst/whm finally got bow.

• Camped Wyvernpoacher Drachlox for 4 days and only saw her twice. I'm 1/2 with TH1; the first time my boyfriend and I killed her she was pretty easy, but no drop. The second kill we had some problems as Drachlox was hitting harder than before, but we got the drop. With most NMs I see a pattern of the higher-level spawn (if there is a level variant) drop the desired item(s). Might just be coincidence though. --Zatias 17:37, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Wyvernpoacher's True Placeholder

I have killed Wyvernpoacher quite a few times now and from day 1 I was determinded to find his one true placeholder, as I have not read anywhere yet info on his placeholder. From my experience ALL lottery pop NMs i have fought have only ONE placeholder. So we killed the Goblins in his spawn area for a while and found out goblins have 16min respawn times (which is normal for a lot of mobs). Once Wyvernpoacher spawned, we killed it, and as a ranger i was able to figure out which gob was missing the longest. Exactly 16minutes after the NMs time of death the last goblin repopped. It was the very first Goblin listed on widescan in this area, which is a Goblin Mercenary. As i did not get my drop i decided to test the theory of one placeholder. I killed only the goblins necessary to be able to get to this Goblin Mercenary and timed him to repop every 16 minutes. He did of course repop every 16 minutes. But after a while of camping, Wyvernpoacher spawned almost exactly 16 minutes after this Goblin Mercenary was killed. I have tested this some more times and everytime, he spawns exactly 16 minutes after this certain Goblin Mercenary is killed. It is unlikely he would pop in this fashion everytime I have camped him, unless this Goblin Mercenary is the true placeholder. So i have changed the info on the main page to reflect this knowledge. Before changing it again, please test this out with widescan. You will find this info is accurate.--Jhromada 22:08, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Interesting Pop Conditions

I was camping Wyvernpoacher for the past two days and skilling up at the same time so I would fight every goblin down there. (Except for the Shepards, I let those stay alive because a 51BLM/NIN was down there soloing the pets. All 3 times that it popped, it popped when it had been about 3 hours past his last pop time and I let every mob in the area repop. I don't know if it was merely a coincidence or what, but every time he popped it was when I decided to let every Goblin in the area repop.

So I made two observations: 1) Shepards have nothing to do with popping him, as I didn't kill any of them the third time he popped. 2) He always popped when I let every goblin in the area repop after killing all of them (except the shepards of course).--In3rtia 07:06, 8 July 2008 (UTC)