Hydra has spawned!!!!!Follow

At this time an epic battle is waging
between the alliance of Archdominus & Lunarians
against the almighty Hydra! ! !

Man oh man does Hydra have some horrible HP Regen.

Screenshots and additional information will be added to this post
when the battle ends. So far the fight has gone over 4 hours long.


-Zander

So far this is what has been accumulated some of this information is obvious
some of it may need to be verified still. But I am standing next to it watching this fight for over and hour and a half now an LSmate has been here watching for
over 4 hours now.

AoE denotes all person in area of effect not only in the alliance fighting the HNM


Ability of Double Attack

Ability of Triple Attack

Pyric Bulwark = Physical Shield

Polar Blast = Ice Breathe, Damage to any person directly in front of Hydra heads, Status Effect of Paralyze

Polar Bulwark = Magic Shield

Trembling = Dispel AoE, Damage to all members, Status Effect of Dispel

Barofield = Gravity AoE, Damage to all members, Status Effect of Gravity

Serpentine Tail = Rear Damage AoE, (Flail), Damage to member in front of Hydra heads reduced ??%, (AoE Damage to all members)

Nerve Gas = Poison AoE, Curse AoE, Damage all members, Status Effect of Poison III, Status Effect of Curse

Slight resistance to Enfeebling

Spam Trembling

It seems standing behind Hydra has no effectual damage

Hydra is a Cerberus type mob.
Hydra 3 Heads seem linked to certain abilities.

As standing directly in front of him
Left Head (((Center Head))) Right Head

When the left head of Hydra is visible he wuill use magic related attacks, Nerve Gas,
Trembling, Polar Blast. With the loss of the left head Polar Blast it seems cannot be
used.

When the right head of Hydra is visible he will use physical related attacks also using
Physical Shield.

When all 3 of Hydra head are visible it seems he has stoneskin immediatly for 30-45seconds
Also at this point Hydra obtains a massive regen effect. Similar to when Admantoise goes into
shell for regen effect, Hydra it appears calls out 3 heads for regen effect.

I will add screenshots and more information later on as it becomes available/


Edited, Jul 26th 2006 at 9:47am EDT by ZanderBismarck

Right now there is no information on it anywhere really.
He is in Wajoam Woodlands currently being felled at (G-9)
area. Stop by and see for yourself over 104 people in the
zone most of us just watching.

To get to the area where he pops is a little difficult you
need to enter Aydeewa (see FFXI-Atlas map) at Entrance #8 and
travel through this zone to (See FFXI-Atlas map) and Entrance #7

#7 will take you back to Wajoam Woodlands to where Hydra is.

Hydra is a Cerberus type mob but he is not the HQ of Cerberus. They spawn in
completly seperate areas of ToAU. I will be posting screenshots of the battle
soon but I have to log out of the game to do this since I'm on PS2 I R NOOB ww

Neat, keep us posted please. Oh, how does it spawn? Why hasn't anyone found it or fought it till now? Or have they just gotten organized after this time? Was it added after this update?

Edited, Jul 25th 2006 at 2:17pm EDT by Gamion

OMFG Hydra just went unclaimed omg omg omg he is randomly
drawing in people and eating us ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!

The last pic is the best that shows it's health.

I would assume so. If you look at the pic that Zander posted it's health was quite low.

ok thanks.

{Config}ulations!

9hr or so lol

Serpentine Tail = ??? (AoE Damage to all members)

^^

This is AoE but behind the mob only, directional. Was hitting PLD for 700+. Hit me and other melee for 1k+

I heard talk about it in LS. Something about it regening HP at 5% back to 50% twice.

Does it spawn in the big open area in the middle? It would be a real pain if this thing ended up camping the Escape point from Mamook, the Ley Point or any harvesting points...

The decapitation thing looks cool ;)