Cailleach Bheur
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- Spawned by touching the ??? on the bridge on map #6 at H-7/I-7 for the quest Blood and Glory .
- Has high evasion.
- Hits very hard.
- Susceptible to Silence, Gravity, Bind, and Slow. Susceptible but more resilient to Paralyze.
- Will build full resistance to Silence much faster than other debuffs.
- Immune to Repose.
- Casts Tier 4 black magic spells frequently.
- Can, but does not often, cast Tier 3 -aga black magic spells.
- Do not underestimate this NM! Since no one has written any testimonies about him, here is a quick rundown of what to expect. His will most certainly cast Ice Spikes as one of his first spells, which are extremely potent, and must be Dispeled. Our RDM had no trouble in doing so, but a lack of dispel will result in a wipe. The first time we fought him without dispel, the healer ran out of mp before the NM was at 75% from basically spamming Paralyna. He will also use several AoE's back to back to back. One is Blood Saber which not only dropped the parties hp to the yellow every time, but healed the NM to almost full HP several times. He will cast Tier IV Black Magic spells, which can one-shot a dd or mage if the hate is not properly controlled. He also used Thundaga III, which must be stunned. And, as stated above, he hits HARD. His acc against a NIN tank wasn't great, but if the NM hits a NIN without shadows, which can easily happen, as his AoE's knock all shadows down, you can expect the NIN to take substantial damage. A PLD tank may fare better as long as you have a stunner to stun big spells, and Undead Killer wouldn't hurt. So, my advice, bring an army that includes a Dispeller, a healer, or two, a stunner, a back up stunner, a PLD, and enough DD to pound the mob into submission as fast as possible. Bring as many DD as you feel comfortable with, then grab two more. Seriously. Our MNK, who is very, very well geared and extremely skilled barely took 20% off this NM with Hundred Fists and Asuran Fists. So unless you want to see bodies strewn about in Ifrit's Cauldron, bring some heavy, heavy hitters!
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Killed with no-difficulty with a set of : BLM/SCH, WHM/SCH, WAR/NIN, BLU/NIN. We killed the bats and the bombs then Protectra/Shellra V and started pulling the NM. The fight lasted for 4 minutes, BLU did 2 Distortion with BLM MB Freeze II on the NM, WHM had to do just 3 Cure III and 2 Cure IV on the BLU. Easy Fight, on darksday too. WHM took it under silence for all the time with 256 in Enfeebling Magic, no need of RDM. WAR unleashed powerful WSs and nothing went wrong.
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Killed with zero difficulty with a THF/NIN and a RDM/WHM, keep haste on the thief, keep it blinded, silenced, slowed and paralyzed and it's a very very simple fight, also helps a lot if you have slow II and paralyze II, along with the thief having actual evasion gear. It's {Too weak}. Just takes a while to kill it this way, but you're safe from it's AoE spells that give back it's HP since it's only draining from 1 character.
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Killed with no difficulty as well geared/merited MNK/NIN + RDM/WHM. MNK kept shadows up, didn't need to 2hr, didn't get into yellow. RDM's enfeebs stuck with no difficulty, including Silence, which helped avoid -ga.
Historical Background
Also called Cailleach or Cailleach Beara, she was a sorceress depicted as an elderly woman with the teeth of a bear and tusks from a boar in Irish and Scottish mythology. Cailleach means "old woman" and Bheur means "sharp" or "shrill", a term used to apply to the weather. She is associated with winter time and is considered the personification of Winter in the British Isles. One of her titles is The Blue Hag of Winter.
