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Vana'diel Bestiary: Lesser Colibri  

Family:Colibri
Found in:Bhaflau Thickets
Wajaom Woodlands
Level:63 - 65
Flags:
  • Not Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Based on Wind
  • Strong against Wind
Drops:
Stolen Items:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

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Soloing
# Jan 25 2008 at 3:09 AM Rating: Default
i am soloing these now as 60DRG/30WHM quick easy but can get risky

if u can solo these as your 60DRG/30WHM

I going to right a guide up on the fourms for it ne way so keep an eye out :>
More flags!
# Apr 05 2007 at 12:43 PM Rating: Decent
These little buggers detect by sight. I was doing a SA TA burn party here, and whenever shadows went down and we couldn't get them back up, we'd hide to lose aggro and it'd go onto the next unfortunate thief :D
weakness
# Mar 11 2007 at 4:51 PM Rating: Decent
after partying here a while, i noticed that ice based spells did the most to them, so i believe theyre weak to ice.
KS
# Dec 11 2006 at 12:39 PM Rating: Decent
i was skilling up eva & X-bow other day while lfp. i killed 8 before getting an invite out of 8 i got 3 KS and 1 BS. this is as 68thf. this was the only time i tried this. gonna keep it up though skillup is pretty good. out of 8 i got 1.3 lvls in xbow and .6 in eva (mind you it was only 8 kills and 2 i had to hide from). marks is now 176 and eva is 201 fyi.

Edited, Dec 11th 2006 3:47pm by bjjbluebelt
ok
# Nov 04 2006 at 8:24 PM Rating: Decent
ok i got extremely lucky wiht my 30ks in two days. After more time farming these i realized that the drop rate i would say is the same as robber crabs.
ks drop
# Oct 15 2006 at 2:29 PM Rating: Decent
from my experience, these have a decently good ks drop rate, i got about 30ks in 2 days, only soloing about 2 to 3 hrs each day, so in 6 hrs 30ks. 5ks an hour eh not bad.
Piss poor drop rate on KS?
# Oct 03 2006 at 1:08 AM Rating: Decent
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I was trying to farm these while exping to get Kindred's Seals and they aren't droping. This is as THF too. Do they even drop them? I'm starting to wonder if they do.
Piss poor drop rate on KS?
# Oct 10 2006 at 1:24 PM Rating: Decent
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It's just ****-poor. XPing from 56 to 58 on these guys - 'round 6-7 hours or so - I saw maybe 6 drop total.
Very Great EXP
# Sep 18 2006 at 6:40 PM Rating: Decent
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Been invited to PTs over by the Leypoint area twice this weekend. Setup was 3 DD, NIN, BRD, RDM in both PTs. The PT I just left was NIN BRD RDM WAR THF SAM(me).

One word: Awsome. Like the person below said, way better than Crabs, but only if you have ToAU. No aggro, and they don't link. Max PTs I think that could fit in the Leypoint Tele area I think can be two. One PT seemed to always have lessers around.

Some tips to setting up: BRD and RDM stand on the Leypoint area (G-8 on the Map). Only thing RDM should do is Cure, Buff, and Haste, since these like to bounce stuff back, or your spells don't do much damage at all. BRD can then easily buff RDM, and the buff melee. BRD should buff melee or RDM while DD and NIN are fighting so that Ballad doesn't overlap on a melee, or Minuet on a RDM. NIN and the DD run in a circle around the leypoint; don't bother staying in one area since they don't link or agrro, you can chain faster running around. If you run this 'circut', continue either going clockwise or counter-clockwise around your BRD and RDM. Should be about 6-8 Lessers that spawn in this area, and pop very quickly. Tank should only worry about brining Shihei (if it's a NIN), although it's move "Pecking Fury" will eat up shadows quickly. Tank with food = waste of money, since it does like to steal your food alot.

With the above in mind, I got about 7300 in 1 hour and 15 minutes. :)
easy to chain
# Aug 18 2006 at 12:20 PM Rating: Default
Better these than crabs again.
Crabs in Ronfature
Crabs in the Dunes.
Crabs in Qufim
Crabs in Kuftal
Crabs in Zitah
Crabs in Terrigan

&^%^$^&#$#$%#Q@#@#
Uuummm
# Aug 16 2006 at 2:10 PM Rating: Decent
The only thing my party did is buff, melee and mages healing, pure melee on this guy...
Feather Tickle = Worst Ever
# Aug 15 2006 at 2:44 PM Rating: Decent
as a mid 50's PLD going up against these things, I was hella pissed when my TP would dissapear. It took me while to figure out that i was not insane, but that this bird was robbing me.
Made my "Spirits Within" luster dim quite considerably.
Colibri food
# Jul 19 2006 at 2:33 PM Rating: Decent
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I heard from some people say that when these bird use Snatch Morsel that they seem to gain the stats of whatever food they have taken, has anyone tried -stat foods to make them weaker?
Can somerone explain this?
# Jul 09 2006 at 7:28 PM Rating: Decent
Today my pt and I were xping on the Colibri's. Pt lvl range was 64 - 66. I'm a RDM. I can't remember the complete PT make-up since it changed often, but the jobs that stayed steady were PLD, MNK, RDM (me)and WAR. At times we had 2 RDM's, or a WHM or SMN for healing. We did not have a BLM. I know these things like to mimic the spells casted...they loved to cast them back on me a LOT, but I was casting the debuffs then since no BLM avail, would nuke. PLD yelled not to nuke or debuff at all as what ever I casted on the bird...the bird would then cast on him. Thing is...The bird casted the spell on me. His food was constantly stolen, that I do know. But, As far as I knew these things return the spell on the one that casted it, not the melee. Could someone verify this? I wound up sitting on the sidelines casting no de-buffs, no nuking...only refresh, cure and regen and an occasional Pro4. VERY boring ><
Can somerone explain this?
# Aug 15 2006 at 10:35 AM Rating: Decent
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If you are talking about Colibri, not lessers, then in my experience as brd, my debuffs nearly always got reflected on me but with only 3 or 4 ever landing, only once or twice did i see a debuff redirected to anyone but me.
So I'd say 99% go back at the caster from what I've seen.
a subject
# Jul 08 2006 at 3:14 AM Rating: Decent
we've had some success back tanking these guys, provided you can work out roughly when the bird's going to pop 'snatch morsel', you turn your back and keep your food, it tries 'pecking flurry' or whatever its called. Doesnt work every time though, so I guess cheap food is the order of the day.
exping and fun
# Jun 29 2006 at 8:54 AM Rating: Decent
me nadmy party was exping on them and at lvl 60 there con as VT to tough.
Only resion we where exping on them was because we only had on most part of the time 4 members due to the lack of ppl seeking.

Anyway there tend to use "feather tickler" which resets TP to 0 and another move which removes status effect like food item.
One of our members went though a lot of sush because of this bird kept removing the food stusts effect.

Also drops Colibri Beak and colibri feather.
The beak been the most populor drop.
high magic resist
# Jun 21 2006 at 7:15 PM Rating: Good
these seem to resist black magic A LOT. my obsorb spelsl hardly ever get through. also tehy seem to resist status bolts. my acid bolts hardly ever proc'ed at all. when i managed to rain a status, it doenst last very long.
Jerks
# Jun 19 2006 at 7:56 PM Rating: Decent
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Was XPing lvs 57-58 on these and our tank just stopped bothering to use food. He would lose it every fight. Stunning them when they try to snatch morsel might work, but food is a waste. If you pay 70k+ for a stack of your food, you'll use that up in no time. Really sucked because we were alternating between them and the Attercops which have Sickle Slash... which was pretty bad with no tank food.

We managed ok, but snatch morsel is one of the most annoying debuffs I've ever seen. And feather tickle isn't much fun either. Tank should use TP at 100 every time, or risk losing it all.
question
# Jun 15 2006 at 4:17 AM Rating: Decent
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i am leveling my staff it is currently 200 how high can i go on these?
resistance
# Jun 05 2006 at 4:39 PM Rating: Good
I was trying to get a few extra IP by sleepnuking these birds, as BLM73.

After about 7 birds, they were immune to gravity and bind only stuck for a few seconds, and my tier IV spells were doing 200-600 damage.

I believe these are not meant to be nuked ^___^;
They are in the Colibri family not Adamantoise
# May 23 2006 at 6:57 AM Rating: Good
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The Lesser Colibri are in the Colibri family. The non-Lesser version seem to be in BLU related as they learn your spells (so be careful).

IBHalliwell
tp reset?
# May 20 2006 at 9:01 AM Rating: Decent
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Our tank lost his taco right away last night not realizing the these parrots steal it. Anyways, after that, there was a move that would reset tp to zero. I'm guessing that would have been snatch morsel without food effects on. anybody confirm this?
RE: tp reset?
# Jun 07 2006 at 9:53 AM Rating: Decent
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Snatch Morsel just steals a food effect and I've heard it can steal a benefical effect, but I'm uncertain of that. Feather Tickle is the tp reset move, also a blu spell later on. Also a nice little note make sure that if you're trying to get some isp from these guys make sure the person tanking them isn't a sam... >.>;
Level Range
# May 08 2006 at 4:01 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm assuming the level range of these is 63-65. I soloed these as a 65SMN for a while, and there were EM and DC Colibri. The DCs would either give me 81 or 97 exp (with sanction), and never any different number. So I guessed that there were two levels of DC Colibri. I only see DC now at level 66.
Also in Wajaom Woodlands
# May 03 2006 at 9:28 AM Rating: Good
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They are also in Wajaom Woodlands in various open areas and in many of the connecting paths.

Most of the open areas have aggro during the day & night or aggro just at night (e.g. PLD, BST, THF, etc. monsters).

The leypoint (G-8 & Olduum Ring quest) has several of these monsters and never seems to have aggro even at night.
Weak against SC Transfixition
# May 03 2006 at 9:21 AM Rating: Good
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I have been skillchain with Carby. My experience is - of the Summoner Skillchains with Carby generally - they weakest against Transfixition (Starbust->Poison Nails).
As for level ....
# May 03 2006 at 9:18 AM Rating: Good
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@ level 75: I saw XP in the 39 to 48 range. The XP 48 version only seem to come out at night. I've never seen a DC / 50 in well over 400 kills.


Edited, Wed May 3 09:56:54 2006
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