Hamlet Defense – The 3 special Ixali: Let's discover their secret!

Greetings.

I saw the other topics on Hamlet Defense, but I wanted to open a new one on this specific matter, since I was finally able to catch a photo of the 3 special Ixali that appear during the course of the assault.

The trio (they don't appear all together) can be identified by their unique weapons and they're most likely related to the spawn of the zombie (worth 5.000 points), that apparently nobody has yet figured out.
But I believe that if we all focus on these 3 fellas then we might discover the secret.

In order:

Ixali Strongbeak

http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...09b70019da.jpg


Ixali Fogcaller

http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...09c0002c0a.jpg


Ixali Sabreur

http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...09c30019ab.jpg


Being a Disciple of the Land I couldn't check too much the course of the battle and therefore I cannot confirm if the strategy that we planned was actually completed or not (like having the archers NPC kill them) and also I cannot say in which wave they exactly appear.
But if you can confirm this and your tries and post here that they didn't work, then, while we all keep on trying, we might discover their secret and understand how to properly make that zombie appear.

Update:
It was confirmed in this Topic that to make the Zombie Mage appear the Archers NPCs have to kill (finishing blow) these 3 special beastmen; subsequently, after the last normal beastman of the final wave is killed, the Errant Soul appears:

http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...09c300202a.jpg

Mistery solved!


As a side note, I just read this blog post of a japanese adventurer on my World who got almost 67.000 points.

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...Rvk2MbxnPI.png

He doesn't explain how because he didn't understand how he did it, but so it might be even possible to reach 70.000.


It's been 3 weeks since patch 1.22 was released and no one figured out the zombie's secret yet, so it might be a good challenge if we adventurers join forces to solve this mistery!

Thanks if you'll feel like sharing your confirmed failed strategy attempts.

I've had the NPCs kill the special weapon monsters before. Changed nothing sadly :(

I thought the different Fogcaller weilded a purple staff?

It seems the fact that people have spawned this Errant Soul without knowing what they specifically did differently, probably says that whatever the requirement is, it isn't something too far fetched, like run 20+ miles to find it/wait for the sub 10 minute mark. Then again, I'm clueless as to what triggers it.

Could it be like Cutters Cry where you have kill the Sentries last? Perhaps you have to kill these specific beastmen last in their wave?

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Originally Posted by Sigmakan

Could it be like Cutters Cry where you have kill the Sentries last? Perhaps you have to kill these specific beastmen last in their wave?

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This is what I was thinking when someone first mentioned that there are mobs with unique weapons.

Would explain why it seems to be 'random' if Errant Soul pops

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Originally Posted by SniperRifle

I thought the different Fogcaller weilded a purple staff?

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I went to watch a video and actually that weapon I posted is common of the Fogcallers... Strange, I thought they had another one... As a Disciple of the Land I must not have paid too attention, my bad.

In the meantime, yeah, the special Beastman Mage should have a purple (or was it blue?) staff/radical. If anybody has a picture of him, thanks, or else I'll update the 2nd photo in a couple of days in the next Hyrstmill Hamlet Defense.

Hello again.

I updated the 1st photo adding a picture of the Ixali Fogcaller that was missing, and I also added one of the Zombie Mage and the conditions to make it appear, as originally explained in this Topic.

This should be it and thus the mistery has been solved!

Here are the pics I took at the golden bazaar, i was crafting and it was night time so they arent too amazing, but you can get the general view of what they look like.

3 pronged spear, spawns first
http://i49.tinypic.com/258w3th.jpg

Unique cane, spawns second
http://i50.tinypic.com/90aloh.png

Best pic I could get, will upload with a better one next time we do the amaljaah, for whatever reason my screen cap didnt go off when i took a direct picture of it .

Unique fists, spawns after boss
http://i49.tinypic.com/3340myo.jpg

I can also confirm it... Militia NPCs need to finish them off.. not a party member and not the poison debuff (chat log says: "falls to the ground" if killed by poison)

The only sad thing is that 60k+ runs DON'T guarentee a Seal or rare drop (militia barbut in Grid). We are 4/5 on rare in the gold chest (2 seals and 2 barbut).