Cactuars

[Chezen]

I haven't done this leve since before the battle changes, but the danger of being one-shotted was what made it really fun. They were slow to use 1,000 needles, so I simply made sure I moved faster than they did.

[Greed]

.....I like to fight Cactuars.
10,000 Needle NM Cactuars "Can I have it, Please?"

[Danavia]

Cactuars are no probs as THM/CON, I was wiping out groups with ease without taking any needles damage.

[ZachCero]

How are you supposed to take on more than 3 Cactuars - because it's pretty much a guarantee that while taking on 3 of these solo, one of them is going to use 1000 needles on your, which with me at R18 Lancer and about 800HP is an instant kill.

Every time i've come up against this i've ended up dead, and they're a pretty regular occurence in Behests and some r20 leves.

Anybody got any tactics for cactuars?

Trick is to try and use aoe moves combo'd with raging strike or ferocity, if you have sentinel, I believe it reduces 1k needles dmg, and featherfoot can also let you evade it.

[Aldarin]

Lol, best way i've found to do these. Attack a single cactuar, kill it, then run the hell away. the cactuars will return to thier area, and then you can heal up and repeat. still a pain in the ass, but doable.

[AeraLucis]

When I fight three of them at once and one uses 1000 needles, it hurts the other cactuars too and divides the damage done to me, as long as they are still alive. So my advice is to get all three cactuars down to low health before you finish any of them off, then use an AOE attack to finish them all at once.

[Synthesis]

It does not need to be easier ! Cactuar is cactuar, lol. 1k needle is in every game and in party it is divived amongst the members, so in 4/4 pt - 250 for each, no big deal

[Reika]

It does not need to be easier ! Cactuar is cactuar, lol. 1k needle is in every game and in party it is divived amongst the members, so in 4/4 pt - 250 for each, no big deal

In FF8, 10,000 needles was not divided.

[Reynhart]

I do this leve a lot as a R22 Gladiator lvl25.
I just build TP from the weaker mobs around until i hit 3000. Then I simply chain 3 AoE WS to kill the whole group of cactuars.

It works every time

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

Good lord I hate Cactuars lol. Died 3 times on my THM last night.