Anyone farming Dive Talon?

[Inferius]

for burning bow..

He keeps casting kamikaze when on low hp...

[Hinnyuu]

One popular tactic is to pick one near a Save Crystal, and have Quickenings learned on some characters. Blast with quickening, see if bow dropped, if not reload and repeat. Usually faster than trying to chain them somehow, at least at very low levels.

EDIT: IIRC you can also use Poison + Immobilize. Can't remember exactly if those are available early but I think they are.

[Inferius]

Now I don't know if it's worth farming..
I have already finished Eruyt Village quests. Bow will be probably soon in shops

[RottenTomato]

Originally posted by Hinnyuu:

One popular tactic is to pick one near a Save Crystal, and have Quickenings learned on some characters. Blast with quickening, see if bow dropped, if not reload and repeat. Usually faster than trying to chain them somehow, at least at very low levels.

EDIT: IIRC you can also use Poison + Immobilize. Can't remember exactly if those are available early but I think they are.

what are you guys talking about ? sorry new to this game

[Hinnyuu]

Originally posted by Inferius:

Now I don't know if it's worth farming..
I have already finished Eruyt Village quests. Bow will be probably soon in shops

I believe you can just do the White Mousse hunt and get one that way, it's not that hard of a fight.

Originally posted by RottenToMato:

what are you guys talking about ? sorry new to this game

There is a neutral mob in the Westersand, Dive Talon, which has a chance to drop Burning Bow - one of the best bows in the game, because it not only has quite decent damage up until the later midgame but also boosts all fire damage by 50% leading to some absurd numbers on the right characters very, very early on.

Killing Dive Talons at low levels isn't easy though, not only because they hit hard but also because they can use Kamikaze to kill themselves and give no loot.

[Howler]

Originally posted by Inferius:

for burning bow..

He keeps casting kamikaze when on low hp...

you can use knot of rust to kill him , farming in any chest with diamond amlet

[Inferius]

White Mousse is still too hard for me :/

[Sakhari]

If you're already post-Raithwall, farming the bow is a waste of time (I think it's a waste of time at any point really since the early-game when it would matter is already easy but different strokes and all that).

If you do the ferry quest in the Esterstand to get to the north bank, you can just run around grabbing random chests between the Estersand, Highwaste, and Salikawood to kit your whole group out in gear that's overpowered for that point of the story. With that gear and a little experience, it's not very difficult to get all the way to Nabudis (where a repeatable chest has a decent chance of being a burning bow - among lots of other high-end gear).

If you're finished with Eruyt and able to leave the jungle, you can also pretty easily farm up one of the best 1-h swords in the game in the Feywood.

You have options at that point of the story and farming talons is one I wouldn't bother with. If you 'really' want the bow, filling up on gear in the north Estersand should be enough to stomp the White Mousse into the dirt with autoattacks.

[Hinnyuu]

Just farmed the bow in my most recent playthrough, and it was very easy.

Leveled to about 15 with Dustia (just to get Flamestaff truth be told), then did the Palace for some more party members. Vaan as Archer, Balthier as Red Mage, Fran as Machinist - used Immobilize + Poison and ranged damage and was able to kill Dive Talon right away. Took about 20 kills or so until I got a bow to drop, without chaining. Used the save crystal near Sandsea to replenish MP in between, because the mage also spammed offensively.

I think 30 minutes of time investment isn't too much for the power afforded by that bow, though of course YMMV with drop luck.

(Speaking of drop luck, I later got Salamand Halcyon on my first steal, meaning Arcturus also only took me like 20 minutes to farm. Hooray for RNG.)

[Inferius]

I am already on my way to archades so...
well shikari and bushi with healer do all the job. No need bow for now

[Hinnyuu]

Oh you never NEED these items by any stretch. It's more of an overkill thing, because you like these things. 3-shot the bonus Demonwall in Raithwall with Oil and 3 hits from Burning Bow/Fiery Arrows and Arcturus/Wyrmfire Shot (with Adrenaline/Berserk). That's never NEEDED - but still fun, to me ;P

[Inferius]

Yeah I heard it was op and wanted to try it but whatever

[matthew]

Just got it. the way I did it, go to Westersand, / burning devide. East of that, is a Dive Talon, turn off everyones gambits save your healer, (just healing) then travel east, manually attack the Dive Talon, once dead, travel west twice, then back. the Dive Talon would have spawned. as long as you don't attack anything else, you get a chain. (higher is better) the burning bow dropped, still took a bit. And the attack power of the thing is pretty high. going to have to fun with the thing now.

[Inssengrimm]

Honestly is just less of a waste of time to just kill the white mousse, easily done at level 25ish.

[Hinnyuu]

Originally posted by Alexander Dragonfang:

Honestly is just less of a waste of time to just kill the white mousse, easily done at level 25ish.

True, but that requires 8 marks done, which you can't do right away. The whole point of farming Dive Talon is that you can do it at the very beginning of the game, with barely any story progression.

However, it can be a very real argument to just rush through the story instead of wasting time farming weapons that will just be overkill against anything you encounter - particularly if farming them takes longer than it would to progress the story to a point where you get them more easily.

To each his own, I guess. Personally, I like doing it just for the sake of having a weapon like that early on. No matter if it takes long and isn't needed. It's just for funsies.