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Overview of Zeni Notorious Monsters

Zeni Notorious Monsters, or ZNMs, are popped NMs spawned by trading questable pop items to ???s scattered throughout Vana'diel. These monsters drop a variety of rare/ex pieces usable by many different jobs.

There are five tiers of ZNMs, and monsters become progressively more difficult with each increasing tier. Players must beat lower-tier ZNMs to obtain pop items for higher-tier ZNMs.

Gear Obtained by ZNMs

Gear benefiting all jobs drops from the various Zeni notorious monsters. Check out the list of ZNM Gear Drops for all the info.

Walkthrough: Getting ZNM Pop Items

Pop items can be purchased from Sanraku, near the zone to Al Zahbi in Aht Urhgan Whitegate, using a special currency called "Zeni." Sanraku will give you Zeni in exchange for pictures of certain monsters.

Step 1: Buy Photo Gear

Step 2: Learn Your Target

  • Zone into Aht Urhgan Whitegate and find Sanraku and Ryo near the zone to Al Zahbi.
  • Talk to Sanraku, then Ryo. Ask Ryo about Sanraku's current interests to find out which mobs to photograph.
  • Note: Sanraku's interest in monsters changes every couple of hours. Bringing him photos after his interests change can result in roughly a 50-percent reduction in the amount of Zeni he gives you.

Step 3: Photograph Your Target

  • Go find the monster you plan on shooting.
  • Equip your soultrapper in your ranged slot, and your soul plates in your ammo slot.
  • Stand in front of your monster and use the soultrapper from your inventory (similar to using an anima) to photograph the mob. To maximize the amount of zeni you are paid per photo, follow these tips:
    • Bring a sleeper and/or a full party.
    • Have claim on your mob.
    • Stand directly in front of the mob, within melee range, when you take your photo.
    • The lower the mob's HP, the more zeni you get. If possible, battle the mob until its HP is below 5 percent total health. Then sleep it, and continue to sleep it, while taking pictures.
    • Photograph higher-level mobs to get more zeni for your photos.
    • Pictures taken by the player that has the most hate on the mob will yield higher zeni results than those players that had less hate.

Step 4: Turn in your Photos

  • Head back to Sanraku and trade him your soul plates. ''Note: If you want to see how much your photos are worth beforehand, you can trade them to Ryo.
  • You can turn in 10 soul plates to Sanraku per game day.

Step 5: Get Your Pop Item

  • Talk to Sanraku and ask about the monsters. He will list the NMs by name.
  • Select an NM. He will tell you the zeni cost for the NM's pop item.
  • Agree to the cost, and buy the pop item.

Zeni NM Flow Chart

For a chart showing the various ZNMs and the order of which they need to be killed, check out this ZNM Flow Chart.

The Zeni NM List

The Zeni NMs are organized by groups and tiers. Each ZNM will drop an item to unlock the next tier of ZNMs in its group -- these items are 100-percent drops. Trade those pop items to Sanraku to unlock the next ZNM tiers.

Below is a by-group listing of the first four tiers of ZNMs:

Group A ZNMs, Tiers 1-4

Tier A1

Trade a trophy from one of these ZNMs to Sanraku for the key item Maroon Seal.

Vulpangue

  • Gear Drops:Karura Hachigane, Sylphid Epee
  • Trophy Drop: Vulpangue's Wing
  • Pop Item: Hellcage Butterfly
  • Spawn Location: D-10, Wajaom Woodlands
  • Notes: Puk mob. Spams an AoE for 800-ish damage, which is blinkable. Recast utsusemi after every wind-shear move and limits the number of melee to prevent spam so that melee can keep up with utsu timers, or you will wipe. Better with low numbers. Mob is cured by elemental magic of the day of the week, along with wind damage.

Chamrosh

Cheese Hoarder Gigiroon

Tier A2

Trade a trophy from one of these ZNMs to Sanraku for the key item Apple Green Seal.

Iriz Ima

  • Gear drops: Ferrara, Avocat Pigaches
  • Trophy Drop: Iriz Ima's Hide
  • Pop Item: Senorita Pamama
  • Spawn Location: J-8, Bhaflau Thickets
  • Notes: Marid mob. Uses Onrush frequently, does not summon chigoes after TP moves like normal Marids do. Onrush resets hate, even if blocked by a shadow, and he uses it three or four times. Damage from Onrush seems to weaken drastically if out of melee range. Also uses Barrier Tusk (undispellable defense boost), Stampede (damage), Proboscis Shower (heals for ~200 hp), and Voracious Trunk (steals one buff from target, dispellable).

Iriri Samariri

Lividroot Amooshah

Tier A3

Trade the trophies from these ZNMs to Sanraku to obtain three key items: Charcoal Grey Seal, Chestnut-colored Seal and Deep Purple Seal.

Note: All Tier 3 mobs can drop up to two grips at random from the following: Thunder Grip, Earth Grip, Water Grip, Fire Grip, Wind Grip, Ice Grip,Light Grip, Dark Grip.

Armed Gears

Gotoh Zha the Redolent

Dea

  • Gear drops: Cletine, Enkidu's Subligar, Oracle's Pigaches
  • Trophy Drop: Dea's Horn, grants Chestnut-colored Seal
  • Pop Item: Olzhiryan Cactus
  • Spawn Location: F-7, Bhaflau Thickets
  • Notes: Wivre mob. Frequently uses Demoralizing Roar, followed by Crippling Slam (AoE damage + paralyze). Melee should sub nin to blink the damage and paralysis from slam. Manaburn or mage-heavy setup recommended. Alternately, a stunner for Crippling Slam works as well. Can be duo'd by kiting around one of the towers with one character while ranged DDing with the other.

Tier A4

Trade the trophy from this ZNM to Sanraku for the key item Lilac-colored Seal.

Tinnin

  • Gear drops: Oracle's Cap, Enkidu's Cap, Enkidu's Harness, Hachiryu Sune-Ate, Alkalurops, Shusui, Hydra Fang, Hydra Meat, Hydra Scale
  • Trophy Drop: Tinnin's Fang
  • Pop Item: Monkey Wine
  • Spawn Location: Wajaom Woodlands Islet, accessible from H-13 in Wajaom Woodlands
  • Notes: Hydra mob. ALL PARTICIPANTS NEED A SICKLEMOON SALT (500 points) TO ACCESS THE FIGHT. Starts fight at 50% health with one head. Later in the battle, a second head will spawn, and he is healed 25% health. Eventually a third head is spawned, which heals him for another 25% and gives him access to Nerve Gas (if all 3 heads are up at any point). Ranged/BLM damage recommended to avoid AoE damage. Heads are removable by critical hits. Melee should sub nin to absorb Trembling. Uses Mighty Strikes once.

Group B ZNMs, Tiers 1-4

Tier B1

Trade a trophy from one of these ZNMs to Sanraku for the key item Cerise Seal.

Brass Borer

  • Gear drops: Ritterhentzes, Lion Tamer
  • Trophy Drop: Brass Borer's Cocoon
  • Pop Item: Shade Leaf
  • Spawn Location: I-7, Mount Zhayolm
  • Notes: Wamouracampa mob. High defense, manaburn/kite strategy recommended. Cannonball does up to 1500 damage from up close, significantly less when kiting. Uses cannonball on closest player regardless of who has hate, but only when player who has hate is within range.

Claret

Ob

Tier B2

Trade a trophy from one of these ZNMs to Sanraku for the key item Salmon Seal.

Anantaboga

Reacton

  • Gear drops: Reacton Arm, Magic Strap
  • Trophy Drop: Reacton's Ashes
  • Pop Item: Bone Charcoal
  • Spawn Location: H-6, first map of Halvung
  • Notes: Bomb mob. As it grows in size, it casts higher and higher tier fire based spells. Self Destructs at about 10% health. Highly resistant to stun. Attacks quickly.

Dextrose

Tier B3

Trade the trophies from these ZNMs to Sanraku to obtain three key items: Copper-colored Seal, Gold-colored Seal and Purplish-grey Seal.

Note: All Tier 3 mobs can drop up to two grips at random from the following: Thunder Grip, Earth Grip, Water Grip, Fire Grip, Wind Grip, Ice Grip,Light Grip, Dark Grip.

Nosferatu

Khromasoul Bhurborlor

Achamoth

  • Gear drops: Organics, Aurum Sabatons, Oracle's Braconi
  • Trophy Drop: Achamoth's Antenna, grants Copper-colored Seal
  • Pop Item: Rock Juice
  • Spawn Location: H-4, Halvung
  • Notes: Wamoura mob. Spawns a Wamouracampa once per minute that is weak to either melee or magic. Maximum of 2 can be out at once. The babies turn into moths if left out too long and become much harder to kill. Off-tanks recommended to pull them away. Alternately, you can pull it to a zoneline and have some designated to grab the spawns and zone them, which causes them to depop.

Tier B4

Trade the trophy from this ZNM to Sanraku for the key item Bright Blue Seal.

Sarameya

Group C ZNMs, Tiers 1-4

Tier C1

Trade a trophy from one of these ZNMs to Sanraku for the key item Pine Green Seal.

Velionis

Lil' Apkallu

  • Gear drops: Numerist Pumps, Hakke Habaki
  • Trophy Drop: Lil' Apkallu's Egg
  • Pop Item: Greenling
  • Spawn Location: I-9, Arrapago Reef
  • Notes: Apkallu mob. Uses TP move yawn, an AoE sleep move, and runs in circles for about 30 seconds. Then it uses Wing Whirl, a high AoE damage move, up to three times in a row. Can use Hundred Fists multiple times. Resistant to stun, immune to gravity, bind and sleep.

Chigre

  • Gear drops: Blood Ring, Insect Ring
  • Trophy Drop: Chigre
  • Pop Item: Spoilt Blood
  • Spawn Location: E-8, Aydeewa Subterrane
  • Notes: Chigoe mob. Has enpetrify, encurse, enblind, enpoison, enparalyze, envirus, enslow, ensilence, and endrain. Hate from casting status cure spells much higher than normal while fighting this mob. Can not be one-shotted by crits/weapon-skills/job abilities like normal chigoes can.

Tier C2

Trade a trophy from one of these ZNMs to Sanraku for the key item Amber Seal.

Zareehkl the Jubilant

Verdelet

Wulgaru

Tier C3

Trade the trophies from these ZNMs to Sanraku to obtain three key items: Taupe-colored Seal, Fallow-colored seal and Sienna-colored Seal.

Note: All Tier 3 mobs can drop up to two grips at random from the following: Thunder Grip, Earth Grip, Water Grip, Fire Grip, Wind Grip, Ice Grip,Light Grip, Dark Grip.

Mahjlaef the Paintorn

Experimental Lamia

Nuhn

Tier C4

Trade the trophy from this ZNM to Sanraku for the key item Lavender-colored Seal.

Tyger

Tier 5: The Pandemonium Warden

Once you have acquired the key items Lavender-colored Seal, Lilac-colored Seal and Bright Blue Seal, you can battle the Pandemonium Warden.

Pandemonium Warden

Sources: Allakhazam thread, "Guide to the New NM System," by Drexis.

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