Hornetsneedle

[guyincorporated]

I'd like to get this dagger for farming at some point. How hard/annoying is thequest? I'm level 57 now, I doubt it is soloable yet.

[Rhayn]

I went last night with pld/thf/rdm all level 68 and it was quite easy. Got two Hornetneedle's in about an hour and a half and the Wespes were easy. It would definetly not be soloable at level 57 though and it helped that at level 68 most monsters did not aggro us so we ignored all the Tonberries. The drop rate of Bee Larvae was okay, but not great. We stayed another two hours to help a friend, but had to leave before getting a drop.

The location to spawn Death from Above was probably only about a minute walk from the entrance, but I don't remember the coordinates. For the three of us, the NM died extremely quick, but we did a Light renkei ending in a 1200-1400 damage Shark Bite, with a 2000 damage Light effect (which killed it instantly).

I'm not sure how many people it would take at level 57 though, so unfortunately can't be much help. ; ;

[Vandle]

I've killed this about 3 times, Twice was with a Alliance of 55-68's doing DRG AF3 so we killed Death from above easy, The 3rd time a lvl 71 THF friend got the Bee larvae for me and then we both went there, i was 61 so i had to Invis from Tonberrys, We spawned Deathfromabove, Was going ok, Untill it started hitting the 71 thf a little too much, got him down to 20hp , just in time i used SA+ Dancing edge and killed it. The friend iwas with said he killed it with 2 thf's before, at much lower lvl, 68 and 57 i think... so it either pops at different lvl's or this time it just hit a little too much.

[MCfuzz]

how good is this dagger? i looked at the stats, while the delay is very impressive the added stats and damage are mediocre at best. the damage on it makes me(a taru) worry the most. i have weapons with higher damage than that equiped at level 49, and i still see "Mcfuzz hits <insert mob name here> for 0 damage" sometimes. at the level needed to get this dagger wouldn't i get a lot more of those messages(a.k.a. a lot more hits with no TP gain)? so even though i swing much faster my TP gain might not go up much or at all which this dagger equipped. anyone's(especially taru) input who has used this dagger would help me out a bunch, thanks.

[guyincorporated]

The dagger is good for farming once your damage is capped anyhow. I wouldn't use it in an xp party.

[Omena]

With nin sub you can take advantage of the 5% minimum TP gain per hit by holding hornet in your left hand.