This Party Quest is located in the Cave of Life in the Leafre Canyons. It leads up to the fight with one of the most powerful boss monsters in the game, Horntail. To enter, one must be in a party of 1-6, and be over the level of 130. The leader also must have completed the Secret Medicine of Transformation Certificate of Squad Badge quest, which will give the certificate to enter the Horntail's cave.
However, once you completed the quest, you can simply enter the cave directly since the gatekeeper has fled, so you do not have to do the transformation quest anymore. This quest is repeatable unlimited times and only appears if you lost the Certificate of the Squad Badge.
Pre-requisites
- Level 130 or higher for Easy mode
- Level 135 or higher for Normal and Chaos mode.
- Maximum 2 entries daily regardless of mode.
- Party Leader requires in possession Certificate of the Squad Badge to enter.
Horntail Bossfight
Before the real fight, there are 2 prelimary heads to kill. Both have 100,000,000 HP in easy mode, 330,000,000 HP each on normal mode and 3,300,000,000 HP in chaos mode. It is recommended that all party members must be 160+ to withstand the Horntails damage. To start the bossfight, destroy the pink crystal on the far right of the map to summon Horntail. Players must stand clear away from the middle when this happens, otherwise they'd most likely end up dying.
This bossfight in a way is similar to Zakum except you'll be fighting 3 heads and its bodyparts. Each of the parts have their own unique abilities.
- Every head can cast weapon cancel or magic cancel for a certain amount of time.
- The Left Head is ice elemental and can use ice-based skills, as well as summon Wyverns. It can also cast Physical Reflect (chaos mode only). It has 100,000,000 HP in easy mode, 330,000,000 HP in normal mode and 3,300,000,000 HP in chaos mode.
- The Right Head is lightning elemental and can use lightning-based skills, as well as summon Wyverns. It can also cast Magic Reflect (chaos mode only). It has 100,000,000 HP in easy mode, 330,000,000 HP each in normal mode and 3,300,000,000 HP each in chaos mode.
- The Middle Head is fire elemental and can use fire-based skills, as well as summon Wyverns and Dispel. It has 100,000,000 HP in easy mode, 390,000,000 HP in normal mode and 3,900,000,000 HP in chaos mode.
- The Left Hand can Dispel and Seduce as well as drain MP. It has 90,800,000 HP in easy mode, 230,000,000 HP in normal mode and 2,300,000,000 HP in chaos mode.
- The Right Hand can Dispel and Seduce as well as drain MP. It has 90,800,000 HP in easy mode, 230,000,000 HP in normal mode and 2,300,000,000 HP in chaos mode.
- The Wings can heal both HP and MP to the rest of the body and can summon Green Cornians and Dark Cornians to aid the battle. It has 100,000,000 HP in easy mode, 270,000,000 HP in normal and 2,700,000,000 HP in chaos.
- The Legs has an earthquake stomp attack that knocks players back and can stun. It has 67,200,000 HP in easy mode, 130,000,000 HP in normal and 1,300,000,000 HP in chaos.
- The Tail has an earthquake attack and can summon a poison mist cloud. It has 33,600,000 HP in easy mode, 80,000,000 HP in normal and 900,000,000 HP in chaos.
It is recommended to take out the legs and the tail first as they can prove to be a nuisance, be wary of the Tail's touch damage as it can hit up to 27k damage, up to 33k when buffed!
General Stats and Drops
Time limit shows the total time allowed to fight but you must spawn the full Horntail within 15 minutes.
- Easy Mode
- Level: 130
- Total HP: 1,017,600,000 (1.0176 Billion)
- DEF: 40%
- Total EXP: 4,611,597
- Time Limit: 75 minutes
- Normal Mode
- Level: 160
- Total HP: 2,750,000,000 (2.75 Billion)
- DEF: 40%
- Total EXP: 46,115,970 (4,611,597 in KMS)
- Time Limit: 75 minutes
- Chaos Mode
- Level: 160
- Total HP: 26,600,000,000 (26.6 Billion)
- DEF: 50%
- Total EXP: 84,733,190 (8,473,319 in KMS)
- Time Limit: 150 minutes
- General Drops
- Horned Tail Necklace (Easy and Normal mode), Chaos Horntail Necklace (Chaos mode)
- Silver Blossom Ring
- Dea Sidus Earrings
- Season2 equipments
- Angelic Buster Equipments
- Boss Medal of Honor
- Potions