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Dalmasca's Desert Bloom - Hunts

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This is a strategy guide for how to defeat Flowering Cactoid, a Hunt boss in the game Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (FFXII, FF12, FF XII Zodiac Age). Monster marks, rank levels, as well as where these monsters can be found are available here.

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Dalmasca's Desert Bloom

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Hunt Rewards

Rewards 500 Gil, Potion x10

Hunt Objectives

No. Objective
1 A notice board post will be up for the hunt of a flowering cactoid. The petitioner will be found in the Outpost area of the Estersand.
2 The troublesome cactoid will be found in the Yardang Labyrinth. Kill it, then go back to the petitioner.
3 Return to Dantro for a reward. However, take care to remember where he is, as he will still be part of a quest tied up with the Flowering Cactoid.

The Flowering Cactoid

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A post will be up for a 'rare' flowering cactoid in the desert. The flowering cactoid is a rare occurrence, and the petitioner, Dantro, will say that it's also quite the troublemaker. For more information about the Flowery Cactoid, see the link below.
Flowering Cactoid Drops and Locations

Dantro's Pledge

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The Rabanastran Dantro will be found in the Outpost at the Dalmasca Estersand. He will tell you to get rid of the cactoid and get the flower on its head, since it possesses healing properties and will be beneficial in his wife's medical works.

The Cactoid Flower

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Aside from being medicinal, the Flower will be part of a side-quest involving Dantro's Wife, the ferryman of the riverside village of Nebra, and the mother of the flowering cactoid. Click on the links below to find out more about these quests.
Desert Patient

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List of Hunts Walkthrough

Hunts
Red & Rotten in the Desert Wolf in the Waste
Dalmasca's Desert Bloom Waterway Haunting
Marauder in the Mines Lost in the Pudding
For Whom the Wyrm Tolls A Scream from the Sky
A Tingling Toast The Defense of Ozmone Plain
A Ring in the Rain The Dead Ought Sleep Forever
Befoulment of the Beast A Chase Through the Woods
The Mine Flayer The Deserter's Revenge
Trouble in the Hills Adding Insult to Injury
Rodeo to the Death Shelled Obstruction
Get My Stuff Back! Old Legends, Decaying Bonds
The Things We Do... The Creature Collector
Dead City Watch The Black Sorcerer
Visitor on Deck The Child Snatcher
A Wild Stench Paying for the Past
Wyrm Wrath's Renewal Who's The Strongest!?
Elite Marks
Little Love on the Big Plains - Elite The Cry of Its Power - Elite
Crime and Punishment - Elite Paradise Risen - Elite
Paramina Run - Elite Antlion Infestation - Elite
A Dark Rumor - Elite Carrot Stalk- Elite
Battle on the Big Bridge - Elite Truth Shrouded in Mist- Elite
Fishy Dreams - Elite God or Devil? - Elite
Farewell to a Legend - Elite

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