Vana'diel Bestiary: Leech King  

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Edited, Jan 30th 2007 4:33pm by AticusTy

I'm 75 blu and rdm..i don't have to kill leeches unless need be lol (etremly lazy) so is it a ph or a wait type thing?

um whats the spawn rate on this guy?

I hate this NM... I got was camping him for 9 hours, and he poped. i got '-')b there were 7 ppl camping him but i did not get the drop..i could have used the gil ;-;)

Ok, so i've probably killed this now 50 times, At least, i guess i just have horriable luck cause no matter what I never have gotten the drop

Any1 know whats the pop time on this NM???
Or is it random? I think im going to hunt this NM tonight.

Doesn't look like much of a king to me....

Hey i was wondering if there is any way to get an accurate spawn time. I assume I can go to bed and see if he is killed, then I know it was killed within those hours, but is there any way to get an accurate time? Some sort of timer or something? I dunno there probably isnt, im just curious.

Fyngolfin

Me and 2 friends were after carbys rubys (we got 2 from the first 6 leeches, then got the 3rd person as it was easy and took forever to get the 3rd ruby). I was 45thf/rng (taru) and was widescanning for other leeches after we killed all the ones in the long room. Saw Leech king on widescan and ran around for 10 mins, trying to find out how to get to him. We got there and he was still unclaimed. I had used flee, so i got there ahead of the 55whm and 54 mnk who were with me. He was in the corner, so i sneak attacked and dragged him away from the other leeches. i had him down to less than half health with no major damage to myself, as i was using bloody bolts. I would have had no problem soloing him, though if another leech or 20 had linked, i would have been up the creek without a paddle. anyway, no drop.

next day, back in there with a 50whm getting rusty key. obviously, i kept checking on widescan and also popping in to see if anyone had claimed an argus spawn. after an hour or so Leech king appeared on widescan, so I yelled at the whm to stop healing and come kill leech king again. got 2 links this time, which whm handled with -ga spells as i concentrated on the king. no drop again.

I hope i annoyed all of the bots in the argus room by resetting argus spawn twice^^

Only sells for 1 million on Pheonix I believe, though it would have been nice to get... Dam TH2 not doing its job!

I hope this can clear up that it does not go leech king --> argus ---> leech king ---> argus

It was 19 hours between spawns, by the way

Edit: I had written Bronze key instead of rusty key for the windurst quest

Edited, Wed Mar 23 15:59:08 2005

I got the Leech King today. I was kinda surprise really. The day before, I left my character up while I was sleeping to get a spawn time on Argus. Anywho, woke up and everything went as planned. I got a pretty accurate spawn time and went on with my day. a mere 16 hours later, I was bored outta my mind camping for coffer pops, so I decide to go wait on Argus even though he's not supposed to pop for another 6 hours (according to the 22-36 hour pop rumor).

Well, I get there, and it's been about 17 hours since the last pop. I look around, and there's just a couple people. Of course, there was a couple botters there (2 to be exact. 1 in the small room where Argus used to spawn, and another in the Scorp Room) and 1 other guy, a 60+ WHM who was running around, randomly killing crap. So I'm just pissing off time, killing a few things here and there to build up my TP. That's when it happened.

I used widescan, and just zooned through it. Didn't even really read it. I did notice something strange though. Near the bottom of the widescan list, there was a break between all the "Poison Leech"s regestering. So I scroll up, and sure enough, my eyes weren't decieveing me! Leech King was on widescan! So I nail my flee macros and book it towards the leech room. I move my cursor all around the room, and there he was. Unclaimed, and not a person in sight!

I woulda goofed off a little bit and taken some funny screens and whatnot, but at the time, I didn't want to risk a 1.4 million gil earring to take a funny picture, lol. So I use my shadowbind macros and claim him. No joke, I used Sidewinder at 300% TP and killed him with just that. There's no way in hell I thought he'd be that easy. However, the links were kinda tough. Nearly every leech in the room linked with LK as soon as I claimed him.

Some "Too Weak" mobs may not sound like a lot, but when you have roughly 20 leeches hitting you for 10 damage it adds up. I managed to kill all the links and survive with 72hp, lol. LK didn't drop the earring either. >< In fact, he didn't drop a damn thing. O.o That kinda sucked, but hey, I got a cool story, some nice screens, and an exact ToD. This also proves that LK and Argus can spawn withing 19 hours of each other.

Speaking of which, it's been about 16 hours since I killed LK. Better get ready to go after Argus. ^^ p.s. Here's a link to a pic of me killing him just for further proof. Just so you know I didn't make up an extremely long-winded story so I'd seem cool, haha (Hey, people do it!). p.p.s. I'd reccomend you be lvl55 to take on LK. He himself isn't that hard (lvl45 could take him NP) but the links will tear you up. GL and happy huntings!

PICTURE LINKS
http://img207.exs.cx/img207/9523/sou050310071221a4si.jpg
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http://img150.exs.cx/img150/1176/sou050310071247a0tq.jpg
http://img128.exs.cx/img128/6426/leechking0060lw.jpg
http://img61.exs.cx/img61/6905/leechking0048gz.jpg

All 3 of the in-game photos are kinda dark. I have the brightness of my game turned up, but it doesn't seem to effect my pics. =/ As for the second two, I'm on PS2. So I can't take a pictures of the chat log by conventional means. I had to take pics of my TV with a DigiCam, haha.

Got this guy the other day. Me (52MNK) and a couple people from my LS (38RNG and 34THF, and they play next to each other in RL) were camping Argus. Started about midnight I was there for 13 hours while they went to bed and left me to watch for pop. When they woke up and got backon we waited a couple mopre hours and beause we had been BSing each other alot I grabbed one of those Slime monsters and spammed in PT chat "<Provoke> -----> Argus" I ran it back to them and when the slime wasn't quite half dead the THF started yelling LEECH KING!!! because he saw it on the RNG's widescan. I decided to believe him, Disengaged the slime and ran to he leech room witht he slime still stalking me. I quickly moved my cursor around the room looking for it but no sign. I was abotu to go back when my cursor appeared over "Leech King" Unclaimed! I quickly ran over provoked and only got one link then I activated Hundred fists Killed leech king, killed his link then finished off the slime. I survived with ~100 HP and we got the bloodbead earring! w00t! We all passed so the RNG could take it back to Jeuno to sell and it sold for 1.3mil! 25k to put on AH so we all got 425k.

Argus and the leech King are directly related. They are each other's Placeholder. We went back 22 hours after killing the leech king, and Argus spawned exactly 24 hours after the Leech King, But the mother-******* Botter got him! >_< I don't know how long after argus the King spawns, but Argus is 22-36 hours after King.

Edited, Tue Mar 1 13:16:23 2005

Some friends of mine said that Carbuncle Ruby is a 100% droprate on this guy. Is that true?

do the other leeches in Leech King room drop anything worthwhile?

OK i am stupid!!!

I was camping Argus because i was bored and waiting for a party. SO, i was tired and was going to warp to Jueno. But, i go lets take a walk through to see if the Leech King is up. then there he is stariing at me. No one is around. So here is the stupid part. I hit my pull macro and bam hit hit with a sleeep arrow. Then the whole room full of leeches attacks. So, it is now 20 on 1. I am like that didnt go well. So i hit invinc and start beating them down. Hit Circle Blade and then biuld tp hit circle blade. it is now me and 5 leeches and i am fight Leech King now. I kill him and the last 5 leeches and earing drops. i am 168/1158 HP but i still have 150mp didnt use it. very bad idea to pull leech in that room they all will attack you. My evasion saved my butt. The kick was i got this earing going ok maybe this is woth 50k that would be cool. Then i go to AH and whatttttttt!!!!!!!!! 700k holy s**t well that is my story

Edilbert
TITAN
59PLD/29WAR

pos peacock.

I went to Shakrami Maze with two others to help a friend with her rse. All four of us were killing the high lvl gobs and labrynth scorps and were not getting the chest key, so we decided to try to camp the leech king. We went through the poison leeches like they were nothing, cleared the room several times. after 5 hours we still hadn't seen the NM, but we had got 2 rubys, and that was without a thf in the pt^^

I went to exploring one day, hope to see argus if no one was at camp, lol. but there were 3 ppl camping it, without warrior sub there was no way I'll get the pop, so I left to kill leechs for blood, after I clear the room full of leechs I went back to check on argus ;p , 10 mins later when I came back to search the room there he was THE LEECH KING, I pulled and killed him, no drop, no blood, no nothing >_<

until this day I still wondering would I be 800k richer if i had sub THF.

What is his drop rate with carbie's ruby...

Could a lvl 34PLD and a lvl 38DRK kill this alone?

Sorta off topic, but I like how the submitted pic shows the name in BIG words then you look down and it's a normal sized leech, lol

could i solo this with my 46 thf and under lvl'ed 17 war sub that i use to pull NM's ? i would have potions on me and i have roughly evasion+30 to help in the fight.

To the best of my knowledge, the King is linked to Argus. Same spawn time, if one pops, the other won't. Hence why you can camp Argus or the King beyond their spawn time without them showing at all.

i heard u have to kill Leech King in order to make Argus spawn.
Is that true?