Vana'diel Bestiary: Mimic  

Is it possible to sneak spawn it or anything?

Well, went with a friend the other night to get the Beadeux coffer key where he can solo the coffer mobs and I'm on thf for TH2 (lvl 47). We thought to ourselves that if a coffer popped, I could attempt to pick it using living key to pop a mimic (killing will give key 100%). However, after a number of times i failed to open the first chest, i finally opened it only to get 10k. Second coffer got some useless item. The third time I popped the mimic (yes, we couldn't get the key off of normal coffer mobs cause of crappy drop rate), where I got my key then. Unless you got extraordinary amount of time on your hands, I would rather place my luck on the coffer mobs than on mimics to get my key.

Edited, May 28th 2007 11:56pm by twilightmaker

I was in Garlaige helping a friend do the sleepga II prequest (70THF/35NIN (Me) and 75WAR/37NIN) And he aggroed a Tainted Flesh by accident, he lived with 64 HP and I tell him to heal, and I'll let him find me on the map when I get to the door. Along the way, I see a treasure coffer, I pick it, and out comes my first mimic. ; ;

I tried to run a bunch of times without realizing the draw in, and, with no warp cudgel, I said "***** it, I'm gonna fight it" (The WAR was at about 100 HP at this point.) I start fighting it, keep Utsusemi up, and start attacking, it had surprisingly low Accuracy, and with 203+45 Evasion, I killed it easily, got poisoned by it's special attack 1 shot before I killed it (The Poison does 10 damage a tick and takes a long time to go away) Luckily, a BST that was helping us with the gates was nearby, and he gave me a poisona since I forgot my antidotes. And ironically, it dropped a coffer key... Well, a tip to THFs 65+, if you get a mimic, and don't have a way out of it, don't panic, keep shadows up, and don't expect to take more than 200 damage, they have extremely low accuracy :D

I just got a mimic trying to pick open a coffer in Castle Zvahl Baileys for my body AF. The first thing it did was poison and stun. I hit my panic macro (perfect dodge, wait 1, warp cudgel) but Perfect Dodge couldn't be activated because of the stun. It got me down to roughly 200 hp before I could finally get my 2-hour to work, warp, and enter my mog on the verge of dying. But I made it!

If you're gonna try to pick a coffer, have a panic macro and have your HP close to your mog house, because a mimic's poison is very nasty, you don't wanna warp and die in Jeuno.

I'm THF57/NIN28 and I was using Thief's Tools. My first experience getting a bad result with those.

Useful link for THF AF:
http://www.bvvp.com/gaming/ffxi/thfaf.html

I am pretty sure about that mimic belong to the demon family since my Demon-Killer Job-Trait kicked in 2-3 times while fighting one in a skill-up/key party in Castle Zvahl Bailey when it was facing me.

dumb question but are mimics that high level evne in palbourough mines?

Perhaps this is a noob question to ask, but I'm not an experienced THF player... Can you pick a coffer/chest as a THF sub?

Would it be possible switch the .dat of the mimic with something else so that you know if that chest is a mimic or not? I tried this by switching the regular chest .dat but it didn't change to what I set it to until after I opened it.

Hmm.. If they belong to the family of Magic Pots... Does that mean they are weak against bludgeoning damage? >_>

What's the lowest level these things are... say... in Palborough Mines?

My very first Mimic, what a tragedy:
http://www.ffxigallery.com/scottycc/index.php?pg=screen&id=330

Mimics can spawn from ANY failed pick, no matter what you're using. I've tried skeleton keys, living keys, and thief's tools, and I've gotten mimics from all of them. I suggest Thief Tools from my past experiences, but it's all luck (And possibly +INT gear) anyway. Good luck with your AF coffers, and make sure to bring a warp cudgel.

so what does it look like when your "drawn in"? do you just run back to it automatically or what?

I was wondering what would happen with a mimic if a drg used Super jump on it right after it agros. Would it just resume beating the crap out of the drg when he landed? Or does it only agro from the failed chest opening?

Ok, here's my story about the encounter of the mimic (dum dum dummmm)

My Fiance (Ulyses, pld) needed his coffer key in eldieme, and he wanted to spawn a mimic with a living key to do so. So I offered to help, whipping out my lv9 (yes, 9 lol) thf to be the sacrifice. We had a lv56rng/nin, lv55pld/war(Ulyses) lv75pld/war,and a lv60something whm/blm. We head there, sneak up and at the lower areas we find one, first time I just get weakened (fyi, if a thf fails to open a coffer they can also get weakened) found one RIGHT behind the gravestone (the one next to the room with all those invisible holes you can fall down) of course it starts with a AOE stun, kills me. I get raised, stand up, hit it, died. My 4th death during battle my fiance raises me and I see him starting to do AOE. I'm so sneaky sneaky I'll run from it, I dodge it! Get aggroed by a Haunt, he does Stone III (I believe) and kills me automatically. Let's just say the mimic is a push over, wasn't hard AT ALL. Also I heard another coffer spawns about 5minutes after a mimic spawn, because Ulyses got his old gaunlets right afterwards.

Thanks to Trawker(rng/nin, aka titro^^) Ulyses, Eddarsdark (pld/war,you rule man^^) annnnd that whm/blm

Mimics spawn using either Thief tools or Living keys. I don't know if Skeleton Keys will spawn them or not.
You cannot run from it. It draws you in and you can't go anywhere.
It poisons you instantly.
Best way to escape is Perfect dodge + Instant warp.
If in a party setting, the entire PT will be poisoned, but if they do NOT engage it, it will disappear after either killing the THF, or the THF warps out.

I've been killed by them twice in Monastic Caverns, while attempting to pick the coffer for my AF gloves and twice in Beadeaux, using Thief tools each time.

I also believe the coffer re-spawns instantly if it's a mimic. Because after being raised in Beadeaux the first time, I found it in another area not 5 minutes later, and the same after it spawned on me the 2nd time.
I didn't even attempt to pick it the 3rd time I saw it.

to get a mimic u need to fail with a living key i think

Ugh, trying to get my old gauntlets, used up 4 skeleton keys trying to pick the lock only to get a mimic. What the ****'s with that drawn in thing? ;_;

That much farther from my next level.

Mimic = no fun

Finally got my revenge on the Mimic.

They're still **** hard at lvl 66 had to get my RDM to help kill it for me... luckily he was nearby ^^

Coffer Key Drop.

Almost every single one of these drops a key to the coffer the thf was trying to pick ^^; LVL 72 thf was helping me get a coffer in casle vhazl bailey's for close to 2 hours without a key drop. We were about to leave and she picked the coffer we had found, and out popped a mimic. We killed it with relative ease and there was my key. If all else fails, have a thief pick the lock before you leave ^^ Thanks bunny!!!

Description needs to be updated. It spawns when a THF fails to pick a chest/coffer w/ ANY key. W/ Skeleton keys, you usually wont get a Mimic until about the 3rd or 4th failed attempt. BTW, the poison they give you when they spawn does 20hp per 2 seconds.

Edited, Mon May 17 18:00:44 2004

These are not Magic Pots. Magic Pots are gigantic hovering vases with creepy eyes that hum loudly but are generally immobile when not attacked.

Mimics look more or less like treasure chests, except where there should be treasure there is a gaping, fanged maw. These spawn whenever a thief fails to pick a lock using a Living Key, and as such can spawn in any dungeon that has coffers/chests (to name a few: Ordelle's Caves, Maze of Shakrami, Gusgen Mines, Ghelsba Fort, Boyadha Tree, Quicksand Caves, Crawler's Nest, Garliage Citadel, etc. etc. etc)

They're pretty hairy beasts. They attack very fast and do some unpleasant-looking AOE attack that I was fortunate not to feel (I was watching as 3 adventurers in full AF or better fought on in Boyadha Tree)

Their level appears to be at least equal to or higher than that of the THF that attempted to pick the lock. They're meant to kill the THF. ^^

From what I can tell if a chest/coffer pick fails and a Mimic spawns, another chest/coffer spawns within the next 2-3 minutes in a different spot. If the THF has survived the encounter with the Mimic they are free to attempt another pick on the new chest/coffer, or a witness to the fight can beat them to the spot easily and open it with the appropriate key. ^^