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Vana'diel Bestiary: Goblin Archaeologist  

Family:Goblin
Found in:Konschtat Highlands
La Theine Plateau
Tahrongi Canyon
Level:30 - 75
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Linking
  • Detects by Sight
  • Weak against Light
Drops:
Updated: Sat May 22 21:27:16 2010

Goblin Archaeologist Picture

Spawned by trading an item to the ??? near the crag.

This page last modified 2007-09-25 13:50:41.

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so much pain...
# Aug 20 2005 at 1:31 AM Rating: Decent
I was on my way to get a warp from a friend at Holla and I see the ??? and check it. It was extreamely close to the surface so I figured "what the hell" while I waited on my friend to get there. I fed it some slime oils I had gotten in Ordelles, but it didn't pop. This was around 20:00 game time so I told my friend to hurry up and bring some crap chocobo feathers with him (just cause they're cheap and he was in jeuno.).

The point dissappeared at about 23:20 so I began frantically looking for it. I circled Holla and could not find it, and then I saw someone standing around almost where I had started from. Evidentally it didn't immediatly respawn, because I had already passed that section.
The guy had called out a JugNM (he was 50 Bst). I frantically ran so he didn't get the spawn. I think he had already fed it though. I traded 1 silver coin to it and bam, instantly spawned.

I took a pic of us standing toe-to-toe. By the time I got out of the picture, I was at half life. I am a 60thf and he was hitting me for 100HP each time. I had roughly 970HP, which is max HP with the equip I had on at the time.

I realized it was a losing fight and I hit HIDE, but I was surprised to see this:
"Canyon uses Hide, but is spotted by the Goblin Archeologist." So he has truesight... great.

No sweat, I can flee out and yell at my friend (73whm) to move his *** and get here. I hit flee, but I had used it already when I was running around looking for the point and it still had about 2 mins on the cool down.

Then I died as I was attempting to delay the envitable by using Perfect Dodge. The Bst that had been oh-so-eager for the fight kicked rock faster than I have ever seen before, I mean he cleared the area quick. All I could think about was all the noobs in LT that would get slaughtered by this thing, but the an angel came upon me. My friend was there, I was screaming for him to raise me and go find it quickly. He hit up raise 3, and I hit widescan immediatly. No NM. He had despawned.

I made a lot of mistakes in that period, only because I was confident that I could win the fight. But I had no idea what this thing could have been fed before I came along, and I guess that was the first mistake. Second was rushing into the fight instead of waiting for my friend.

But just to clarify a question posted 2 posts ago, this thing DOES have true sight, so don't expect to use hide and live. I'm sending in a correction.
I lost :l
# Aug 14 2005 at 2:44 AM Rating: Good
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I was farming for a rampaging horn, and I figured I'd give this guy a shot as a 61brd/8rng. I lasted 30 seconds. The one I popped must have been around level 55, and I'm sure I could've soloed it if I subbed whm. Would've taken me a loooooong time, but I could've done it :/
hide?
# Jul 23 2005 at 4:08 PM Rating: Good
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i've killed this bad boy about 5 times now so far, and luckily have not been killed by him. every fight has been w/ my thf 60+. i'm wondering if he is sight based tracking like other gobs where if you use hide you lose aggro. this would certainly ensure that you could never be killed by him if you popped an incredibly tough one.

anyone tried this in the face of death?

oh btw, this is a great NM for thief. in 5 kills i've averaged 3-5 gold coins per kill, mugged for up to about 4k, drops about 3k (thank you gilfinder!), and usually drops at least 5 other items in addition to the coins. even though the rest of his drops are fairly useless.

Edited, Sat Jul 23 17:15:32 2005
fire earth and ice crystal
# Jul 26 2005 at 9:54 AM Rating: Decent
popped this fool with one of each of the above crystals while voice was extremely close to the surface. anyhow he got spanked with my whm59/blm29 at the time he dropped 2 gold coins (13k each on fenrir) and 5k gil. Granted I didn't get to /steal additional coins but the 31k made off of him was well worth the 3 crystals and minute or less it took to kill it.

I always see these ??? but rarely are they close to the surface. I never get to trade to it multiple time "always get the your offering was refused"
imo that ??? is good place to throw out your dropable drops (yag feathers, trent bulbs, ect) but then again he will only take the items from once.
#REDACTED, Posted: Jul 14 2005 at 8:24 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) i was tring to spawn it and 1 more item and it would have spawned but someone came along i was looking at it so that person traded it an item and it poped ...i knew i should not have looked at it ><
My experience
# Jul 03 2005 at 12:39 AM Rating: Decent
Spawned it and I killed it as my lvl 50 pld in 6 hits.

Edited, Sun Jul 3 01:49:03 2005
^^
# Jun 24 2005 at 10:35 PM Rating: Decent
Is this NM really worth?I guess tis only worth if u get the stack of gold beastcoins
3 first times then its normal thing....
# Jun 22 2005 at 12:31 AM Rating: Decent
i was walking by then i found the "???" i asked they told me its an NM drop gold cin i checked AH its 15k
went back with my friends popped him and killed him in no time
2nd time popped him and almost died but grabbed the nearest dude and killed it
3rd time i think its about last item traded...
the last 1 tradind traded 99 arrow he killed all of us+BLM 69 near us + everyone around us the PLD used 2H and zoned it it was heading back to his hole and killing everyone in the road....
then from that day everytime i get tele i must kill him...
and i made set PT for killing him and making stacks

~~~~~~~~~Darc~~~~~Ragnarok~~~~~WHM30
phew..lol
# Jun 18 2005 at 8:50 AM Rating: Decent
Ok, so I'm up all night, pt'n n such. Around 8 am I figure "Today's a good day to die."...lol.

So I'm in jeuno, asking around for Tele-Mea. Get it, and the ??? is like, 5 steps away from the stairway. Now being by myself as a 55BLM/27WHM, I realize the threat of dying, then immediately proceeded to trading =D

Well, he wanted more, and everything I had was being rejected, so I warp back to jeuno, get 2 stacks of crystals....and get a Tele-Mea from the same WHM, lol.

I get back there like 20 minutes later after riding the tele bus, and there sat the ???. I checked it, and it said "Somewhere Close to the Surface".....so I proceed to try and trade...and right when I open the trade screen it disappears...and moves away -_-;

So I come down and look on the site for any useful trading information, and go back upstairs to try again...I get up there and find the ???, again being "Somewhere Close to the Surface". Now not knowing if this was the pop message or not, I proceeded to shout "Anyone near this crag...you might want to clear the area"...as I was expecting to just get obliterated. Then someone asks to wait. So I let him in on it, and attempt to trade 2 stacks of crystals. Now, being extremely close, I tell the thf to trade somethin to it. As soon as he does, it pops, and immediately aggro's him. Now this being my first ever popped NM, my hands are shaking and I'm like "omfg...it's him"....so with the aggro on the thf, I immediately hit my Ele Seal+Sleep II macro...

Resisted....WTF?!

So he starts swinging at me....and hasn't taken blink all the way down after 4 swings.....That seemed rather weird. So I began casting Blizzard 2....and whap....1/2 HP gone. He readied frag bomb, but it was just too bad for Mr.Archaeologist that I had already started casting Water III, and his existence was cut down to a mere 17 seconds...give or take.

Rofl...anyway, just thought I'd share my long story of "Finally....I get some good luck!" -_-
RE: phew..lol
# Dec 29 2005 at 9:15 PM Rating: Excellent
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CONGRATIONS!

In the end, what was it that popped him? (What did the THF trade him?)
:)
# Jun 18 2005 at 12:35 AM Rating: Decent
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Popped him today. As a 49 DRK, owned him. Got lucky! 2 Gold Beastcoins, and 1500. Not bad!
easy kill
# Jun 08 2005 at 8:54 PM Rating: Decent
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Got this guy to pop with just myself a level 54 pld and all i can say is that i BEAT THIS GOBS ***! Fight lasted no more than 30 seconds.. got 1 gold beastcoin and 1000 gil ^^
don't let noobs take it
# Jun 06 2005 at 12:42 AM Rating: Decent
I've killed this thing a few times & here are a few tidbits of info. I've tried having low lvls (20 or so) trade the last item to pop with 60s & 70s in the pt & still had trouble so I think it is either random or lvl is determined by ALL the people that have traded to it. So on to the more interesting story...

I was waiting with several other ppl @Dem for the next day so we could trade & spawn it. out of nowhere some noob named Ulcaster runs up with a lvl 9 mnk & trades to it before I can slap him. So it spawns & kills him in one hit. I stun it immediately after & claim it. I think get 3 or so swings in before it dissapears. Moral of the story? Even if it kills whoever pops it, only the person who pops it can kill it even if someone else claims it. Afterwards this idiot runs up to me after HPing & says oops hehe guess my death makes up for it... no my friend... no it doesn't...
WHOOPS!
# Jun 02 2005 at 7:38 PM Rating: Decent
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Me and My party acendently poped this then going to promy-Dem (Konschtat Crag) We got served And so did every one else near the crag at the time
The Fight
# May 30 2005 at 11:10 AM Rating: Decent
First Fight :

73 mnk + me as 52 whm - mnk accidentaly traded a 73 item to ??? popped gob - gob bomb took over 900 dmg to my 700 hp

Second Fight :

53 rdm + me as 53 whm - traded long bow lvl 5 popped gob - spawned lvl 30 gob and murdered it

Drop : Gold Beastcoin + 500g each

Learn from Experiance ... and dont trade high lvl gear if you want to survive :)
small run in
# May 16 2005 at 7:55 PM Rating: Decent
Ya this one time I was riding a chocobo,... lucky they were cheap... hmm lets see it was in La Theine, but I got off my chocobo because I saw this ??? area, and traded it an item as it said, but it said it wanted more... and I had no more lol but it wasn't till two days ago that I fond out what it really was... from now on I'm going to avoid that for a while lol
Heheh.
# May 12 2005 at 9:19 PM Rating: Decent
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I was going to hunt Air Elementals in La Theine while LFP, so I took a tele-holla. There were about 3 people around the ???, so I take one of my earth crystals and pop the gob. Not the nicest thing to do but whatever <.<

I got lucky, I guess. I got a really low level, around 30ish I would guess. Anyway, it dropped 1 gold beastcoin and 1000 gil. Maybe the higher it is the more coins? Oh well, 13k isn't too bad for 2 minutes worth of work.
gold beastcoin
# May 12 2005 at 11:57 AM Rating: Decent
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i traded 1 boiled crab to him, and it popped and tried to kill me! He wasn't hurting me much, but I wasn't hurting him much either. Luckily there was a high level RNG watching, i quickly invited him and he killed it in one shot :P

I got the gold beastcoin! woohoo!
gob archeologist
# May 09 2005 at 10:26 AM Rating: Decent
I have traded many items to the ??? near the crags and i always had a gob come out and tell me a story, never had a gob attack me and kill me, is this new to the game or what??
RE: gob archeologist
# May 30 2005 at 11:14 AM Rating: Decent
are you refering to the goblin footsteps?
they tell a story pending on if you have done a quest and or mission of that area
REVENGE!!!
# May 09 2005 at 10:11 AM Rating: Decent
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I never knew anything about this Gob until about three weeks ago. I was lvling my thf and came across the ??? in the middle of the field. I checked it and he told me to gimme all your stuff. Well, being the curious person i was, i gave him five fire crystals and he comes out of the ground, and commenced to kicking my ***. i don't think i've ever ran that fast in my life or had that many ppl laughing at me at the same time...but i said soon...i will have my revenge.

That day was yesterday.

We were getting ready to have our linkshell meeting, and my and the wife were fishing. i just got all my avatars so i was sporting my 50 rdm/smn job (free carby!) and one of my members tell me he sees the ??? spot. It was time. When i got there, everyone else was making thier way there to the meeting spot. most of us were lvl 50-55 so we didn't think it was going to be hard, but i told the whm to get tele mea ready just in case. Thankfully our lvl 70rdm/nin came to the meeting and was ready to help. we all traded it stuff, and out he pops.

That fight was one of the coolest things i have done on this game! We had at least 10 ppl jumping on one dam thing!

He was beating the crap outta the lvl 70 rdm/nin and kicked ramuh's *** to the side after he did the thunderspark. I was doing my rdm stuff after seeing that his hp wasn't moving after our frist attacks.

First chain of Skillchains got him 1/3 of the way.

Gob throws the first bomb. some ppl are in the yellow, but everyone is still fighting.

Mages start casting thier teir two and three spells gob is halfway dead.

Gob throws frag bomb. all ppl are except three are in the red.

With no hope left i did what any good rdm would do...save the pt. I had my buffs up so that bomb only did me about 300-400 dmg. i converted and did a round of cure IVs and got the gobs attention

Gob attacks Countalucard for 250 dmg.. ><

Finally the rdm/nin comes thru and does spirits within... the coolest Weaponskill i have seen yet! with a few raging fist and some spells, or linkshell defeated our first NM. needless to say, that was the best dam meeting we have ever had!

got two beatcoins and a old quiver ^^

Edited, Mon May 9 11:12:53 2005
#REDACTED, Posted: May 01 2005 at 7:50 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) i fought him as a lvl 60thf/nin
Frag bombs are fun...
# Mar 31 2005 at 5:09 PM Rating: Decent
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Alesandra: uses five sidewinders, 2HR, and several sword swings which leave the goblin at a sliver of health. (Total damage 3600+)

Goblin Archielogist uses frag bomb: 1440 points of damage.

Alesandra is defeated by the Goblin Archielogist

Gob archeologist
# Mar 29 2005 at 2:02 AM Rating: Decent
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I stumbled upon this archeologist three times. First time was at the mea tele fighting a few level 75's. I casted a cure and got a bombtoss at me that took me for 900 HP while I only had 350 being a tarru 39whm. Now I made 40 and since I often teleport I always check if there's a ???. I pulled it out of the ground twice while trading stuff like an wild union or some destilled water. Both times ( at the holla ) I killed it easily with my 40 whm guess I got lucky. End of the story if you pull this guy be prepared to die cause it can get nasty pretty quick. Like those gold beastcoins though ^^
owned
# Mar 28 2005 at 3:51 AM Rating: Decent
it killed me in one hit ^^
damn that was fun but i learned to never cure a 75 sam when hes fighting it, youll be next >,<



blackzero 20whm/6blm
lakshmi
Gob NM
# Mar 22 2005 at 6:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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Ok wanted to say this about this NM. I have killed it many times, and been killed by it many times. The level of this NM is random. Sometimes you get a high level one and sometimes you get a low level on. When you check the ??? it will say if it's close or deep. There are 6 level's of depth. The items you trade and the quantity effect how many level's you can bring it up.

"You hear a voice somewhere extremely deep under the ground"

"You hear a voice somewhat deep under the ground"

"You hear a voice somewhere under the ground"

"You hear a voice somewhere close under the ground"

"You hear a voice somewhere very close under the ground"

"You hear a voice right beneath the ground"

When is say's "You hear a voice right beneath the ground" it means one person can spawn the NM if givin enough items. If it is extremly Deep it will take atleast 6 people tradeing a minimum of 12 crystals to the ??? to spawn it. I am not sure what determines the lvl of this NM.

IMHO I beleive that it's lvl is determined by all the people that have traded to it previously.
So if you find the ??? and your level 60 let's say but imagine 4 lvl 75's that day traded to it, and you pop it, your probably going to get a High Level version of it. Even if the 75's arent in your party at the time, they traded to it earlier that day. That would explain why a lvl 60 whatever pops it, and dies.

I have killed it in party as a lvl 48 thf and a lvl 62 whm, I have also been killed fighting it as both jobs. I have also soloed it as a thf and whm, died and won multiple times.

Yes it is a poped NM, but it pops claimed to the person that spawns it. And if you are defeated during the fight, it will stick around so anyone can fight it, but it will despawn within 2-4 seconds once the person or party that spawned it loses.
Gob Archeologist
# Mar 20 2005 at 4:28 AM Rating: Decent
I was fighting this **** and he de-spawned, what happened?>
RE: Gob Archeologist
# Jun 06 2005 at 12:32 AM Rating: Decent
If someone else popped it then you cannot kill it. It will just dissapear. You can claim it but it will just walk back to the hole & dissapear.
easy prey
# Mar 19 2005 at 11:05 PM Rating: Decent
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I fought this guy today after reading about him here, not really paying much attention. The story goes = I was waiting at Mea to teleport a friend (I'm a 37whm/18blm) to dem, when I notice by tabbing around the ???, I remember what this is and traded it a crystal, which was refused. My friends got there around that time and I decided oh well, lets get on with things, ported to dem, and as if taunting me, there it is again. So I call over a good friend who happens to be in the area, and we follow it around while another friend runs to get some items, since all we had was refused, Our setup was: 37whm/18blm (me) 22war/11mnk and a 42war/21nin. I had remembered seeing that the mob is only as high as the person who traded it, so I thought, Hey, what the heck, worth a try. He had brought back some Onion crap. Upon checking the ??? after it moved one last time, it was Right beneath sureface. So, expecting the worse, I shell II'd and Prot II'd, and the 22 traded one onion thing, and he popped. Well honestly there is only one phrase to describe what happened: a *** kicking, on the goblin. We beat the crap out of it. The 42war immediatly voked and it was hitting him for I think 15 or so damage, it even hit the 22 for only 40. we downed it with ease and all we got was the gold beastcoin and I got 333 gil. So I dunno if we just got extremely lucky and got the lvl 10 version, or the theory that it can only be as high as the person who trades was right.

Icherus, Unicorn server.
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