Seriously tho, I have seen him pop with no particular consistancy. The least amount of time I -believe- is 1 hour. And that is from camping him regularly until I finally got his drop.
I don't really "camp" this NM per say, but I run my farming route based on it's general spawn area.
I farm all the Beehive Chips and Silk Threads and I get Mist Silk Cape as an added bonus.
I'm 3/4 on this NM for the Cape, I'd say that a 75% drop-rate are pretty good odds. The Capes sell for about 150k ea. in Cerberus. Not too bad, but it's definately no Rabbit Charm.
i use my Widescan and it doesn't even get all them monsters like that. It only gets like 4 monsters... is it because im using BST? but also, whats are the place holders?
Was farming a little silk, had got a crawler and 2 giant bees, turned and almost tripped over Spiny. Been playing for about a year and this was the first timeI came across it and wasn't even camping. Sad thing though, sild thread was the only drop. Was lvl 18 thf. Happened last night. Again I say ARGHHHH! lol
I was lvling my new kitty THF, and collecting silks while I was at it. I was on the verg of dinging 14, and just had less then half life. I took a knee, and along came a ballon. It got the first couple hits in, and had me down to less then half life. I didn't want to lose all the grinding I did, so I used my 2HR, and won the fight with 7HP. I turn around and guess who's sitting there? I hurried and took a knee hoping that no one would claim him. I got my life back to 95% and tried him. I sure wish I would have had that 2HR. Died and Spiny only had 16HP left.
i decided to go do some hunting first it was to hunt down buggie well i figured it would take me awhile but less than an hour and a half and i get the sheild then i was like what thew hell i'll go after spiny for the rest of the time if i get him good if not don't care but i was reading and i lot of people said that they found him near the river so i went there was trying to get up i rock and i look i saw here there and got the mist silk cape no else was there. nuc - | buggie - | spiny - | drop 1/1
Me and my good freind Spipi have a good relationship. I kill all her annoying family members n she spawns without absolutely no one around here. Needless to say its very easy for me to get the claim on her since no one is around. Ive killed her 3 times in the past 12 hrs and she has dropped the cape one of the times.
WOW SPINY SPIPI CAN KISS MY ***, i spent ******* 4 HOURS CAMPING THAT PEICE OF **** i mean wtf i was the only one there even capable of ******* killing it, but yet i didnt see thedum fuuk the ENTIRE TIME untill sumone "passing through" ofcourse got em, so W/E **** THIS ****
lol i know the feeling i actually got him to half health wiht Banish 2 for some reason didnt claim and some noob warrior voked and got the drop...the nhe wouldnt spawn for 5 hours -_-
camped this the other nite and as others have said i made some good farming waiting on him killing bees and crawlers and the first time spipi popped i got 2 silk threads then just running back to widny tonite i saw him killed him got the cape 2 silks and a earth crystal yay so currently 1/2 on the drop and for me he spawned at I7 and J6 :OD
I camped Spipi yesturday near the river and rocks for about an hour. He spawned around 7pm est and was killed in seconds with my lvl29 mnk/war. This will make a nice upgrade for lvl10 blm. And some nice silk thread for me. ;)
camped him for about an hour and a half and finnaly found him at I-7 second time camping him first claim on him. Got the cape on the drop and 2 silk threads. in the hour and a half i got a stack and a half of silk threads 2 stacks of beehive chips and the cape. pretty good day i think.
I've been camping this bugger for 3 days on Siren. I turned the corner, coming from the river toward the tower, and there he was! He was standing in I-7 just south of the road.
My main is WHM, and I usually sub WHM when playing my BRD, so I was really hoping for the cape. Instead, I got two spools of silk thread.
I have the worst luck getting good drops, I swear.
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FFXI: Selyne, White Mage Hume - San d'Oria - Rank 8 - Siren World
camped this a few times... 0/3 on my main account... 0/1 on my other, spent 3 hours last night, didn't see it at all, 2 others where camping it also, but never once seen it on wide scan, thought it was really weird...
yes he spawns on caitsith, i was Lving my new character (lv6 whm)when i pointed it out to someone who was p'ling me and my friend. He beat it in one hit (lv75) and then he came back and gave me 10k. i asked him if he got the drop and he was all like "hell yeh"
I was talking to a lvl 10 WHM who was camping it. He got beat by it so I claimed it. Only got a silk thread drop but I sent it to him like "Sorry about your luck. All I got was this for a drop." I didn't even know what the NM was. LOL
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Sincerely written from my brother's blood machine, ~Richybear~ BLM/RDM/WHM/SCH/SMN/BRD NIN/WAR/SAM/THF
Spiny Spipi was the first NM that I was really hunting for the drop. By that time 75k (I'm on Fairy) seemed like a lot of money (now I can waste that on one silly event). (The price is much higher now.) After getting killed and got revenge on Tom Tit Tat I went after this crawler and with quite low levels so the first few times I had to 2-hour to survive. I even got killed 2 times. I then thought that when people wrote "Tom Tit Tat 2/13", for example, it meant that they got killed 11 times and killed him twice or maybe the other way around. Lol. It was quite a big area and I met him at least at five different places. Mostly where the river ends though but also as far as at the yagudo-camp or at the tower. There was not many other campers but always someone (like with Jaggedy-Eared Jack) so there was always a risk that I was at the wrong end when he popped. I gave up after killing him 7 times and did some other things but after a few weeks I happened to pass by and there was two guys that pretended that this was some kind of supersecret (I had already read everything about Spiny here on Allakhazam). Never trust anyone when NM-camping anyway. One of them was just standing at the cross-roads infront of the tower while the other ran around, I even thought he was AFK (he was probably using widescan and giving instructions to his friend). All of a sudden the one standing still started to yell after his friend that must have d/ced or something. He asked me if I had seen him and I told him the thruth that I last saw him around the yagudo-camp so he ran off and guess who comes up around the corner after the ranger disappeared? And this time I got the drop... And I'm still using it...
I've claimed her several times now, one big drop and several of the silk threads. Whats really sad is the same super high level WHM keeps racing me to her. Ugn.. ;_; as if he can't find other good nm's to camp (Im lvl 20 mind you)