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Vana'diel Bestiary: Orctrap  

Family:Trap
Found in:Carpenters' Landing
Job:Warrior
Level:38 - 40
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Based on Wind
  • Weak against Fire
  • Strong against Light
Drops:
Involved in Quests:
Updated: Wed Mar 20 19:29:27 2013

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General Information

    • Respawn time is approximately one to three hours, but sometimes can extend to up to six hours after its last Time of Death.

  • Susceptible to all enfeebles.

Orctrap's Special Attacks

  • Soporific- AoE Sleep Effect (Circle of effect originates from mob).

  • Palsy Pollen - Frontal cone AoE Paralysis effect.

  • Gloesuccus - Single target Slow effect.

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is it possible?
# Oct 09 2005 at 8:38 PM Rating: Decent
could a 52 THF take this guy out? id really like this katana for my NIN especially for promy
RE: is it possible?
# Oct 18 2005 at 2:32 AM Rating: Decent
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I would say yes as long as you have marksmanship skilled up high enough. I soloed him (49THF/1RNG) with my NPC today with no real problems. Of course it dropped nothing, not even a leaf... Go TH2! =/
RE: is it possible?
# Oct 22 2005 at 7:24 PM Rating: Decent
lol hurray for TH2. my monk brother get more and better drops than i do as thief. (T.T)
RE: is it possible?
# Dec 06 2005 at 9:42 PM Rating: Default
heh lol SE broke TH2 and they just don't want to tell any one =p. Seriouslly ... me as a 57thf27nin and my friend as a 59whm/15thf were camping this ( seperatly of course ) hes 3/3 and i am 0/3 >.> now that's just wrong ....
RE: is it possible?
# Mar 08 2006 at 2:59 PM Rating: Decent
If TH2 is broken then it was a glitch for me getting Bounding Boots and Empress Hairpin so easily. 1/2 on LL and 1/1 on VE. Didn't seem broke to me. What you are all probably thinking is that TH2 works for the whole group. To a point yes. If the thief gets the killing blow, TH2 has a higher success rate. In a party, the success rate is increased. At least that's my experience.
is it possible?
# Oct 09 2005 at 8:35 PM Rating: Decent
could a 52 THF take this guy out? id really like this katana for my NIN especially for promy
Ughh /sigh
# Oct 08 2005 at 10:28 PM Rating: Decent
Oh camped this guy for 4 hours + tonight, i was killing every BirdTrap in the I-9/I-10 Area so I know I had to be killing his PH. And still didn't spawn :(
Mini-Guide to Orctrap
# Sep 21 2005 at 3:52 AM Rating: Excellent
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-To the Campsite:

Enter Carpenter's Landing from Jugner Forest J-8.
Once inside, go left at the first intersection, left at the second intersection, and then take a right when able. This will take you through the tunnels to the outdoor area.

Once outside, head north/northwest to I-9/I-10. The southern half of I-10 is a large open area with a hill/boulder in the center. As you go north, it will narrow into a pass which leads to I-9. Orctrap's spawn area is basically from the entrance of this pass all the way to the northern shore in I-9.

-Find Orctrap's placeholder

This is very important. There is only one Birdtrap that you need to kill in order for Orctrap to spawn. Do not slaughter the zone. If you can't use a widescan job for some reason, well, good luck! At least you'll know to stick to this one general area.

FYI -

A level 1 Ranger's widescan will see this entire area.
A level 20 Beastmaster's won't quite see all of it, but it will see enough.

While you are in the I-9/I-10 area, open your map and widescan. Scroll down the list of mobs until you see the last two Birdtraps listed. If you have *Ranger* for main or sub, it will look something like this:

Tiger
Birdtrap <-- placeholder, Orctrap will show here
Beetle
Birdtrap
Pugil
Pugil
Pugil
Pugil
NPC
NPC
NPC

The last Birdtrap on the list is found at the far east portion of the map by the NPC's, and pretty much stays there.
The second from last Birdtrap, the one between the Tiger and Beetle, is the placeholder. You will find this Birdtrap in the I-9/I-10 area.
When Orctrap is up, it will show in place of this Birdtrap on the list.

If you are subbing beastmaster - My advice is to just scroll to the end of the list. The placeholder will likely be the last listed Birdtrap. If it is in I-9/I-10, then it is the placeholder - any other Birdtraps at the end will be too far south or east. Orctrap, when it's up, will always show at the end of the list.

-Get to work!

After you've found the placeholder for Orctrap, kill it, and note the time you deliver the deathblow to it. (When name changes from red to black). I just hit /clock on. The next placeholder will pop 5 - 5 1/2 minutes after. (2 game hours, roughly).

-What to expect

I camped this 12 hours today, and got all claims but one. The person who last claimed before I arrived got the Katana drop. I don't know what dropped on the claim I missed.

The average spawn time was 1.5 hrs from Orctrap's death. Never less than 1:20, never more than 1:40 while I was doing this. I can't explain other peoples claims of 4 - 8 hours between spawns, but this certainly was not the case for me. IMO, they somehow missed the placeholder, or someone grabbed it and hid it.

I got these times whether I killed the placeholder constantly from spawn to spawn, or whether I started killing placeholders 1 hour after last spawn.

Also, I think someone posted they saw Orctrap outside this area. It may be possible, as the placeholder does wander quite a bit more than the other Birdtraps. However, I don't believe that Orctrap or its placeholders can *spawn* outside this area.

I killed Orctrap 7 times, and received:
Nothing: 2x
Leaf: 3x
Belt: 1x
Katana: 1x (hurray!)

Please note, this was with Thief main.


Good luck, and Happy Camping ^.^b


Edited, Wed Sep 21 05:28:54 2005
RE: Mini-Guide to Orctrap
# Mar 14 2006 at 4:35 PM Rating: Good
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Thank you so much! I just got my katana, this guide rocks! ^.^

And seriously take his advice on Bst, it just isn't good enough. I tried camping with /bst and I couldn't figure out where the PH was. So I dragged my lazy butt to windurst and unlocked Rng.

After that I returned to CL. I killed the placeholder, waited 5 minutes, and orctrap spawned! 1/1 on the drop too, WOOT! ^^b

Theo~

Edited, Tue Mar 14 15:53:41 2006
RE: Mini-Guide to Orctrap
# Nov 01 2005 at 10:24 AM Rating: Decent
Congradulations, this method works. I have tried and it only once and it worked like a charm. The other THFs didnt even see me kill it, cause they were to busy killing all the flytraps.
RE: Mini-Guide to Orctrap
# Sep 23 2005 at 10:20 PM Rating: Decent
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Is it possible for the Placeholder to spawn multiple times. Or bearing that, that your info is outdated/ 2hrs I spent sittig there and No NM popped. following this guide, Killing everytime i saw it like that. Now when I do widescan in the same position it doesnt show up right. Oh well I shoulda just slaughtered them all

Edited, Sat Sep 24 03:02:57 2005
RE: Mini-Guide to Orctrap
# Sep 26 2005 at 1:14 PM Rating: Default
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I just had a friend tell me his last spawn took @ 4 hrs. He's camped it a bunch since I showed him this, and I trust he didn't miss a pop, or kill the wrong thing. So, it appears that Orctrap *can* take longer to spawn, but this is the first time out of probably 20+ spawns that it's taken longer than usual.

There are other NM's which pop faithfully every 1-1.5 hrs, but skip a spawn now and then. JEJ comes to mind.

The guide is as correct as it can be from my personal observations. The placeholder will not change, go away, mutate, etc, nor will killing the non-placeholders make Orctrap spawn any faster.
RE: Mini-Guide to Orctrap
# Sep 28 2005 at 7:41 AM Rating: Good
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I was able to pop it three times with 1.5 hr spawns each, then the same thing happened; 4 hrs with no pop. Is there any chance SE read this and nerfed it on us lol?
Orctrap
# Sep 01 2005 at 12:44 PM Rating: Decent
28 posts
Me and a NM hunting friend teamed up. I went as 57 THF and she went as 60 BLM.
Was linking all the birdtraps and killing them with AoE spells and AoE WS's.
Orctrap poped after 50-60 min in I-9. I soloed without problems, BLM was healing MP just in case. Unfortunately, it didn't drop a single item. We are planning to get him again in a close future.
Stupid NM
# Aug 30 2005 at 11:25 AM Rating: Decent
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Hunted him for about 40-60mins. He popped i claimed (only 1 other person hunting him). He didnt drop a single item! Not even a ******* leaf!
But he was an easy fight as i was a 71Thf.

I'd hunt him again if i was bored.

Edited, Tue Aug 30 12:34:32 2005
-.-
# Aug 27 2005 at 4:16 PM Rating: Decent
24 posts
I don't like this thing. I killed him like, 5mins ago. Running around, just got the Mycophile Cuffs, killing Birdtraps for fun. Run down the end to (I-9), and see him floating about. Being WAR53/NIN26, I think it's an easy solo -.-; I had 542/1080 life at the time. Put utsu up, wait for cool down to finish, and in I go. He took all 3 of my shadows down in 5seconds. He didn't hit hard, but he hits fast, makes it difficult to get shadows up. So anyway, it's a close fight, Zerk, Aggressor, Warcry, Mighty Strikes, then Raging Axe, took him down to 30% life, and he uses this move which paralyzes me, so here I am, 15% life, and paralyzed, It stuck pretty well, I couldn't get shadows up, no matter how hard I tried. In the end, I died. He had like 3% life left. But he hits fast, but not really that hard.

Afterwards, I asked my ls if someone could come help me, Mendietta comes with me, we see it unclaimed, we engage and take it down in a couple of minutes. No drops, but I can go to sleep happy :)

Good night, happy playing :D

(Edit: Yes, you can /point and /laugh and call me nooby names like 'N00b!' >.>;)

Edited, Sat Aug 27 17:33:12 2005
60 Thief and Orctrap
# Jul 20 2005 at 4:54 PM Rating: Decent
I'm 0/7 on this NM. All I ever do is kill all the traps in the area and he lottery pops within 2 hrs. I have had him spawn within 15 mins. before and as long as 2 hrs but no more. Just make sure you kill all the traps including the corridor and you'll get him. His droprate is very low, however, and I do not recommend counting on him for the katana or the belt. I'm also a 60 thief and was in every kill so you can see treasure hunter II did not help me :\ Good luck though.
Got Both Drops
# Jul 17 2005 at 6:00 AM Rating: Decent
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I remember killing this guy when I first got the CoP expansion last year and got no drop.

Well I recently decided that it is about time I got my Promyvions done and this katana would make a good main hand weapon for those.

Headed over to Carpenter's Landing this morning to see 2 other campers so left them to it and returned about an hour later when I had the spawn area to myself. Killed Flytraps near the water (not where the boat docks) for about 45 minutes (along with tigers) and Orctrap popped. I don't usually have great luck with NMs but he dropped Nikkariaoe and Hojutsu Belt. 1/2 on this guy which is my best NM record to date.
It never popped!
# Jul 14 2005 at 11:48 PM Rating: Decent
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So I log on this evening at about 8:20, 8:30 pm, I'm near the shore line near the I-9/I-10 border. I look around, Orctrap isn't there. so I wait around, kill some Thunder Elementals.

Now, it's 12:45, about 5 hours later, and nothing! No Orctrap, no Flytraps, just stupid Birdtraps. I left the landing with an inven full of 17 Lightning Clusters. Not once did I see Orctrap. NOT ONCE!

I was thinking about subbing rng for wide scan, but it's only lvl 10. Though, as a lvl 59DRK, I'm sure that if I ever do find orctrap, I could take it with an extremly gimped sub...

All this for haubergeon.....I'm gonan be out there for a while.
RE: It never popped!
# Feb 19 2006 at 9:15 PM Rating: Decent
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You have to kill its place holder fool if your saving for Hauby and you dont know this by now....
wow
# Jul 07 2005 at 8:11 AM Rating: Decent
150k for belt
**** LOADS for katana on seraph
spawn time
# Jul 05 2005 at 4:23 PM Rating: Decent
Abardy's post on the spawntime is dead on. I had my RNG friend widescan while I went around killing all the traps, and its been 5 hours so far. No one else but us has been here, and I had the exact time of death from when i killed him last.

You have to get really lucky for this. If you like farming tigers, at least its not a total loss.
Bad Drop Rate
# Jul 03 2005 at 1:57 PM Rating: Decent
33 posts
Being having problems getting any drops.

7 Kills with BST60/THF and 1 with THF45.

All i've got is 2 Flytrap leaves from him. /cry

Edited, Mon Jul 4 19:14:17 2005
Orctrap Hunting Information
# Jul 03 2005 at 4:49 AM Rating: Decent
I-9 I-10 in Southern Landing.
Lv50 Notorious Monster
Non Agro
Non Linking
Spawn Time: 1:30 > 3:30 Hours.
Drops:
- Nikkariaoe (DMG:19 Delay:232. Spell Interruption rate down 25%) NIN.
- Hojutsu Belt (DEF:2 MP+10) WHM.BLM.RDM.BRD.SMN.
- Flytrap Leaf (Sells for 1350 Gil each to NPC Shop)


Basic Hunting Information.
Like any Notorious Monster it is going to be camped by others. Because it is a relatively new area RMT (Real Money Traders) haven't moved in onto the area yet.
Stick to running down the narrow coridoor of trees and along the shore. Don't go to the Eastern Shore because out of the 30 times ive camped him he's never popped anywhere outside of the shore or coridoor.
Kill placeholders(Lv25-30 Flytraps)to spawn the Notorious Monster.
The Notorious Monster can be solo'd by level 45 with difficulty but can be relatively easy past 55.
Diving Beetles (Lv25-28) are good to Aspir and Drain while you wait for Placeholder pops.

{May be useful: Sylph Server - Katana sells for 300.000 Gil (300K) and Belt sells for 40.000 (40K)... Happy Hunting all!!}
RE: Orctrap Hunting Information
# Jul 04 2005 at 2:52 PM Rating: Decent
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I just beat this guy as a THF50/NIN25 and it was a close battle. He doesn't hit that hard and his accuracy is bad but he does seem to triple attack sometimes. He has an ability called Palsy Pollen that paralyses you for a long time. It lasted for most of the battle for me and I had to use Perfect Dodge at the end because of all the attack rounds I missed due to paralysis. I didn't Sneak Attack him in the beginning because someone else was hunting him and I wanted to claim fast, this would have made the battle go a little better.
For my effort I received a flytrap leaf /hurray
Good luck for me that day
# Jun 28 2005 at 5:30 AM Rating: Decent
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Camped this badboi with my main man Coder and got claim after about 1.5 hrs of killing place holders. Got both the belt and the katana. Good drops :D
Problems popping him?
# Jun 23 2005 at 5:22 PM Rating: Decent
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I've heard and read many reports of people camping this guy for extended periods of time and never seeing him pop. If this is happening to you, then you are probably not searching a wide enough area for him.

I used to think that he only spawned in the area near the ??? for the Tonberry battle (near the water). I too had several camping sessions that lasted 5+ hours, and he never showed up. I have since found that he can pop just about anywhere in that entire area.

I have seen him pop just outside the tunnel that you enter that area from, and I have even seen him pop to the East of that tunnel, on the South side of those mountain type things. I have also seen him pop in spots where no Flytraps pop.

Since discovering this, I always use /RNG and Widescan. From that point, the longest I have seen him take to pop is a little over 3 hours. Usually it is more along the lines of 1.5 hours.

The only thing still bothering me is that I cannot for the life of me figure out which Flytrap(s) is/are his placeholders. If anybody can crack that one, please post some info.


NM level
# Jun 20 2005 at 2:23 PM Rating: Decent
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According to http://ffxi.cannotlinkto/mobdb/2833 this NM is lvl 37-39. I think thats the correct level, because according to most of the posts he's not nearly lvl50 strength.
booo
# Jun 14 2005 at 1:08 PM Rating: Decent
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camped this sob for like 7 hrs yesterday, havent even seen it spawn im @ the south landing and i subed rng this time, hopefully i have better luck today.... god i hate camping NMs
RE: booo
# Jun 14 2005 at 1:14 PM Rating: Decent
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and btw ive killed over like 500 of these flytraps, and about 20 thunder elementals so at least it wasnt a complete waste of time!
chronicles of dude on asura
# Jun 10 2005 at 9:33 PM Rating: Default
0/5 I promise detailed post once i finally get the drop.
otay
# Jun 07 2005 at 6:39 PM Rating: Decent
2hrs and it did pop, no drop I9
grrr
# Jun 07 2005 at 5:41 PM Rating: Decent
4hrs haven't seen him, need advice or maybe i'll just send a virus to asura server. lol
time
# May 27 2005 at 9:40 AM Rating: Decent
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OK, I've been camping this guy for about 6 hours now, have claimed it 5 times, no drop at all not even a leaf. It seems if you continuasly kill the birdtraps he spawns within 1-1.5 hours. IDK what's up with his drops though >.<
Location?
# May 09 2005 at 4:30 PM Rating: Decent
okay, so all the info about this guy is great... but where exactly does he spawn? I've been killing birdtraps for a while now an dont really have a general area of where he spawns.

a <pos> would be nice
RE: Location?
# May 09 2005 at 5:33 PM Rating: Decent
nvm, I found him in the little passage @ I-10, little punk only dropped a leaf though, kinda dissapointing for killing traps for 2 hours waiting for this thing to spawn.

Level 50? Doubt it.
# Apr 17 2005 at 3:32 PM Rating: Decent
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Killed this as 52SMN, got NO exp, so I think it's a bit lower then 50. Carby hit it for roughly 35-40 damage a hit, getting hit back for 25-30. Had to recast just once. No drop, not even a leaf. ><
UGHHH
# Mar 29 2005 at 12:06 PM Rating: Good
Hmm ok just a very big warning to anyone willing to camp mr. orctrap..

i used to be a monopolizing force against Orctrap, and i always got claim almost 100% every 2 hours, i never lost it once and i certainly got drops.

now i take a few weeks off, and come back to find that his pop time has been drastically altered.

instead of popping almost guaranteed every 2 hours, he now pops every 2-8 hours.

thats right 8 HOURS of waiting to have a 60% drop of maybe a 300k katana or a 70k belt.

SE must hate me or something, because this was my way of keeping up with inflation, but now its just not worth the gamble of time waiting a possible 5 hours+ on this NM

Now this is not a reliable NM to camp, and i have tried 3 times waited 6 hours no pop, waited 4 hours no pop and waited 3 hours no pop on different occasions..

Damn looks like ill have to find a new NM to camp because the drop rate and the wait time are absolutely not worth it anymore;;

Im just warning you that if you get it in 2 hours, the next pop is 2-8 hours and trust me, 8 hours for a flytrap leaf blows ***.
RE: UGHHH
# Aug 15 2005 at 10:19 PM Rating: Default
um... the katana is worth over a mill

and maybe u should stop being a *** and camping this guy like that... just a thought
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