Vana'diel Bestiary: Rose Garden  

Voluptuous Vilma Does exsist! There are youtube videos on her, pictures all over the net, I mean my gosh people is it so hard to believe that Rose turns into Vilma, same way Noble Mold turns from a normal mushroom, it's just in this case, its 3 phases, Overgrown Rose - Rose - Vilma. And makes perfect sense for the drop ratio to increase as u wait for the Morbol to change over time... its starts as an overgrown, so obviously get ready for it to keep growing i guess.... But Yea Alakhazam, Please update this site and give Voluptuous Vilma the respect and decency by makeing a page for her, which does not exsist on this site, come on alakhazam, other sites are beating your info now -_- /cry....

just saw her for the first time ever on IFRIT on MARCH 14th as a 68rdm(Wingnut), going to jungles2 for a levelsync PT. 75 pld in PT came with me and we pwnd her (after I had to Kite her about 10min while he went to change to pld lol). no drops at all.

oh well, was worth a shot.

1/3 after 3 years of camping off and on. dropped when I killed SAM/THF. Also, gave ToD do a friend and he got drop the next pop which was 10 hours and 20 minutes later. So that was 2 rings in a row that dropped. Second kill was THF75.

To Glamrist: Although it would be nice to see VV pop the thought of leaving Rose Garden alone is completely ridiculous. You think theres a chance that people who want this ring would sit there together staring at a mob that has a chance to drop the ring they came for? Its a nice thought but unfortunately, this is still earth...
Also, just because something exists in the DAT files does not mean it exists in game ; ; sorry.

If someone, somewhere has actually seen this NM (VV) a screenshot would be nice although proving VV exists wouldnt stop others from claiming the NQ NM.

Lastly, I have personally seen RG pop and I want to add for any future campers that your cursor will get retargetted. The mobs basically despawn and spawn at the same time, so while one is fading in the other is fading out. When you tie this to another rumor about Rose Garden despawning if not claimed for 1 hour, it suggests the possibility that if you come back to your computer and you have nothing targetted, its possible the NM popped and was not claimed for 1 hour ; ;

OK Let's first start by saying this... Voluptuous Vilma does exist!!!! There is no mistaking this, I promise. As most of you know it takes 9-12 hours for Rose Garden to spawn. The same rule applies about agroing and claiming overgrown rose to spawn Rose Garden. So if someone agros or claims Rose Garden, then V.Vilma timer is reset. It takes 21-24 hours after Rose Garden spawns to respawn into V.Vilma, without anyone agroing or claiming Rose Garden.

HERE IS THE PROBLEM and REASON NO ONE HAS SEEN IT ON MOST SERVERS. EVERYONE claims rose garden as soon as they see it... hoping for a ring that is very low drop rate.... congrats to you all who are 1/1 cause im 0/4 with TH4 anyway.... V.Vilma is said to have a 100% drop rate of the Vilma's ring. So if ppl learn some patience on our servers then we will see V.Vilma..... good luck and fun camping!!!!

EDIT:

I just used a hex editor to view my DAT's, ROM2\13\99.dat, Voluptuous Vilma does exist!!! Here is my screenshot and i used paint to circle the names, other than that everything is original in my screenshot!!!

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e194/bmc45069/V.Vilmaexists.jpg

Edited, Aug 27th 2007 3:12:47am by Glamrist

Edited, Aug 27th 2007 9:56pm by Glamrist

Edited, Nov 19th 2007 4:21am by Glamrist

Yesterday I was in Yuhtunga Jungle helping some friends and after I was done I go wandering around. I havent been there in over a year so I want to go exploring.

I see a Overgrown Rose that checked EP so I rest mp cure myself to full rest again (drg/pld) and go attack it just to see if I can take it. Halfway in to the fight I get checked by four people and some one tells me I messed him up. I replied that I was sorry if took his kill and I didnt mean to. I didnt see anyone in the area at all.

By now I have the thing almost dead and the guy that told me that I messed him up tells me that if it isnt killed for 8hr a NM spawns witch sucks because if I stop I die and I cant warp or anything. I respond that I had no idea and say that Im sorry. It is dead now so I tell the others that arrived that I was sorry and I didnt know.

One poor guy told me he had been waiting for 9.5 hr. :(

What is the spawn time for this? I was told 8 then one guy said he had been waiting for 9.5.

I would not have attacked it if one of the campers told me not to. Even if they just said "Dont attack the Rose" I would have stopped to ask why.

To all the people that I messed up I apologize I really had no idea. I will never do this again because it must suck to wait that long and have some one mess it up.

2/5 <.< i think drop rate is a bit higher than 7%.

Edited, Apr 19th 2008 11:30pm by banditxero

After being 0/4 on RG I finally got Vilma's. Soloed as 63 THF/NIN, capped Eva and Marksmenship helped alot, the day before I tried as 62 THF/NIN and wasn't doing enough damage without boltz so I called out my NPC. Fireing off Acid boltz and bloody bolts helped counter RGs Auto-regen in between swings. Finished the battle with 700+ health out of 1100 so RG wasn't too hard. Started the Battle with Sneak Attack + Dancing edge for 700+ which only brought her down to 85%~. Other than that though it was a standard battle. Now if I can only get a Rain Hat my mage jobs would be set.

Does a 62Whm have any chance whatsoever of killing this nm or is death immenant??

The pics of Voluptuous Vilma come from a character that was taken to the test server for some type of all-server-wide ballista event or something. It's said that he/she outpost warped out there and rushed over and took the pics. It wasn't me that took these pics. This is just people talking, but it makes the most sense to me.

Killed Overgrown Rose and went to bed, 10.5hours later I logged in and to my suprise it was up! Buff up and started meleeing. Wasn't too bad for 64RDM/BLM. Had to Convert once, luckily I didn't get silenced and 26 EXP and a Wild Pineapple so 0/1.

Killed as 63NIN/26WHM today. Only hit me with sweet breath for 73. Used blind para and slow was pretty easy fight.

30 exp and no drop ; ; oh well I'll try again

just wanted to post on this ^^ i finally got this thing 1/12 <.>
spent day and night in the jungle after the ring, thru many hardships.
I dont what to spread any Vicious superstions <.< but i solo'ed this on whm/thf (as i had done many time's before)trump crown,but no signet.Right before i killed it i ate a wild pinapple(droped for a pervious garden) and got
2 vine's,1 pinapple, and one ring O.o the most drop id ever gotten from this. Well thats my story ^^ GL to anyone HardCore enough to camp for this awsome ring ^^

68 sam can i kill it? i cant find the level of the mob anywhere, i need somthing to camp to keep me from being bored

Wolfyline this sucker keep killing ph each 5mins all day, time to call gm

btw 0/22

sit under or on the bridge or /follow both are stupid idea... if someone saw u doing this will kill your PH

0/19
10 x PH killed by someone (all because of someone /follow the ph)
2 x Rose Garden stole by Demochin
1 x lv28 rdm aggro it @9hrs58mins;;



Edited, Sep 26th 2006 at 6:54pm PDT by Angelusoo

Can a MNK62/THF31 kill this?

0/7on this now... Orz.
http://ffxi-musketeers.com/cugallery/displayimage.php?album=74&pos=29

Drops... Malboro Vine: 2/7
Vilma's Ring: 0/7

http://ffxi-musketeers.com/cugallery/displayimage.php?album=74&pos=33

I'll add my 2 cents worth of experience though...
I've camped this NM religiously for the past 4 days now. I've actually sat in front of my PC from the time it's reached 8 hours after Place Holder pops tell the Rose Garden is claimed/killed. I've had all chat filters off so I see every bit of text. So far no ones touched the Overgrown Rose. A few people have come by and joked around saying that they are gonna kill the OR... which to them might be funny... but to those of us who have sat and camped this for hours, days, months, it is not funny at all. Anywaz, everytime Rose Garden pops for me it's after the 10 hour mark. I have yet to see it pop after 11 hours or before 9. So far the 10 hours and 12 minutes is pretty true. Not exactly 10 hours and 12 minutes, but always around that time. First was 10 hours and 23 minutes, 2nd was 10 hours and 14 minutes and third was 10 hours and 11 minutes. Anywaz, those of you who are camping it. Good luck. Thanks for listening to my 2 cents.

Also to answer the Q below, yes Overgrown Rose does depop when Rose Garden pops. So autofollowing it or auotlocking onto it won't work if it pops.


Edited, Sep 10th 2006 at 1:29pm EDT by illivatur

Edited, Sep 11th 2006 at 8:41am EDT by illivatur

so here is my question.. your autoing it.. does it automatically change names, or do you have to change the target when it turns into rose garden?

Well cmaping it is not too bad once you know whats up. Just takes some simple addition.

I get 2 shots at him per day. Basically, I kill the PH at like 8 pm, then later that night I log offin his area. Before I go to work in the morning, I log on to see if Rose Garden is up (this is about 10-10.5 hrs into it). Ive been lucky so far on this.

If hes not up (or even if he is) I will kill the PH and restart the timer and go to work. While im at work I stand on the top of the bridge and keep target lock on so that I wont aggro if Garden pops before I get home. So far so good, as hes popped within 30 minutes after I get home.

Camping it defiantely tanks time to do. So far ive been lucky in that no one else is camping it and kiling the PH while the clock is running. Only one time was my target lock off, but he still ended up popping within the 9-13 hr window. go figure.

Id like ot get the drop and be done with it thought ;/

He very easy for a 75 bst. Barely puts a dent in courrier carrie (literally takes like 5% of carreis hp is all).

I sub thf and bring 4-leafed clover and wear trump crown... all the gimicky crap... but still no luck.

Saw this on my way to Yhoator jungle. I was 60nin/30thf and decided to kill it.
Cast Utsusemi: Ni and used Sole sushi. Started fight with Kurayami:Ni and casted all debuffs paralyze worked out pretty well. Fight was rather slow but he didnt hit too much. Bad Breath was meanie one too 350hp and gave the status effects. Took 4 echo drops to get silence off. At this momemnt i got hit twice and both hit
90-100. Anyway shadows up and continue poking it paralyze was still mean.

It finally dies gives 35 exp and malboro vine >>.

Recently it seems 5 people from the infamous gilselling linkshell "DragonFlyingSky" on Remora seems to think killing the rose every 5 min will eventually make it spawn Rose Garden. It's kind of amusing actually, the red mage killing it even died a few times. It's even pissing off a few players, it's hilarious watching them vent. I've been camping it for 2 weeks, and I'm at 0/5 so far, but I really don't care if it never pops. Camping this has been a much needed break from FFXI, and I'm getting alot accomplished. My advice to anyone who camps this, just leave your character logged in and check in periodically. It's been fun not playing FFXI all day, AFK camping is the best thing ever.

Edited, Mon Jun 26 15:09:11 2006

Ok, I camped this guy all night last night and after killing the OR and marking the time, using the /follow trick, I got up this morning and checked for spawn of RG. Nothing... then after reading this forum more thoroughly I realized I was camping the wrong OR in the wrong area! Ugh, so I find the right one, kill it, mark the time, /follow. I come home from work and I was still /follow on it but I checked the log and after 8 hours of no disturbance I see that someone had been defeated by it. Talk about frustrating! However, this is a really great item and well worth trying this out a few times before giving up. Thanks for everyone's great info! ^^

Edited, Thu Jun 1 01:50:23 2006

Something interesting I noticed, can't confirm though.

I killed Rose Garden yesterday at 4AM. I left my character in the spawn location until 5PM the next day, at which point I left. Noone touched the Overgrown Rose after I killed Rose Garden the night before.

My theory is that you actually have to kill an Overgrown Rose to start the spawn timer for Rose Garden. Either that, or the spawn window is longer than 12 hours.

Edited, Sat May 13 16:14:14 2006

was running through to norg and saw her up killed got ring 1/1 lol all my bad luck finally turned good!

1/11. This morning it finally dropped for me! In the course of my camping this thing, I have figured out quite a bit. Without these forums, I would not have had any luck... so I decided to share and confirm various things. Here are the facts you need to know:

- Although there may be a mob named Voluptuous Vilma, be assured that Rose Garden *DOES* drop the ring. For a while I wondered. But now two people in my LS have gotten a ring from the NQ spawn "Rose Garden." Supposedly Vilma will pop if Rose Garden is left for 10 hours and drops the ring 100% of the time. The chances of this happening are incredibly slim, so don't get your hopes up and just camp Rose Garden.

- Based on the figures I have read on this site and others, I would guesstimate the drop rate at slightly less than 10%

- If not touched at all, the Overgrown Rose at (I-7) turns into Rose Garden after 10:00-10:30 roughly. NO OTHER OVERGROWN ROSE IN THE ZONE DOES -- this is a common misconception. Basically, you will see Overgrown Rose "fade" into Rose Garden -- somewhat of a simultaneous despawn/respawn. If your cursor is on Overgrown Rose at the time, it will lose focus during the despawn/respawn... so if there is competition, keep your cursor on a bee to avoid this rather distracting side-effect.

- Start camping at 10 hours of an untouched Overgrown Rose and no sooner because it is a waste of time. I have seen a LOT of spawns and never has one been before 10 hours. If Overgrown Rose is touched at all, the timer is reset -- even if it kills the person that touched it and does not despawn (found this out the hard way).

- Rose Garden is mostly easy if you are high level. Its accuracy is fairly terrible. If you are not high level, do a little research before camping.

- The best camping technique to use is:

Kill the placeholder, wait for it to come up again (5 minutes), tack a /follow on it (and keep your cursor on it), and come back 10 hours later on the nose. If you are still /following it with your cursor on it, then no one has killed it. Check your chatlog to see if anyone has touched it and died to it just to make sure. I always /pol'ed before using /follow to clear my log. Please use some manners -- if someone is camping the placeholder keep your hands off -- I'm guilty of violating this rule twice, but oh well :). Many times, though, you will find the placeholder uncamped due to the frustrating nature of this NM. This is particularly true at off-peak hours. My pattern was to kill the placeholder at 8:50PM, then check my follow and camp RG at 7:00AM when I got up. Then I would kill the placeholder again at 7:45AM and camp after work. I was able to get two spawns a day this way on occassion. Many times the placeholder was killed and -- because of the /follow -- I knew it so no time was lost on my part. If there are others trying this technique, try to work out a schedule with them so that you both have an equal shot at the claim.

This is all you need to know to successfully camp this beast. Good luck on camping this really terrible NM!

I had a weird day, I couldn't sleep so I logged on, and camped her for a bit. Nothing. So I camp Micholas as RDM/SMN and don't get dagger. I'm the only one there so I head to Kaz and sub THF and head back to camping him. I check on RG, but some RDM with Errant is sitting there /anon now. I head to Mich and get him again, this time with dagger.

So I head back to RG spawn, and she's up. The Errant RDM must be AFK. I tell my LS and my 69 SAM friend (Ancient) comes and lays the hurt on her. The fight was less than 20 seconds long, I got the drop. No more will I visit the spot. I told my LS the ToD, and washed my hands of this NM.