Vana'diel Bestiary: Sozu Rogberry  

me 72 war/nin and bro 70 thf/nin and npc's (mine 48) (his 55) both on soothing healers after about 50 mins of trying to get the pop item we got it and spawned him both of us had 300 tp then i mighty strikes rampage him for about 100 dmg then he Dancing edge for about 800 dmg alrdy down to 1/2 then i keep hitting keeping utsusemi ichi up and then when hes at 1% i die but bro gets his knife yay so its a pretty easy fight

Every part of Temple of Uggalepih is swarming with peeps, even Den of Rancor. If their not fighting for Pursuer pops their fighting over Chopper and Stabber pops for the Prelate Keys so they can fight for Pursuers down the Carby Mit Halls.

I was down there to get my Carby Mits, took hours to get a prelate key cause of all the people. We tried that trick for agroing magic thru the door, wouldn't work. There was even a party on the other side I could target, asked a player named Lotus to open the door for us so we could get the Carby Mits, said he didn't understand english, asked in translator "<Please Help Me Out><Gate Breach><Carby Mitts><Thank You>" at which he replied <Thanks for the offer but I'll have to pass>.

Ok, lets say that a JP wouldn't understand that comment and think I was asking for help with the carby rather then the door, but I've seen Lotus doing english /shout's and /say's in both Jeuno and Whitegate. I happened to be on my 75thf at the time for the fight, selfish little tea-bagger was to scared to open the gate thinking our party was going to take all their precious Pursuer pops, the little faggot.

I've already made my decision to wait it out about a week or 2 till the rush goes down, I've waited 3 years and killed that Rogberry more times then possibly remembered and I can wait a week more for my dagger.

Point is, please don't forget yourselves while playing, rude people suck and ruin the game for other people, how you act comes back on you, your crappy childish greedy actions will piss off players and tends to make them act that way towards others which gets spread farther and farther like a disease.

Kindness gets kindness, please try and remember that.

As for the little jelly wanker Lotus, guess if I want people to be nicer I should practice what I'm preaching. Guess I should take him off that LS Slap alert and let all the whm's I know they don't have to avoid his cure and raise requests like HIV.

Edited, Mar 9th 2007 7:56pm by SandorianPatriots

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Edited, Mar 9th 2007 5:35am by Bakum

For the lamer who made 92 million off a knife I have wanted and would never sell for over a year....Screw you people like you ruin this game. What would you do with 92M in this game anyways.
Well, as of today(right this minute) on the Auction House in Fairy Server the knife went from 60M to 21M to 4M to 3M...lol thank you SE as for the guy I mentioned above I guess you can buy u one. As, for me I am going to get me one and never ever sell it. Yea I got luckier than some but, I have paid my dues and I still have to get the lantern. I have beaten sozu so many times I could set up a Tonberry Coat factory right outside the Castle. To all the real Thf's (and you know who you are) right on! I'm out see ya in Dynamis for that TH4 lol......sniff .....sniff ..../cry aw man I forgot about the arms lol.

can someone post a pic of the drop?

With new update....Get your pop item and bam....U have a knife that drops 100% GO GO GO!!!

Flickering Lantern 
A gilt lantern treasured by the fiend 
Sozu Rogberry. The eerie flame burning 
inside emits a surreal radiance. 

This appears to be the pop item, it's in the dats. What drops it, I have no clue yet.

Yay finally SE does what many have wanted. All the good pop items are gonna drop Rare/EX or by force spawn. So long RMT... Better luck next time to you.

Now only thing I need to do is find out how to find the pop item and go try to get my knife after all this time.

Thanks SE! Your #1

!!!!!!The last 4 days now ive decided to put my time into this NM, and reading the new update we have to pop him with a trade item probably to a ???. Just like the phantom or morion worm. NOW wtf is the drop and where do I go to learn wat to use cause this is insane now. 21 hours I spent hunting this bad boy claimed 0 times and he popped twice. I'm serious about this knife and i will get it by watever means it takes. SOOOOOO........ wat do we need to pop him now, we need to get some info on this fast and by all means we need it NOW!!!!!!!!

Thank you, Sozu. You have grossed me a total of 92,000,000 gil.

Double Post. Allakhazam decided not to post anything this morning until I clicked on Post Message well over 10 times for each post all morning.

Edited, Dec 1st 2006 8:00am by HealerRamuh

I'm not a patient person, I have no time to waste on hnm/endgame shells who would exploit me for th2 or my blm, and often enough I have no patience for sitting for hours in a little room waiting for a little green man.

Btw, regular mobs will not enter the room where sozu spawns they will stand outside and use ranged attacks until they kill you or you kill them.

I have camped for hours usually when bored beyond natural tolerance, or while helping random people with testimonies, coffer keys or just general fun. Every time I camp I notice a room full of lazy peopple just standing there. They'll chat with you while you kill placeholders. It's amazing and they are amazed you can solo placeholders, just like good fekin noobs.

But when your NM you just killed placeholders for hours to spawn eventually does pop they are happy to cash in on your effort. NO offense to those who have successfully camped and claimed this NM over stun, dia, provoke, darts, ki blast, commies, bots, and God himself occasionally, but 8 cgf botting all with different offsets pretty much ruins the dart claim theory.

I am just a humble PS2 player I know my limitations and what my thf is capable of I couldn't cheat even if I had to. All that said to say this, you are all full of sh*t. Good luck camping against rmt teams from hell and good luck getting this knife unless you have $1.2k dollars to buy the gil for this knife or can outcheat the cheaters. I don't have that kind of money or resource so screw you and screw SE, until we find a world without rmt and with a Rare Ex thf knife.

I wrote an extensive guide for camping Sozu Rogberry, thread is in the THF forums:

Sozu Rogberry and his rare and elusive Thief's Knife
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/jobs.html?fjob=10;mid=1158951577111521153;num=28;page=1

~Jessamyn

0/173 Still goin at it

Think 2x DRG/mage could duo this guy? Both 70+

Hitting THF71 i decided to take my chances. . . to find ye olde RMT compadre Blab (galka mnk75/nin) playing decoration in the room. . .some time after Sozu pops only to be chi blasted by the 1st step he does. . .by the time i get ANY feedback from my macro spamming it's already hitting the fecking RMT. . . thx god our great SE got rid of all botters and rmt (http://f15.aaa.livedoor.jp/~faifan/index.php?Bismarck). . .

By the time Blab finally noticed he('s bot) had claimed Sozu and started to engage & cast utsu, he had already lost ~40% of his HP (about 600ish). 1hr passed and other known faces appear, Amemet (elv nin/war), Boyish (taru blm/whm), Kathar (hume rdm/blm). . . now i can say "i am in good company" with company being THE word. . .so, while you guys complain about not getting drops after ************kills i guess i'll sulk&complain a bit about the claim-botting RMT that SE officialy banned <.< I think I'll just go back to playin Dirge of Cerberus and hope the office workers' shift ends >.>

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after some time the <company> has to leave for Overlord . . and i start killing the PH.
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Tonberry uses eva buff (Catslave starts whiffing)

Tonberry uses everyone's grudge
Catslave takes 980 damage. . .
Catslave waits 30mins for a R3. . .
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Catslave kills a pursuer
Catslave kills a pursuer
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Sozu pop

Sozu uses Throat stab
Catslave takes 235 damage . . . turning around doesnt work at all

*the rmt come back to watch me fight*

Catslave kills Sozu
* find a coat
* find a lantern
* find a THIEF KNIFE

. . . .after 0/100+ on Monster signa, 0/20+ rabbit charm, 0/xx <enter NM drop of your choice> i go 1/1 on Sozu. . .

THF71/NIN35
Stun kukri x2 (Stun worked like never, use archers / trailer offhand)
Velocity bow + acid/drain/sleep bolts
Optical hat
Evasion Torque
Elusive earring x2
Scorpion harness
War gloves
Jaeger ring
Raja's ring
Amemet mantle +1
Swift belt
Rogue's culotte
Rogue's poulaines

Rapparee harness for utsusemi
Peacock amulet for bolts

sata / ws
Voyager sallet
Spike necklace
Pixie earring
Blue Cotehardie
Rogue's armlets
Grace ring
Warwolf belt

Dagger * 261 (buncha merits)
eva * 234
xbow * 212
parry * 139

Most of the time i could utsu: Ichi tank him. Also used Kurayami (sticked once), Huton (weakens to ice)-> jubaku (paralyze ice based, worked pretty good but didnt last long) and raiton (weakens to earth) -> hojo (slow earth based, never sticked).

Edit: remember to use Acid bolts (esp for ws)
Parsered
~86ooHP (5304melee, 380ranged, 2962ws)
94,24% acc (131hit / 8miss <- Perfect Dodge) *Y* 35,9% racc (14hit / 25miss)
27-54 dmg melee / 34.05dmg average || 21-36 dmg ranged / 27,14dmg average
519-753dmg Dancing Edge / 5 used 592,4dmg average
20 crits = 13,79% (fully meritted)
2hits taken - 119attacks missed = 98,35% evaded
3 parries / 27 attacks eaten by utsusemi / 89 attacks evaded

Edited, Aug 15th 2006 at 12:34pm EDT by Catslave

This guys so easy to camp


Lotery pops w/one PH and a small area of NM pop is a THFs dream, just grab a egg timer (or watch your Mug timer) and go afk, come back, watch radar, kill PH or claim NM, go afk....

wash rinse repeat...


I have almost 3 months logged in this room (most of the time afk) and easily claim over provoke, stun, dia, RMT, bots, darts, boomerangs, WS, 2hrs, ect ect..


easy to claim, all to easy to camp, ridiculously lousy/random drop rate....

I've seen 3 of these drop in a week, one which would be mine, and seen none drop for a month...

going on 0/28 on him >.>
about 75% of those are with TH4 or TH3

So what lv thf would u guys say this sucker can be soloed @.

Just an update since a lot of this stuff is focused on people getting their drops:

Spawn conditions:
Sozu Rogberry is a lottery pop off the *one* Tonberry pursuer at G-8 on the third map of Temple of Uggalepih. The placeholder pops every 16 minutes. ONLY SOZU ROGBERRY CAN POP INSIDE THE ROOM!!!

With that said with the implementation of numerous MPK patches a terrible burden has been placed on THFs when they try to claim this NM against RMT. Me being 0/66 at the moment, I've really caught my niche claiming this vs. others using darts. It goes real easy like this:

/targetnpc
/ra <t>

That's it! There are times when you'll get locked out but not often, and even then others will have been locked out so just keep mashing your macro until it's claimed. I have run into another minor problem which is when Sozu decides to pop in a corner to the left or right of me, that is I won't be able to see him. It's a small gamble I've made in order to better my claiming chances which have skyrocketed because of using darts. The best way to widen your field of view is during window run into first person mode and back up against a corner to expand your field of view as best as possible.

Yes the drop rate is awful, yes some people get hella lucky. As for those who are looking to camp it DO IT! In between windows there's money to be made from stealing and other pursuers that drop gold coins. And if you level clothcraft to 22 you can turn coats into linen with some wind crystals. I've made more money than I can ever imagine camping him (enough to probably buy the damned knife...) which has really powered my thief up.

Happy hunting boys and girls.

Guess im really lucky.. 1/5 w/TH2 then 1/3 w/TH3, goin for third atm 0/0 see how it works out... lol

To all your thf's camping Thief Knife... Keep at it... I don't want to heard some pld or rdm to get knife with out the purpose of using it. Im 1/9 beat another thf to claim... Now I also help other thf's on when I can.... Plus Gil sellers camping it day and nite pissing me off..

Keep it up... I know ppl 0/76 and 0/102 so it just a number game now...

Well, grats on your knife, Maligant. I have to say, 1/7 is obviously very lucky. I wont call BS, because I'm positive this drop rate varies and I imagine people are sometimes a lot more likely to get the drop depending on w/e mysterious factors effect drop rates.

I would like to say a few things about your claiming method, however:
Darts can DEFINITELY be effected by the time-out phenomenon we've all encountered since the big MPK nerf. I know this from first person experience. I've had darts time-out on me on multiple NM's and rare-spawn mobs: Spook, Sozu Rogberry, Oozes in Beadeaux.

Is there anything a THF can do to claim Rogberry without fear of a time-out? NO! You gotta be quick and/or lucky. My advice for those of us not lucky enough to never time-out and go 1/7 on Rogberry: be consistent! If you're worried about timing out, and you're a fast claimer using voke or charm or something, put a /wait 1 on your macro. Or, if you tend to be a little slow on the draw (like me) use a /targetnpc direct to /voke or /mug or whatever. And from there: always do the same thing, dont hesitate depending on the number of people you have to claim against, just keep trying to claim early or wait for others to get timed-out in the same fashion every time you see the little bugger pop. The end result with consistancy using any of these methods is that you will get your share of claims. You will DEFINITELY miss some, but not all. Only other piece of advice I would offer people is to spam like crazy if you get timed-out, you can still get the claim if the mob opens up late enough. Thats another reason I dont like using darts, if you get a time out with a dart you're probably not close enough to rogberry to get a second try with mug. Even so, darts can work. But don't say i didnt warn you when you get timed out using them. It will happen.

Hey, listen "ultimate" PLD, your claim that TH hurts the drop rate on sozu rogberry is completely useless. You give no supporting information at all. You don't even tell us how many kills youve had. This is just not one of those logical claims here, people. It's one of the kind of things you hear people say when a drop rate is really low, and they are surprised they havent got the drop easily anyway.

For any thief out there thats looking at camping this guy (and you shouldn't unless you have a lot of experience and can handle long pop times and competition) this PLD's claim has no merit whatsoever. From what I've seen the guys with TH+1 armlets and camping partners with THF KNFs get the drop faster than those of us with plain ol TH2. This thing is most likely somewhere between a 2% and 5% drop rate depending on TH, day, weather etc... That rate is low enough that TH+ is a very slight advantage!! If you're unlucky as hell you could go 0/200 on this NM, statistically speaking. But I think this is very unlikely. Of the people I know that seriously camped this, i.e. lived in Temple of Uggalepih, they all got it eventually. YourPassenger, if you're 0/50 then good job on all the claims and keep it up, statistically speaking i think it is likely you will get the knife if you keep claiming in those kinds of numbers. If you're just frustrated because you spent your weekend camping this with a friend and didnt get drop even though you had TH, then get a grip and leave this camp for the THIEFs to worry about. Either way dont start rediculous, baseless, spurious rumors about things like this. BS rumors like the one you're trying to spread drive people away from the camp and leave it open for gilhunters.