While leveling BST/WHM I have fought 5 of these in Crawlers' Nest. I have come out with 5 scorpion shells and 10 scorpion claws. Each one dropped 1 shell and 2 claws! It may just be luck but if your on the scorpion item part of Bonecraft and you are able to farm these solo or with a couple friends, I would suggest hiking here for some game.
i would have taken it on but i woulda got aggrod by about 4 beetles which took down my lvl 44 monk/warrior mate in 3 hits smaking him for about 175..ouch
I saw this last night in CN. My party was worried it'd come back because we thought it was an NM but when I went back to check the party was destroying it.
Faught this in the Nest yesterday with a full party of lvl 46-47 it showed up IT and we took it with very little problem. I have seen it a couple of other times. Once when I was lvl 43 the party next to me was fighting it. When it did its AOE I took over 500 points of damage. So just a note.. Dont stand near anyone fighting this.
Unless that is some kind of a glitch, you may not be remembering this correctly. It checked out as an IT to me last night in CN as it slaughtered all of the parties in the hidden wall camp. Luckily, our BLM pulled of an excape just in time.