Im 1/1 on this drop.. I was leveling my 9RDM with no sub.. I saw this rare name and I remembered it was like Jaggedy-Eared Jack (0/50drops or so) I check the lv of this NM and I decided to give it a try.. I almost died but I zone inside the tower.. rest a little bit and went out again.. NM still there, and i just kept killing things and no one come and no one come.. then i saw a lv13 war with no sub just thinkin if he can kill him, I told him that he can (ya right, he cant kill it ) He died =P cause i didnt heal him (yup i didnt want to get hurt or dead...) The 13WAR almost kill it and i claim it before it's HP raise up again.. he had like 2% of hp left, I used Chainspell and take him down with water and stone, easy... GOT THE DROP!!!.. lol thats nice ^^ : 13warrior if you read this i wanted to tell you im sorry.. maybe next time.
TIP: even with the chainspell and the 2% left of his HP I almost died..
1/1 on this item... went as a BLM/RNG and killing rabbits on and off while goin afk and back for about an hour.. Came back and wide scan and there he was, kill him with 3 hits from my scyth at lvl 52.. Easy mob and good drop too =D
I heard about this ribbon, and since I've been training up BST as of late, I decided to try my luck and camp this thing as a BLM. I made all the necessary preparations and traveled by chocobo to the tower. Ropipi had spawned behind the tower. I made sure I had Protect, Ice Spikes, Aquaveil, and an Apple Pie in effect, and I totally manaburned him to oblivion. Water II + Stone II = One dead Ropipi. All he dropped was the Entrancing Ribbon. ^_^
At lvl 9 BST I tried to fight this guy. He almost owned me pretty hard, but I was able to run like crazy to zone. At 13, I came back for revenge and beat the snot out of Ropipi. When I saw that he had dropped something I was excited... I had no Idea what he dropped before I saw it. SUCH A GOOD ITEM TO HAVE FOR BST at this lvl... I love it.
Ich whas Soloing in east. Satu. and sah a Hare with a Name, so i attacked it as THF10/WAR5 and killed him after a hard Fight. I used some HP Healing Food to survive this Guy. After all i got this Ribbon but ist somehow ussless for me and a can't sell it. Are there any possible good Idea's to make it usefull without to start BST Job ?
Edited, Aug 19th 2006 at 10:20am EDT by Trunksmidg
got this item from the rabit with a lvl 12 whm and boy was it hard, got owned the first time came back with refresh and regain and killed it with only a hand full of hp left the mob is also lvl 10 too.
well im a BST8 atm on carbuncle, i really want this when i hit lvl 11...and i think its really worth it since i cant offord nobles >.< and theres nothing better b4 20, other then nobles...so this is great for BCNM20's and the DEF+5 helps alot @ lvl 11 thats like 1/2 the DEF of chest armor.
I camped him today for my 2 BST friends who are both 11 and slowly becomming addacited. It took roughly 1 hr to pop him, and about 3 hrs till he loaded the seccond time. I would say we're 2/2 on him but... i get the impression these new R/X drops are all 100%.
We might be extremely lucky, but someone passing through who was going to camp it but let us have the place to ourselves (Thanks Ritch) said he had killed 3 of the other NMs, and got the drop off the first kill on each. A fish in ronafure for a all jobs staff, think it was MP recovered while healing +4, the WHM club thats already on this site, and a lvl 15 NIN katana he said was a foce spawn called chocobo's leech in Dangruf Wadi. He said the sheep in south gustaberg drop some kind of blood now, and you use that to force spawn the leech. Hope this info helps ^^
The person talking about the staff above is right! i know this because i got it with a lvl12PLD and it took 30minutes. It is +4 HP while healing. the **Pilgrims Wand adds MP +2** while healing. give the guy above some credibility for telling what the staff is really like.
P.S. I read on (I think cannotlinkto) that you can solo BST BCNM20 what do you think about that?
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I got this on my first drop. The pic of the the taru is me =D My little brother was the one that found this NM, it killed him, but i killed it so i put his name of the picture of the ribbon. ^^
it falls in the same line as beast whistle. The Def +5 is nice but once you start seeing head gear that give more def we start swapping reguardless. The benefit of the nobles ribbon is the chr mainly.
If your a bst and can't afford the noble's ribbon then by all means get this one. remember no1 is judging your equip except your pet and if could say something it would be in the lines of "How can i serve you MASTER _(_ _)_ "
So my opinion is this is a great addition to bst. It lowers the cost of gear while maintaining its effectiveness. Its not like many ppl use the beast whistle at 24. I know i don't. The +2 Vit is good but i just use the chr to charm and swap in other headgear to fight for the sheer def.
Bear in mind most BST macro the Noble's Ribbon in and out from around level 20 on, swapping it with a piece of melee headgear, so the +DEF isn't that big a deal.
Nice piece of gear, nevertheless, plus it's free and rare/ex. Pretty cool.
Noble's Ribbon however has no defense at all. This has 5 defense. I'd certainly give up 1 CHR for the large differense in damage taken from my fight gear to my charming gear. Especially at that level, 5 DEF is a lot.