Vana'diel Bestiary: Lumbering Lambert  

I am a career camper of Rams for the last 9 lvls ive spent as THF, and the map is a bit off, the spawn zone is more like (E-7)-(I-9) follow the road, running that area will most likely catch you any spawn, the NM and HNM especialy like the left side of the map.

This is based on my experiences helping a few MNK friends with the belt quests. So if you see otherwise im sorry.

He is also quite easy to solo early 30's aslong as he doesnt use the HP Max Down ability, The Great Bleet.

K in this rare occasion this is 1 nm that is WAY stronger than its stated lvls. I know most r stronger than their lvl but cmon this 1 is ridiculous (i think its because rams r a stronger mob in general) My 1st encounter with this guy was my 1st ever with an nm by accident of course (i thought it was a freakin battering ram) and i was a lvl 31 war. Even though my higher lvl drk friend was in a pty with me he was a distance away and he said NOOOOO when i used my voke macro on it, then i realized it was lumbering lambert. I got scared cause it was kickin my *** but my friend came at the last second and knowing my mistake he called for help so a high lvl helped and kicked his ***. (no drops of course) Since then i seen lambert many times except when i was in a position to actually kill it or it was taken but then 1 day me and a friend were in a pty and this time i got it but i pulled it to my friend this time^^ The dam thing was raping my hp though and i died before i got to my friend. Then a lvl 40 thf took it and he got killed (this is what i mean by WAY stronger than its lvl since its only like 27><) but by then my rng friend was there and he reclaimed it again over a drg??? WTF! 1 hit later it died and we gots lots of drops including the horn so it was worth my abused war dying for :) Well thats my lambert story and of course the battering rams r the placeholders but since ive never hunted lambert before im not sure the time of its spawn. I heard it was an hr for lambert than the next hr was bloodtear baldruf and they keep alternating. So that concludes my long *** lambert story. Btw i also tried to kill lambert as a 33 war for a joke using 2hr and ws but i hit red hp and he was not even hlf killed yet so i dis and a high lvl finished it off. NOTE>>ive also seen lambert in H-8 between the mountains since its not circled on the map .

Edited, Wed Nov 17 11:42:54 2004

Well one day i was going along as like a 27 blm then i saw sombody die trying to run from the lambert an dit was one of my spells till death so 2 other ppl die trying to kill it it was a Impossible to Gauge lol arnt all nms!So i could of killed it but was like no itll kill me its impossible to gauge so i missed it.Next time i see it ill smack the living hell out of it.

is there a specific spawn time or is it just random.......and what all this talk about spawn circles and spawn rings??????

I was on my way to Jueno with my 32rdm/whm, when I saw a Taru die fighting him. I was too late to Cure him, so I looked at the name of the mob, "Lumbering Lambert...Oh s**t! a NM!!!" He had very little HP left^^ A minute or two later...BOOM killed him. Got "the" horn, a ram horn and a ram skin. Not bad for my first NM kill. =) Lucky me!

Edited, Thu Oct 7 03:55:33 2004

Ahh Lambert first time I saw him he was anihilated by me ^^ He was a really big guy I assume he might of ate too many fungars and spurted his growth a bit much, I had to run far backwards just to get his head and take a snapshot, For some reason I caught the fat lunker at F-7/8 he was a rough one it took me no more than a minite befor I got bored and decided to do a vorple blade, He was very kind into giving me his horn 2 skins Advice: Make sure your well equipped because this is a rough one, I fought him with like rse body only (but at level 60 who cares) and a sword took me a moment so watch out!

Just got both horns - purple belt only on AH for 3K...

I was waiting for my friend the other day. I saw him spawn, and thought I had to give it a try. He was pretty easy even with no armor. He left me with about 280 HP, but I wasnt fully healed when I fought him.





47SAM/23WAR

Okay, the info in this post is CONFIRMED and factual, nothing wrong about it. Just like most of you I am tired of reading posts about how maybe it spawns at this time, maybe you get the horn and maybe it's a lottery, whatever. This info is here to help you an it's your choice whether you take it into consideration.
With that said:

The spawn time on Lumbering Lambert is two hours. However he may not be the spawn everytime. Every two hours you will either get a Lumbering Lambert spawn or a Bloodtear Baldruf, and this is in place of a battering ram. It is random whether it is Bloodtear or Lambert but if you arrive to camp LL right after he is killed you will either have to wait one hour at the very least for the next spawn, but it could be Bloodtear. The other thing is you will get the horn 90% of the time. Bottom line, expect to get it, don't sue me if you don't.

About what level you can take it, if you solo it all depends on your gear, your job, your spells and what level LL spawns. If you're in a party it all depends on the same stuff just for everyone in the party. But for an extremely safe solo, be 45+.

I really hope this helps and it is worth it to look for someone to help you if you are a lvl 18 monk and get this done now instead of when you are 70 and want a black belt.

Good luck and remember with NM's, you will ALWAYS come out with the item if you are persistent.

Sorry, look up :) ^^^^^


Edited, Fri Aug 13 08:15:01 2004

Heh, I don't disagree with Allakhazam's leveling system, but it is VERY misleading. I'm going from Holla to selbina to buy a scroll of protect 2, (36 whm/blm) wearing only a few of my mnd + items, no body gear, no legs, nothing. I'm just running along and I see a Battering Ram "Great, more gil" I think. Then I saw the name, I ran to the other room to check his level and the computer's off >.< anyway, I boot it, then run back to be sure it's still there. I thought he was a level 50-something NM so I /shouted his <pos>. I then came back to the computer, and came to allakhazam. "27-28" I think "I can take him no sweat" BOY was I wrong. I engaged him with Paralyze, slow, blind, the usual, regen'ed myself, and already had protectra 2 cast. I started fighting, and I was doing around 30-40 damage, but he was hitting for 40-50. since my max was 500, this quickly started to look bad. I asked the two people watching if I could invite them to help me (war30) and an anon JP whm (high enough for Raise 3, though) the war accepted, but by this time I was already screwed, with 24 hp and running like a scared little girl, he didn't voke, and after I died the whm killed it quickly, then casted Raise 3 on me. I managed to do around 6-700 damage, and still hadn't put a very large ding in his HP (maybe 20%). So anyway, moral of the story: add about 10 to the level of NMs before trying to solo them, and bring real gear.

Edited, Tue Aug 3 04:52:27 2004

I'm on the Fenrir server and at the time I was a level 40BLM/20WHM.
I was on my chocobo from Sandoria to go fishing in Jugner Forest. So I had fishing gear on and a Solid Wand. I was running through La Thiene and I see this huge ram walk toward me while on my chocobo...this thing was three times as tall as me. I asked my linkshell what this was and they just said "KILL IT!!!!! KILL IT!!!"

So me being curious and trusting my linkshell...I get off my chocobo and decide to engage this low level NM. Okay I used Fire II mon it and saw about 1/8 of it's health go down...and it raged at me and hit me for 40-60 damage each hit. I was freaked out that I was going to be killed from this stupid ram. I decided to elemental seal+bind it and nuke it from a distance...suddenly people from all over gather around to watch the great duel of the century. I shout to them to get out of my way and they ignore me. I was trying to run back from it to put it to sleep once it became unbound and people got in the way and they all said for me to call for help.

I finally killed this thing after using manafont with about 80hp left and about 22mp. I got the Lumbering horn from it...This monster would have been easy if I had my full equip on...all in all I'd advise to not fighting it if you don't have good equipment...

I was running through Lathein to help my buddy lvl up his BST in Valk, when im runnin on my choco and see lumbering lambert, i think "oh snap, hope i can take this" hop off my choco and engage it. i ran through my macros of FireII BlizzrdII WaterII StoneII AeroII and FireII and used Drain once, came out with 41/551 MP at the end of the battle and lambert just took my HP into the yellow. first time ever seeing lambert and i got the horn, along with a few congrats from some people passing by.