Vana'diel Bestiary: Morbolger  

Why would you camp this monster if you are not after the brown belt? And once you get the brown belt, why would you camp it again? Is the Brown Belt Quest repeatable? Because it doens't look like it is. And the item that this monster drops can not be sold or traded. I find it ludicrous that gil sellers would even be after this as there would be no profit in it for them after completing the quest.

The Monk who had the Brown Belt, propably paid for his and was trying to actually do the quest this time around.

-t

I camped out in Ordelle's at the Morbolger spot before the server maintenance/reset. I had no idea this NM was so heavily camped. I logged in within minutes of the reset (110 people online at the time) and about 10 minutes afterwards, there were 10 other people camping it with me.

Some of them were killing off Stropers when they popped. I am estimating that the respawn on the Stropers is about 14-15 minutes. About 14 minutes after a Stroper kill, and about 1 hour after the reset, Morbolger popped @ I-10 of that room (to the left if you are entering the room). Now, unless I missed the Stroper pop because I was busy fighting the Morbolger, it makes me think a Stroper is his PH.

However, on the other hand, most NMs with respawn times similar to Morbolger do NOT have PH. So, it may simply be coincidence.

Addendum:
I'd like to also recommend that you keep your sound on (if you normally don't). I heard the "rumbling" of Morbolger walking before his graphic appeared on my screen. I'm talking a very short period of time between the "sound" and the graphic... but if you happen to be looking away at the TV or whatever, it can signal you that he may have popped.

Edited, Mon Nov 1 10:27:21 2004

lol this was actually funny
we're looking around ordells for Galka RSE.
We end up inviting a lvl 55 DRK to help kill for key drops. All of a sudden he asks in pt chat for us to come to the Stroper place, seems he engaged the NM without knowing it.

We easily killed the NM with the 4 of us and i got the drop ^^ wasnt really for it, but it saves me camping it for the drop for the belt^^ maybe i can make some money when i get the other items.

So the Mithra RSE was in Ordelle's Caves today, starting at 10 AM, and a friend of mine asks me to help her find keys and chests. So we go in a trio - me, Mithra LV43 THF, an Elvaan LV45 THF, and her, Mithra LV45 WHM. We get her first piece of RSE, all is well and good, she warps to Jeuno, trades in her pattern, and comes back to try and get another.

Second time around, we're having one hell of a time getting a key to drop. So we're camped out in Morbolger's spawn area, killing Stropers and goblins for her key. We've been here in this spot for less than 20 minutes, sharing it with a LV50 PLD. The PLD leaves, we all think, yeah, cool, our spot now.

About 10 minutes later, PLD comes back with a Mithra WHM in tow, and for about half an hour, all is peaceful. Then, the other WHM decides that she doesn't want to share this camp with us, and starts /saying that everyone not here for RSE should clear out. Now, /say has a relatively small radius. If you're standing in the middle of the Morbolger room as this snitty chick way, only people in that room and immediately in the hallway outside can hear you. So she's obviously talking to us, since we have an Elvaan with us, and I'm obviously a THF. I say back, we're here for RSE. She gets her dander up and says, well, everyone here for RSE who isn't going to sell it for gil can stay, and that we shouldn't steal all the mobs that 'other ppl need'.

Let's get the odds straight here.

Us: two Thieves with ranged weapons with delays of ~300, a WHM with Flash.
Them: A PLD with Flash and Provoke, a WHM with Flash.

And they start yelling at us because they can't outpull us.

Would you like some cheese with that whine?

Anyway, we have us a little argument, she saying that her camp was there first (even though one person does not a camp make, AND her PLD left the area for 10 minutes) and that she wasn't being snitty when I pointed it out, yadda yadda. I back her into a corner in her own logic, and instead of taking a moment to come up with any sort of comeback whatsoever, she says "Congratulations! You have been blisted./"

Oh well. My party continues to kill things, beating hers to the mobs almost every time, when finally a pair of Stropers spawn. Well... what appears to be a pair of Stropers, anyway. My WHM Flashes one, while the snitty WHM and her PLD take the other. Ours is dead less than two minutes later, and theirs is still alive with half its health.

/check
The Morbolger's strength is impossible to gauge!!

Noob mistake - they pulled an NM. >3 So the three of us watch this WHM and PLD get their rear ends handed to them, and when they die and the mob goes unclaimed, we pull it. It was at about 1/3rd of its health bar, and my WHM ended up using Benediction, but we all made it out alive. While the WHM lay dead on the floor, her PLD having abandoned her. ^_^

Moral of the story 1: Be aware of your surroundings. Read the names of whatever it is you're pulling, and get informed as to where the big NMs spawn.

Moral of the story 2: Don't be a jerk to the people around you. If it were up to me, I'd have left that WHM dead on the floor of the cave, but after a long wait to recharge MP, my WHM did indeed raise her. Aw, gosh durnit. ;P

while I won't confirm *for sure* that the spawn time is a normal 21-24 now, I can say that I spent the last couple days camping him, and the one time I saw him was 21 hours and *roughly* 34 minutes after the previous pop.

I say roughly because I was going on information from a person who had killed it prior to me showing up. I came in to camp Stroper Chyme, and a 60 MNK who was there as well /checked me. Then he commented on me not having a brown belt yet (>.<) and told me when he last killed it.

I started camping this beast 21:30 hours after the last time I saw him die. I killed the stroper in the room every 12 minutes, setting my timer to catch the next one. The stroper was always on 12 minutes. Anyhow, at 23:30 after the previous death, and 10 minutes after my previous stroper kill this guy spawns and some 75 monk who was already wearing a brown belt kills it while I'm over in the corner healing up b/c I thought I had 2 more minutes before it pops; I should have had those extra 2 minutes if this were a legitimate placeholder spawn.

More data tomorrow when I camp it...

Merlynius,

Thanks for the FYI. So it was definitely only 22 Hours after the last kill time? If so, that means Morbolger was one of those "Spawn Times changed" mobs in one of Square's recent patches: (FYI) According to 1-2 reliable Japanese sites, Morbolger used to be a 24-36 Hour Respawn (Ugh). I had 1 high-level JP friend tell me that was what it was at (when he camped it 5-6 months ago). If you killed at 22 Hours after its last kill time, then this NM has (thankfully, IMO) reverted to the more standard 21-24 Hour respawn time of some NMs.

If anyone else can confirm this, please chime in. Thanks! :)

Ahhh please tell me this isnt a 24 hour spawn! I dont want it to be! thats too long!

I camped that room for THREE DAYS and finally it all came together. Had one other person in the room, a RDM who apparently fell asleep. I was lucky, another RDM and a PLD *just* left within the 1/2 hour. It was all mine. One of those times ya fumble with the keys and controller cuz you suddenly can't rememeber where ANYTHING is.. Man I was going nuts.

L56 MNK/WAR. I wrecked it. I had 300% TP already so I did Raging Fists, then Hundred Fists, then another Raging Fists at ~200%. It never even got a chance to do a breath attack. I lost maybe 500HP out of 1248.

Of course while leaving I ran into a Stroper Chyme, which drops this ring.. hmm.. Have to sell that!

Ya know, I'm not sure it's a forced spawn. I was killing Stropers, but I appeared to be the only one doing so. Nobody else did. When I killed it, and the fight was only maybe a minute, there WAS a Stroper in the back of the room.


Edited, Wed Jun 2 13:12:46 2004

now im even more afriad to go deeper in ordelle

I just fought this thing, and let me say, it was a TOUGH fight. MNK55/WHM26, if you have ANY buffs you want to fight with, you better blow them all at the beginning of the fight. It will hit you with paralyze, silence, blind, and poison all at once. I didn't use Hundred Fists, as I thought the paralyze had killed it, but apparently just didn't hit the macro key. I luckily lost paralyze near the end of the fight, and was able to toss off a Divine Sealed Cure III and I ended the fight with 400/1226 HP. So, subtract the 380 I got from that cure, and I would have nearly died.

He drops the Molbolger Vine, it's needed for the Fistful of Fury quest in Jeuno to get a brown belt.