Vana'diel Bestiary: Orcish Barricader
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38 posts
nevermind.....they both just popped, 0/7 on each now heh
38 posts
Are these two NMs still in this game? I've been standing in the area for well over an hour now.....probably over an hour and a half, and they havn't spawned....given their horrible drop rate I'm about ready to give it up, anyone know?
Scholar
19 posts
The Drop rate doesnt seem so bad...
I went as THF30/RNG15, found both of these and camped for a few hours. Came out 1/3 on each and 75k richer in total. I have TH1, and for what its worth a 4leaf if you're superstitious...
I went as THF30/RNG15, found both of these and camped for a few hours. Came out 1/3 on each and 75k richer in total. I have TH1, and for what its worth a 4leaf if you're superstitious...
Lantern Shield goes for 50 k on my server, and I ended up just buying one after awhile.
Me and my friend decided to camp this and the Breacher, by taking turns at them. I'd camp for 2 hours, he'd come back after 2, and all that (Basically so we could get stacks of other items).
I am 0/15 on this guy, 0/15 on the Breacher. Same thing with my friend, only he's 0/20 for both (With TH1).
Annoying little..grr. Horrible drop rates.
Me and my friend decided to camp this and the Breacher, by taking turns at them. I'd camp for 2 hours, he'd come back after 2, and all that (Basically so we could get stacks of other items).
I am 0/15 on this guy, 0/15 on the Breacher. Same thing with my friend, only he's 0/20 for both (With TH1).
Annoying little..grr. Horrible drop rates.
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5 posts
This and breacher have horrible drop rates (im currently 1/25 on wallbreacher and 0/26 on barracader)... which they almost make up for with quick spawn times (:30 to 1:30 from my experience), the ability to camp 2 "NM's" at once, and being strangly uncamped.
I stand at the exit of the tunnel (which deters most would-be campers even if im afk), and play a game on my other new, flat, shiny PS2 and check in on this every few minutes.
If you get competition... good luck. I'd recommend having provoke should some come along, im quick with my darts but thats usually not quick enough against those with provoke.
If you need something to do to pass the time between spawns there are plenty of Chieropetras (spelling?) around which frequently drop Bat Wings (great for Sandy Fame) and Toadstools to train in the tunnels to the SW (i get about a half a stack of sleepshrooms every time i clear the tunnels).
If you find camping lizzy for hours on end frantically scrolling through wide scan screens only to have 4 people reach the NM b4 you frustrating, stressful, boring, and unrewarding... this can be a nice alternative for a while.
Deglesh also spawns nearby to the south... but drops are pretty worthless and long spawntime... i'd only kill if u want to check him off ur list.
Hope this long post with little info helped someone ^_^
Edited, Fri Mar 18 11:17:45 2005
I stand at the exit of the tunnel (which deters most would-be campers even if im afk), and play a game on my other new, flat, shiny PS2 and check in on this every few minutes.
If you get competition... good luck. I'd recommend having provoke should some come along, im quick with my darts but thats usually not quick enough against those with provoke.
If you need something to do to pass the time between spawns there are plenty of Chieropetras (spelling?) around which frequently drop Bat Wings (great for Sandy Fame) and Toadstools to train in the tunnels to the SW (i get about a half a stack of sleepshrooms every time i clear the tunnels).
If you find camping lizzy for hours on end frantically scrolling through wide scan screens only to have 4 people reach the NM b4 you frustrating, stressful, boring, and unrewarding... this can be a nice alternative for a while.
Deglesh also spawns nearby to the south... but drops are pretty worthless and long spawntime... i'd only kill if u want to check him off ur list.
Hope this long post with little info helped someone ^_^
Edited, Fri Mar 18 11:17:45 2005
17 posts
I'm about 5/85 on them, 4 of thoughs were shields. I find this the best way to make gil not many people know about them and camp them they have a low spawn time of a hour- a hour and a hafe there is that outher nm close by that hass a 100% drop rate of a 1k item and I can farm about 2k-3k betwine the spawns. The rate is realy bad so you shouldnt realy try w/o TH1 or TH2 shield sells for about 50k in sandy and 60k in Jeuno and btw i go as a 40WAR/THF and it takes about 3 hits to kill them w/o SA.
Well I hoped that helped good luck /cheer
Well I hoped that helped good luck /cheer
Scholar
16 posts
I must have killed this thing at least 40 times. Everytime Im in the area I check in, and its usually there uncamped. Today was one of those days.... and it finally dropped the Lantern Sheild.
1/40 Its so rare ; ;
1/40 Its so rare ; ;
28 posts
This is a NM, it says so in the guide
whats this guys spawn time?
I hate it and it hates me. We have that little agreement. I fight it over 20 times and it laughs at me over 20 times when it takes the drop to his grave. Oh well, life goes on.
10 posts
i killed it 3 time and nothing, im 1/2 on leaping boots
2 posts
I spanked the Barracader on the first try no problem and I am a level 19 War. First frop was a Fire Crystal I am camping and see if I can try again.
I am 0/13 on this guy. I am MNK30/WAR15. :) So good luck everyone.
My first post on a mob thread, w00t :)
Anyhow, not too much to say 'bout him; he's nothing for a 26RDM/13WAR, but so far I'm 0/3 on this one, and 0/5 on his brother Wallbreacher. Not too overly camped on my server; I've only seen 3, 4 people total over my time waiting for it.
Anyhow, not too much to say 'bout him; he's nothing for a 26RDM/13WAR, but so far I'm 0/3 on this one, and 0/5 on his brother Wallbreacher. Not too overly camped on my server; I've only seen 3, 4 people total over my time waiting for it.
32 posts
I swear i think NMs just don't like me... camped this one and the wallbreacher all day with TH2 not a single drop... that's 0/5 for barricader, and 0/4 for the wallbreacher... and everytime i camp lizzy i get nothing as well... >.< am 0/6 for it too
i was walkin along mindin my own buisness with my lvl 16 nin/war an i see this orcish barricader alone. I think to myself "hmm wonder y i havent seen this mob before??" so i check it, reads (tough) i decide with utsusemi i could prolly take but.... it slaughters me i barely get half its kife down i was soo pissed. Now i see its a NM.. wow what a n00b
it couldn't have read 'tough' all nms read 'impossible to gauge'
32 posts
Actually it could read tough.... its not "technically" a NM, its just a rare spawning, slightly harder, normal spawn, same thing with wallbreacher. (also all NMs can be checked after you've defeated them once, tho the nin obviously hadn't beat the barricader, but as i said, its just a big scary normal spawn)
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Quote:
also all NMs can be checked after you've defeated them once
Not true. Notorious Monsters will never check as anything but "Impossible to gauge!" You are correct that this is not a Notorious Monster, but simply a rare-spawning monster with a valuable or quest-related item, like Stroper Chyme or De'Vyu Headhunter. I call them named monsters to differentiate.
32 posts
oh really? can't check NMs ever eh? how come first time i fought warchief vatgeit (or w/e he's called) he was impossible to gauge... then when i fought him again with my lvl 30 whm he was easy prey?
Killed as 58THF, no drop.
Blah.
Blah.
I was waiting for this to appear last night, as I'd really like a decent shield. I was with a friend who I'd just helped kill Thousandarm Deshglesh, so we were standing in the canyon just chatting till it appeared. Another character appeared suddenly (logged in right on the spot) and cast Dia into thin air. The Barricader then faded into view and it had been hit by the spell - before it was even THERE!
Yeah, guess what. It was a Japanese player. He said something afterwards, probably "sorry". I was very annoyed by it, not least because he hit the damn thing before it spawned!!
Edited, Sun Nov 7 06:22:17 2004
Yeah, guess what. It was a Japanese player. He said something afterwards, probably "sorry". I was very annoyed by it, not least because he hit the damn thing before it spawned!!
Edited, Sun Nov 7 06:22:17 2004
I seriously doubt he was sorry. I don't ever camp this because someone is always clock camping this mob. Always Taru WHMs and usually jp players. And they always rub it in your face when they steal it from you.
This one was an Elvaan White Mage I believe. Not sure what he said, but there wasn't much I could do about it. It's very annoying to have this happen to you. I have wanted this shield for absolutely ages (to actually use for my Red Mage, not to sell) but I can't afford the 33,000g it currently goes for on my server.
I have spent some time camping the Barricader (not for long, maybe 2 hours on 2 occasions) and it's not really camped on my server. There are the odd few people who pop by, see you waiting and then leave, but the majority of the time, I was alone.
I, like many, thought the Japanese were mostly kind, helpful and always willing to help out. This game changes my mind. Most I have seen are selfish, unwilling to help and ignorant. I was once lost in an area without a map and asked someone for directions. He kept saying "I don't speak English" in auto-translate, so I thank him and walk off. 5 mins later, I see him chatting in English and Japanese to some other guy!! They are also very frugal with Raises and information, prefering to keep things to themselves.
Don't get me wrong, some Japanese players are wonderful and a pleasure to play with - clever and good at partying - but there seem a lot of bad apples out there right now...
I have spent some time camping the Barricader (not for long, maybe 2 hours on 2 occasions) and it's not really camped on my server. There are the odd few people who pop by, see you waiting and then leave, but the majority of the time, I was alone.
I, like many, thought the Japanese were mostly kind, helpful and always willing to help out. This game changes my mind. Most I have seen are selfish, unwilling to help and ignorant. I was once lost in an area without a map and asked someone for directions. He kept saying "I don't speak English" in auto-translate, so I thank him and walk off. 5 mins later, I see him chatting in English and Japanese to some other guy!! They are also very frugal with Raises and information, prefering to keep things to themselves.
Don't get me wrong, some Japanese players are wonderful and a pleasure to play with - clever and good at partying - but there seem a lot of bad apples out there right now...
4 posts
Or... he could have just been invisible and spamming the Dia macro... but :shrugs: I only do it all the time... I have no idea what I am talking about
Edited, Wed Apr 20 01:51:25 2005
Edited, Wed Apr 20 01:51:25 2005
6 posts
You can solo them at 18, I'm not sure if you can do it with all jobs, but you can definatly do it with MNK. This is how I'm camping them right now and I'm 1/1 on Barricader, and 0/4 on Wallbreacher.
0/1 on him but it was empty there!
23 posts
On Carbuncle neither of these monsters are camped very much. I had just got there and it spawned no one was camping it so i killed it. no drop though :P
Scholar
17 posts
So i've gotten TH from thf, and in all my attempts to get the drops from these NMs they've never dropped anything, ever (with the exception of the 20 odd gil). Between the Barricader and the Breacher, I'm sitting at 0/31 drops/kills. Is there something special you have to do to get the drop, or am i just really REALLY unlucky?
You're just really unlucky, I've gotten 4/5 on H2H and 5/8 on this one and my THF is 10, so I don't sub it. So ya, like I said, you're just unlucky...
Scholar
47 posts
I just got real lucky, I guess. I was in Ghelsba Outpost for the first time, trying to find an entrance to Yughott Grotto so i could get me key for the Kazham Airship pass. I got lost in my wandering and found this little tunnel with both of these guys in it (Wallbreacher and Barricader). they both conned as Easy to my 24THF/10MNK (too lazy to level sub), so I took them on. got the Lantern shield form one, and a fire crystal from the other. Had no idea what the shield was...might have dropped it if I hadn't checked on here. Glad I didn't (oh, and I still haven't found the Grotto).
And I'm not talking vana'diel days either...
Ive been camping this thing for a few days trying to get the shield. It spawns every 1-1.5 hours, as does the wallbreacher.
These are decent items that are very hard to get. This mob spawns in only ONE place, ONE at a time, every 1 - 1.5 hours... Plus the drop on this is kinda tough...
TH1 will help as neither of these two items are rare, and they aren't ex either so you can carry more than one if you are lucky enough to get more than one.
Ive got the strike bagnsmkankaknanshas I just need the freaking shield... so if anyone on Shiva is chilling here waiting to try to get the strikes and happen to get the shield... I'll trade you...
Ive been camping this thing for a few days trying to get the shield. It spawns every 1-1.5 hours, as does the wallbreacher.
These are decent items that are very hard to get. This mob spawns in only ONE place, ONE at a time, every 1 - 1.5 hours... Plus the drop on this is kinda tough...
TH1 will help as neither of these two items are rare, and they aren't ex either so you can carry more than one if you are lucky enough to get more than one.
Ive got the strike bagnsmkankaknanshas I just need the freaking shield... so if anyone on Shiva is chilling here waiting to try to get the strikes and happen to get the shield... I'll trade you...
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