I think the more times they hide and then emerge, the better the drops.
Now, you may think I'm thinking too 'real world' on this, but today I went to dandruff (sic) wadi and killed all the stone eater super easy worms in that room to the south, and got amongst everything else, a hermit's ring.
Later on I came back and killed all 6 and got hardly anything off them. Maybe they'd been there a long time, building up their value?????
20 minutes later, he survived a fight with 12hp after I snapped a cure on him.
That combo DOES suck. Maybe if you put a little more elbow grease into your strikes with war sub instead of trying to land gimped enfeebles, he wouldn't have been so screwed XD. been one up till level 26. hard enough gaining acceptance as a thief without mixing melee and magic jobs.
Umm...I dont know if you are aware of this, but the whole POINT of RDM IS to mix up melee and magic.... after lvl 15, thf used properly with all the enfeebles, should easily be the equivalent in combat to war. ppl have this annoying habit of underestimating the abilities of rdm, up until they start giving out regen and refresh, that is...
i'd like to say i'm sorry for continuing this argument where it totally doesn't belong, but i want to point out a few things.
having the redmage as a support-job makes it half powered & gives less spell options because of the reduced level, and gives it 1/2 of that level's normal MP. if your thief is Lv15 your redmage is Lv7 & you have half the amount of MP as a normal Lv7. basically, you will be casting weaker spells, and you can't cast as many.
with all that calculated if your strategy still works, by all means go for it. personally speaking, i dont see any way that a gimped redmage can supplement any thief.
and just to tie it into the board... i'm on my way to the wadi to farm right now. =)
The only ore they drop is zinc, unless some of the ones at the far north end have different drops. I've killed a few thousand of these while farming the west side of the wadi over the last few months.
I can confirm that it drops everything on the list but sulphur, mythril and gold... I have recieved the other drops...I got the ring first time I killed one
Hey i'm on quetzalcoatl server to and i have conformation that you can get hermits rings from these and also iron ore..i have never seen Gold, or mythril.