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Vana'diel Bestiary: Spiny Spipi  

Family:Crawler
Found in:East Sarutabaruta
Level:9 - 10
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Not Aggro
  • Linking
  • Detects by Sound
  • Pursues by Scent
  • Based on Earth
  • Weak against Darkness
  • Weak against Ice
  • Weak against Lightning
Drops:
Stolen Items:
Updated: Sun Mar 1 06:45:57 2009

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General Information

Spiny Spipi's Spawn Location
Spiny Spipi's Spawn Location

Spiny Spipi's Special Attacks

  • Cocoon: Self target Defense Boost (Effect can be dispelled).

  • Poison Breath: Frontal cone AoE Water based magic damage with an additional Poison effect.

  • Sticky Thread: Frontal cone AoE Slow effect.

This page last modified 2009-02-28 22:45:43.

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Mist Silk Cape
# Jul 26 2005 at 8:45 PM Rating: Decent
I was wandering around and found Spiny in K-6 chilling behind a rock. Took him down with a 14blm/7whm using my 2hr. Got the drop! Woo! Wasn't even looking for it, but it's a great item for my Whm.
Spiny Spipi
# Jul 19 2005 at 1:17 PM Rating: Decent
When i first started this game... in my noobish days... i was in Valkurm Dunes and took the ship to Mhaura from Selbina. I walked area to area... i was lost in East Sarutabaruta. It was the first crawler i ever saw. I thought it looked cool and fought it. Little did i realize, it was Spiny Spipi. I had to Mighty Strikes it. It wasn't until then i realized it was a notorious monster. ^^
Maby its just Me
# Jul 18 2005 at 4:29 PM Rating: Decent
Well I have only seen sippie pop near the tower. But one day i was on a choco, and saw a THF-RNG camping for it, and decided to watch and maby get lucky, well, the thf bout killed him self when it poped behind him, I dismounted and claimed the *******... Got Earth Crystal Silk and MSilk Cape, to bad the price went down, luck when bak to bite me when my LS member bought the cape 2 min earlyer for 100k from somone else, only got 80k for it... Dam asura
Spiny Info
# Jul 18 2005 at 2:41 AM Rating: Decent
6 spawn points
Lotery pop i think or really long
Crawler placeholder
Gather Beehive Chips, Saruta Cotton (steal from mandras), and Silk Threads for extra cash
Low drop rate
Overall not worth it
If you farm the items mentioned above he is a nice added bonus

Spawn Pos
1. K-6 past the rocks and before the wall
2. J-6 Along the path
3/4. I-6/7 Behind and infront of the Rocks
5. J-7 Near the ruins but against the wall
6. I-7 past the large rock but before the road turns south

1/7 Annoying as hell to camp
Cape goes for 25-50k on Odin better drops elsewhere Camped THF/RNG check in the signature thingy

Edited, Mon Jul 18 03:42:32 2005
RE: Spiny Info
# Jul 21 2005 at 9:13 AM Rating: Decent
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Hey, thanks a lot for giving away my super secret farming place >_<. Yeah thats generally correct info, I've seen him pop in 2of the places you mentioned, and I use him as a bonus to farming bees, crawlers and mandies.
this sucks
# Jul 17 2005 at 12:43 AM Rating: Decent
Fought Spiny today (I-7). 31 rdm/thf killed him in less then 30 secconds. Didnt wait too long for pop either mabee half an hour. I only got silk thread from it. Didnt notice what day it was. hope this helps!
story
# Jul 01 2005 at 4:25 PM Rating: Decent
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i recently camped this guy with my cousin, it comes up on my wide scan (i was the horrible combination of MNK34/RNG7) and i run over to claim it. It was already claimed, by a lvl 9 ranger, who shortly after died to it. It was then claimed again before my cousin got there to voke it, by another lvl 9, who also died to it. Then we claimed it, and destroyed it, no drop >.< only 2 silk threads
RE: story
# Jul 08 2005 at 9:06 PM Rating: Decent
where exactly does it spawm
lucky me
# Jun 26 2005 at 1:39 AM Rating: Decent
well one day i was going to lvl thf and seen what i thought was a crawler (ps thf is lvl 9)
but when i walked up and started hitting it i was getting tore apart and i noticed it was spiny spipi or w/e well i got killed poped back on got war which is lvl 30 and didnt have time to grab DRK lvl 35 i didnt even have time to change equip well i ran back out there and it was still there!!! well lucky me claimed killed and got the drop and a added silk thread:)
Server:ramuh
DRK:35 WAR:30 RNG:10 THF:9 PLD:6 BST:5
lucky me
# Jun 26 2005 at 1:39 AM Rating: Decent
well one day i was going to lvl thf and seen what i thought was a crawler (ps thf is lvl 9)
but when i walked up and started hitting it i was getting tore apart and i noticed it was spiny spipi or w/e well i got killed poped back on got war which is lvl 30 and didnt have time to grab DRK lvl 35 i didnt even have time to change equip well i ran back out there and it was still there!!! well lucky me claimed killed and got the drop and a added silk thread:)
Server:ramuh
DRK:35 WAR:30 RNG:10 THF:9 PLD:6 BST:5
dam
# Jun 22 2005 at 10:06 AM Rating: Decent
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i was just camping him for about an hour and a half and he popped way in the back like K-6
no drop ><
no mist cape
# Jun 20 2005 at 11:11 AM Rating: Decent
I've only seen this twice in my gaming time.
First time I was a low lvl player and was not sure if I could solo it.

The seound time I saw it before others did and clamed it.

But no mist cape drop :(

Also found this twice at I-7

Edited, Mon Jun 20 12:13:28 2005
Hey
# Jun 17 2005 at 12:00 AM Rating: Decent
I recently found and killed this guy at J-8. He was way back there too, not at the entrance.
hah i think i win on low lvl killing
# Jun 09 2005 at 11:42 AM Rating: Decent
NO lie me and another lvl 6 along time ago killed this thing while trying to lvl up his galka war and my whm :P we both almost died but i used 2 hr took and hate and was like 20 hp left it was alot of fun but this was back in the day when i didnt really know anything about the nms only bad thing was no drop :(
Spiny Spipi
# Jun 04 2005 at 6:53 PM Rating: Decent
Does anyone know what other NM's are in East or West Sarutabaruta that drop good stuff?
wide scan
# May 18 2005 at 1:08 PM Rating: Decent
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51 posts
I know that having wide scan helps a TON while camping any NM. I was wondering... seeing i have yet to acheive a level 30+ job would it still be possible for me to camp Spiny with success?

On Asura theres some poeple who camp this almost every day for an easy 80k...
RE: wide scan
# Jun 20 2005 at 11:17 AM Rating: Decent
Its possible but on the romera Server there tend to be about 5+ ppl camping for it so if you spot it clam it fast.
RE: wide scan
# Jun 03 2005 at 11:08 AM Rating: Decent
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72 posts
I've killed this guy with as low as lvl 14 jobs (nin, rdm, and thf), so camping it below 30 is definatly possible. Just run around the general area and kill all the crawlers. Usually, I am not even intentionally camping Spipi when I kill it, just farming silk and beehive chips in the area and grab it when it spawns. Good luck ^^.
RE: wide scan
# Jun 01 2005 at 1:30 AM Rating: Decent
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As a matter of fact, im 5/8 on this, and i only used widescan about on 2 of the claims. I would farm the whole spawn area (crawlers and bees) and find it on accident, so if u are gonna camp it, you should be fine without widescan just as long as you circle the whole area. So good luck! ^^

I go as 30rng/15thf when i camp it =D
My good friend Spiny
# May 16 2005 at 4:40 AM Rating: Decent
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A few tips from what I've noticed, after getting about 10 capes and killing it about 20 times...

I generally don't see Spiny just sitting around unless someone else is in the area killing crawlers (namely myself), it generally takes about 2 hours for each pop to occur, but I believe before some of the updates the pop time was as wide as 30 minutes to 2 and a half hours.

Basically I kill this when I'm bored and no one else is in the general area. Best pop time I got was about 6 minutes... I ran out of Windy, killed every crawler in the area and waited. next time crawlers would spawn it popped.

So I think this guy is a lotto pop , but only after about a 2 hour delay.

As for what to kill him with to get drops... I've killed Spiny as a lvl 36 Whm, (using spells and such) and gotten a cape, been lvl 25 thf and gotten the cape once and not gotten the cape another time.

My favorite however was lvl 9 monk with 300% tp.
Just combo this sucker and 2 hour him, combo again, etc. goes down easy like that (as a hume), and seemed to give a bit of a better drop rate since I was lower lvl.

I typically just go as 32THF/RNG, kill crawlers and check widescan while killing things.

And I suggest not bothering if there are alot of people there. >< from what I've seen, some nights are bad occasionlly and other nights, its empty. Don't get angry at the 5 other people there.. go read or something. Its really not heavily camped on my server.

As for prices I've sold about 7 of them I think, from about 40K to 50K. the price right now its 70K >< and i gave away the last 2 I got.

I'd rather see this cape price stay low than get jacked up like everything else.

I'm about to go see how well a lvl 8 RNG does with this. ^^.. EES and 300% tp Hotshot..

Oh and I've never noticed anything weird about the moon phases or anything on its drops or spawns.


PS these make good gifts for up and coming Smns, Whms and Rdms =^^=

--edited after camping and such--

So a lvl 8 RNG can't kill it. I did sharpshot,^^ EES for 100, 300% tp Hotshot for 46 damage. Then I died. ^^
I was going to give the cape to this JP player I met, if I killed it, but instead I told them the pos of Spiny before I died. He/she got the drop ^^.



Edited, Mon May 16 07:17:11 2005
Spini Camping
# May 08 2005 at 3:21 PM Rating: Decent
Camped this yesterday with a low-level friend who just joined FF. About 4 ppl total were camping it. We were there for about 3 1/2 hrs and my friend got pop near the opening to river. He cried out for me and tried to take Spini @ lvl 10 BLM no sub, but died trying. I was first one on scene killed it with a couple of swings of my scythe and got drop on first try. Due to his courage, I donated it to my low-level BLM friend. Nice little cape.

- Just camped it again for myself got pop in 2hrs and cape dropped again. This one's for me :)

- since this post I'm 4-7 on Spipi

Spini Spipi 4/7 - 34DRK/17THF
Golden Bat 1/1

Edited, Mon Jun 6 21:43:25 2005
Spiny Spipi
# May 05 2005 at 7:00 AM Rating: Decent
I camped this baby the last 3 days. In the morning from 8AM to about 1PM every day. Usually with 2-4 other campers there, and of course some with their WS ^^. 5-6 of the claims I had I did them with a dear friend of mine ^^. I pretty much claimed all the of pops there was during that time. 12 times I claimed the sucker it was no problem, although I did have little argument with one of the other campers who felt bad about me camping the same NM as him ^^. Got a drop of the second one (gave that to a friend) and of the 12th one (and gave that to another friend). In addition to this info I have posted I'd like to ask a question aswell. I was told that using magic against this fiend would reduce the chances of a Mist Silk Cape drop. This is just a rumour isn't it?

Edited, Thu May 5 08:01:43 2005
Missed It
# May 03 2005 at 6:34 PM Rating: Decent
36 posts
Damn, I was on choco going to windy as my 30THF and I was checking out the nearby mobs, just to see. And I see Spiny Spipi, which is only he 3rd NM I've ever saw: (Other 2 were Golden Bat and Sophie). So, I got off my choco to kill it, and some high level anon character used a ranged and killed it one hit, after I already had drawn my weawpon..

Life sucks =P
spawn every 2hr
# Apr 29 2005 at 1:55 PM Rating: Decent
I saw it yesterday for the first time, while i was lvling my lvl 9 nin. But i knew i won't be able to kill it by myself, so i called my rommies to help me out. Then this one other high lvl guy was right behind me, so i have to attack him, and pray i'll live til my rommie arrive, well..... i die, and the other dude killed him.

So i went home got my thf and come back out 2 hours later (people say it spawns every 2hours) Waited in the area for half an hour, till didn't spawn. So i started to hunt for Cawlers. After i killed two cawler in the area, i saw the Spiny in my Ranger scaner, so i Flee over there right away, and killed it. Lucky, i got the silk cap with my lvl 30 thf.
on and on and on...
# Apr 27 2005 at 12:52 PM Rating: Decent
For the past week I've been farming gil to buy equipment for my BLM25/RDM12. Having only 25k and still needing Baron's Cuffs, Mage Slacks, and Mist Silk Cape, I thought it'd be fun to camp Spiny Spipi and save myself the 2+ hours of farming (of course this would only save me time if he spawned fast and dropped 1st fight). I take my THF25/RNG5 out to camp Spiny, and after an hour of killing Crawlers and Mandragoras i gave up to watch Shaolin Soccer with my friend and brother (pretty sure that's how Shaolin is spelled =P). 10 minutes into the movie and my brother gets a call from his new girlfriend and ends up missing the next 45 minutes of the movie. When he was done talking he came back and wanted to pick up where he'd left off. I didn't feel like watching the 1st half again so i logged back on and camped Spiny till my bro was all caught up. About 20 minutes after i had restarted camping Spiny his name popped up on my widescan. I immediately killed the Crawler i was fighting and slammed my Flee macro. I was incredibly anxious because, as I delivered the final blow to that Crawler, i saw another PC running in the general direction of Spiny and he was about half way to him. Luckily my Flee carried me to Spiny just seconds before the other PC nabbed him. I engaged Spiny and killed him within a few swings of my trusty Nadrs (the coolest sword a THF could hope to have at lvl 25 in my opinion 0.~). w00t I found a Silk Thread AND a Mist Silk Cape! I called into the living room that I'd claimed Spiny and gotten the drop and my friend and brother (who also play FFXI) hardly believed me. Even though Spiny Spipi isn't such a big deal, it's still super fun to get him and his cape on the 1st kill. Then, this being the icing on my cake, i ran back to Windurst to throw my stack of Silk Thread on AH that I'd saved up camping Spiny and was surprised to see them selling for 24k ><. All in all, I'd gotten a 40-50k cape and then another 24k from the silk in about an 1 1/2 hours of camping.

Sorry for all my rambling, but I thought others might read this and get excited about camping Spiny Spipi (or any other NM) themselves ^^

Good luck and happy camping!
RE: on and on and on...
# Apr 30 2005 at 10:07 PM Rating: Excellent
its a little drug out but has a good ending
Simple as Pie
# Apr 24 2005 at 5:31 PM Rating: Decent
25 posts
I camped this 2 times and ran up on it by accident wen a lvl 8 Sam was takein it down rippin it apart and died i got off my chocobo and killed it drop and now im 4/5 on him hehe guess im just lucky. ^_^
Simple as Pie
# Apr 24 2005 at 5:31 PM Rating: Decent
25 posts
I camped this 2 times and ran up on it by accident wen a lvl 8 Sam was takein it down rippin it apart and died i got off my chocobo and killed it drop and now im 4/5 on him hehe guess im just lucky. ^_^

Edited, Sun Apr 24 18:34:54 2005
# Apr 22 2005 at 3:23 PM Rating: Decent
I was looking for this and it spawned in 10 minutes, but then a lvl 74 player claimed her before me. :/ I wonder why so high level players wont kill harder nms.
Dumb people
# Apr 21 2005 at 7:41 AM Rating: Decent
When i was leveling my warrior, to sub for my ninja, to sub for my thief, i came across Spini Spipi. It was fairly late at night, so i was a little out of it at the time, so i ran up to it thinking it was a regular crawler and faught it. I wasnt really paying attention to the fight, cuz i figured i'd win anyway, and when i checked it just in case, it said Spini Spipi's strength is impossible to gauge! And seeing that i was going to die (lv7 war) i shouted "Spini Spipi <pos> (Do you need it?). Well i died and came back as my THF and it was still there, so i killed it, no drop, and i was wondering why noone had claimed it. probably thought i was trying to throw the campers off, well its their loss XP
Day/Phase
# Apr 17 2005 at 9:11 PM Rating: Decent
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I have tried to find Spini Spipi (what a name, eh?) for about 4 hours one time about a month ago...killed every crawler I could find in the search radius indicated on the map. Nothing.

Then once about 2 weeks ago, I was running home through Saruta, and 2 noobs were started attacking them. Now, I'm guilty of a little sin, but normally I would cure the noobs...well, you know...after the first one died, the second started running for his life.

After running for about a minute, I couldn't get a lock on the Crawler, and finally I shouted for the noob to stop running so I could attack him. Killed the crawler easy (I believe I was level 16 RDM at the time) couple of cure's and that was about all it took. But, unfortunately no drop. Only silk thread.

I'm planning on camping him again tonight, cause I need money for new equipment. Anybody know if there is a pattern for the days/times/phases of moon where he is likely to appear?

One person said they saw him on Darksday, but with no mention of moon phase. I didn't write down the other time I saw him while rescuing a noob, but I will post that info if I run into him tonight.

Would everybody who finds Spini, record the moon phase, day and time (Van'adiel time) and post it here? Maybe we can find a pattern.

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