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Vana'diel Bestiary: Ancient Bomb  

Family:Bomb
Found in:Oldton Movalpolos
Level:40 - 45
Flags:
  • Aggro
  • Detects by Sight
  • Detects by Magic
  • Based on Fire
  • Weak against Fire
Drops:
Stolen Items:
Involved in Quests:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

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POS?
# Mar 09 2009 at 10:28 PM Rating: Default
anyone no the pos? of these guys
The level range should be closer to 50...
# Sep 02 2005 at 2:59 PM Rating: Decent
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Several of these will still be easy prey at level 55 and aggro. Once you hit 56, nothing in Oldton (with the possibility of NMs I've never run into) will aggro you.

There's also a RDM gob that'll aggro to 55 right where you first run into these heading to the SE corner.

Happy mining and whatever else!
Usually...
# Jun 23 2005 at 5:06 AM Rating: Decent
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Some of these check too weak to me at lvl 54, but one or two pop that still check easy prey. Weird thing about these bombs...some of the EP ones aggro, some do not. I have ran past some of the EP ones, stood in front of them, danced and all and nothing. However, another one sees me and just charges right for me. Not sure what causes some to aggro and some not to. Maybe the ones that do are a lvl or two higher than the other EPs that don't aggro. *shrugs* Strange


Usually, the ones that are Easy Prey with Low Defense and Evasion don't aggro.

But if they have just Low Defense, but normal evasion, there is a higher chance they will aggro. Same goes for Low Defense, High Evasion. (THF type mobs.)
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RE: Usually...
# Jun 28 2005 at 6:02 AM Rating: Decent
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EP mobs come in a range of levels, the ones that don't aggro to you are probably on the low end of that Level Range so that if you hit 55 they would be Too Weak to you.

I have the same problem with them and the Moblins. Don't want the Moblins to aggro you though, you'll get the entire place on you in no time.
Ancient Bombs
# Jun 14 2005 at 2:22 AM Rating: Decent
I just "Fire Up" on these things: Enfire, Barfire, Blaze spikes, cast Fire 2/1, beat on it until it's dead. Haven't had one blow up on me though.
dont fight this
# Apr 03 2005 at 6:13 PM Rating: Decent
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a while ago when i was hunting a treasure chest in here so i could get a map...i found the chest and got a map, i decided to kill this just for the heck of it. Well first thing he did was explode and it hit me for over 1100 damage and killed me. Dont fight bombs solo, its to risky lol
(by the way i was a lvl 60 pld when it killed me..i deleveled to 59 to)
piss
# Nov 24 2004 at 7:22 AM Rating: Decent
these things burn.... can burn up to 400HP.each tic is about 12-14. pain in the ***... died a few times because of this.
Aggro/Non-aggro
# Nov 11 2004 at 11:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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Some of these check too weak to me at lvl 54, but one or two pop that still check easy prey. Weird thing about these bombs...some of the EP ones aggro, some do not. I have ran past some of the EP ones, stood in front of them, danced and all and nothing. However, another one sees me and just charges right for me. Not sure what causes some to aggro and some not to. Maybe the ones that do are a lvl or two higher than the other EPs that don't aggro. *shrugs* Strange.
Easy Prey
# Oct 19 2004 at 7:19 AM Rating: Decent
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Easy Prey for BLM52
keys
# Oct 09 2004 at 9:37 AM Rating: Decent
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This thing drops a chest key, i got one the other day.


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Boom
# Sep 28 2004 at 3:32 PM Rating: Decent
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Walking through Oldton with a 34 DRK and a 50 BRD, we came across on of these. Since it conned IT to the DRK and EP to the BRD I thought me may as well kill it on account of aggro. Shortly after telling the DRK to back off in case the bomb blew up, the bomb blew up. DRK dropped (Hit him for more dmg than HP he had) BRD took a bit of damage, and I took about 180. Got the Oldton Chest key off it.
key
# Sep 27 2004 at 10:57 PM Rating: Decent
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Also drops "Oldton Chest Key." I killed one with my level 71 WHM and it dropped one.
RE: key
# Oct 01 2004 at 7:51 AM Rating: Decent
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I got a key off this as well.
look out
# Sep 27 2004 at 9:46 PM Rating: Decent
was in the tunnels with a 54 PLD and my RDM 45 and a bomb came to join the party of Moblins and goblins. so the bomb is almost died and started to do a bomb on us. It went BOOM! (lol) and i died (643 DMG) and i only have 670HP that the time
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