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Vana'diel Bestiary: Valkurm Emperor  

Family:Fly
Found in:Valkurm Dunes
Found at Location:E - 8
Level:29 - 30
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Linking
  • Detects by Sound
  • Based on Wind
  • Weak against Ice
  • Strong against Wind
Drops:
Stolen Items:
Updated: Mon Mar 16 23:24:16 2009

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General Information

Lottery spawn of the Damselflies that spawn from (D-8) through (F-8) in Valkurm Dunes

PH Info from Smokesalot

The PH is the mob the prevents the NM from spawning until it is killed. In the case of the Valkurm Emperor, it is one of the Damselflies that roams about Whitesands beach in Valkurm Dunes.

What a kagillion people refuse to take into their minds is that VE has ONE placeholder, and that's it. Go to the beach with Widescan ability, and position yourself at the peak of the sandhill just northwest of the pack of trees in the middle of the beach. Pull up WS, and you'll see something like this.

Damselfly
Goblin Mugger
Goblin Leecher
Goblin Gambler
Sniper
Sniper
Sniper
Sniper
Damselfly<~~~~~PH!!!
Damselfly
Damselfly
Damselfly
Thread Leech
Thread Leech
Thread Leech
Thread Leech
Thread Leech
Goblin Mugger
Goblin Leecher
Goblin Gambler

  • Respawn time is roughly one to four hours after its last ToD.

This is a truncated list, but as you can see the PH is located in the set of four Damselflies between the leeches and the snipers, and is always the top one. These flies are always grouped in four, and are always located between the snipers and the thread leeches. When VE pops your list will look like this...

Sniper
Sniper
Sniper
Damselfly
Damselfly
Damselfly
Valkurm
Emperor
Thread Leech
Thread Leech
Thread Leech
Thread Leech

VE always pops on the bottom of the list. If there aren't four flies in the list, that means someone else is killing them. Either nearby parties, or other campers. If this is happening, you have to figure out a way to nab yourself the PH, and be 100% sure that the fly you kill is the PH. After that, go ahead and let the other campers waste their time killing the other flies.

Valkurm Emperor Special Attacks

  • Venom - Frontal cone AoE Water based magic damage with an additional Poison effect.
  • Cursed Sphere - AoE Darkness based magic damage (Circle of effect originates from attack target)

Source: Allakhazam Post

Nyzul Isle NM Info

Regular Nyzul Isle NM     Regular NMs inside Nyzul Isle need to be defeated in order to complete the objective 'Defeat all enemies' but will never be a 'Specified Enemy/Enemies'.

NM Drop Appraisals     Drops a crate containing a ??? item which may appraise into Empress Hairpin.

Appears on Floors:    21 - 40

This page last modified 2009-10-11 16:39:35.

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WHAT A GOOD DAY!!!
# Sep 27 2005 at 3:41 AM Rating: Excellent
wo0t..finally got my Empress hairpin today =)...i was 0/3 before the patch...and now im 1/4 after...well to the story..well i jus started break n i had things on my list to do before school gets back in and getting Empress Hairpin was 1 of them...so i go to the spot by the dead end where the rock is and i stay there but b4 i go to there i notice there is 9 ppl camping this thing...so im like there is no damn chance i can claim this NM :_; but i stayed for one spawn and this taru who was another theif was killing flys all over the place so i decide to watch him..but he decides to give up and leaves leaving the spot to myslef ^^ then 20 mins later it pops EXACTLY where the taru was standing...(Thank You for giving Up!) range attacked it..claimed..killed...

You find an Insect Eing on Valkrum Emperor
You find an Empress Hairpin on Valkrum Emperor
WOOOOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!
GL 2 ALL U CAMPERS STILL trying TO GET IT DONT GIVE UP!!! AND FOR ANOTHER NOTE...I HATE VE!!!!!!! /goodbye ^^

Later that day i claimed/saw more NM's heres a list of which 1's

1) Valkrum Emperor (got drop)
2) Bloodpool Vorax (no drop)
3) Jolly Green (got drop)
4) Molbolger (missed) damn it!! ><
5) Deadly Dodo (got drop)

3/5 drops from 5 different ones..what a good day ^^

Edited, Tue Sep 27 05:01:15 2005
what lvl????????
# Sep 24 2005 at 7:20 AM Rating: Decent
hey i'm a lvl 27 thf/13war atm and was wonderin at what lv can i solo this thing for myself? i really want this pin and i cant afford an emp pin from AH
RE: what lvl????????
# Oct 01 2005 at 10:23 AM Rating: Decent
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try camping it at level 37-40 solo, or if u flee to it at level 30 with rng sub,(do the quest) and get some one else to help u kill it
RE: what lvl????????
# Nov 05 2005 at 3:45 AM Rating: Decent
I dont think you need to get help if youre 37+, I'm 35thf/rng and I fought it w/ a whm backin me up but I could have soloed it if I had used Perfect Dodge, the real problem is that you cant kill placeholders or you will be beat up already if you manage to get claim, I would say 35-37 you should be ok, but will need to use perfect dodge.
Placeholders
# Sep 24 2005 at 3:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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I am surprised to see that nobody has posted how to correctly identify which Damselflies are the placeholders for the Valkurm Emperor (Now that it is a Rare/Ex item). I am by no means an expert on this, I actually never got the claim before the change (but I didn't have this information then either), and I am 1/3 after change (but sadly, I was in a party and lost the lot). And now, to the main subject: How to identify the placeholders of the Valkurm Emperor:

First, you must have ranger as your main or subjob, you need widescan, and the beastmaster widescan sadly is not quite large enough (it might be at later levels, mine is only level 17 and I can see larger than its widescan). When you hit widescan, you see an alarmingly large number of monsters on the list, dont panic, everything will be alright. If everything is going nicely, there is a pattern in the widescan list. Around the second to third page, you should see something along the lines of this:
Goblin n00b killer
Goblin linker to the n00b killer

Snipper
Snipper
Snipper

Damselfly (or Valkurm Emperor)
Damselfly
Damselfly
Damselfly

Thread Leech
Thread Leech
Thread Leech
Thread Leech


This is all you need to see, becase the four Damselflies inbetween the Snippers and Thread Leeches are the 4 placeholders for the Valkurm Emperor.

So, how to camp without going insane spamming widescan: Lets just say you have optimal conditions, no other campers (I wish) and no parties XP'ing on Snippers. Gather up the four said placeholders, and kill them. Note time of death, add two game hours, this is when they will come back, give or take a few game minutes. So, you may freely go afk, pick your nose, go have a {bio} {break}, whatever you wish, for a few minutes. When it gets close to the time, you may now start spamming your widescan, when you see that all four Damselflies have reappeared (or the beloved Notorious Monster), gather and repeat.

Now, those were in optimal conditions, which doesnt happen very often. So, now what mister smarty pants? Well, lets say you have a few people that are out killing all the flies trying to make him pop. Now it gets harder to know the time of death for each of the placeholders. You can try your own method for this, but here is what I did. I would use widescan untill a Damselfly would drop from the list, note the time, subtract about 10 game minutes (it takes a while to drop off the list) and note the time. Eventually you will know the TOD of all four flies, you just have four seperate times to wait for now, instead of just one, so its not as easy.

Now, the other inconvenience is if there are parties killing Snippers that appear before the placeholders. Luckilly, those 1-2 Goblins exist just above said Snippers, and they are rarely killed, so you can use them. Parties might also be killing flies, but I rarely encounter this, and when I do, I just leave and come back at a less busy time.

I attribute this information to Revenger, the lucky (******* (j/k)) that won the lot on our Empress Pin. He taught this to me, and I would like to pass it on to everyone else. If you know absolutely of any discrepancies, please post and I will edit my post. But as far as I know, and have observed many times, this is correct.

Happy camping, and may you get your Empress Pin on your first kill!

Edit: I changed maroon to red. maroon was just to dark for my liking.

Edited, Wed Sep 28 23:41:34 2005

Edited, Mar 28th 2007 9:20pm by Rubixtoo
RE: Placeholders
# Oct 11 2005 at 8:04 PM Rating: Decent
This post on place holders is 100% accurate. 1/3 on VE. You rock!
RE: Placeholders
# Oct 02 2005 at 1:06 PM Rating: Decent
hey, this strat was pefect, worked every time, do you have the placeholders for leaping lizzy? that would be great. ildon29@hotmail.com or just post them on her NM page.
RE: Placeholders
# Sep 30 2005 at 2:55 PM Rating: Default
Excellent post. Rate up all the way. 1/2 VE

I've leveled thief to 49 and have been wanting this forever. Corsair's Hat +1 isn't crafted on Asura anymore so can't even consider paying 150k for +2 dex.

Thanks to your post I now have the Empress Pin after camping about 4 hours. And my only 2 times camping this I got both claims solo and drop on second attempt as 49thf/24rng. Now if Leaping Lizzy 0/7 will drop i can stop cursing SE for a while.

Thanks for the wonderful info. :D
RE: Placeholders
# Sep 29 2005 at 11:43 AM Rating: Decent
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I use the same method, but also note that the farther west you go, the closer to the top the damselflies appear on your widescan list. I usually camp close to that large sand dune slightly to the west of the cluster of trees where a lot of people camp, some times you do not even have to scroll your widescan at that spot. 0/11
RE: Placeholders
# Sep 28 2005 at 6:19 AM Rating: Decent
GREAT FU*KIN POST RATE UP!!!
sorry
# Sep 20 2005 at 2:52 PM Rating: Decent
sorry double post
gil slellers strategy^^ took weeks to figure out
# Sep 20 2005 at 2:51 PM Rating: Decent
OK i have been camping this thing for 2 weeks, i am now 0/9 if i staid the entire time i was logged on i would have gotten alot more claims. I have been over at a friends hose guest logged in my care and i lag like crazy, this has cost me about 10 claims><. I am here to divulgfe the strategy the gil sellers used to get the claim!

Here goes! When u go into wide scan and scroll down u will see up to 5 snippers then 4 damselfly's then 5 thread leechs. these four damselfly are the place holders (in theory). but what alot of people dont know is that the emp only replace the top one, of the four there. so if all four are there u can kill the top one and not worry about others. the prob is alot of noobs just kill evryone. so u should claim one and hold it until another pops. if it is still on top of the other one continuer to hold it until u have seen all three other fly's pop and u still have the one that was on top in wide scan.

Now once u are sure u have found the top one( wich means if all 4 were there ur claimed one would have been on top) kill it from the secoond it starts to disapear use a 5 min cool down move like scavenge or just time 5 min earth time or i think it is 2 and a half hours in game to the second. the top placeholder will pop in exactly five min so at 4min and 57 sec hit flee! then wide scan until u see it! either your next plceholder will pop or emp but continue this and u will end up being in flee every time the placeholder or emp pops.

now u know what the gil sellers are doing. some times it is such a pain in the *** to try to find that i just spam wide scan. o well time for me to go back out for another round 50THF/10RNG! dont FLAME ME ON THIS IF U CANT SEEM TO GET TIMEING DOWN TRUST ME U ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG THIS IS GUARRENTEED! gl and happy hunting maybe i will finally get my empress pin, i sold emp pin for 1.6mil on ifrit so am happy i bought it for 600k
does th2 mean nothing?
# Sep 20 2005 at 2:51 PM Rating: Decent
OK i have been camping this thing for 2 weeks, i am now 0/9 if i staid the entire time i was logged on i would have gotten alot more claims. I have been over at a friends hose guest logged in my care and i lag like crazy, this has cost me about 10 claims><. I am here to divulgfe the strategy the gil sellers used to get the claim!

Here goes! When u go into wide scan and scroll down u will see up to 5 snippers then 4 damselfly's then 5 thread leechs. these four damselfly are the place holders (in theory). but what alot of people dont know is that the emp only replace the top one, of the four there. so if all four are there u can kill the top one and not worry about others. the prob is alot of noobs just kill evryone. so u should claim one and hold it until another pops. if it is still on top of the other one continuer to hold it until u have seen all three other fly's pop and u still have the one that was on top in wide scan.

Now once u are sure u have found the top one( wich means if all 4 were there ur claimed one would have been on top) kill it from the secoond it starts to disapear use a 5 min cool down move like scavenge or just time 5 min earth time or i think it is 2 and a half hours in game to the second. the top placeholder will pop in exactly five min so at 4min and 57 sec hit flee! then wide scan until u see it! either your next plceholder will pop or emp but continue this and u will end up being in flee every time the placeholder or emp pops.

now u know what the gil sellers are doing. some times it is such a pain in the *** to try to find that i just spam wide scan. o well time for me to go back out for another round 50THF/10RNG! dont FLAME ME ON THIS IF U CANT SEEM TO GET TIMEING DOWN TRUST ME U ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG THIS IS GUARRENTEED! gl and happy hunting maybe i will finally get my empress pin, i sold emp pin for 1.6mil on ifrit so am happy i bought it for 600k
WOOTNESS
# Sep 19 2005 at 5:16 PM Rating: Default
lol camp valk emp for 2 hours fisrt pop got the pin im 1 and 0
Hatred.
# Sep 18 2005 at 11:19 AM Rating: Decent
I hate this thing. So much. Soooooo much.

I've got camping it down to a science now, so it's rare that I ever miss a claim, but that doesn't help when the drop rates are so terrible it makes me want to cry.

I started camping this thing at level 52 Thief about 9 months ago. After 11 kills, I got the drop. Emperor Hairpin. I was sooo happy. That took about 3 weeks worth of camping off and on. In March (5 months ago) I quit the game. Just got a little tired of it. Along with all my money and good gear, I gave my Emp Pin to a friend.

A month and a half ago, I started playing again. It was good stuff, I was excited. I knew that Lizzy and Emp had rare/ex drops now, so I was content knowing it'd be easy to get my good gear back.

I'm now 0/20 on this ******* fly. So easy to get claims, but TH2 just doesn't like to kick in or work or something.

Edited, Sun Sep 18 16:26:19 2005
RE: Hatred.
# Sep 18 2005 at 3:24 PM Rating: Decent
4:15 later, he spawns. No drop again. I'm starting to think TH2 has the opposite effect...

0/21
RE: Hatred.
# Sep 19 2005 at 2:38 AM Rating: Decent
Popped again at 8:09pm, missed the claim.

12:00, 4:15, 8:09, and I just got him again at 2:05am. No drop. 0/22 now.

So... 4 hours 15 min, 3 hrs 54 min, then almost six hours. I'd say the respawn time is pretty random.

Then again, I didn't get there until around 11:30pm, so I might have missed a spawn inbetween. I'm logging back at 5:00am to check again.
RE: Hatred.
# Sep 20 2005 at 3:10 PM Rating: Decent
Got the claim and drop today. 1/23
I hate this thing, but I don't have to deal with it anymore. On to Odqan!
so how do i do it?
# Sep 17 2005 at 12:25 PM Rating: Decent
i am a lvl31rdm/whm, can i solo it? and do i need to kill anyother mobs for it to appear?

Edited, Sat Sep 17 13:38:59 2005
longer wait is good luck
# Sep 14 2005 at 12:45 AM Rating: Default
i got on and started camping this guy and he spawned about 30mins after that. so i go AFK. and come back an hour later, i am just standing there spamming widescan and finaaly after 4.5 hours of spamming i see him and he happened to be about 10 feet away from me. so i stun and get the drop.
VE
# Sep 13 2005 at 12:54 AM Rating: Decent
Just a note for you campers:

The spawn zone is not as small as the circle on the map up there, I've seen it spawn all the way against the wall on the left side of (E-8).

Just got it today, after camping it for 2.5 and 3.5 hours the days before (with not even a pop either time).

Good luck, happy hunting. ^^
woot
# Sep 12 2005 at 4:33 AM Rating: Decent
Just got this baby today. 1/1... almost feel bad for saying that, but it totaly makes up for all the crappy luck ive had in the past. I would like to thank SE for makeing this r/e, i only had to fight over 2 other campers for it. I think its better being R/E because A: it sticks it to the gilsellers. B: only people actually needing item will hunt it. C: makes burning circle more appealing for means of cash (again sticking it to the gilsellers^^)
christ
# Sep 08 2005 at 12:25 AM Rating: Decent
46 posts
Im 0/4 on this thing just today.
0/12 over all.
4 claims in a row and no pin.
VE
# Sep 06 2005 at 1:07 AM Rating: Decent
I have camped this and the Golden Bat since i got to level 30. Still i have not gotten a good drop from VE. I am currently 0/18 with my Thief. Any thoughts?????
Full Moon rocks
# Sep 04 2005 at 3:29 PM Rating: Decent
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Its late and I decide I would like Empress Hairpin.
Chocobo to Valk : 5-7 mins
Scan Spam: 5 mins
Log for the night

Next day...
Scan Spam 5 mins
Valkurm Emperor!
<Insert wish to have Flee>
Begins to cast Stun

Edgex finds an insect wing on Valkurm Emperor.
Edgex obtains the insect wing.
Edgex finds empress hairpin on Valkurm Emperor.
Edgex obtains the empress hairpin.

I wish to thank the full moon for the drop being BLM/RNG
(Never expected to win this truthfully)
first claim first drop
# Sep 03 2005 at 12:45 PM Rating: Decent
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I started hunting this guy for my NIN and THF... RNG too, so i went as rdm/rng for widescan and rdm is my only job that i can kill it as... i camped it for 5 hours and thinking hes never gonna pop.. i was about to quit when on widescan i saw Valkrum Emporer!!
i ran to the spot and got claim, i was like plz drop plz drop, around 50% or its health i ate my 4leaf mandy bud and i got my hairpin^^
SWEET
# Sep 02 2005 at 1:15 AM Rating: Excellent
i had 11 insect wings while campind VE...he popped and no one was around but a taru and he was synthing items, so i dia II VE claim him..ate him up and FINALLY got my 12 insect wing to make my stack!! that puppy netted me almost 500 gil!!
thank u VE now i can put a down payment on a potion
Still being over camped
# Sep 01 2005 at 1:57 PM Rating: Decent
I just want to know why is VE still being over camped seeing as how his drop is Rare/Ex now.
RE: Still being over camped
# Sep 03 2005 at 3:48 PM Rating: Decent
For 1: A LOT of people still need this.
2: Even high level jobs go back to get this for their lower level jobs.
3: Anyone that has Emporer Hairpin and want s 1 mil back, can go get Empress then sell Emporer.
4: Drop rate is shÏttier than shÎtty, so people have to keep coming back to try again and again.
RE: Still being over camped
# Sep 01 2005 at 3:38 PM Rating: Decent
Probably because people want to sell their VE Hairpin and get the Empress Rare/Ex Version.
I recently tried to camp it too for my nin, and there were like 5-10 people there ><

Edited, Thu Sep 1 16:42:52 2005
RE: Still being over camped
# Sep 09 2005 at 7:30 PM Rating: Decent
wish it was 2hr pop instead of random
Got 'im
# Sep 01 2005 at 4:01 AM Rating: Decent
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Well I w=had just finished PL-ing a group of Linkshell buddies in the dunes, and I decided "Oh, why the hell not, I may as well give it a go".

So I ran over to the spawn location and sat around for about 15 minutes, starting talking to a friend, asking about the spawn rate of the Emperor (I still have no clue), and just as I said "I've only been here about 15 minutes... I hope he doesn't pop, like, every 5 hours or something", he popped. No one was around, but I still snatched him up as fast as I could, summoned Ifrit and killed his sorry butt in one Double Punch.

Now before you all hate me for getting it s easy...

No, didn't get the drop, just a crappy Insect wing. But whatever, it was fun, and I can at least now say I killed the damn thing. Knowing me though I'll probably never try to get him again, I have no patience for those kinds of things...

omg...
# Aug 30 2005 at 8:26 PM Rating: Decent
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Camping this NM for 5 days... I'm finally able to claim it... pop right behind me... I killed it....and it drop a Insect Wing...I can feel him laughing at me telling me "Here a Generic pin.".... This NM is a *******... Everyone is camping him, and there is always someone getting the drop that is not a rdm...Just yesterday a RDM claimed him and no drop, I claim him <54RDM/17THF> and no drop, a RDM/NIN get is after me and no drop...I swear this NM has something agaisnt RDMs....

My Only advice is, keep your eyes open when alot of high lvls start showing up, always keep your claiming spell or Job ability ready to use.
Also when you claim it send him to hell for me please...
RE: omg...
# Aug 30 2005 at 9:41 PM Rating: Excellent
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Here To annoy every person in Fairy...........
http://myspace-595.vo.llnwd.net/00209/59/55/209045595_l.jpg
Futher more...
2/0
Two Insect Wing.... Whoohoo...
I told you VE has something agaisnt... RDMs.... 2-5 Hours waiting for 2 Insect wing for 5 days...yeah this NM is awesome....

By the way if you can see the pic, it's night...So it does pop at nights...

Day 6...high lvl RNG and other people around... 54RDM/15RNG...Spotted him...got some trouble with track since I panic so i had no idea where it was until I press Widescan again... He was near a PT in Whitebone Beach... Poison ...Interrupted.... *thinking to myself well...there it goes...* Poison II... Claimed... Drag him where everyone was so they know... first thing that drops....Insect wing...
Weather was on so alittle lag...
Second thing;
Phoeniz obtaines a Empress hairpin.
3/1 Valkrum Emperor.
4/1 Leaping Lizzy.
No THF.
Both with RDM/RNG.

Edited, Wed Aug 31 23:37:25 2005
Can I kill it?
# Aug 28 2005 at 3:20 PM Rating: Decent
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Could a lvl 30 thf solo this? I would use sleep and bloody bolts.

Nevermind: I tried and killed him with 70hp and poison. No drop though ><

Edited, Tue Aug 30 22:41:35 2005
Answer
# Aug 26 2005 at 2:04 PM Rating: Decent
Yes Valkurm Emperor can spawn at night..I would suggest that you bring 2 friends to help 1 in middle of the trees 1 at the other trees and another in the top left hand corner trees this way if it pops you have all 3 areas covered. Good luck happy Hunting~Aklra~Pandemonium.
I suck
# Aug 24 2005 at 12:38 PM Rating: Decent
I was just camping the emperor about 30 min ago.
It pop right in my face for 4 seconds, and then when I finally release what had happened, it got voked away from me, and slaughtered on the spot...

...moral of the story, never play around in third-person mode, ever!!!
next on to do list
# Aug 24 2005 at 3:37 AM Rating: Decent
I need to start camping this after finishing camping the LL for a couple weeks finially got drop 1/6 wondering if i should wait til i get TH2 first i really dont care if i dont see a pop in 2 hrs lol i went 3hrs not seeing the LL before hahaha i never complained but when you get the item damn it feels good/ at least i can skill up my marksmenship while i camp :P
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