I fight theese as BST now and they are pretty nice to exp on since they use Hypothermal Combustion often and pet takes the damage.
They act just like Bombs but is ice based so the Hypothermal Combustion is ice not fire.
The amount of damage form Self-Destruct or Hypothermal Combustion is based on how much HP they have when they use it, if they have 3k HP when explodes they deal 3k damage so if you fight them be sure you can take the hit.
As a smn i love these as well, i'll chain snolls(and bombs for that matter) for 300xp. These aren't the greatest mobs for regular parties, but anyjob with a pet that can keep attacking after you've moved well out of the blast range, can solo these delicious suicidal fiends.
Was gettin vahzl crystal with some others but the 30WAR wanted to go check out Ulegrand. We had some trouble on the undead gettin there, but the Demons weren't hard. We got there and went in. He "accidentlly" ran to close to a tiger...THF had barely any HP after fight WHM started to cast cure 3 - 1 of these comes out of nowhere and starts attacking WHM....We ended up all dieing it finished the WAR and I (BLM) with Hydrothermal Combustion.
I duno why people dont like these guys, i guess its cuz im a BST and bombs are my favorite treat. Honestly the damn tigers in U(tab) Range are a bigger concern. Death to tigers : 6 Death to bombs : 0. And if youre impressed by the 1k damage of lower down's post, ive had them go off for the 2000's. Never get confident because you survived some Booms, Remember its affected by how much HP they have. So if they do it soon, you're toast.
Apparently the length of the fight also determines EXP. I soloed 4 Even Match Snolls and got 110 Exp 100 Exp 60 Exp and then 100 again.. The 60 one blew up really fast.. BRD60/WHM30
Oh yeah and with Stoneskin + Barblizzara took 818 DMG on the last one i fought from Hypothermal Combustion.. Also Snolls are weak to Ice and Bombs are weak to Fire...
I just tried farming some Snoll in Pso'Xja (Uncapped) they check as Easy Prey to me as a 66 RDM / 33 BLM. I use Barblizzard + Phalanx + Stoneskin + Enfire along with other the other buffs. Thought I was doing good because all the other Hypothermal Combustions were doing 0-200ish dmg based on if Stoneskin breaks or drops when they do it. That's exactly what happened it started Hypothermal Combustion and Stoneskin dropped though I still had every other buff including Barblizzard and Phalanx and it killed me with 963 damage. I only farm them because I need to make snoll gelato's for my cooking guild item from time-to-time and I never see any arm's or snoll gelato's on AH.
me and a 74 pld friend(flanco) were fighting these and it was a pretty easy figth i nuked it etc then all of a sudden it exploded for 1132 killing him instantly.. these little ******* are dangerous they aggro liek no other when hunting buffalo so be careful
Dont take these little dudes lightly... The ones in Uleguerand Range can explode and kill a lvl 72 elvaan thf with 1172 HP and killed a lvl 75 RDM with 750+ hp... in ONE SHOT. They con EP to 75 but can still kill you with one explosion if you dont have magic protection on. I dont know if it's barice or barfire yet...
No Snoll Tzar is a BCNM monster I believe in Bearclaw Pinnacle. It is part of a CoP mission, I haven't gotten to him yet, but I plan to, apparantly you have to do 9k damage to him in 45 seconds, much like the regular bomb BCNM. The only difference is in the bomb BCNM the bomb explodes only, the Snoll Tzar also attacks. I believe it is either a lvl 50 or 60 capped BCNM. I plan to bring RDM, RDM, RDM, RNG, RNG, PLD. Should pwn it easily.
They are very much like bombs but they have a couple of new special moves as well as the usual Beserk and Self-Destruct (called Hydrothermal Combustion for Snolls);
Freeze Rush - just a physical attack I think, hits for about 2x normal damage
Cold Wave - Yikes! AOE attack that inflicts a status called "Frost", you lose about 15HP per tick and it lasts for a long time (800+ HP total damage the couple of times I've been hit by it).