Vana'diel Bestiary: Stroper Chyme
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History of Stroper ChymeStroper Chyme was once one of the most heavily camped monsters in the game, back when it used to drop Archer's ring, an item used to make Sniper's ring. However, in July 2005 -- in an effort to thwart the profits of RMT -- SE changed Stroper Chyme so that the monster no longer dropped the Archer's ring. Information on that update, which affected other notorious monsters and items, can be viewed at July 19, 2005 Update Notes. Stroper now drops the Shikaree ring, ex duplicate of the Archer's ring that cannot be used in recipes. Stroper can also be found at G-9 and H-10. This page last modified 2009-08-29 14:48:56. | ||||||||||||||||
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>:D using my tactic I just stole the stroper from the bot 5 times in a row with my friend. My method works very well! This is a good way to make money!
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Hello this is Renz and I will tell you the secret to
beating the bots on Stropher.
1)First keep in mind that bots are good in small rooms so try to go into the left biggest room in ordelles. There are usually a few bots in there ,but
they can be beaten by two or one person.
2)if two people have one /following it and one leading it. Always bring a quick skill using sub like war, bst or drg. and the momment you see the chyme
blast voke on him or if you;re the person following it move out of /follow in a quicker route bots tend to move in a pattern like going around the pillars in the room.
3) If you're one person make sure you either have a high lvl warrior or ranger or if not then you might be intrested in thf/rng or thf/war ,but if you do have a high level rng or warrior just use those. Thief is good 15+ or better 45+ for TH!
Me and an Rdm hunted this thing against 1 bot and we still had trouble keeping this bot from it.
we got it twice before the bot got it once ,but if you do this right you should get it everytime no problem.
,but remember the best anti-bot move is calling and notifying a GM ;D.
I am currently 1/16 on him only one archer ring
; ;
beating the bots on Stropher.
1)First keep in mind that bots are good in small rooms so try to go into the left biggest room in ordelles. There are usually a few bots in there ,but
they can be beaten by two or one person.
2)if two people have one /following it and one leading it. Always bring a quick skill using sub like war, bst or drg. and the momment you see the chyme
blast voke on him or if you;re the person following it move out of /follow in a quicker route bots tend to move in a pattern like going around the pillars in the room.
3) If you're one person make sure you either have a high lvl warrior or ranger or if not then you might be intrested in thf/rng or thf/war ,but if you do have a high level rng or warrior just use those. Thief is good 15+ or better 45+ for TH!
Me and an Rdm hunted this thing against 1 bot and we still had trouble keeping this bot from it.
we got it twice before the bot got it once ,but if you do this right you should get it everytime no problem.
,but remember the best anti-bot move is calling and notifying a GM ;D.
I am currently 1/16 on him only one archer ring
; ;
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Fought this bugger and on the first one I got a drop. :P This is 15 mins after I get a drop on VE. 45 minutes later me and my partner got another archers ring. 2/11 Stroper Chyme, 1/1 VE, 1/2 Lizzy, 0/6 Hoo, BUT HE SHALL FALL
Scholar
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Well since the patch, ol' Stroper's popping up in places he's never been in before. He's not just stuck in the stairway, and the square room, now he's poping up in the hallway, and downstairs in various areas. I personaly think it's a great patch. Got rid of those damn Gil selling Bots in a hurry. Happy camping guys.
By the way, 1-46
Edited, Thu Dec 23 10:57:15 2004
By the way, 1-46
Edited, Thu Dec 23 10:57:15 2004
the patch didn't fix anything, SE made 2 more chymes pops and made the area wider thats all. what dose this mean for the gil farmers? more f*cking rings. did SE fix anything? NO. the gil farmers just added more people in the area but are now taking in 2 time the money from them. as for the players... don't go with out 2 or more people they will camp the areas you are in and go light in other areas forcing the player out of the area.
SE DID NOT FIX ANYTHING THEY ARE JUST SUPPORTING THE GIL FARMERS WITH THIS PATCH!!!
SE DID NOT FIX ANYTHING THEY ARE JUST SUPPORTING THE GIL FARMERS WITH THIS PATCH!!!
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ok... first off.. they are trying.. so stop yelling at SE, second off.. you can get the mob from gil sellers... I do it all the time
22 posts
I plan on hunting him today ^^ wish me luckkk!
I hope I find that ring!
3 days later....
Okay I got the ring in my first try!
I am like 1/3 right now I hope those BST bots go
away they're REALLY good at taking the mob. I can't
get the mob ,because of bot's auto-time and X ,Y cordinates which allow bots to sense the monster from a long time away. Put it like this; They find the monster about as fast as a computer calculater can calculate a 1 step math problem. Do not think I bot for knowing this.
Edited, Sun Dec 26 15:43:34 2004
I hope I find that ring!
3 days later....
Okay I got the ring in my first try!
I am like 1/3 right now I hope those BST bots go
away they're REALLY good at taking the mob. I can't
get the mob ,because of bot's auto-time and X ,Y cordinates which allow bots to sense the monster from a long time away. Put it like this; They find the monster about as fast as a computer calculater can calculate a 1 step math problem. Do not think I bot for knowing this.
Edited, Sun Dec 26 15:43:34 2004
any1 no the pop rate for him?
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people tend to say 12 or 11-13 minutes but i find that time to be too general to help.
To time the spawn for this take the exact game time of death in an area and add 5 game hours to it + a 10 game minute time frame.
For example if the stroper chyme was killed at 5:43(game time) at a spawn area, it would spawn in that area again between 10:43 and 10:53(game time) if you do this right you should know exactly when it will spawn each time and not waste as much time running around waiting for it.
I hope some of you find this useful
To time the spawn for this take the exact game time of death in an area and add 5 game hours to it + a 10 game minute time frame.
For example if the stroper chyme was killed at 5:43(game time) at a spawn area, it would spawn in that area again between 10:43 and 10:53(game time) if you do this right you should know exactly when it will spawn each time and not waste as much time running around waiting for it.
I hope some of you find this useful
the time is 12 mins when you got 11-13 mins that was because the timer goes from when it is killed not when it pops that might be the reeason why
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11-13 mins actually me and my brother time him.
We want more rings ;D
We want more rings ;D
12 minutes since he's not an NM.
any1 no the pop rate for him?
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Funny story^^ I was hunting these things with a RDM55 Friend of mine, (I was THF40/BST20 at the time) anyway I running around one of the new pops spots, claiming like crazy (Flee->Charm ;_; so wonderful) and I see another one^^ I fire up flee and get withing range, a RDM had begun casting dia -_- but then I spam my Charm macro and... his name turnd blue instead of red...I charmed it...the thing is, Guage said "Suteki will have a very difficult time charming the Stroper Chyme" so having been given a 1/50~ chance of a charm...I just happen to do it. *sigh* anyway I get pissed, so does everyone else, and I start running around killing random mobs. it came uncharmed and I nuked its ***, no drop naturally still kind of funny though^^
You actually can get a drop off a mob you charm... you just can't get xp. Even if you don't let it's health go back to 100%. You can farm really well like that. Charm one mob, send it after another, before your charmed mob dies, release it, and kill it, you will get the item drops
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Well I have been camping Stroper chyme for the past two days. I am not about 2/50 or so, first day i went for a while then left once friends got bored. Then some other friends decided to camp it so i came along.. THFs are so awesome first kill we got it, sold for 520k(173k for each person).
Second time was today.. funny story actually. I was campin it for a while with WAR and a THF friend came and i was low on health from killin quite a few so i am resting and Stroper pops right by me so i stand up and voke it. I claim and wait for THF to get there and begin to kill it with 300-400 health takes me down to 100 and THF gets there and SATA's it i try to Super jump it(I am a 54DRG) to get rid of hate.. but not before it drains me of my last HP and i die and dlvl and i am now 53 DRG. But then THF kills it and we get drop... cant decide whether to be happy or sad. lol
Second time was today.. funny story actually. I was campin it for a while with WAR and a THF friend came and i was low on health from killin quite a few so i am resting and Stroper pops right by me so i stand up and voke it. I claim and wait for THF to get there and begin to kill it with 300-400 health takes me down to 100 and THF gets there and SATA's it i try to Super jump it(I am a 54DRG) to get rid of hate.. but not before it drains me of my last HP and i die and dlvl and i am now 53 DRG. But then THF kills it and we get drop... cant decide whether to be happy or sad. lol
I'm not so sure the 12 minute respawn is in place for the hallway spawns, they seem to pop anywhere from a 30 second interval to nearly 15 minutes.
I can say I've seen 2 Stroper Chymes at the same time, it's very interesting. O.o;
I can say I've seen 2 Stroper Chymes at the same time, it's very interesting. O.o;
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They don't really spawn at 30 second intervals i think that what you saw was another camper bringing the chyme from another spot and killing it there to make others think that that spot's had already been killed. Also, in one of the hallways, there is one spawn point off the ledge of the steps that is a lottery between the beetles so someone could have dragged it up on the ledge and thus your 30 second interval/ 2 at once
This NM is especially easy to camp, mainly right after I get home from college. (there is NO competition) . . . I was out of MP and was healing for ~5 minutes to take this Chyme and it didn't get claimed ><. Drop rate is [very] rare . . . but then again I didn't have TH. I suppose it'll be al ot better with TH/TH2 which is why I'm bringing a friend with me once this maitenence is over ^.^! I was about 0/5 on this when I had to go, but I got an ordelle's chest key and opened the treasure chest and got 2760! At least I came out of this ordeal with some money, as small as it may seem.
Edited, Tue Dec 14 17:42:35 2004
Edited, Tue Dec 14 17:42:35 2004
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Hes not a NM...
31 posts
this guy is so easy to camp now that the gil sellers are gone, i got drop on my first kill when i was here alone. i was in a pt the day before that and we were like 0/30. my friend wanted me to help him get one that same day i got mine so i accepted and after about 2 hrs we got another drop. this goes for about 530k on Cerberus so i made about 750k in one day, not bad :)
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Ok.. Anyone on Caitsith Would know the Hero's.. They are the Gil sellers who are on almost 24/7 and are camping Stroper Chyme... There are 5 Hero Characters... every time i type.. /sea all hero.. They are Rank 2. This is screwed.. We also have a Problem with the "Ghy's".. in beadeax.. They Camp Ooze.. and then the Qiang's.. Crawler's Nest 24/7 Camping of The Guardian Crawler.. This Server is almost impossible.. SE doesnt do one thing about it.. cept changing the Spawn of Mee Deegi.
Scholar
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gotten 3 rings in the last 3 days
im around.. 3/80 at the present time :p lol
im around.. 3/80 at the present time :p lol
me and a couple ls buddies got tired of emperor so we went for this pain. Well me being only lvl 35 i needed protection to get to pop point but after that it was on. We got 3 in a row on him just wasted him but sadly no drop. The cool thing was there was a camper there that actually helped by curing and raising after i got wasted a surprise to this when you hear all the bad stories about campers.
Checking monsters is just a joke...
tried one wih drg/whm lvl42, check saied easy prey, it works well till the moment where it uses some water attack what hits me for 300...
it had 5-10% hp left... just ugly that my was down to 0% :>
Next try with lvl48 i think...
tried one wih drg/whm lvl42, check saied easy prey, it works well till the moment where it uses some water attack what hits me for 300...
it had 5-10% hp left... just ugly that my was down to 0% :>
Next try with lvl48 i think...
To the best of my knowledge, there are now at the least 4 spawn points for this stingy fool. He can spawn at more than one point at any one time making it impossible to get him every time. Find the points for yourself though... 1/39 on him to date, got the ring on the 5th try. Happy Hunting.
btw, the ring sells for 600k + on Laskshmi.
Edit: Spelling... :S
Edited, Sat Dec 11 01:39:28 2004
btw, the ring sells for 600k + on Laskshmi.
Edit: Spelling... :S
Edited, Sat Dec 11 01:39:28 2004
Competition? What competition? Myself and a LS comrade, Fokai (RDM47/BLM) went out to hunt the Ordelle Chest (Elvaan Male RSE time, hurray). As soon as we drop down the hole to the Stroper area, I land on top of an unclaimed Stroper Chyme. We stand there, staring at it for about 40 seconds then decide to attack. DRK50/THF15 + RDM47/BLM had no problem doing it in. No drop, we weren't expecting anything, mind you. Then the chest pops right behind us, yay.
Yesterday, I go back to Ordelles to get two more keys (one for myself and one for another LS friend - Rheanna RDM50/BLM). Drop down the hole, yet another Stroper there, claimed it, destroyed it. Went up the stairs, fought some beetles, fought another Chyme w/ no drop. We're thinking "Damn! This is easy." Key drops once from a beetle, then another Chyme pops, right in front of a camper (probably head busily buried in Wide Scan), claimed that one too...
This was a commical battle. About 5 campers ran over to watch us die (not gonna happen). We take our sweet time in killing it to give the hard working campers a fun show. It uses Fluid Spill and gets ALL the campers watching. XD It was worth it. After the battle, we pretend we got the drop (which we didn't, again). I remember saying "Damn these Stroper Chymes! I just want my key!". We burst out laughing (in /party).
It's not like Ordelles was empty, there were about 10 campers in the area. Another key drops, we're happy and decide to leave.
We get to the bottom of the stairs and there's another freaking Stroper Chyme. I casually walk over and engage it. Rheanna and I do a <tp> check. Both at 100%+. She goes Shining Blade, I go Spinning Scythe = Reverberation, she casts Water II, I cast Water II, both MB no resist, it dies. Total slime irradication.
I was 11/12 Beetle Jaws so we go hunt the last one for me. As we engage a Dung Beetle, a Chyme appears on the ledge. We finish the Beetle and I proceed to cast Water II. I know, it's a slow casting spell but I wanted to make the approaching campers sweat. They do something to claim it just before I finish casting. Ah, good fun!
I haven't had that much fun in a long time. Thanks to Rheanna for being great company, hehe.
Yesterday, I go back to Ordelles to get two more keys (one for myself and one for another LS friend - Rheanna RDM50/BLM). Drop down the hole, yet another Stroper there, claimed it, destroyed it. Went up the stairs, fought some beetles, fought another Chyme w/ no drop. We're thinking "Damn! This is easy." Key drops once from a beetle, then another Chyme pops, right in front of a camper (probably head busily buried in Wide Scan), claimed that one too...
This was a commical battle. About 5 campers ran over to watch us die (not gonna happen). We take our sweet time in killing it to give the hard working campers a fun show. It uses Fluid Spill and gets ALL the campers watching. XD It was worth it. After the battle, we pretend we got the drop (which we didn't, again). I remember saying "Damn these Stroper Chymes! I just want my key!". We burst out laughing (in /party).
It's not like Ordelles was empty, there were about 10 campers in the area. Another key drops, we're happy and decide to leave.
We get to the bottom of the stairs and there's another freaking Stroper Chyme. I casually walk over and engage it. Rheanna and I do a <tp> check. Both at 100%+. She goes Shining Blade, I go Spinning Scythe = Reverberation, she casts Water II, I cast Water II, both MB no resist, it dies. Total slime irradication.
I was 11/12 Beetle Jaws so we go hunt the last one for me. As we engage a Dung Beetle, a Chyme appears on the ledge. We finish the Beetle and I proceed to cast Water II. I know, it's a slow casting spell but I wanted to make the approaching campers sweat. They do something to claim it just before I finish casting. Ah, good fun!
I haven't had that much fun in a long time. Thanks to Rheanna for being great company, hehe.
Don't know who said this was impossible without Widescan. A buddy and I killed it 14 times with no competition last night... no drop at all though, found a new spawn point and the regular hunters were no where in sight. It spawned every 12 minutes in a small, easy to run around area. It would have been nice to see a drop though :(
I said it and I was wrong. ;) It's still great to camp, I just got pessimistic without any proof to back it up.
I was hunting Marlbroger after the patch, after he popped and I missed him decided to hunt stroper chyme some.
He has aproximatly 4 spawn points now and more than 1 at a time can pop. To say the least the regular group of sellers there were hating life.
And I got the drop on my 3rd kill of him. Did not get another drop for the rest of the night, don't know if it was just bad luck or part of the new patch.
After I sell the ring I'll hunt him again to test my theory.
He has aproximatly 4 spawn points now and more than 1 at a time can pop. To say the least the regular group of sellers there were hating life.
And I got the drop on my 3rd kill of him. Did not get another drop for the rest of the night, don't know if it was just bad luck or part of the new patch.
After I sell the ring I'll hunt him again to test my theory.
Hey Darth, I'll give ya a hand hunting chyme or Morbolger. Just give me or Stylon a shout. Maybe we can finally get a drop.
EDIT: Got first drop 10 mins after posting original message.
Edited, Mon Dec 13 15:02:46 2004
EDIT: Got first drop 10 mins after posting original message.
Edited, Mon Dec 13 15:02:46 2004
Scholar
43 posts
From what I've seen there is a new spawn, I got excited after the patch and noone was on so I figured I might have a better chance at this (but I have no patience)
A WHM found one to spawn repeatedly under the hole you drop into to get to the chyme spawns, it spawned 4 times for him while I was there and I ran in on him fighting it. I left it to him, cause I think if you're lucky to find a new spawn like that and nice enough to inform others about it... you should get a shot at getting the item.
I didn't care so much anyway, I'm busy earning my sniper rings through my crafts.
A WHM found one to spawn repeatedly under the hole you drop into to get to the chyme spawns, it spawned 4 times for him while I was there and I ran in on him fighting it. I left it to him, cause I think if you're lucky to find a new spawn like that and nice enough to inform others about it... you should get a shot at getting the item.
I didn't care so much anyway, I'm busy earning my sniper rings through my crafts.
Only one is popping now, and it will pop anywhere from the small room to the stairs, and in between. You can no longer hunt this NM without a ranger sub. Thanks a lot, SE. It used to be very nice to have some kind of mob you could hunt without needing widescan.
Scholar
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This is excellent. The gilsellers can't really bot any more because of the amount of mobs in between the rooms, and and also they will have to run very far.
Any word on 1. Spawn Time or 2. Drop Rate?
Increasing the drop rate would be an excellent way to do it, because with more actual players getting the pop from the new spawn pattern, more actual players would get the ring, causing undercutting, causing the prices to go down to a normal amount.
Please say that Squeenix didn't just make it harder for anyone to get it, making the price high no matter if there are gil sellers or not >_<
Any word on 1. Spawn Time or 2. Drop Rate?
Increasing the drop rate would be an excellent way to do it, because with more actual players getting the pop from the new spawn pattern, more actual players would get the ring, causing undercutting, causing the prices to go down to a normal amount.
Please say that Squeenix didn't just make it harder for anyone to get it, making the price high no matter if there are gil sellers or not >_<
Spawn time is the same, as far as I can tell, but it was a bit harder to track it when it was popping all over the place. It's still every 12 minutes. As for the drop rate, absolutely no idea - nobody in the hour or so I was there got the drop, or admitted to it.
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Just 1 will spawn sadly :-/
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