camped him for 2 days(game time). 2 other people were there. got him on the 2nd spawn on the first day, didnt drop. got him on the 2nd spawn on the 2nd day, got the drop. begginers luck i guess. of course, before i was in the tomb i was in giddeus camping juu duzu. waited 2 hours for him to spawn, got the hunters longbow on the first fight. :)
I dont see what the hell is wrong with extra money. if a newb wants to hunt the thing. let him hunt it. theres no law against having more money than you need for your equipment/spells XP
i agree, i have found recently that the bigger problem is noobs telling higher lvl ppl (45+), that they should leave, because thay can hunt better things. >< so, i like what leon says, "there is no law against having more money than u need," even though the ppl that i see camping there ( me and others that i know) , need money just as much as every other player in vana'diel
I am about 25/30 on this now and iam realing the money in but i dont need any more so iam selling them cheep on lakshmi server for between 15-20k each reply to this message if you wish to purchase 1 its a 1 per person thing so hurry to get yours today! stock remaning=15
ok, for starters, any1 on lakshmi, i need a new buddy, Crapsicle is leaving the game in like a week or so, next, Charm = fastest way to pull it, next fastest = chi blast. and i c craps point, wtf does a n00b need 40k for, his armor, without nm drops = 130k, mine isnt much because my main is lvl 40, but i have gotten Spook tons of times, and with the help of crapsicle, i have gotten enuf mantles for monster signa + feild gear ^^
DON'T CAMP SPOOK AS A SOURCE OF INCOME BAD DROP RATE WITHOUT TH2, i know i tried without it, out of a good 70 spooks ill get 1 mantle
Sopie, dont make me laugh! I cant belive you'd try something like that then threaten to call GM on me when I out voke you every time. Crapsicle and you arnt the best. Tyre owned you both, now I own you both after learning from him. Simple as that. You want to complain about n00bs camping spook? Maybe beat the n00bs to it in the first place and dont worry who's there!
I'm camping a couple mantles because I owe my friend some cash (66k) and I need 30k for beetle earings +1 and spike neckless in one level.
I walked to the tomb earlier today and going twoards the acctual tomb I see a spook just sitting very far away from it, so I fight it and get an ice crystal.
I figure if a spook made it over here, then I should be camping it all alone, so I go to the tomb, no one is there, the next spawn comes up, I don't even have to voke, I kill it and get the drop, it was great.
I still need about 4 more just to have some extra gil, and I'm going to be farming even more because of Ochiudos Kote, and we all know how long that takes.
And by the way, a guy in my linkshell, his name is Pent, he owns the linkshell called ThePentHouse(how ironic) is 37 Theif and he is 0/15 and I'm Monk 20 and I'm 1/2 so just keep on trying.
I'm camping a couple mantles because I owe my friend some cash (66k) and I need 30k for beetle earings +1 and spike neckless in one level.
I walked to the tomb earlier today and going twoards the acctual tomb I see a spook just sitting very far away from it, so I fight it and get an ice crystal.
I figure if a spook made it over here, then I should be camping it all alone, so I go to the tomb, no one is there, the next spawn comes up, I don't even have to voke, I kill it and get the drop, it was great.
I still need about 4 more just to have some extra gil, and I'm going to be farming even more because of Ochiudos Kote, and we all know how long that takes.
And by the way, a guy in my linkshell, his name is Pent, he owns the linkshell called ThePentHouse(how ironic) is 37 Theif and he is 0/15 and I'm Monk 20 and I'm 1/2 so just keep on trying.
I'm camping a couple mantles because I owe my friend some cash (66k) and I need 30k for beetle earings +1 and spike neckless in one level.
I walked to the tomb earlier today and going twoards the acctual tomb I see a spook just sitting very far away from it, so I fight it and get an ice crystal.
I figure if a spook made it over here, then I should be camping it all alone, so I go to the tomb, no one is there, the next spawn comes up, I don't even have to voke, I kill it and get the drop, it was great.
I still need about 4 more just to have some extra gil, and I'm going to be farming even more because of Ochiudos Kote, and we all know how long that takes.
And by the way, a guy in my linkshell, his name is Pent, he owns the linkshell called ThePentHouse(how ironic) is 37 Theif and he is 0/15 and I'm Monk 20 and I'm 1/2 so just keep on trying.
ok, for starters, wtf does a lvl 20 war need to camp spook for? your armor is maybe 8k for the set, as a lvl 45 thf, my armor = 10k a peice, not including my emp hairpin and winged boots +1, well... thats back up when i need gil ill ssell those.
Provoke is NOT the fastest, i will not reveille what is, but i use it all the time, in 1 day on spook i can go 30/120. Remember this, and wtf do u n00bs hunt this thing for, U DONT NEED THE GIL.
name- Crapsicle Server- Lakshmi Link Shell- MUSTkillbill
Spook- 76/431 Crypt Ghost- 0/17 Goblin Gruel- 0/8 Leepin Lizzy- 4/6 Emporer- 0/2 and many others, mostly good ratios
I'm the master of getting him when there's alot of people around... but i'll tell the UBER secret (i hope no one on my server is reading this!)
1) learn the times when he spawns 2) start talking before he spawns, for example, Hey guys ever get the drop? or like you all suck, then prolly will respond, HEY YOU N00b IM LEVEL 15 IM NOT A N00b! your levle 54 OMG YOU N00b. most likley his ******** will keep going 80% i /blist them 3) get in front of the people, that way when he spawns the person behind you has to target you first. unless he knows about the F8 thing 4) (extra) if your a DRG, call your dragon, and walk around it, cause when you do F8 it's considered a NPC 5) use this melees with WAR sub: Provoke... WHM: holy DRK, BLM: Stun RDM: anything fast ;P
Have fun, and your reading this and your in Valefor. umm it won't work cause, umm, only sexy BLM tarus, that is named Trogdar will work, SO BACK OFF
Sorry, but that post... COMPLETELY FALSE INFO. On Lakshmi, every1 knows that out of the 30 people that camp it, 2 strive... Crapsicle (me) and Sopie. We now work to gether, i can tell u right now that Provoke is not the fastest way to pull.
Crap..get a grip. You two teaming up still hasnt beat me to it. I think outa the 3 or 4 nights I went head to head with both of you...you maybe got one spook out 8 or 9, which is bound to happen. So no, everyone DOSNT know you strive (which makes no sense considering everyone 'strives' but only one per spawn succeeds...) all they know is you and Sopie got the biggest mouths on Lakshmi other than Hisisy and his/her/its gang of tele-spam buddies.
I don't know who the heck Crapsickle and Sophie are but I do know who Hisisy is! I am about sick of Hisisy and her group in jueno spamming tele adds every 2 seconds, I suggest everyone blist them so that they get a clue. I am currently a level 48 whm and I rarely advertise, usually only when multiple people are asking for teles and no other whm is in the area.
omg there were so many campers camping for the spook there was this japanese guy he got everyone. Which really pissed off everybody. We all knew he had a bot which was kind of retarded.
This has to be one of the luckiest things ever. My friend and I plan to go hunting NMs, we try Stroper Chyme a few times, nothing, so we head on over to King Ranperre's Tomb for Spook, Goblins Gruel, and Crpyt Ghost (not NMs I know). Anyways, there were 3 of us at the time, one left, leaving 2 of us. We're there for about 4 hours, Goblins Gruel doesn't spawn, it has to be the most stubborn spawn ever. Finally, after 4 hours, it spawns, I kill it easy. It drops nothing, and I was about to log, when I decided to help my friend out with spook for one last round before we log. We get up there, wait until 20:00. One spook pops, we get it. It drops a Travelers Mantle. Needless to say we were pretty happy. We stay for the next Spook. We get it as well, and another Mantle drops. That has to be one of the luckiest things that has ever happened to me, or my friend. What do you say guys, lucky ain't it?
im a lvl 20THF/10WAR 2 highest lvls...i decided to camp the spook so i showed up....too my surprise there were about 10 ppl camping this thing....i never did get to provoke it...tried 2 nights everyone took it before me...i decided to camp it in the morning when i woke up...5:30am logged in and there it was (it was 22:00) no one else was around i attacked WOOHOO dropped it first time i ever fought it...decided to stay till next spawn to see if i get it again...fought... this time no drop...oh well...i was happy....GL camping =) so im 1/2 Domascus.....pandemonium server
i killed spook at lvl 9 whm lol ^^ and got the mantle....
I was passing by (cos of mission 1-2) and some guy was fighting it. I didn't had the time to cure him and the guy died and respawned.. Spook was here wandering alone with less than the third of his hp... i was hesitating cos at my lvl he would be hell.
Then i dia him and cured him alot.. almost died but he died before me ^^and dropped his mantle...
I send it to my other character and sold it at the AH.. but now with my current character (got lvl 40 whm) i'm now playing sam.. and i need those boots T-T
i guess i should have kept them ^^; anyway i was lucky and happy during that time ^
i saw a few of this together once when i started the PLD quest early tryin to get tree root but i had bad experincs with this in valkrum so i stayed away though i could of whooped them
on darksday sometime it will spawn in less than 4 hrs(game time) and has been known to do that rarely even when its not darksday...I usually ready up half an hour before(game time again).
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Posted:Aug 03 2004 at 2:57 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) WHEN U ALL SAW "camped him last night" and when u all gave those time on when it spawns did u mean real life night time or ff xi night time???plz answer this hurry^^
Not exactly. It will spawn once within half a game hour of 20:00. It will spawn again between 3 hours 50 minutes and 4 hours 20 minutes after the last time it was killed. After 4:00 it will not spawn. Therefore it is possible that it will spawn 20:01, 23:55, and 3:57, which it did. Also undead do not dissappear at 4:00 if you've engaged them, so once you engage it for the last time it will stay even if it takes you a little while to kill it. I camped this thing for 20:00 real life hours and got it many times by recognizing the above pattern.
Man, I've been camping this guy off and on for over a month. Went the first time with some dudes I know, and wouldn't you know that when I logged off for dinner, they both got mantles. I've been trying again ever since with no luck - someone else always got the spawn. I went back yesterday, though, determined as hell to hit both spook and the Crypt Ghost (killed CG four times, nothing but cloth).
And yesterday, I was vindicated! I went 2/5; kept one for my ranger and sold the other in Sandy. It went for 34k in less than an hour. I wish some of those others had panned out with drops, but that's okay. It was enough to beat all the other campers so many times since I'd missed SO OFTEN before. Hell, I was feeling so good yesterday that I ignored one spawn almost completely because I was too busy talking to my partner who was watching CG. ^^ The dragoon who was also camping killed spook, got no drop, and then asked me: what the hell? He was right in front of you. I've seen you grab him, you could have gotten him.
Oh well. I guess I got a little overconfidant. ^^ But since he didn't drop, guess I didn't miss anything. Anyway, 2/5 in one day is still a pretty good drop rate for just TH1 for those who were curious about drop rate, and I never got a "target already claimed" message when I grabbed him that I noticed, but I was spamming my macro so much that I probably wouldn't have seen it if I had.
So i was down to 20,000 gil and my sam just hit 30 so i need to go but centurions mail. I was able to sell all my old chainmail, an old great katana, and some odd stacks of items (silk thread, fire crystals, bat wings, etc.) in order to get the money to get my mail but i was left with only about 2,000 left. So i says to myself "Let's camp spook.". So i switched to 23 thf/war and headed out. On my server (Asura) there is always one person, the same person hunting spook. They have been there for months, i know this because my friend had camped spook alot before and went 6/46. So i figure i might not do very well and i just setup a /targetnpc /ja Provoke <t> macro to get him. Well with enough spamming of the macro i was able to get about 70% of the spooks that day going 5/13! Now i just need them to sell... Someone on Asura mind buying all the travler's mantles in AH?
Oh and i never got 3 spawns a night cuz i was way to slow at killing them.
Ok. I'm here to point out some things again. I probably should be considered an expert at this mob I've camped it so much.
So, here it goes again: I have camped this NM as both a 30WAR/15THF and a 45DRG/22WAR. At first, I thought I needed to have THF for TH, but this only effects RARE drop rates and the mantle is NOT a rare item. But I still found myself going 6/27. After the 6th drop, I came to a dry-spell. I then went 1/36 over a period of 3 real-life days. Getting annoyed, I went to town and switched to my 45DRG/22WAR to try an experiment to see if THF and job lvl really do effect the drop rate, cuz I also heard that the higher your lvl, the less it drops. So, I go back and I go 2/13. Damn, why didn't switch sooner. This combo is even better, cuz when my voke accidentally catches a bone or w/e, I got Jump for backup and I kill it quicker making it able to mostly spawn three times a night ^_^. So, I'm still camping it until I have a nice cushion of gil and I'll keep you guys posted.
i would have to say that you are wrong about treasure hunter. TH affects the drops of all items, not just rare ones. this is why ppl sub thf when farming and hunting. maybe you just had bad luck with thf, and good luck without, but TH most certainly affects the droping of mantles.