Vana'diel Bestiary: Battering Ram  

I farmed these things with great results for about three days not long ago. Being a newly-ordained RNG, I desperately needed money, and this seemed like a good idea. Let me tell you, my THF31/RNG14 (at the time) was absolutely perfect for farming these. Here are my observations:

- They spawn continuously. I think they spawn on a timer, possibly one every five minutes or so (if one isn't already around). I have frequently killed Rams and moved about a little bit only to find another one very, very soon. Ram spawning has nothing to do with the weather.
- After Lumbering Lambert spawns, there is definitely a delay before Battering Rams spawn again. It's probably about 10-15 minutes. This and the 5 minute spawn time are both estimates; I didn't sit there keeping time exactly. ;-)
- An earlier post already described the spawn area pretty well, but I'll just add my own thoughts on it. The spawn area is centered along the main road. It starts approximately where the road goes through two stair-shaped angles, and continues until just past the break in the mountains where you can go from the road to the lake. The area stretches at all points from the road all the way to the nearest mountains or canyon. Rams *only spawn on the same altitude land as the road*. They will not spawn in a canyon, although they can be trained into one.

As you can see, it's a pretty wide spawn area, and therefore difficult to camp efficiently at low levels, but of course with RNG it's easy. My personal recommendation is THF/RNG. THF must be at least Lv25, so that you have Flee and Treasure Hunter, and RNG gives you Wide Scan. Just patrol the road from the stair-shaped angles to the stone-walled area where Orcs always spawn. Make sure to stray a bit north and south of the road at points while spamming Wide Scan, so that you get a continuous scan of the entire spawn area. When you find it, use Flee and get to it immediately. If it's not taken, congrats, you can easily solo it. Treasure Hunter = drops galore...I have had several Rams give me *7* drops. This adds up to tons of Ram Horns, which, on Seraph, often go for about 1.5K in Windurst. And they sell *fast*.

It's not for no reason I now have nearly 50K in gil despite being an RNG and having to spend obscene amounts of money on arrows. :-D

I have been watching this big fella spawn for some time now and decided when he conned as a decent I would give it a try and beat him! I used my 2hr and had full tp. I had him down to under 100 and he paralyzed me, didn't hear about that one before. Anyway, he got me down to under 150 when the status wore off and I finished the job. He dropped 3 ram skins and I got 50 XP.

First time I fought it.One on One man vs.beast
IIt was chasing a lvl 25 thf so I got off my
chocobo & killed it. I got 50 exp and it dropped no items.




war 25/ thf 10

Edited, Sat May 1 11:04:02 2004

I ran into one in la theine as a 33 whm / 15 pld. I was a little skeptical to jump off my chocobo and take it on, but i wanted to try.

And i beat him down. It was extremely easy. I cast cure 3 on my self once and finished with full health.

Unfortunately, I got ripped on the drops. All i got was 1 ram skin.

i was in la thein and my linkshell buddy (level 19 thf) went nuts because battering ram spawned right on top of him when he was healing! i asked him "where is he" and got told the details H-x area and i ran over and saw battering ram examined him "seems like easy prey" walked up to him and fought him....he was knocking me around for 30 or so damage and did this supersonic looking move that reduced my health down pretty badly but he was still defeated thank god for TP and i got a lanoline cube 3x ramskins no horns.
im only a level 24 war//level 8 rdm hume.
he isnt that bad to beat just that reducing health move can be risky.

Blade-Bismarck server

I was running through La Theine on a Chocobo when I saw a tarutaru being chased by the Ram. I had seen them before and feared them from my days at La Theine. I decided at level 30 I could take it. I got off the Choco and attacked it, I took it down in a minute with him only hitting me twice for 40 damage each, he also used the HP -> 1/4 move. I'm a level 30 THF/NIN. When he died the item list just shot up. He dropped 5 Ram skins, 3 Ram horns and one Lanolin Cube!

I am a Galkan lvl 25 Mnk with lvl 10WHM sub class.

This thing is not hard for me at all.
Start the battle, Use focus, Dodge, Boost if you really want.
I didn't even have to use my 2hr. If you have another person with you, you will done this mob no problem.

He has one ability to watch out for though.

The Battering Ram uses "HP MAX DOWN" Which took me from 559hp to a maxium of 151hp.
Imagine my surprise. It's much like a weakened state after you have been raised.

I hunted this thing for a good half a day*real time* and learned roughly where it spawned and what it is capable of. I also saw a lvl 26 thief take it down pretty easy. *not sure if he used 2hr*
The horn it drops sell's in Unicorn for about 1.2k
Nice enough for a bit of cash ^^ ;)
Again, this Ram can be taken down pretty easy. I found if the ability wasn't used I had about 1/2 my hp left.

Actually the lanolin cube is for a quest to make a ritual candle in Jeuno, which in turn is for a quest to help out an elderly woman.

i've stolen giant sheeps meat and sheep wool off it before

I was going to Dunes to look for Lizards when I saw this at (I-9). Got off my Chocobo and looked at it. It read Easy so I was ok ill test it out. I'm a Lv.28 WAR and it got me for half my hp befor I killed it. It droped 1xRam Skin. started reading the site and after like 20mins another spawned! after killing it I got 3xRams Skins. can some one post how much one is going for? I think im gonna camp this area and get me some more :O

Regulator 27WAR/15WHM/5THF