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Vana'diel Bestiary: Morion Worm  

Family:Worm
Found in:Korroloka Tunnel
Level:30
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Not Aggro
  • Linking
  • Based on Earth
  • Weak against Light
  • Weak against Wind
  • Strong against Earth
Drops:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

Morion Worm Picture

Triggered by trading some Iron Ore to the ???.

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Info I know
# Apr 24 2005 at 3:14 PM Rating: Excellent
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A good map can be found at : http://killingifrit.com/ffximaps/Korroloka%20Tunnel.htm
I will try to descride where the NM's spawn based on that map, numbering them 1 to 5, from top to bottom. I sugguest opening it on a new tab, or in a new window, cause I will be refering to it alot.



*Morion Worm:

There are 5 spawn points for the Morion Worm:
Spawn #1 is located at (J-8/K-8) on map #1.
Spawn #2 is located at (I-10) on map #1.
Spawn #3 is located at (I-8/J-8/K-8) on map #3.
Spawn #4 it located at (E-9/F-9) on map #2.
Spawn #5 is located at (F-10) on map #2.
(*note: When you go hunting for him you won't see him spawn, you'll see a "???" spawn in one of those areas. When you see the "???" you trade an "Iron Ore" to it, then Morion Worm spawns and he will be claimed by you automatically unless someone else trades the "Iron Ore")
I'm not sure if the Land Worms that spawn in some of those areas are his placeholders or not, but what could it hurt if you slaugter a few of em. You spawn him by trading an iron ore to the "???" that spawns every 30 mins (only one can spawn at a time) in one of the 5 locations. He can be soloed at about lvl 36, but you might have a hard time cause all the worms that are around him will link and -aga the **** outta you.
He drops also some of the following drops:
* Earth Crystal
* Copper Ore
* Darksteel Ore
* Flint Stone
* Gold Ore
* Iron Ore
* Morion Tathlum *rare*
* Mythril Ore
* Silver Ore
* Tin Ore
* Zinc Ore
I think there are more drops too, just some different ores and rock and stuff, nothing big (besides the tathlum of course).


*Cargo Crab Colin:

There is only 2 spawn point for him:
Cargo Crab Colin spawns at (H-7/H-8)on map #4.
Also at (J-9) of map #2.
He has 2 placeholder, Clippers, which you need to kill for him to spawn. From what I hear he doesn't spawn for atleast 2 hours after he was last killed, and when I say atleast I mean he can take alot longer than 2 hours to pop again. I'm pretty sure you can kill him as lvl 50 with some ease, just might take awhile cause he's got some insane defense.
When he dies he drops about 2500 gil and one of the following drops:
* Water Crystal
* Crab Shell
* Land Crab Meat
* Nadrs *rare*
* Rock Salt
(*note: I heard that killing the Greater Pugils in the spawn areas helps also, this has yet to be proven, so experiment with it.)


*Falcatus Arane:

There is only one spawn for Falcatus Arane:
Falcatus Arane spawns at (I-7/J-7/K-7) of map #3.
I don't know too much about her, just that all the spiders there are her placeholders and her spawn time is similiar to Cargo Crab Colin's spawn time.
When you kill her she drops about 2500 gil and some of the following items:
* Earth Crystal
* Spider Web
* Webcutter *rare*


*Dame Blanche

One spawn point for this ghost.
Dame Blanche spawns at (G-9/G-10/H-9/H-10/I-9/I-10) of map #5.
I don't know too much about this mob, sadly.
All I know is, that the "Bogy"(plural) that spawn there are Dame Blanche's placeholders. I'm not sure of the spawn time, though I have heard up to 4 hours. My guess is like 2-4 hours, or a lottery spawn.
When you kill Dame Blanche he drops about 3600 gil and some of the following items:
* Ice Crystal
* Sarcenet Cloth *rare*
* Cotton Cloth
* Luminicloth
He may drop other items as well, but nothing big.

And that's all I know about those NM's I hope I have clearified a few things for some ppl and I hope I helped you guys.

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(yes I'm the dude from the picture XD)

Edited, Sun Apr 24 17:04:47 2005
RE: Info I know
# Apr 24 2005 at 3:44 PM Rating: Decent
Nice work =P I used to camp him alot myself till the update, rate up =P, did you ever get the drop from the nm crab? btw the crab has more than one placeholder ^^ is the crab close to his spawn point and the crab right outside the enterence to the nm spawn in the water, one more thing make sure you kill off the pugils too that helps tons, I usually spawn the cargo crab in 30mins to a hour that way.

Edited, Sun Apr 24 16:56:02 2005
RE: Info I know
# Apr 24 2005 at 4:00 PM Rating: Decent
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lol right when I was done typing this I switched back to FFXI and Cargo Crab Colin was right there walking around...
damn... 2 crab meats 1868 gil and 1 crab shell...
now 0/6 ; ;
RE: Info I know
# Apr 24 2005 at 3:55 PM Rating: Decent
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Killing the pugs helps? I've never heard of that XD but meh what could it hurt to try. I'll try that. and to answer your question about the drop I have yet to get it, and Im camping him as I type this lol. I'm like 0.4 on him :/ And I'll add the Crab right outside the entrance there as a Placeholder thanks
Ugh
# Apr 21 2005 at 8:45 PM Rating: Decent
I'm now 0/10 on this guy ><
Only thing that keeps me hunting it is that it also drops darksteel ores...
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# Apr 20 2005 at 11:53 PM Rating: Decent
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I used to drop these quite often.

Then...

The gilsellers/botters moved in. They dropped the price below 50k, so I gave up.

One hour for a CHANCE at 50k wasn't worth it. Now I mass~slay Spiders instead.
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hmm
# Apr 19 2005 at 11:50 AM Rating: Default
wow a talium
like a 70k drop not worth camping
RE: hmm
# May 19 2005 at 3:39 AM Rating: Decent
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I dont know about you, but any FORCED spawn NM is good hunting in my book. If it spawns claimed, i'm game. ^^
timing....
# Apr 17 2005 at 12:02 AM Rating: Decent
i had the best time with this NM....
I was camping it(RNG34/NIN13 yea my subs horribly gimped, big deal) with my friend(SMN36/BLM18 needed tathlum) and there were a few high levels running all over hell with flee which kinda sucked....
So, we picked one spawnpoint and waited, after nearly an hour with no sightings of the worm or the ??? i start looking around(my spanpoint i picked was the one by altep), aggro a pug on my way around, and drag it back to him....we kill it easily with shiva ^^. But then he had to leave, so he kneels down to log out. About 25 seconds later, the ??? appears in my tabbing around, I do /p STOP!!!! and panic when he still gets logged out. I figure, hell i'm a ranger its a worm how bad can it be....spawn the worm, open up with barrage/sharpshot and start shooting at it. It beat on me pretty bad, me at about 1/2 health and it about 3/4 when i see my friend standing next to me with flag up, he saw the STOP!! message without enough time to react ^^
One astral flow and a few arrows and hits from leviathan later im 8 exp closer to 35, and we got 3 copper ores............AND TATHLUM!
Hard
# Apr 15 2005 at 9:24 AM Rating: Decent
Level 30 NM, bah yeah right!

After getting bored of lvlin 1 day i decided to try this NM, bein a 34BLM and needing the tathlum and all, i thought it was the wise thing to do.

So i make my way to korroloka tunnel, where i see 5 campers (probably gilsellers) camping this thing near the 1st spawn site. I decide to give it a try anyway, so im running around the tunnels looking for this elusive ??? and BAM! there it is... :)
I trade my iron ore, morion worm pops and the fight begins.

1st of all, i buff: Protect, Shell, Barrstonera
while im doing this, morion is casting stoneskin >.<
i proceed to nuke this ****er with my aeroII, waterII and thunder! all the time its casting stonega on me for little damage. oh yeah btw, i tried elemental seal + silence. had no effect!

Anyway, im down to little MP, so i manafont and proceed to nuke this bad boy, manafont wears off and morion is just about on 1/5th health :(
no point even fighting it now, so i decide to run, just as im running he casts stonega again, and im dead :(

Point of this story.... dont try this at anything below 40 lol
RE: Hard
# Apr 15 2005 at 9:29 PM Rating: Decent
44WAR/22NIN - try the NM with 592HP, had me down to 52 when I killed him, had utsusemi up 3 times too. :( Only got a Copper and two tins too.; ;
Re: What level?
# Apr 12 2005 at 10:16 AM Rating: Good
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Quote:
I was down in Korroloka yesterday soloing off 1K experience with the help of a lvl 48 rdm friend, and I saw the ???. She didn't know much about it, but I have read a lot of the posts and told her to kill some worms to get some iron ore. After about 6 worms, she decided to warp to Bastok and buy one. I sat there waiting, watching as a few players ran by and then attempted the same thing, soon to warp just as she did hehe.

Long story short, she got back, traded the ore, and proceeded to almost get a butt-whippin'... That doesn't seem quite right, as the Morion Worm is posted as being lvl 30. So my questions are:

1. Is the level posted for this accurate?
2. Is melee more effective than magic?

Thanks for your help in advance, would love to know why it was even a close fight...


If the rdm didn't melee and use their mp to outlast the worm, then that's why. It is level 30, but since it's a NM, it's more like level 40. Rdm killing with magic alone is going to be difficult, hence the problem. We can use magic to make us quite strong and weaken our opponents at the same time. But that requires buffing, meleeing, enfeebling, and usually using an enspell too.
RE: Re: What level?
# Apr 18 2005 at 7:11 PM Rating: Decent
It really is lv 30 bt since it is a NM
it has the power of something at least 10 lvs higher

Edited, Mon Apr 18 20:13:05 2005
EASY AS SLAPING A BEE
# Apr 12 2005 at 1:56 AM Rating: Decent
omg... killing this worm was pretty easy for me (as a 51 BLM). the cheapest way to kill it is to nuke really really hard...

My Battle PLan was as follows: Buffs:Shell, Barstone, Regen. Trade Iron Ore to ??? ... pop and battle begins... i start casting Freeze... 850+dmg, then Aspir, then another Freeze 850+ dmg... (worm is now about 1/5 hp left)... i have my fun and use Manafont(BLM 2hr...u should know this) and cast Freeze again... 850+dmg... worm is dead... i have taken little damage...and all noobs fighting land worms around me kill their worms and applaud me... ^^ so happy ... but i dont get tathlum... sad...

0/1 on this

Advice: try to do this as soon as u wake up cuz there are abbout 1 or 0 gilsellers around to kill this...

51BLm, 25 RDM
Garuda Server

What level?
# Apr 11 2005 at 3:22 PM Rating: Decent
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I was down in Korroloka yesterday soloing off 1K experience with the help of a lvl 48 rdm friend, and I saw the ???. She didn't know much about it, but I have read a lot of the posts and told her to kill some worms to get some iron ore. After about 6 worms, she decided to warp to Bastok and buy one. I sat there waiting, watching as a few players ran by and then attempted the same thing, soon to warp just as she did hehe.

Long story short, she got back, traded the ore, and proceeded to almost get a butt-whippin'... That doesn't seem quite right, as the Morion Worm is posted as being lvl 30. So my questions are:

1. Is the level posted for this accurate?
2. Is melee more effective than magic?

Thanks for your help in advance, would love to know why it was even a close fight...
Clarificcation
# Apr 11 2005 at 2:19 PM Rating: Decent
Let me add a few things...

The pops on the ??? used to be on the walls and cliffs but now they are just on the floors. The repop time has been changed from 15 minutes, to now 30 minutes. I'd also say that the gilsellers use the same method as me and that is. /item "Iron Ore" <t>. Spam your macro and you'll pop it instantly. Morion worm was better before they changed the pop time because of gilsellers. He's also black now, and not the original worm color that he used to be,
RE: Clarificcation
# Apr 12 2005 at 12:14 PM Rating: Decent
UMMMM. I am on pandy and he is still a 15 min pop on my server thier are 6 pop spots maybe you are missing one or something. but I camp this guy all the time and he is as of last night a 15 min pop now he might error at 30?
Gil Sellers Must Die!!!
# Apr 09 2005 at 6:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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Another one of the overly camped NM's on siren server by various gil sellers... so, yet another exact method to camp this NM.

First, there are 6 spawn points for him.
1. the one every one is familiar with... the one closest to the entrance from the mines.. This spawn is on the ledge to the left immediately past the opening to the first tunnel to your left before you drop down the stairs. Ive noticed that the ??? can spawn anywhere in the general area on top of the ledge, and slightly down the stairs, but never at the bottom so far.
2. If you take a left in the first tunnel to the left, and follow it, you will make a two right turns. On the right corner of the second right turn is the second spawn point for the ???.
3. Follow the tunnel down and you will come out in an opening, go across the bridge, and follow the path down and you will come out in a room completely full of worms. The third ??? spawn is pretty much anywhere along the right wall (facing the way you entered in) up to the small bridge over the water.
4. Go past the small bridge over the water and you will see a small cluster of worms on the next turn. Facing the way you came, the ??? normally pops on the left corner around the worms.
5. Since its easier to tell this spawn from the Western Altepa Desert entrance, im going to do that.... Walk in the entrance, and follow the tunnel down a little. I'm not positive the exact turns you will make, but its a tunnel.. you cant get lost. You will end up on stairs similar to the ones off the entrance to the mines, only there is a tunnel that goes off to the right, and the ledge is to the right. The ??? can spawn on this ledge to the right and slightly down the stairs, but not at the bottom. Also, i believe there are Bogy's at the bottom of the stairs, but im not 100% positive.
6. Similar to the second spawn, take a right in the tunnel to the right past the 5th spawn. You will walk down not too far before making a left turn in that tunnel. The ??? can also spawn on the side wall to your left, facing the way you came.

How to camp>> As most everyone has said, Gil Sellers love this area, since its a perfectly timed spawn, and it spawns often. First off, if you plan on camping this nm solo, good luck... This NM is best camped in parties of 3 people. Since the spawn points are in groups of 2, one person can cover each set of spawns... just the same as the gil sellers on my server do.
"How do the gil sellers seem to instantly trade the items to the spawn point?" This actually took some thinking and not just plain observation. To near instantly trade an item to the ???, first you have to manually arrange your items. Put the Iron Ore on top of your inventory. (So, as soon as you click trade, it will be the top with quick access.) (the following way is for pc version.. im not familiar with the ps2 version) Next, about 7 game minutes before the spawn, go to third person view, click yourself, and click trade. Then, go to first person view and tab around. Only other players or the ??? will be possible targets, so its not that hard to miss the ??? when it spawns. If you have the ??? targeted, run towards it, and when you get in range, hit Enter, Enter, Enter, Tab, Enter. Done, in 2 seconds, the Iron Ore is traded and the Morion Worm is yours. A few friends and i have used this method against the Ln's and Zo's in Korrolokola Tunnel for a few hours each day, and did not miss a single spawn the entire time we were there. (granted, we let the mages who were legitimate characters join us and have the drop if it did)

Finally, the timer.. yea, 15 minutes 11 seconds from the last spawn's death. If you want an exact timer, Add 6 hours 37 minutes to the game /clock at the exact second of the Morion Worm's death, and you will have the exact game time that the ??? will pop again.

Look for more posts by me in the near future about every gil seller hangout in vanadiel! Together, we can make it impossible for gil selling to continue on FFXI by the sheer saturation of their main sources of gil, thus destroying any profit they can obtain and completely erraddicating the gil seller population once and for all!
RE: Gil Sellers Must Die!!!
# Apr 12 2005 at 12:05 AM Rating: Decent
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If you need to do a quick trade, why not macro it? Although I have not attmepted this macro for this specific situation, I have used it for repeatable quests.

/targetnpc
/item "Iron Ore" <t>

If it doesn't work, try with just /item one.
(I used this with "Quus" at the ??? to spawn Bubbly Bernie, and used another: "Steam Clock" to get my reward)
RE: Gil Sellers Must Die!!!
# Apr 10 2005 at 9:27 AM Rating: Decent
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dude, im down with this. i just read Mee Deggi camp help. rock on rate up again
/logout
Kotton
Gil Sellers Must Die!!!
# Apr 09 2005 at 6:54 PM Rating: Decent
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(server error, double post.. accident)

Edited, Sat Apr 9 19:54:59 2005
huh?
# Apr 02 2005 at 10:07 AM Rating: Decent
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Does trading the Ore really help the Spawn? Help me out.
meh >.>
# Mar 28 2005 at 8:44 PM Rating: Default
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want to go after this when im 60+ dancing edge will murder this thing xD
Sub thf
# Mar 26 2005 at 8:15 PM Rating: Decent
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6/17 in the past 3 days, it paid for my elemental torque. The gilsellers on my server aren't camping it any longer, thankfully. The Morion is actually more common than Darksteel ore, and I've never gotten gold, mythril or silver. Usually, it drops 3 copper or tin, with the occasional iron ore. If you're complaining about the lack of drops, sub TH...it definately makes a difference
(Help me out!)
# Mar 26 2005 at 10:12 AM Rating: Decent
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I would absolutely love to get the drop on this damn thing, but so far I'm about 1/24 on it (the one I did get went to someone else in the party *sigh*). If I did get it, I would use it, as I need the INT and MP bonuses.

It's extremely annoying to try and camp this worm on Garuda, because at any one time there can be 3 gilsellers in there (the Bens). Then if they call in their "reserve" team, you have another 3-4 people working with them. It's gonna be even worse when they finish training up their new member...

Not sure about it dropping Gold Ore. All I've ever had is Darksteel, Zinc, Iron, Copper and Tin.
...
# Mar 24 2005 at 2:24 AM Rating: Decent
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Camped this guy in the tunnel for awhile.. Killed him a few times. No problems as a 48rdm/blm. No convert needed even with a link. Spawns right at entrance or just inside the connecting tunnels. Be sure to bring a few iron ore to spawn him.
Yes!
# Mar 20 2005 at 3:59 PM Rating: Decent
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Ok...I've been camping this guy for a while so that me and a friend would get the drops.... So I'm getting pops hes gettin pops, but on the first pop, he gets tathlum! were all happy and everything, so I get like 4 more pops...nothing...so I give up and we come the next day, we get like 3 pops and nothing, so the next day was my last day cause i really wanted that tathlum, so we waited a lon time...and it didn't pop, so i'm like ***** it, lets farm spiders ans slimes and crap like that. So just as im about to log, we are skilling spiders and i see a "???" and im like yes!!! so i run up and trade an ore. we get worm, so now we have about 2 spiders, morion, and about 3 links on us, XD we are both level 50 bte, BLM and RDM, so im praying my *** off cause i gotta go when we kill all the mobs ; ; so...we kill it and "You find a Morion Tathlum on the Morion Worm"...I was soo happy! anyway, I warped logged, and had a good night ^^;.
Nope
# Mar 19 2005 at 12:51 PM Rating: Default
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In response to someone below who said there is a certain time limit to kill Morion, this is false. It usually takes me a few minutes to kill him, as I'm a Thief. And he's never depopped on me.
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Thank god I stopped playing MMOs.
RE: Nope
# Apr 13 2005 at 4:14 PM Rating: Decent
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What the update did was, if you are not engaged with the mob (this is true for all worms) and you have not dealt dmg within a very short period of time, it will automatically turn unclaimed. With worms, that means that they will go underground and de-aggro in about 2 seconds... I found this out the hard way while lvling my rdm, thf, nin, and war in koroloko tunnel (can lvl off the worms soloing from 18-20 in about an hour or two if it's not busy there... war.. not so easy...:). Well, with the rdm and war I constantly ran into the problem that I would try and move out of the spell range to dodge it... and There have been a few times where I would miss twice in a row, move out of spell range, and immediately after casting the spell the worm would go unclaimed and dive under ground... very frustrating if you have taken off over 1/2 it's life.

The best way to deal with this is to 1, engage the mob... it seems to make that delay last longer, and 2 either have 2 ppl, or have utsusemi:) and take the hits.
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RE: Nope
# Mar 22 2005 at 5:58 PM Rating: Good
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In the past update they made the worm have a certain time limit so that guy is corect, if I wasn't lazy I would find a link for you but I am so I wont.
RE: Nope
# Mar 20 2005 at 3:59 PM Rating: Good
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there is a time limit ive seen it happened to a greedy rdm that wouldnt give up lol. the rdm was at a stale mate for what seemed like forever lol(15 minutes +). the rdm couldnt keep up with its regen and the worm couldnt keep up with the rdm mp regen to kill the rdm. It was quite funny to watch . i didnt even know mobs of any type timed out except for those timed battles like the bcnms.

EDIT: wow my first rate down lol. I give real honest info and get rate downs. well oh well.

Edited, Tue Mar 22 17:45:48 2005
Drop
# Mar 11 2005 at 4:20 PM Rating: Default
Ok, what's the drop rate with and without TH2? I'm currently 0/28 on it, and I got 28/30 from the 3 gil sellers here... Plz help
easy solo
# Mar 03 2005 at 1:26 PM Rating: Decent
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Solo'd in about 5 minutes with 35 BST w/ 2 thread leech and 1 jelly (between the two mobs i used, jellies suck at killing morion.)

he hits me for about 5-20 each, with the exception of Full force blow which nearly killed me O.O

Imma send in a picture of it with me an my cute leech ^^ maybe i'll get ... 'fame' with morion worms o.o


btw: 0/1 on tathlum. Got two tin and a copper though.


EDIT: aww ;_; was to late *ish heart broken* see? right here *points to chest

Edited, Tue Mar 8 01:12:09 2005
farming
# Mar 03 2005 at 2:13 AM Rating: Decent
the perfect way to farm this guy is to have 2 people. make sure you each have iron ore and are a high enough lvl to kill it. one person should camp the pop spot closest to zeruhn mines (right infront of the first tunnel on the left). and the other should camp the stairs on the side that brings you do western altepa desert.

his pop time is 15 mins from when he is last killed so make sure you know pop time. then when the pop time comes and the ??? isnt where you are, then each of you should go thru the nearest tunnel and it should be in there. easy as that. also if there arent other campers there, try to kill the worms around the ???

by the way, they changed his color now. he used to look like a normal worm but now hes blueish greyish, sweet looking worm
can i?
# Mar 01 2005 at 4:59 PM Rating: Decent
Can a DRK50 with either sub THF20, PLD15 (for cure and more DEF ><), BLM25 (29) solo this thing?
RE: can i?
# Mar 06 2005 at 10:00 PM Rating: Default
Quote:
Can a DRK50 with either sub THF20, PLD15 (for cure and more DEF ><), BLM25 (29) solo this thing?

ya you can but you might get low HP if you get a lot of links.

make sure to kill the links in the area if no one else is camping it. also area attacks help out
Question
# Feb 27 2005 at 5:52 PM Rating: Decent
Apparently now since the update, Morion worm has a certain time limit to fight, i was just wondering what the time limit now is
i think they broke it ;.;
# Feb 27 2005 at 5:23 PM Rating: Decent
before the update i was 6/12 on tathlum, since the update i'm 0/19. does this punk even drop the freaking tathlum anymore or what? also, of the 31 times i've killed this thing i've never seen it drop gold ore or mythril ore. The ???'s spawn everywhere that worms do, but they only pop every 6 game hours, not rl, after the morion worm has been killed. so if you kill one at 6 am, expect to see another ??? somewhere at 12:00.


Edited, Sun Feb 27 17:29:50 2005
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