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Vana'diel Bestiary: Cargo Crab Colin  

Family:Crab
Found in:Korroloka Tunnel
Found at Location:H - 8
Level:40
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Not Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Based on Water
  • Weak against Ice
  • Weak against Lightning
  • Strong against Water
Drops:
Stolen Items:
Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

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Mob Notes

  • Lottery spawn from the Clipper at H-7 and H-8 on the fourth map, usually on or near the bridge over the river.
  • Average respawn time is roughly 2 hours.
  • Placeholder spawns every 12 minutes.
  • Resistant to silence, sleep, bind, poison.
  • Vulnerable to blind, paralyze and slow.
  • High defense against melee attacks.
  • Melee attacks from mob have additional effect of poison.

In Nyzul Isle

A version of this mob can be found in Nyzul Isle. The armory crate it drops when defeated contains a ??? Sword, which can be appraised into a Nadrs.

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BLM50/RDM25 can kill it
# Mar 19 2005 at 5:57 PM Rating: Good
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I did this as BLM50/RDM25, I saw him and thought I would be beaten to claim (fat chance at least three people ran by barely noticing him) so I didn't do any preliminary buffs and just engaged. I tried to ES + Sleep II him to buff, but apparently he is 100% resistant to it because Sleep constantly missed. After that I just equipped my Mandibular sickle and buffed as best as I could, Slow, Paralyze, Bio II, and Blind, he hit me for 30-40 damage per hit. I wouldn't have survived if not for Drain which managed to get about 120 HP off him every time, and because he's a crab I was able to Aspir him quite well.

After reading about everyone's damage problems with CCC I was surprised to be hitting him for about 11+10 (enblizzard) damage per hit, and 150 with Dark Harvest. Maybe he's not that bad. I owe the victory to Drain though, it grabs a chunk of his HP every time you cast it. Just keep Dark Magic capped and you're set.
RE: BLM50/RDM25 can kill it
# Mar 21 2005 at 5:06 PM Rating: Good
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I just killed it for the 5th time and finally got the drop. I had almost given up hope because camping him was such a pain. I actually went in to the fight this time with BLM51/THF24 on accident (I had THF on for farming chips or something and forgot to change to RDM) so when I saw him spawn, I cast Freeze, then Aspir + Drain'd, then used Manafont and cast Freeze again and he died. I could have beaten him without Manafont probably but I didn't want to risk it.
Pos crab
# Mar 18 2005 at 3:19 PM Rating: Decent
I'm 0/12 on this thing, I'm trying to get it for a friend of mine, she's new and I figured this would be cool to have for her THF, Thank god this is Ra/Ex so no one camps it, otherwise I'd never get it.
New Spawn?
# Feb 25 2005 at 6:37 PM Rating: Decent
41 posts
Hey I camped this dude for well over 4hrs and even went AFK over night (checked log when I woke up no one had killed him) Did they move his spawn point since the update? Cause the normal Clippers still spawn there but I have yet to see him.
RE: New Spawn?
# Mar 07 2005 at 9:45 AM Rating: Decent
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only the 1clipper is place holder, like said spawns in any of the 2ponds, CCC spawns every 2-6+hrs from what i saw tryin to get my Nadsr. Best tip: when ur free/bored, go there and pop/kill it and then leave...repeat when you're bore again, camping nonstop will make you go bonkers since it can take your whole (playin) day to pop it again...
RE: New Spawn?
# Feb 26 2005 at 1:02 PM Rating: Decent
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You need to kill the clipper that spawns ever 10-12 minutes; it's a placeholder.

There's a pugil and a clipper in two ponds on each side of the bridge, the placeholder can spawn in either. CCC spawns around the bridge itself though.

Not sure if the pugil is a place holder but I kill it anyway. His spawn hasn't changed in the update.
RE: New Spawn?
# Mar 12 2005 at 9:57 AM Rating: Decent
the Pug is a placeholder. and the lottery doesnt START until 2hr after CCC's death. I personally camped this thing once, killed the crab and the pug. CCC popped and got Nadrs. I feel sorry for all those that camped this thing for hours and are 0/alot, cuz i only spent 15 mins :P
RE: New Spawn?
# Feb 26 2005 at 1:02 PM Rating: Decent
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You need to kill the clipper that spawns ever 10-12 minutes; it's a placeholder.

There's a pugil and a clipper in two ponds on each side of the bridge, the placeholder can spawn in either. CCC spawns around the bridge itself though.

Not sure if the pugil is a place holder but I kill it anyway. His spawn hasn't changed in the update.
dumb crab -.-
# Feb 13 2005 at 9:25 PM Rating: Decent
this is pissin me off >< im 0/3 on this sucker. 55rdm/27blm when i killed it twice, kept stoneskin/phalanx/blink up, hit me once for any dmg, no freakin drop ever >< and i want it for my thief ; ; ill get back to here once i get the drop
Pwnd
# Feb 03 2005 at 9:49 AM Rating: Decent
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Killed this thing solo yesterday, 50BST/25THF, Took about 100 spiders, 2 Sea Monks, 5 Jellies, and 5 Leechs. Thank god there was no gilfarmers in Korrorloca at the time.

Came out with 122/712 HP

No sword drop, 2 crab meat, 1 shell.

Edited, Thu Feb 3 09:53:21 2005
to easy to pop
# Feb 01 2005 at 11:39 AM Rating: Decent
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this thing is easy to spawn spent maybe 5 mins there killing every snip AND pgil ( they are placeholders too) and had him pop
he ops practically on the bridge north of the jammer leech room where the kraken is.
even as a 53 THF/NIN it was hard but im gonig back tomorrow with my 55THF/NIN and with all my SC(stroper chyme) hunting gear with overall EVA+30
well this sucker is hard to beat his DEF is horrible awesome but his evasion sux =P o if you atleast lvl 50+ i suggest getting good DMG weapons and good eva+ gear

EDIT****
B TW WTF O.o
this **** drops GIL!!!!!!!!!! o.o''''''
yes its true i got about 2k+ ofa him when i fought him
i mugged for about 720 gil then after kil he dropped about 1.3k+ i was huh?? O.o i was trying to joke to my friend that you could mug off him and i was in for a shock wow ill do this mor oftenn ><

Edited, Tue Feb 1 11:41:36 2005
Solo
# Jan 23 2005 at 4:15 AM Rating: Decent
What lvl can i solo him as a mnk?
PLace holer and map
# Jan 20 2005 at 10:28 PM Rating: Decent
I have 2 questions. 1.) What is the place holder for CCC. and 2.) is this (H-8) on the first map, or the second.
RE: PLace holer and map
# Jan 22 2005 at 4:57 PM Rating: Decent
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1. A single clipper
2. Neither. A hidden map.
Place holer and map?
# Jan 20 2005 at 10:27 PM Rating: Decent
so hey i got 2 questions, what is the place holder for CCC, and is it H-8 on the first map, or the second.
A cool, short story about CCC.
# Jan 05 2005 at 12:05 PM Rating: Default
Well, I was walking through KT and I was going to Rabao, and I suddenly saw a weird monster called "Cargo Crab Colin", it was unclamed so I asked my LS,
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<Swordguy>: Whats a cargo crab colin?
<Madboy>: KILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<Swordguy>: ?
<Luciastar>: IT'S AN MN WITH A GOOD DROP!!!!!!!!
<Swordguy> OH......KKKIIILLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!
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So, I voke him. Then I see..
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Swordguy kills Cargo Crab Colin.
Swordguy recives 12 EXP.
Swordguy finds a Nadrs on Cargo Crab Colin.Swordguy recives a Nadrs.
Swordguy finds a Crab Shell on Cargo Crab Colin.Swordguy recives a Crab Shell.
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Then,I tell my LS.
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<Madboy>: Well, did u get the nadrs?
<Swordguy>: YES!!!!!!!!!!
<Zainsandman>: Wow! I never got CCC! Is that good?
<Madboy>: YES!!!!!!!!
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So, that's my story.
A cool, short story about CCC.
# Jan 05 2005 at 12:05 PM Rating: Default
Well, I was walking through KT and I was going to Rabao, and I suddenly saw a weird monster called "Cargo Crab Colin", it was unclamed so I asked my LS,
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<Swordguy>: Whats a cargo crab colin?
<Madboy>: KILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<Swordguy>: ?
<Luciastar>: IT'S AN MN WITH A GOOD DROP!!!!!!!!
<Swordguy> OH......KKKIIILLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!
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So, I voke him. Then I see..
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Swordguy kills Cargo Crab Colin.
Swordguy recives 12 EXP.
Swordguy finds a Nadrs on Cargo Crab Colin.Swordguy recives a Nadrs.
Swordguy finds a Crab Shell on Cargo Crab Colin.Swordguy recives a Crab Shell.
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Then,I tell my LS.
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<Madboy>: Well, did u get the nadrs?
<Swordguy>: YES!!!!!!!!!!
<Zainsandman>: Wow! I never got CCC! Is that good?
<Madboy>: YES!!!!!!!!
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So, that's my story.
Spawn points
# Dec 25 2004 at 6:17 AM Rating: Excellent
There are 2 spawn points for the placeholder. One is at H-8, directly north of the Jammer Leech room. The second is in the pool with the Greater Pugil on the opposite side of the land bridge. Placeholder spawn time is 10-15 min. When Colin does spawn, he spawns in the middle of the room, near the bridge. His spawn time can be anywhere from 30 min to 4 hours.

I attempted this as 52 DRG/17 THF. The fight took me less than 5 minutes and left me with 103 HP out of 1005. He has lots of def and HP plus he uses the usual crab defense boosts. He hits for about the same as the Clippers do. If you are in the 50s, this fight is pretty easy. The more Atk and Str you have, the faster this fight will go.
i hate crabs
# Dec 13 2004 at 2:04 AM Rating: Decent
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id just like to say that i am currently 0/32 on this thing and still trying to get his drop. Also, i was wondering if hiim and aranelei have around the same drop rate.
#REDACTED, Posted: Dec 04 2004 at 11:27 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) IM CURRENTLY CAMPING THIS NM AND I NEED TO KNOE {EXACT} POS OF POP AND HOW TO GET THERE CAUSE IM IN A ROOM WHERE CLIPS POP A ******** AND PUGS TO BUT BEEN HERE FOR A LONG *** TIME AND NO! POP....
RE: HELP!!
# Dec 05 2004 at 3:29 AM Rating: Decent
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Whoa... no need for caps.
Anyway... he is in the room LOADED with bats in one of the side passages. I don't know the location for sure, but I can give more insight as to what's in the local vicinity.

In the Room he spawns there are:
A Sea Monk over at a small land bridge spanning an underground river.
A **** Load of Bats. If you aggro one of the middle ones, you'll have 20 on you in seconds.
A Pugil beside a Crab in a pond with an Excavation Point nearby.
In the rooms on either side of this one (East/Western rooms) contain Jellies and Excavation Points.
In the room to the South of his spawn room, there are 3 HNM Jammer Leeches. Don't be a jackass and pull them out please. -.-

Sorry I'm a bit vague, but I just killed him a moment ago (about 5 mins of this post) and just wanted to see what he drops. Now that I know, I'm not going ot bother going after him again.

Also, he has DEF up the ***... I'm a 55 DRG and was dealing on average 25-42 DMG. Khocha, my wyvern, has a set minimum DMG of 25-30 DMG on TWTBW Mobs.
Nice!
# Nov 29 2004 at 3:29 PM Rating: Excellent
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Camped this thing once a day for about a week.

It drops regularly:
2 x Land Crab Meat
1 x Crab Shell
1,800 Gil (+35 - 75 Gil if thief subbed or Main)

Mugging range: 6 Gil - 820 Gil (don't ask...)

Killed 6 times.
Items aquired:
6 x Crab Shells
12 x Land Crab Meat
1 x Nadrs
14,000 Gil (Roughly)

Spawn Time: 2 hour Minimum sleep timer on spawn. After 2 hours it becomes a lottery pop to the one and only crab in the room.

Weapon Notes: Looks exactly Like a Greed Scimitar, in other words totally badass! THe poison is odd... It seems to poison on every swing until it sticks, as soon as the poison fades, it poisons again. estimate: 5hp/tick damage over time. Poison lasts 20 seconds on average.
[Poison Test Data: 60-Thf/War-17 Local Gigas, "Too Weak To be Worth While"]

Damage to time Ratio:

Nadrs: 7.2:1 +1.7:1(Poison) Possible total: 8.9:1 Damage Ratio.
Tuck +1: 7.2:1 Ratio
[Damage Ratio: Damage/(Time in ms) x 100]

It's a neat sword, I wanted it for my Warrior, that is still lvl 17.. All I go tto say is, that there is a gorup of Gil Sellers in Korroloka Tunnel that decided to start camping this item now. Which I find completely irritating considering the Item is Rare/Ex and also can not be sold.

Happy hunting. This was by far one of the more interesting NMs I have fought.
No drop, fun fight
# Nov 28 2004 at 7:57 AM Rating: Decent
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Fought him last night as a 63MNK/26THF (Ignore the gimptaru sj ; ;). Was hitting him for 20-30 per fist (Cross-Counters) and it seemed like he could really bring on the pain to Level 55ish and belows (Was hitting me for 39ish per swing usually). No drop besides a crab shell and 2 land crab meats but I am confident he will yield his weapon to me soon enough (Or my THF will be very sad ;;)
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Cake... tasty cake ^^
# Nov 22 2004 at 12:29 PM Rating: Decent
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Wow, I started camping this guy for the sword to use as an off-hand sword when my WAR hit 24. After I started reading some posts while I was camping, I have to say... I got a lil bit worried lol.

Let me just say... This thing is a CAKE WALK as a 53THF/NIN. I am going for my 3rd kill, still no drop yet >.<

The last 2 fights i put up Utsusemi a total of 3 times I think, and when shadows were down he landed about 5 or 6 hits about 30-60 a pop. I basically started the fights with SA+Viper Bite and then just loaded him full of Acid Bolts, Blind Bolts, and Bloody Bolts while using Gust Slash whenever I was over 150%tp. Fights each took about 5 minutes as timed with the Mug timer ^^

Oh, and for the THFs... This lil guy drops about 1800gil and can be mugged(so far) for 1100gil d(^.^)b



Happy hunting!
Ownage
# Nov 12 2004 at 5:33 PM Rating: Default
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Just fought him. 51SAM/WAR, 51WHM/BLM, 56RDM/BLM. Fight took less than 2 minutes as timed on Meditate recharge. Got Nadrs on first try.

Killing Clipper and Greater Pugil to force spawn. Spawned on Clipper time, so I cannot confirm that pug is a placeholder as well.

This guy is not as tough as you all say he is :P
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Caitsith - San d'Oria - 75SAM - 75RNG - 65WAR - 45THF - 44PLD - 40NIN - 36BLU - 30DRG

Where ?
# Nov 12 2004 at 12:06 PM Rating: Decent
Do You Find This On The Main Road Or Inside ??
I got it!!!!
# Nov 09 2004 at 5:00 AM Rating: Decent
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Whew!!! I finally got the Naidr after about 20 hours of camping the darn crab. I was about to give up hope too.... It took 11 spawns to finally get my item.

I fought him as a lvl 54 Summoner / Thief. He was very, very easy for me. I didn't even have to resummon Carby. He hit me for around 40 or so when I would desummon Carby to kill him(Taking into account the rumor that Summoner's get less drops with an avatar summoned.) and hitting Carby for much, much less. I'd say it took around 5 min. to kill him each time.

I don't know that the Greater Pugil is a placeholder though. I only EVER saw him spawn in the place of the Clipper. The quickest that he spawned for me was 30 minutes. But the longest... was about 4 hours!!! There is at least 10 min. in between the spawns on the Clipper and Greater Pugil, plenty of time for me to kill all the bats and Jellies in the area which makes the wait a little bit more bearable. You have bats, jellies, and water elementals to kill while you wait on him to pop.

Well, good luck to everyone that's trying for that Nadrs. It is a very nice sword and if you're on Fairy and happen to see me, check if I'm on my Warrior b/c I'll have it on if I am. :)
Curse this crab!
# Oct 29 2004 at 9:50 PM Rating: Decent
My highest job on my only character is a lvl 24 Warrior, ive had FFXI for about 6 months now, since i dont level the fastest (as you can tell) i decided to get the best sword for my level, i found out this was Nadrs and decided to get it, i checked AH, wasnt there, questioned a few friends didnt know, and finnaly someone on the airship (yes im rank 5) told me where to get it, immediately I ran to Korroloka Tunnel and started searching for the "Jammer Leech spawn area" since all the monster were Tough or harder i decided to get a high level to help, i found a lvl 63 Dragoon. We formed a party and he got me to the spawn area easily, there we sat and waited for Colin to spawn, i didnt have the specifics so i just wandered near there looking for him, my escort the dragoon decided to try his luck vs a leech, heh, that wasnt the greatest idea, it got him down to half health when he decided to run. He zoned with 18 health left, i decided id just wait for him, leech comes back 5 minutes later and BAM 400 dmg im dead, lol, i HPed. Now i was mad, this crab had caused my death and i hadnt even seen it, i got 2 level 60 redmage friends and took off to find Colin, well after about an hours wait one of my friends decided to make a mob train for fun, about 20 spiders 2 giants and a sea monk, as soon as the mobs were dead CCC spawned, we attacked, both RDM's did about 16 dmg max, finnaly we got it down to about 1/5 health and friend used WS and killed it, no drop, now i am bound and determined to get the Nadrs, itd get me parties and make me look cool, Cargo Crab Colin... youd better watch your back... lol

Tobius, Valefor Server

PS: if anyone would like to help me id be more than welcome! ^^
can i kill it
# Oct 25 2004 at 9:30 AM Rating: Decent
56sam/thf can i solo w/ 2 hour?
ps: i see lv20-25s killing this never any spawn i even ask them to tell me and il kill it they camp for about 5 hours*jpn* and by the time they all get there lvls they leave
Yay...
# Oct 18 2004 at 8:33 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm 1/3 on this thing. I fought it as a a BRD59/RDM29... gave me a somewhat run for my money... not really. Lots of HP and lots of defence.

Cool sword. I thought it was ranger usable -.-

Now it's sitting on my MH desk collecting dust.

I'm sure the moogle's swinging it around a few times when I'm not looking >.>
YAY
# Oct 06 2004 at 8:26 AM Rating: Decent
Me and a friend (Atomant, Mithra Monk50) headed out to Korroloka tunnel with intent to kill this. We got to camp, explored a bit, found something called a Jammer Leech, wondered what it dropped... Chi blast, about 6 seconds later accepted reraise and crawled back to CCC camp :P

So anyway, we were fighting a sea monk after having killed a pugil, and my mp was at about half, i notice CCC pop! Try to sleep it.. get aggro.. go to half hp... Monk attacks it and boosts to get aggro (had thf sub, never underestimate the power of boost! :P) then goes back to work on the sea monk, kills that, and we begin the fight on CCC.

His Hundred fists is at 16 minutes... my mp is aat about 200, he gets hit a few times quite hard, i heal and get aggro, he boosts and sneak attacks aggro back to his side, i look at CCC's hp and notice hes barely dented... ***** this im Tele-holla'ing while he still has aggro!

During 1%-about 50% of the cast CC continuesly misses the monk, and start thinking maybe... we can take this! cancel it, rest mp, cast blink, cure3 him twice and wait for him to take aggro again, then rest 40-60 mp back.

/repeat

12 minutes later CCC dies, Nandrs drops, were left at like 150HP for the monk and 200HP/40ishMP for me lol.

Naturally we were extatic! XD

First time ever killing and he drops, not to mention it was THE funnest fight of our game time, so fun that we honestly didnt care if it dropped. :)
Finally lucky number 14
# Oct 03 2004 at 11:42 PM Rating: Decent
Wow, after 14 tries at this NM in 3 days I finally got the Nadrs Sword! The NM has about a 2 hour respawn, just dont give up is all i can say. The NM does have alot of HP, and me bein lvl 60 pld i used 300%TP spirits within and then vorpal Blade when i got another 100%TP, and he would still have a bit of HP left. Long fight but funny sense he couldnt hit me 99% of the time. Just glad to be done with it now! Goodluck (''*)
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