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Vana'diel Bestiary: Doppelganger Gog  

Family:Shadow
Found in:Outer Horutoto Ruins
Job:Warrior
Level:23 - 25
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Aggro
  • Not Linking
  • Detects by Sound
  • Detects by Low HP
  • Based on Dark
  • Weak against Fire
  • Weak against Light
  • Strong against Darkness
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Updated: Fri Dec 28 16:26:12 2007

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What Happened
# Jul 10 2004 at 11:32 PM Rating: Decent
Now I don't know if am just realy tough, realy lucky, or if Doppleganger Gob was having a bad day. While wandering through the ruins randomly killing Cardigans for no reason I ran into the Bomb King and quickly killed him with my 23MNK/11THF. My friend in the room said it would be fun to use my two hour on the King so I did. About ten minutes later I found myself face to face with Doppleganger Gob, so me being me ran up to him and tried to kill him. Now here is the odd part, normaly one would think that Gob would have torn me to pieces; but he didn't. The fight went on in a prety normal fashion and I was actually winning! But my luck was soon to change. I had gob down to a tiny fraction of his hp, when all of the sudden he pulls some crazy dark magic spell out of left field. At this point I find myself dead. But after the battle something occured to me, what if I still had my two hour for the fight with Gob? Damn that would have been great. So I guess I sould be happy that I lasted as long as i did toe to toe with Gob, but their will always be that thought of what if I beat him all by my self with a 23MNK/11 THF? <<<<<<<<<< True Story>>>>>>>>>>>
The Doppleganger Boys
# Jul 10 2004 at 9:37 PM Rating: Decent
I got pretty lucky one day....

I was actually hunting the Bomb King, since 'Bomb Rings' seem to sell better than either 'Cruel Spears' or 'Cruel Scythes' on my server (though I can't imagine why... -5 to Fire Resistance?). I started very early in the morning but got bored pretty fast... someone was already farming the crawlers outside the tower, so all I could do for 8 minutes between Balloon spawns was play with the Cardians.

I came back later that day to find two people camping in the tower. One of them comes up to me and asks, "wtf are you doing here?!" which I thought was pretty rude (and they should know what I was doing there anyway) so I ignored them... and again, a couple of minutes later, one of them asks "Hey! I said... wtf are you doing here?!"

By this time they were starting to tick me off.

So I run past them to the one room they weren't camping... and blammo! As soon as I open the door, there's Doppleganger Dio staring right at me. We fight, he's pretty easy (as a 30RDM/15THF... the fight was nerve-wrackening, though, because both of the campers were watching me and eagerly awaiting my death) but there was no drop besides a 'Revival Tree Root'. Suddenly the two campers decide they were gonna be polite, cheering me on and attempting a conversation. I wished them luck and left.

I was trying to complete a stack of 'Saruta Cotton' in Tahrongi Canyon later that evening... when on my way back home to Windurst, I decided to stop by the tower and see if anybody was camping there already. Nobody was inside, and the first time I check one of the 3 rooms... blammo! Doppleganger Gog! We fight, he's easy, and he drops a 'Cruel Spear'.

I've still not managed to see the Bomb King. I've also not managed to sell the 'Cruel Spear'. Nobody seems to want it. Even if I do sell it someday, it seems to be worth only 6K on my server. What a pity!

But I can say that I beat both the Doppleganger Boys in the same day and without having to force them to spawn, at least.
Topic
# Jul 02 2004 at 5:56 PM Rating: Decent
I guess I didn't stay on my topic there. lol ><
A helpfull Story... Maybe
# Jul 02 2004 at 5:53 PM Rating: Decent
One day I was running around hunting Crawlies when i
diecided to go kill him and Bomb King. I was camping
for over and hour... It didnt spawn.>< Then a nice Tarutaru Samurai asks me whenever I kill a Ballon or
one of the 3 NMs tell him. So I was like ok.... Then
AFTER I kill the Ballon I told him I killed a Ballon. Then he asked me if I knew hoe they spawned.
Well of course at the time I had no clue so I said no. Then he told me that every 8 min. either one of NMs spawn or a Ballon spawns. Then after that he got tired of waiting and told me good luck on hunting them. I waited for 1 more hour until Doppelganger Gog spawned. I nearly died too cause the damn ******* aggroed me when I opened the door.I had no clue what struck me and then we fought for 2 mins. I used 2hr too beat it though. I was only lvl 30 War... ^^


(I killed Bomb King too but he self-desruted and drop bomb ash ><)
Revenge!!!
# Jul 01 2004 at 7:50 PM Rating: Decent
I am finding it REALLY hard to belive that this guy is lvl 23-25.

I was lvl 23 BLM/WHM....he ****** pwned me.

I was looking for the Bomb King :(.
(BTW, do you have to KILL Gog before another NM will pop up?)
RE: Revenge!!!
# Jul 10 2004 at 1:21 PM Rating: Default
hey, a level 14 whm couldnt solo a level 14 dhamel, so how would you be expecting to solo this guy, when it hits a level 30 thf for 200 damage each? or m aybe 100... or 50....
RE: Revenge!!!
# Aug 20 2004 at 4:23 AM Rating: Decent
More like 20-50 DMG, I was level 32 when I camped these muthas.
KILLED HIM!
# Jun 19 2004 at 11:16 AM Rating: Decent
I ran into this guy in the room and then took a snapshot ^_^ he swung at me when i took it. im like wtf took 40 HP i was running and the WHM was healing me he had no MP i quickly invited my friend who was sarutabaruta and he came. i was left with 18 hp and gog had like 1 hit to go.i was sooooo scared my friend came from behind and delivered a critical 189 dmage to him and we got the cruel spear though i want the scythe =(

Tarek ~~~Alexander~~~ need any help? ill be happy to =)
Spawn thingy
# Jun 16 2004 at 11:27 AM Rating: Decent
Heh..Just fought him today. I was a level 30 Samurai/15 Warrior but I switched to lvl 1 ranger sub...lost 60 health doing that. Anyway I ran into the room without using Meditate or Third eye...(bad idea) and attacked him, It was a close fight. I had about 200 health left and he had little less than half. I decided it was 2-hour time, BAM he hits me with Dimensional Death, his weapon skill, I lose 130 health, I have 30 health, 2-hour finishes, I win. No drop.


Spawned again 5 minutes later..(WOW!?) Anyway went in with meditate and third eye, owned him with 236 health to spare.
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# Jun 10 2004 at 3:15 AM Rating: Decent
woot... thins thing poped right after Dio and i got the drop! the drop is revival root right? cuz i got that from both! i wonder whast they cost in AH!

<sarcasm off>
empty handed
# Jun 06 2004 at 8:08 PM Rating: Decent
I was really excited when i read about the shadows and came and camped for them... About 10mins after i killed the bomb king I came back to his room and Doppelganger Gog anbused me when got the first hit!
I fought him and I almost died to the stupid elf.
Good thing i had my 2hr, and when i whooped his *** all i got was the revivle root and a drk crstal!
It wasnt even worth it! >_<

Edited, Sun Jun 6 21:07:48 2004
nuking gog?
# Apr 06 2004 at 3:02 PM Rating: Decent
I'm not sure about you guys... and I read thru here looking for it... but I had the unfortunate luck of running into the Gog on my 23 whm/11 blm. Yes... 23 whm. We all know what happened, so that goes without saying. However... when I was fighting the gog, I used some of my blm nukes and it seemed like it did no damage to the gog at all... but I lost a lot of hp and I swear he didn't even swing and attack me.

Does he have some sort of dark ability to take the damage done to him from you rather than from himself? Cause it seemed to me that the only spell that did damage to him were cures. Can anyone confirm if it was the NM and it did happen?
lucky ^.^
# Apr 06 2004 at 3:55 AM Rating: Default
I fought it with 2 WHM on my friends account, Dropped the Spear, 8 minutes later Dio popped, dropped the scythe ^.^ we both got what we were hunting and i didnt even need a THF! (solod it on a 30 THF of mine once, it killed my pally friend who only did a tiny bit of damage to it (18 O.O;;) i had 117 DMG left there ^.^:;;)
got the jerk
# Apr 04 2004 at 1:00 AM Rating: Good
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Aloha! I dont know how much this will help but i would like to tell you a Story.

When i was a young mithrrra, i saw the forrrum on the Gog, and i saw that he dropped a rather nice spear. I decided i wanted to hunt him, so i went to him Man Vs. Girrrl at lvl 25. i thought we werrre quite evenly matched. So i find him after about 20 min. and he thrrrashes me. I would have crrryed but, you know, i was dead. So, i thought to myself im going to get lvl 30 smack him one good! i once again took him on and once again lost. Now i was verrry verry angarrry!! I took me lvl 41 Rdm Friend therre to show the gog whats up! 3 hrs later no Gog no Dog no king. I go get my Ninja sub and now im lvl 32. I'm thinking im gunna whomp this jerrrk! I find a Ballon, and then 8 min later HE shows up... I hit my sneak, NO GOOD, he sees me and aggrrros! I pull out my Knives and enage him for the fight of both our lives. We both knew going in that therrre could be only one surivior... My daggers began to cut through him like a knife thrrrew butter , it seems i have an advantage with my Evasion Bonus II! BUT THEN, he uses a WP (darrrk something or other). I'm am now trrrailing in Hp. He continues with a barrage of attacks when never seem to miss! I Panic! Purrfect Dodge!! Our hitpoints are neck and neck. im reaching 150/530, he is in the red. MY 2hrs gone!! He goes for the WS again! MISS! I then finsh him off. He's dead!!! I look at my HP. 93/530. I look in my inventory... CRUEL SPEAR. I am overrrjoyed!

Thank You for listening to my storrry, i hope it was enterrrtaining!
RE: got the jerk
# Jun 22 2004 at 8:43 AM Rating: Decent
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lol... nice roleplaying.

Edited, Tue Jun 22 09:43:22 2004
RE: got the jerk
# Jun 19 2004 at 11:19 AM Rating: Decent
HAHAHA yes it was
RE: got the jerk
# Oct 10 2004 at 1:41 AM Rating: Decent
hey, i pt'ed with u cptlaserpants, in teh dunes. Im on fairy server now tho. yea nice roleplaying, u forgot inventorrry tho
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# Mar 29 2004 at 11:43 PM Rating: Decent
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when i'm bored i used to run around with my rdm/ranger in saru widescanning crawlers, i just go in a clockwise circle around saru. When i pass the north entrance to ruins (which coincidentally has 4 crawler spawn points near by heh) i just widescan and see if a baloon or doppleganger is up, go kill if it is and then head back adn do another lap. usually takes me about 10 minutes to do a lap around saru killing about 20ish crawlers.

baloon is the placeholder mob for these 3 NM's (only 1 of the 3 can be up at a time) the baloon or the nm respawns every 8 minutes. so i hit the ruins a few minutes after every pop. got the bomb ring and cruel spear doing this once. Not really worth the time to just sit in there and camp them, may as well kill crawlers in between spawns.
IW?
# Mar 08 2004 at 3:32 AM Rating: Decent
What's an IW please?
another NM down
# Mar 04 2004 at 11:57 AM Rating: Decent
well killed it while waiting for the bomb king only got a revial root :( wish i got the spear but hey i would have only sold it, so no big loss. only thing i had to use my 2 hr and it knocked me down to 150hp when the battle was down and i am 2-4 levels higher then it.
Tragic story
# Feb 23 2004 at 8:45 PM Rating: Default
i was running down the horotoro ruins fighting cardians and such but didnt know the cardians linked...i found out the hard way...and ran into this room to hide and i saw this strange elvaan holding a spear..i wondered what it was pointing the spear to? i looked and there was no monster...it came after ME and hit me 2 times without me knowing..i had less than half hp..i used 2hr and still died...damn u goppelganger gog!!!
Doppelgangers
# Feb 17 2004 at 8:43 PM Rating: Default
I took down both doppelgangers with my level 30 RDM. I found Dio to be a lot harder than Gog. I survived Gog with about 80 Mp remaining, and a decent amount of HP. With Dio, I had about 4 MP and less than 100 HP remaining when I won. Basically, I just nailed it with Blind, Dia, Paralyze, Slow, etc. They attack VERY slowly, which allowed me to get spells off really easily, without being interrupted. Dimensional Death did about 150 damage, but other than that the battle was pretty straightforward. Unfortunately, neither dropped the weapon, which really ticked me off.

The post entitled READ THIS is quite accurate. Every 10 minutes or so, either a Bomb or an NM will appear in one of the three rooms marked on the map. All other rooms will contain cardians. Bombs appear a LOT more often, so it may take a while.
Listen UP!
# Feb 07 2004 at 4:44 PM Rating: Default
On 1/07/04 at 3am, i camped the ruin for these NM..... as i head from the rooms where these NM spwn, i notice that there was a Drg and his Wyvern camping inside the room.... the funny thing was that D-Gog spwned rite in front of him.... i just stared for a mintue....i ask him if he was gonna fight the NM.....he said, "Yeah, when he spwns." when he spwn...he's rite infront of you....."i don't see him...," he reply..... so i just provoke the NM and killed him....got only a root...nothing fancy.........i don't know why that player couldn't see the NM...no arrgo aswell.....when i examine him..he already had the Cruel Spear.....so i guess if you have the NM's item on you, you can't see the NM........not sure...

the best thing is also last nite, i kill D-Gog once and D-Dio twice, i still got nothing but all this happen in less than 1hr and 20min.... they respwn quick forsome reason...maybe because i kept rezoning every 8min........no joke.....
RE: Listen UP!
# Feb 11 2004 at 4:48 PM Rating: Default
You cant have more than one cruel spear on you at a time so was pointless for him to kill Gog. I think he meant he didn't see the NM he was looking for...he was probably waiting for Dio or BK. Also they wont aggro you if they are too weak to be worthwhile to you...so he was probably lvl 30+.
RE: Listen UP!
# Feb 27 2004 at 7:26 PM Rating: Decent
I'm lvl 32 and it aggroed me... but it died quite fast and hit maybe once or twice. lost total of 80 life (utsusemi absorbed everything else).
#Anonymous, Posted: Feb 05 2004 at 10:56 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) [img]http://free.inkfrog.com/pix/snowfox/FFXI_000068.jpg[/img]
#Anonymous, Posted: Feb 05 2004 at 10:57 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) http://free.inkfrog.com/pix/snowfox/FFXI_000070.jpg
okay okay, new idea
# Feb 02 2004 at 11:56 PM Rating: Default
Something new to consider. I was there for a couple of hours today, and never once did one of the dopplegangers OR the Bomb King spawn. At first I thought it was based on day of the week, but then my partner suggested that it was based on moon phases. If it were, we'd expect a full moon to be optimal... when I left the moon was at 36% Waxing... so, if it were a full moon, do you think the dopplegangers would show mor often? Give it a shot...
Level
# Jan 19 2004 at 11:40 PM Rating: Default
I was able to beat this guy as a level 36 Thief pretty easily (Taru). I didn't even use Sneak Attack, so that shows you something. Also, my Subjob was wasteful because I couldn't drain him. He did about 50% damage to me. I got the Spear and a Root.
RE: Level
# Feb 10 2004 at 8:15 AM Rating: Default
yeh cant drain it. its undead.
#Anonymous, Posted: Feb 14 2004 at 5:50 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Wrong.
RE: Level
# Feb 16 2004 at 9:01 PM Rating: Excellent
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No, you can't drain or aspir undead.
#Anonymous, Posted: Jan 16 2004 at 2:06 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) he killed me. one hit for 163... too bad i am a lvl 9 war with 153hp..... grrr they put him in a dungeon, surronded by very weak monsters... grr
READ THIS
# Jan 08 2004 at 11:23 AM Rating: Decent
there is a IW monster that will randomly appear in one of the 3 rooms named Ballon. exactley 8 min after you kill it one of the NM will appear in that same room and it takes about 10 min after you kill a NM before another Ballon will appear (i feal like a god this is the first major discovery i have ever made)
RE: READ THIS
# Jun 08 2004 at 10:17 PM Rating: Decent
actually, the room balloons and NM spawn in are not the same. Ie: you might kill a balloon in the east corridor, but 8min later another balloon or NM will spawn in one of the two west corridor rooms, or in the lone east corridor room. Which ever one of the 3 rooms it spawns in is random. That's why widescan is very helpful. I suggest a high lv PLD w/ RNG sub. The PLD can meelee and use cure magic, and the RNG has widescan. This is hypothetical job combo tho, I dont have a high enough lvl PLD to try this out.
#Anonymous, Posted: Jan 06 2004 at 9:37 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Me ^^
Pic?
# Dec 31 2003 at 4:36 AM Rating: Default
Anyone got a pic?
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