Moldavite Earring
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first of all how do you get the map of this place, and i really need this earing for reasons unknown, i tried to find the camp as described but got lost and ended up as taru meat for the ***** in there. oh ya plzz help me out if anyone wants to camp this thing with me on bahmud.
I can't even pull this damn mob. 7 times camping the gob ******* and usually he pops on my computer claimed. I must have a really slow ping compared to most people even though i have dsl. Very frustrating. I'm not high enough lvl to solo him, so every time i have camped him with high lvl help and i have camped him with several different ppl... never got the pull. I hope someday I will finally get the damn earring.
The map is gotten in the chests in the area. Keys dropped off cockatrices, mushushuu's, etc.
I soloed this as a BLM 65 with all capped skills. Bring X-Potions and Yag Drinks and you'll have no trouble beating him. Start off the battle with your standard enfeebles (paralyze, slow, blind). Then manafont, nuke away until it runs out... as soon as it does toss a Yagudo Drink. Hit him with Bio II and Poison II (keep them up) and then just take it slow and easy nuking him until he dies. I ran out of MP in the end and started draining him (each time 22 MP would refresh) but X-Potions work better (i only brought one, wish i would've brought more). Anyway, in the end Bio killed him and I receieved my Moldavite Earring. After many failed attempts, finally :D
how good is this thing ? i spent about 4 days straight camping & not getting this till i finally got it.
it's the best earring for blm, but im a bit underwhelmed cause it doesnt really seem to do much. im level 58.
it's the best earring for blm, but im a bit underwhelmed cause it doesnt really seem to do much. im level 58.
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Did some testing and it looks like this earring adds 5% damage to all elemental spells I tested. 300 dmg Thunder 2 would do around 314 with the earring on. It's not a mind-blowing increase, but well worth it for any blm and all rdms should macro this in for nukes.
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Posted: Dec 02 2004 at 4:10 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) "Magic Attack Bonus" is a JOB TRAITS...
If the job trait is specifically named "Magic Attack Bonus" how can it increase anything but? maybe ur ninjitsu has risen enough to make it have more dmg.
Scholar
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1. Obtain Advanced Job: Ninja
2. Take a day or two to get to level 9.
3. Go out and quest/buy Tonko: Ichi
4. Use the scroll. (Congratulations!)
5. Look for Tonko: Ichi
*Hint: You'll find it under Magic >> Tonko: Ichi
Edit: I realize invisible is not an attack form of magic, but all other Ninjutsu can be found under Magic.
Edited, Wed Feb 9 17:16:43 2005
2. Take a day or two to get to level 9.
3. Go out and quest/buy Tonko: Ichi
4. Use the scroll. (Congratulations!)
5. Look for Tonko: Ichi
*Hint: You'll find it under Magic >> Tonko: Ichi
Edit: I realize invisible is not an attack form of magic, but all other Ninjutsu can be found under Magic.
Edited, Wed Feb 9 17:16:43 2005
Ikion wrote:
If the job trait is specifically named "Magic Attack Bonus" how can it increase anything but? maybe ur ninjitsu has risen enough to make it have more dmg.
Don't know if you know this or not, but Ninjitsu is magic too =P
things that add to a specific job trait actually give you that job trait if you don't already have it. such as avengers earrings "Counter+1" a pld/war wearing them for example will counter attack every so often
It will in crease Magic Attack. There are items out there (Namely, AF and the lv30 BCNM shields) that increase job traits, this one gives +5% to your Magic Attack.
Scholar
42 posts
got mine tonight, 70 WHM, 66 DRK, and me 55 BLM. easy fight, but he resisted stun and like 5 trys with silence.
I got him today with 60RDM,60RDM and 54whm(me).
First spawn he popped a little above the rock formation in the middle. While we were fighting, Japanese players trained 5 cockatrices and 4 goblins on us. We kill it. We get the drop. We lot, 1 of the RDM's get it. Escape.
We go hang out and kill things around Onzozo and then go back around an hour and 30 minutes after it last died.
Got the claim again. Spawned little above the rock formation. We kill it. Got the drop, it was between me and the other RDM. He lots 81. I got 180 lol. :D I love the effect this earring gives. I tested out Freeze on a random mob, and with all my +INT gear/food/ice staff, it did 994.
First spawn he popped a little above the rock formation in the middle. While we were fighting, Japanese players trained 5 cockatrices and 4 goblins on us. We kill it. We get the drop. We lot, 1 of the RDM's get it. Escape.
We go hang out and kill things around Onzozo and then go back around an hour and 30 minutes after it last died.
Got the claim again. Spawned little above the rock formation. We kill it. Got the drop, it was between me and the other RDM. He lots 81. I got 180 lol. :D I love the effect this earring gives. I tested out Freeze on a random mob, and with all my +INT gear/food/ice staff, it did 994.
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Hi. When I got my ring I had a party of 4 peeps. Me 63RDM and a 62Monk and 62PLD and 75BLM who area all from the linkshell im in. The night before I went to see who was camping and it and sure enough japanese peeps where there like always. So when I saw them kill him I know he spawns every 2 hours and 15 mins so I calculated for the next day and sure enough he popped out a lil after 12 noon my timne PDT. The best thing was we were the only ones camping him and this was on a Sunday. We first took out the enemies near us so we dont get aggroed while fighting him. Next while we were healing he popped next to me so I got up and used Dia on him. The PLD came in with voke and the Monk did his job and the BLM used Ancient magic on him. Sure enough he was dead and on the first try he dropped the earring I have been wanting and also a scroll of Thunder 3. We had the whole place to ourselves which was a rarity. I was luck considering many have told me ita random drop. I would suggest to anyone camping him if you see him spawn and die add 2 hour and 15mins and come back later on or the next day but do the 2 hours and 15mins and take into consideration that he will spawn and die. This way you set up a time for the next day to engage him. It worked for me but it may not work for everyone..:)
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How much mroe damage is this going to cause than a +1 int earring? Has anyone tested?
Edited, Sun Nov 21 19:57:27 2004
Edited, Sun Nov 21 19:57:27 2004
Alot more. +1 int=.5 Elemental magic...but int. decreases resistance a little. With the earring compared to phantom earring, I usually do about 30-40 more dmg/nuke as RDM as compared to +1 int. You will use the earring throughout the game. I still use mine at lvl 75 as probably 90% or more blm and rdm do. So yes, GET IT.
Scholar
17 posts
I was glancing at the posts on the Moldavite Earring and noticed one question coming up. "Can such and such job use this?" If you look at the item, it doesn't directly add +5 to magic damage. (Like a necklace may add +5 attack, for example) This earring is "Magic Atk. Bonus" <-notice the quotes +5. "Magic Atk. Bonus" is a job trait that Black Mages and Red Mages get at levels 30 and 20 respectively. Thus, it'd be fair to assume that only if one of these 2 jobs is in your job description would these earrings do anything for you.
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THIS EARRING EFFECTS BLM AND RDM ELEMENTAL ATTACK SPELLS ONLY~
Smns use it because they are idiots.
The effect of the earring is like having 10 INT
heh that pretty much sums it up.
Smns use it because they are idiots.
The effect of the earring is like having 10 INT
heh that pretty much sums it up.
Hey, hey, hey! Not all summoners are idiots, you know. But I do agree, most of them are idiots. The elemental spells that SMNs have belong to the AVATAR, NOT the SMN. >.>
If it was only BLM or RDM specific, then why would the earring allow all jobs to wear it? Im a WHM and I want this earring really bad. It affects RDM and BLM more because of thier inborn job traits for the additional magic attack bonus. It will help any mage job that casts offensive magic. "Magic Attack Bonus" +5 is all it says, nothing in regards to job or type of magic.
"if one of these 2 jobs is in your job description would these earrings do anything for you" Thats called 'latent effect', or one way of activating the latent effects. And being the earring says nothing in regards to a latent effect, then this assumption would be incorrect.
Edited, Wed Nov 17 15:23:40 2004
"if one of these 2 jobs is in your job description would these earrings do anything for you" Thats called 'latent effect', or one way of activating the latent effects. And being the earring says nothing in regards to a latent effect, then this assumption would be incorrect.
Edited, Wed Nov 17 15:23:40 2004
Scholar
17 posts
It would be allowed for all jobs, because that would make it useful if you either had a blm or rdm main, or a blm or rdm sub. a lot of people go whm/blm or drk/blm, so it'd be useful for them. If this had a "latent effect," it would only work if you had a blm or rdm sub, not main, or if you had one of those as your main and your HP was in yellow.
Edited, Wed Nov 17 17:10:39 2004
Edited, Wed Nov 17 17:10:39 2004
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Well, if you look at other items that give "___ Killer" effects, you would know it helps you even if you don't have the trait. So, I think this would work the same way.
except that the items that can give you "___ Killer" effect say "Enhances ____ Killer effect" NOT "____ Killer + X". There's a differece there. It has been shown that an item which "enhances" some effect will give you that effect if you don't already have it. (good example is the earring which enhances dual wield. RNG/SAM with two hawker's would be sooo hawt). however i haven't seen "proof" that "____ + X" Gives you anythign in particular if you don't have the related job trait.
Having said that, I am actaully of hte opinion taht the way the job trait works to begin with is that it gives you "_____ + X" since many job traits you end up getting multiples of that same one and they all just stack. That would lead me to believe that any job wearing this earring would see teh benifits as long as they have some offensive magic spells to cast.
Having said that, I am actaully of hte opinion taht the way the job trait works to begin with is that it gives you "_____ + X" since many job traits you end up getting multiples of that same one and they all just stack. That would lead me to believe that any job wearing this earring would see teh benifits as long as they have some offensive magic spells to cast.
11 posts
It took me wayyyy too long to get this drop. The first time we tried to camp this NM I was around level 61-62, and due to the time I play each day, it was highly camped, and we had a pretty hard time claiming him faster than other players. There goes at least 8 hours because of the 2+ hour spawn window. We wised up a little and tried camping him earlier on days that we could, and managed to actually claim him, more often than not. Long story short, I'm now level 70 and I JUST NOW got the drop after _10_ claims and kills, even with Thief's TH2 most of the time. My LS and I hate this NM with a passion. He's really not that difficult, just Stun his Ancients and keep everyone healed sufficiently -- but in my experience, his droprate SUCKS. Granted, I know people that got the earring on the first kill (even my RDM friend solo'd him and got it first kill), but apparently I have horrible luck. Droprate is supposed to be near 33%, but the math of my ratio was 10% ; ; I hope you all have better luck -- I will never camp this evil little gobbie again unless my static needs it lol ><
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i have killed mysty a total of twice, got kinda lucky i guess. i had killed this by chance once before when my exp pt happened to run through this area... and decided to kill it.. and it dropped nothing.. hehe.. the blm was bummin to..haha. anyway, so i give this a shot one day.. rdm64..im in there alone just to see if i can solo it, i see a high level friend by chance, who tells me ill get owned. he decides to help me,(he was playin as a 72mnk) we wait around, and as rdm im slow... with a dia macro.. so the other blm's in the room got it easily with stun..pretty dam fast. well, on the third pop noone was around but another rdm and he gets it... grrr.. lol.. i say dam...ive been here 6hrs.. he says, oh invite me, i dont need that earring.. lmao.. i invite him, the mnk kills it... drop, thunderIII and the earring.. so funny. thanks other rdm, that was nice.
Edited, Thu Nov 11 03:43:17 2004
Edited, Thu Nov 11 03:43:17 2004
Camp Site is at (I-9) Around 3 small stone lumps coming out of the ground. Take rights when you enter Onzozo. Got the earring after 2 kills, claimed him both times he spawns. 2 hour spawn for me.
Embur's story:
When I camped this... I was with a PLD75/THF16 (friend of a friend ^^). It was not overly camped... the PLD cleared the room and then a invis'd RDM came to camp it lol. After 5-10 minutes, he left. We were told that it would spawn soon (30 minutes possibly) and so the PLD started to farm the cockatrices and gobs. I was like, "/point Goblin Enchanter!!!!" and he went to go get it. Then a **** aggro'd me because I wasn't invis'd >.< so he came to save me ^^. While he was fighting the gob and the ****, the NM spawned lol XD so he had to fight 3 things at once lol. Also, the NM casted freeze lol. I ended up dying and deleveling, but it's ok. Raise gave me back my level. And the Goblin Enchanter dropped a platinum ingot ^^ w00t. Oh yeah, and the NM dropped the earring hehe.
But another guy that this PLD was helping didn't get the ring ;_;
P.S. Hercules' ring rocks! I reccomend it ^^
When I camped this... I was with a PLD75/THF16 (friend of a friend ^^). It was not overly camped... the PLD cleared the room and then a invis'd RDM came to camp it lol. After 5-10 minutes, he left. We were told that it would spawn soon (30 minutes possibly) and so the PLD started to farm the cockatrices and gobs. I was like, "/point Goblin Enchanter!!!!" and he went to go get it. Then a **** aggro'd me because I wasn't invis'd >.< so he came to save me ^^. While he was fighting the gob and the ****, the NM spawned lol XD so he had to fight 3 things at once lol. Also, the NM casted freeze lol. I ended up dying and deleveling, but it's ok. Raise gave me back my level. And the Goblin Enchanter dropped a platinum ingot ^^ w00t. Oh yeah, and the NM dropped the earring hehe.
But another guy that this PLD was helping didn't get the ring ;_;
P.S. Hercules' ring rocks! I reccomend it ^^
I'm 0/3 on him >.< ****...
But just wondering, would this effect a Summon's power? Seen two or three SMN using this earring but I wasn't sure if they were for their /blm and /whm subs..
But just wondering, would this effect a Summon's power? Seen two or three SMN using this earring but I wasn't sure if they were for their /blm and /whm subs..
what exactly does magic attack do, and how is that different from giving elemental boost? does this make much of a difference? any concrete examples - like blizzard 2 owuld do x amount of damage without the earing and y amount with it? does this also help in enfeebling since i am a redmage? is it worth it for a rdm?
thanks
thanks
As a RDM myself i would also like to know if this effects non-damaging spells (like sleep, enfeebs, etc)
Scholar
37 posts
I'm 0/7 on this so far, it's been a real pain in the butt. My 75 WHM friend helped me camp it a couple times and on both of those occasions it took 3 hours+ to spawn, which seemed odd as when I went with my ls friends it only took 2-2:15 to spawn. Anyways..hopefully I'll get lucky with this thing soon. 56 BLM and no earring, how sad. ; ;
Scholar
29 posts
Heh, I'm 60, and I don't have the earring......
0/3 ; ;
0/3 ; ;
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man this sux...im a rdm 60/25blm or a 60rdm/30nin..and me and a 65rdm/32blm freind camp this nm alot...sooo far 1/20 he got the first 1....and i still waitin for my damn earring!!! if u have any questsions /tell me on the bahamut server to Tatien....
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im a rdm 60/25blm or a 60rdm/30nin
OMG..level your blm sub. Please tell me you don't go out like that for exp parties. It makes the rest of us look bad.
for starters, lie, i just /sea'd you and you're 60rdm/18nin =p
second, i could prolly help ya if i'm not busy whenever. :D
-Vert
second, i could prolly help ya if i'm not busy whenever. :D
-Vert
Just a quick thought, the bonus from this earring is Magic Attk. Bonus, so, with that in mind, this could be quite useful for a WHM. It doesnt specify elemental or black magic, just magic attack. Anything that does damage to a mob is an attack, so...
When is this usefull for WHM:
- You have Divine maxed.
- PT is doing Fusion or Light skillchain
- You have a MB macro.
With other words, the likelyhood of a WHM using this is low, whereas RDM and BLM (and perhaps DRK and NIN too) actually can use it frequently.
- You have Divine maxed.
- PT is doing Fusion or Light skillchain
- You have a MB macro.
With other words, the likelyhood of a WHM using this is low, whereas RDM and BLM (and perhaps DRK and NIN too) actually can use it frequently.
Friend and I on valefore (me 56 blm, him 65 nin) were camping this guy. First 3 times we lost it to JPs, with the lag advantage and the fact that the first three times we didnt know the spawn time, we had no chance. Last time it spawned and JPs got it again we noted the time and came back 2 hours and 15 minutes later aproximately. Only people there were a party of all mages. We knew the time and we had voke so he spawned in about 5-10 mins and we got the claim easily, we didnt have any trouble but I could not stun his AM, luckily nin's utsusemi took it. We finished him off and I got my earring =)
Scholar
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I finally was able to claim that overcamped piece of Goblin trash. Maybe I shouldn't have been trying to solo him in the first place. I was told that I could never solo him as a 62 RDM/31 BLM. All the gobs and cocktrices in the room still agro me at 62. This time there was only a high lvl WHM in the room, so it was full of mobs. The fight took a while and I had two cocktrices join in the fun. Thank goodness for sleepga. I finished off Mystic with a frantic Fast Blade. The treasure list scrolled by... MOLDAVITE EARRING! The victory dance had to be cut short, the cocktrices woke up, my mp was spent and my hp was low. So as any brave soul would do, I ran like hell. I trained over a dozen cocktrices and two scorpions to the zone. I barely made it out with 139 hp. Lucky there were no parties in the area, because that was a train of legend. Do not try this at home kids. My advice is bring some friends, perferably a MNK, BST, or WAR. They can run and spam their respective claiming skills. Being a mage it often popped just out of my casting range.
Scholar
35 posts
He pops on a timer.
Killing other mobs in the room doesn't have any effect on him appearing.
2hours - 2hours 30mins spawns.
I've been soloing him recently as a 70RDM/BLM...
he's easy if you fight him correctly. Directions for other RDMs:
-Blink yourself constantly. It'll absorb ancient magic.
-Stoneskin should always be up.
-Lv65 keeps you from getting aggroed in the room, but it won't prevent other gobbies from linking; sleep them if they link.
-Phalanx needs to be up constantly.
-Paralyze, Slow, Blind, and Burn him.
-Otherwise, standard sword attacks will bring him down after a while.
-Try to bring a THF with you. It drops less than you'd think, despite the testimonials from other people on this forum. I'm currently 0/6.
-He tends to spawn in the SE side of the room, and inbetween the stone pillars.
Killing other mobs in the room doesn't have any effect on him appearing.
2hours - 2hours 30mins spawns.
I've been soloing him recently as a 70RDM/BLM...
he's easy if you fight him correctly. Directions for other RDMs:
-Blink yourself constantly. It'll absorb ancient magic.
-Stoneskin should always be up.
-Lv65 keeps you from getting aggroed in the room, but it won't prevent other gobbies from linking; sleep them if they link.
-Phalanx needs to be up constantly.
-Paralyze, Slow, Blind, and Burn him.
-Otherwise, standard sword attacks will bring him down after a while.
-Try to bring a THF with you. It drops less than you'd think, despite the testimonials from other people on this forum. I'm currently 0/6.
-He tends to spawn in the SE side of the room, and inbetween the stone pillars.
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i just got this drop, was no sweat i cleared the room of all gobs sure enough he pops, however i did get 3 other adds but they were no problems at all, only thing that worried me is when he hit me with tornado for about 600 and blasted through my stoneskin (rdm67) but recovery was quick, he hits just a bit harder then the gobs around him, but uses aga and tornado like crazy
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(rdm67)
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58rdm
pick one
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Posted: Sep 21 2004 at 3:46 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Finally decided to go camp this NM today for the Moldavite.
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Congrats on getting the drop but I strongly disagree with you with that RDM lfp...when someone has their flag up all it merely means is they want to join a party if invited.
Do you put your flag up and deny yourself of doing anything useful while waiting? I'm sure there are times when you lfp and sit in jeuno just waiting cause of boredom...but that RDM has every right to the NM as much as you do.
Do you put your flag up and deny yourself of doing anything useful while waiting? I'm sure there are times when you lfp and sit in jeuno just waiting cause of boredom...but that RDM has every right to the NM as much as you do.
Rate up :P So true.
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Does this increase the damage delt by en[magic] spells?
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