Mary's Horn  

Was farming sheep in La Thiene, and mentioned to my LS mates these sheep are a rare breed, evolved without skin. and one of them tells me that konshtat (sp) is a better place to look for sheep. I head on over, and kill them for 20 minutes when i rush at one and flip around noticing it's different name. i check it and its impossible to gauge. so its a NM.. i decided to risk it, i tell my link shell afterward 'wow it dropped everything, skin, milk, horn, crystal..' and that is when one of the members sent me a tell that it was worth 200k o.o

Ok I decide I want this for my BRD to do garrison. I get a teleport dem. Walk over. Kill a sheep. Widescan, see a tremor ram. Thinking "what the heck?" I hit flee and claim it. I hit is once and widescan again, and there is stray mary. So I'm like crap. I beat the tremor ram to death as fast as possible then walk over to stray mary. No one is there. I realize I forgot my bow and melee her. Bam bam bam... I get the drop. Took more time getting the teleport than the horn and milk(thinks its 100% drop). It goes for 600k on my server, now all I have to get is the signa staff.

But thats not the end... This MNK shouts saying he needs help killing rampaging ram. Hearing that lambert spawns ~1.5h I figure I might as well help him. We camp for four freaking hours. No mary, steelfleece, or rampaging. Finally we give up and log out.

So was I lucky or not?
-BlueFire

I got really lucky with this one, was running through konshtant for a chocobo thing from sandy to bastok to kill some time. reward was a dragon chronicle. then just happen to see her, didn't know what she droped or if it was worth getting off the chocobo but i did it anyways. then forgot i didn't have THF subbed and got pissed. killed her and drop sheep meat, mary's milk and mary's horn. so i warp back to port jeuno. look up the horn and see it's going for 1 mil w00t!

gotta love quetzacoatle's ****** up economy sometimes ^^

I'm Aurin 55RDM/27WHM of Quetzacoatle

People wonder if its worth it? Sleep +1 means the mob is sleeping for 1 extra second, so is it worth it? Its definatly not worth buying (i bought mine for 40k way back when it was worth it). It is worth campping it though. An extra second means you can cast 2 songs instead of one and still have time to cast sleep just as the mob is waking up.

I used to think it was a waste of time to camp Mary when I could make faster gil getting sheep & ram leather. I've gone 0/14 just claiming her as a side-dish when farming skins.

This weekend, I finally decided to buy a horn for my upcoming bardness. I figured 300k (going rate for last several weeks on Diabolos) ain't so bad even considering how much that price has inflated. So, I go to Auction house yesterday and none were up- one had just sold for 350k. Two hours later another sells for 400k. Next morning another @ 400k.

Now this is just ridiculous a 100k price increase overnight? I don't know who to be more upset with; the people listing at these prices, or those who are actually paying them... :(

I guess it's time to camp... two more claims last night : now up to 0/16


Now, to avoid this being just a 'pity-me'post, a Question;

For those of you who actually do camp this, what kind of drop rates do you get?

2/2 in a week on this. sells for 350-500k on caisith. may be overpriced but im not complaining

200k currently on Valefor. I really hope it's worth having for BCNMs.

...250k on Odin as of 4/3/05

Many moons ago, I camped Mary with a l/s mate for the milk and got her after about 5 straight hours of killing sheep. Got milk, I did the quest and we split the reward money.

Lately, I've been levelling BRD and really want the horn, but I don't want to pay 150k for it. First day camping, 7 straight hours and nothing. Fell asleep playing. Woke up and apparently I wasn't the only one who slept. At the very top of my chat log was Stray Mary misses XXXX, Stray Mary misses XXXX, Stray Mary misses XXXX, etc. about 8 times. Next message is YYYY's ranged attack hits Mary blah blah blah.

I felt kind of bad for missing the pop, but at least I wasn't the one she was attacking while I slept...that guy probably felt a lot worse.

3 more days at 4-6 hours each, haven't seen her since.

i camped her again today...in 1 hour she popped, just the milk :/

Well one day i was farming rams as i usuall to when i'm bored and dont feel like leveling... i was 50whm/25rng. The time was approximately 4:17 when i started. Well the tremor rams were plentiful, the horns were flowing like wine. I was making gil. thunder elementals were spawning like people at the welfare office on the first of the month.... Then it happend.. I was on my way to a ram when a high level thf was in the middle of fighting it. He asked if i was farming rams and i said. yes... yes i am. Then he said well i wont bother with then anymore i'm here for the big boy.. So i think, hmm thank you, then he asks if i had seen Big Daddy Steel Fleece. I chuckle and say.. no my friend, i have never seen him in my year of playing. So i go about my business widescanning for rams and then i saw it. That infamous name, i thought i'd never see.. Steel Fleece baldarich.. my heart sank, (you know that feeling when you see a NM on widescan and its a mile from you and you start running to it, praying its not claimed) so i get to him, and see him just chillin, eating grass, having a good time. a bunch of his groupie mad sheep dancing around him while he laid back. Then about 3 seconds later i felt something was wrong.. the sheep were'nt dancing anymore, he no longer had a drink in his hand and i could feel the tension coming from him as he stared at me from about a good 20 second run away from me. So i get a little fidgity. He begins to walk towards me, At that moment i knew the I would be explaining to the grim reaper why i woke him up in the middle of the day. I get sucked in immediately and he pounds on me for about ohh... 2 minutes missing and hitting me for about 160, while i run like i'm on fire and trying to put it out for the zone. I was about where the crag is when he broke out his special move, (forgot what it's called, hundred fists or something like that) and hit me for 300 more damage.. benediction did'nt save me this time. Down i fall in slow motion as he tramples over me snorting. So i call upon the 70+ pld i know in jeuno, he brings forth his army and fought him for about appx. 6-8 minutes, then he falls. Drop?? Negative... Seen him the next day around 5:00 pm... I even asked the guys that hunt him religously and they all say he has a 24 hour spawn time, not a 72 hour one.

Thanks/Rocky/Sylph Server

My friend wanting to do the BCNM, hunted Mary and is currently at 0/8. And he spent 18 hours+ hunting the damn thing...I suggest you do it with other people...perhaps form a party/alliance with others camping her too? Oh well, we all hate gilsellers. ^^

I was Farming Sheepsking & leather when i see a /shout "Stray Mary Sighted at (F-9)" (i think) so i use my oh-so-useful FLEE and haul ace. hit my widescan and get to tracking her.
I see the lvl 13WAR that /shouted sitting there right by her. i guess he was to low of a lvl to kill her. so i engage her. this is my first NM besides the ever-present Yagudo ones in the caves of Giddeus.
I go for the Sneak Attack and she turns so i miss it. now it's just me and her mono-e-mono. i was hurt a little to start with but not to bad. luckily i still had some arrows cause my throwing that i was lvling would not have been enough. so i kill her and she drops the milk and horn!
The WAR ask me if i got the drops i said yes and thanked him thinking i had an item worth maybe 20 or 30K which would have doubled my total gil at the time. when i got to the AH in bastok and saw the price my jaw dropped.
THANKS (unknown name) WAR for that shout i was 100K richer and 1/1 on Mary's lil Lamb.