This has been in the XI database since December 09. Super glad to see it's finaly.. er.. In use. It's great to have a half-way decent head peice for Monks at this level. STR+3 is great, and the extra 4 dex is also welcome. I can't wait to get my hands on one of these.
This headgear is easily the best choice for monks from 41-70. Only the optical hat would be a worthy substitute, aside from AF. But Mnk AF is situation (Chi Blast and focus enhancing only).
Monks really have few options for head gear. All good melee headgear typically exludes monks, sadly. Before this last patch the L30 merc captain gear lasted us to 65 and we are generally too proud to use it ^^)
I already gave up on this headgear, since its a 24 hour spawn that needs an alliance to take on. And since this is basically "emperor hairpin on roids", there will be a lot of people lotting against you on it.
One thing I was wondering though... This NM is really a group of 10 flies. Does each fly have a chance of dropping each item? Are mulitples possible in a big alliance fight? If so, this would help greatly. (like manequin parts in garrison fights. Lots of drops so its worth the time getting 18 people together)
There must be at least a chance out of every 10. If not. Only 365 people (Thats if you only have one of the drops) will be the elite few who have items dropped by this mob in a complete year. That would make it about .05% of the entire server. On every server.
Each fly can drop this item. I've fought the NMs twice. The first time we got just 1 Jaeger Ring. The second we got 1 Jaeger Ring and 4 Sallets. This was in addition to each fly dropping a Dobson Bandanna.